Gigabyte 8500gt video card size ...

aja07 · **1st June 2007, 02:54 PM**

Hi

Am hoping to use this card in Silverstone GD01MX case but am not sure if it will fit.

If anyone has this card would you mind posting the physical dimensions, ie length and height please.

Thanks ... Anthony

Vija · **1st June 2007, 04:43 PM**

Hi, length is approx 21cm and height 12cm

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Originally Posted by aja07

Hi

Am hoping to use this card in Silverstone GD01MX case but am not sure if it will fit.

If anyone has this card would you mind posting the physical dimensions, ie length and height please.

Thanks ... Anthony

Nomad · **1st June 2007, 07:47 PM**

Quote:

Originally Posted by aja07

Hi

Am hoping to use this card in Silverstone GD01MX case but am not sure if it will fit.

If anyone has this card would you mind posting the physical dimensions, ie length and height please.

Thanks ... Anthony

I wouldn't worry about its size, worry more about that there are No drivers that work properly with it. All of them so far have major stuttering or blank screen out of S3 resume. If you would like one cheap drop me a line. Includes free overnight postage

rgds Damon

Vija · **2nd June 2007, 11:38 AM**

Hi,

I can honestly say I'm not having any problems at all with it. Using Vista Media Center and the 160.03 drivers. Will come in and out of S3 perfectly, also the overscan controls work with these drivers. I'm running 720p via dvi/hdmi and it plays all hd stuff perfectly. I had a Gainward Bliss Silent 8500gt which has DDR3 but I swapped with my dad's pc to a Gigabyte Silent 8500gt which has only DDR2 but HDCP and didn't notice any difference at all.

Cheers,
Matt

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Originally Posted by Nomad

I wouldn't worry about its size, worry more about that there are No drivers that work properly with it. All of them so far have major stuttering or blank screen out of S3 resume. If you would like one cheap drop me a line. Includes free overnight postage

rgds Damon

rx2 · **2nd June 2007, 05:17 PM**

I have to agree with Vija - I am mostly having a good experience with the Gigabyte 8500 GT using the 160.03 drivers. I am outputting 1080i to the TV, and 160.03 has the overscan capability.

The only annoying bug for me with this driver release is 2 times out of 10, when starting the HTPC from cold, it will forget output frequency eg. 60Hz, giving a bizzare display. A quick click on 60Hz in the control panel fixes this, but it can be annoying.

Vija · **2nd June 2007, 06:02 PM**

I think you meant you are having mostly a good experience? Anyway have you tried 50hz? Multiples of 25 are recommended...ie 50, 75 or 100hz for pal tv. When I had 60hz if a news show had the headlines thing running along the bottom of the screen it wouldnt be smooth, 50hz has fixed that.

Cheers,
Matt

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Originally Posted by rx2

I have to agree with Vija - I am not mostly having a good experience with the Gigabyte 8500 GT using the 160.03 drivers. I am outputting 1080i to the TV, and 160.03 has the overscan capability.

The only annoying bug for me with this driver release is 2 times out of 10, when starting the HTPC from cold, it will forget output frequency eg. 60Hz, giving a bizzare display. A quick click on 60Hz in the control panel fixes this, but it can be annoying.

rx2 · **3rd June 2007, 11:39 AM**

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Originally Posted by Vija

I think you meant you are having mostly a good experience? Anyway have you tried 50hz? Multiples of 25 are recommended...ie 50, 75 or 100hz for pal tv. When I had 60hz if a news show had the headlines thing running along the bottom of the screen it wouldnt be smooth, 50hz has fixed that.

Cheers,
Matt

I just correctly my previous post - you were right, it is a mostly good experience

My TV does not run in 1080i 50Hz, it is only 1080i 60Hz.

cyber4 · **3rd June 2007, 11:42 AM**

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Originally Posted by aja07

Hi

Am hoping to use this card in Silverstone GD01MX case but am not sure if it will fit.

If anyone has this card would you mind posting the physical dimensions, ie length and height please.

Thanks ... Anthony

Hi,
If I was you, you would be better looking at a 7600GT, they are a much faster card, the 8500GT is based on the 7300 GPU.
( thats why the 8500 is around the same price as the 7600, although the 8500 was built for directx 10, your 7600 will still run on directx 10 when it is released)

Vija · **3rd June 2007, 12:04 PM**

Yeah fair enough, it took me weeks to decide on which one. Only prob with the 7600gt is it's not as good at hd-dvd/bluray hw decoding. Have a look at this page: http://www.nvidia.com/object/geforce_family.html
The 7600gt also costs more for a silent version and if the 8500gt can run 1080i hd tv perfectly then I can't see why you'd spend more unless you wanted to game on your htpc. Plus the Gigabyte 8500gt has HDCP.

Cheers,
Matt

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Originally Posted by cyber4

Hi,
If I was you, you would be better looking at a 7600GT, they are a much faster card, the 8500GT is based on the 7300 GPU.
( thats why the 8500 is around the same price as the 7600, although the 8500 was built for directx 10, your 7600 will still run on directx 10 when it is released)

aja07 · **3rd June 2007, 12:17 PM**

Quote:

Originally Posted by cyber4

Hi,
If I was you, you would be better looking at a 7600GT, they are a much faster card, the 8500GT is based on the 7300 GPU.
( thats why the 8500 is around the same price as the 7600, although the 8500 was built for directx 10, your 7600 will still run on directx 10 when it is released)

Hi

Thanks for the input. This system will be used purely as a home theatre pc, absolutely no gaming.

My understanding is that the Nvidia 8500 and 8600 series cards do not offload any hd video processing to the cpu making for a much more reliable and future proof htpc experience.

I have ordered the case and should receive it early this week. Once I have it I will make certain the Gigabyte 8500gt should fit (it looks like it should) before ordering the rest of my components which will be as follows ...

Case... Silverstone Grandia GD01MX (with LCD screen, remote and card reader)
CPU... Intel C2D 6600
Ram.. 2GB Corsair 6400 ddr2800 twinx
Video... Gigabyte 8500gt passive cooling (gv-nx85t256h)
MB.... Gigabyte GA-P35-DS4
PSU... Seasonic s12 Energy+ 550
Tuner... Twin DNTV hybrid s2 pciex
dvd... asus drw 1814 dlt sata
HD.. WD 500gb / 16mb Sata 2
OS... Vista Ult oem running VMC (eagerly awaiting MS fix for CH 7 bug)
EPG... FreeEPG (works well thank you

)

Will connect video via DVI to Hitachi 42in Plasma and sound via spdiff to Onkyo receiver.

Will also connect to home network with 2 other pcs which will have an mp3 and photo library and of course acces to internet for EPG updating.

Thanks all for the input to-date. Will post updates as I progress.

This site has been an enormous help

.

Cheers ... Anthony