So I just did an incremental upgrade to an HD 4550 inside my HP Slimline (long backstory but gist of it is the PSU sucks so I needed a low profile low power card and the only one actually better than the stock 8500GT is the 4550), and I'm looking to sell the stock 8500GT that came out of the computer.


Short version:
Low Profile nVidia 8500GT (PCI-e) w/ 256MB DDR2 FOR SALE
If anyone is interested, please PM me ... pretty please

I'd like $30 (+shipping) to help cover my upgrade cost
I'd prefer something like Google Checkout for payment

If you are lurking (haha) and are not a "regular" member please don't register just to buy this


tldr stuff below

Manufacturer:

• It's an Asus card, but branded as "HP / Asus" ... I'm guessing it's a custom card for HP Slimlines
• It is an nVidia 8500GT with 256MB DDR2

Features:

• 1 x HDMI, 1x DVI, 1x S-video (but on a weird attachment, see pic ... you might wanna just remove it)
• Can pass HDMI audio thru HDMI if you connect motherboard SPDIF connector to the little white 2-pin connector in the upper left (see pic)

I stupidly forgot to take a GPU-Z screenshot before I took the card out, but here are the specs I remember:

Stock clocks:
Core: 459Mhz
Shader: 1018Mhz (it's automatically 2x core)
Mem: 500Mhz

OCs (haha) to
Core: 674Mhz
Shader: 1348Mhz
Mem: 500 (might go higher but I didn't try)

stably as far as I could tell.

The OC adds a pretty noticeable boost to games.

Misc. info:

• Is a year old (came in the Slimline which I purchased May 08)
• Good for HTPC use (works great w/ blu-ray, MPC-HC and DVXA playing 1080p mkvs)
• Sucks for gaming (although it can play TF2 and L4D fine on High or mostly High. I also somehow made it thru Far Cry 2 and Mirror's Edge but I think it averaged <20fps)
• Low power (<28W load according to specs)
• Fan is mostly quiet unless you manually ramp it up ... only time you would ever hear it is if you play games with it (haha)
• It's a little dusty <_<
• It runs really hot, or at least did in my Slimline (which is pretty small). Idled ~59C, Load peaked at almost 80C

Pics:

Gray thing in upper left corner is S-video out

Small white connector next to where the s-video out cable connects is for motherboard SPDIF


HDMI on the left, DVI on the right. FOR SOUND THRU HDMI YOUR MOTHERBOARD HAS TO HAVE AN INTERNAL SPDIF CONNECTOR AVAILABLE


I'm prolly forgetting something so please lemme know if you have any questions.

Thanks in advance!

Does it support PhysX? If so, I am totally all over that.

It does support PhysX but I dunno exactly how good it is at it ... when I played Mirror's Edge w/ PhysX on it was bleh, but that could just because I was playing Mirror's Edge on an 8500GT

All I'd want it for was PhysX, not for anything else.

Send me a PM and we can talk payment. Let me know how much shipping is.