Q's Re: GPU Swap

ImWolf

ImWolf

Motherboard:
CPU Type DualCore AMD Athlon 64 X2, 2985 MHz
Motherboard Name MSI K9N Neo v2/v3 (MS-7369)
Motherboard Chipset nVIDIA nForce 520, AMD Hammer
System Memory 8192 MB (DDR2 SDRAM)
BIOS Type AMI V2.9 (03/17/09)

Display:
Video Adapter NVIDIA GeForce 7600 GT (256 MB)
3D Accelerator nVIDIA GeForce 7600 GT

Storage:
Disk Drive ST3500414CS (500 GB, 5900 RPM, SATA-II)
Disk Drive WDC WD5000AACS-00ZUB0 (500 GB, 7200 RPM, SATA-II)
Disk Drive Hitachi HDS721050CLA660 (500 GB, 7200 RPM, SATA-III)
Optical Driv CDWRITER IDE5232 (52x/32x/52x CD-RW, IDE)

Power:
SeaSonic SSR-550FX FOCUS Plus 550W

Operating System:
Dual Boot: Windows XP32 Pro SP3 / Linux Mint 22.1

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I'm updating my version of Linux Mint 19.3 to 22.1, and once again I'm finding that Nvidia does not want to play nice with Linux. Instead of going through all the headaches as I did 5 years ago, I've decided to just swap out that old Nvidia card for one of the AMD cards I have on hand.

ATI Radeon HD4670
1G DDR3 PCI-E HDMI/DVI/VGA
Release Date: Sep 10th, 2008

XFX-ATI Radeon HD5450
XFX ONE 2GB DDR3 HDMI DVI VGA PCI-E
Date First Available November 21, 2012

According to online sources, the HD4670 draws about double the power required by the HD5450, and it's also got that big fan on it which might be a nuisance, but it blows the newer GPU away in almost every metric performance wise. I couldn't find a true comparison to the actual XFX 2GB card in hand, as most of the pages were only comparing cards with 512M-1024M memory.

So my first question would be: Which GPU would you gravitate towards? (drivers are not an issue).

Second question: With either GPU, I'll have the choice of connecting to the monitor via HDMI, DVI-D (with VGA adapter), or VGA. I know that HDMI is the newest standard, but is that also the best way to go? I'm not into gaming, and the most graphic intense things I do are probably in AutoCad.

At the moment, I'm leaning towards using the HD4670 GPU with HDMI connection, unless someone has a reason I should do something else.

Thanks,
Wolf
 
I had an ATI HD 4670 for a long time. I had it with an FX CPU. It gave me great performance and it doesn't get hot. The advantage of using the newer one though is that it's compatible with the slightly newer DX 11. And on the Linux side of things a newer Open GL support. Which is great for Linux versions with eye candy. Like those that use fancy KDE.
 
I did swap out the Nvidia for the ATI HD4670, which works great in Linux Mint. However, I've never had so many issues with a display in Windows XP.

After testing several driver "Package Installs" it caused a lot of error messages to pop up in Event Viewer. I eventually disabled some of the installed features to get rid of those. I also tried installing just the embedded driver a couple of times, but without the CCC also installed Windows Settings would not detect all the resolutions supported by my monitor.

The last remaining issue I'm having with the ATI card is that I can no longer implement the "Gamersky-WindowsXP_64G_RAM'' patch, and as a result, my system is running noticeably slower.

Everything I've tried thus far to load the ntkl64g.exe & hal64g.dll files results in a BSOD. (something I had not seen in many years.) I can't figure out where the conflict is.
 
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ImWolf said:
I did swap out the Nvidia for the ATI HD4670, which works great in Linux Mint. However, I've never had so many issues with a display in Windows XP.

After testing several driver "Package Installs" it caused a lot of error messages to pop up in Event Viewer. I eventually disabled some of the installed features to get rid of those. I also tried installing just the embedded driver a couple of times, but without the CCC also installed Windows Settings would not detect all the resolutions supported by my monitor.

The last remaining issue I'm having with the ATI card is that I can no longer implement the "Gamersky-WindowsXP_64G_RAM'' patch, and as a result, my system is running noticeably slower.

Everything I've tried thus far to load the ntkl64g.exe & hal64g.dll files results in a BSOD. (something I had not seen in many years.) I can't figure out where the conflict is.
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I actually used 2 variants of the ATI HD4670 on XP32 bit and 64 bit. I tried the AGP version and the PCIE version. Both worked great. But I never used the latest drivers. Because newer drivers usually don't optimize anything for older cards. I always used Catalyst 9.8 version. I always felt I got more frames per second with that version.
 
Latest (and current) driver I have installed is 9-1. First I installed only the embedded driver thru Device Manager, and when I tried to boot into the 64Gb Ram patch I enjoyed with Nvidia, I got the same BSOD as with all the other ATI drivers.
 
ImWolf said:
Latest (and current) driver I have installed is 9-1. First I installed only the embedded driver thru Device Manager, and when I tried to boot into the 64Gb Ram patch I enjoyed with Nvidia, I got the same BSOD as with all the other ATI drivers.
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I think that's the issue. The 64GB ram patch. I never used that. If you have more ram just use XP 64 it's really good and rock stable.
 
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