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MagneticEnder

I found this thing while looking for an old pc to maybe repurpose into a media server. If I do find that old pc, im thinking to put this graphics card into it. Does anyone have the drivers for it? I can't find them
The card is a Zotac GT218-ION
Thanks in advance to anyone that tries to help

 

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I also don't know where to plug in power from the PSU. I don't even know if it needs a direct connection to the PSU, help with that will also be appreciated

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2 minutes ago, MagneticEnder said:

I found this thing while looking for an old pc to maybe repurpose into a media server. If I do find that old pc, im thinking to put this graphics card into it. Does anyone have the drivers for it? I can't find them
The card is a Zotac GT218-ION
Thanks in advance to anyone that tries to help

 

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You got some ancient super weak gpu there. It's an nvidia ION card which was basically made as a gpu for those terrible first gen intel atoms. As a display adapter it should work however.

 

https://www.geforce.com/drivers

 

Go here and instead of geforce choose ION.

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41 minutes ago, MagneticEnder said:

I found this thing while looking for an old pc to maybe repurpose into a media server. If I do find that old pc, im thinking to put this graphics card into it. Does anyone have the drivers for it? I can't find them
The card is a Zotac GT218-ION
Thanks in advance to anyone that tries to help

 

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Deviating from what you suggested, I think it'd be better to just buy a cheap card than to repurpose this one.

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14 minutes ago, Ciuwas said:

Deviating from what you suggested, I think it'd be better to just buy a cheap card than to repurpose this one.

If you put forth even the slightest amount of effort to read the OP, you'd have realized it's for a media server, which it would be fine for.

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1 hour ago, MagneticEnder said:

I found this thing while looking for an old pc to maybe repurpose into a media server. If I do find that old pc, im thinking to put this graphics card into it. Does anyone have the drivers for it? I can't find them
The card is a Zotac GT218-ION
Thanks in advance to anyone that tries to help

I believe GT218 was the chip used for the GT 210/GeForce 210/G210/310/etc. I would guess an ION variant is cut down in some way, but for a media server this card is more than enough. You may consider testing it out and listing it on eBay if it works. A true PCIe x1 card can get your some money there. Most of the true x1 GPUs are old NVS cards that are totally worthless as even 720p video cards. There are lots of "x1" GT 210s that are made with an x16 card and (no joke) a Dremel. They tend to last roughly 32 days, just long enough for eBay's guarantee period to lapse.

 

You can replace this card for $8-10 if you find an R5 240 OEM variant out there, or if you find an old PC with integrated or on-board graphics, you don't even need to replace this.

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1 hour ago, aisle9 said:

I believe GT218 was the chip used for the GT 210/GeForce 210/G210/310/etc. I would guess an ION variant is cut down in some way, but for a media server this card is more than enough. You may consider testing it out and listing it on eBay if it works. A true PCIe x1 card can get your some money there. Most of the true x1 GPUs are old NVS cards that are totally worthless as even 720p video cards. There are lots of "x1" GT 210s that are made with an x16 card and (no joke) a Dremel. They tend to last roughly 32 days, just long enough for eBay's guarantee period to lapse.

 

You can replace this card for $8-10 if you find an R5 240 OEM variant out there, or if you find an old PC with integrated or on-board graphics, you don't even need to replace this.

The GeForce 210 is a different chip compared to what OP has. From what I remember, the original Nvidia ION was a 9400GT-based GPU largely made for netbooks for video acceleration.

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1 hour ago, flibberdipper said:

If you put forth even the slightest amount of effort to read the OP, you'd have realized it's for a media server, which it would be fine for.

Oh I did, the card is just old imo and I would personally just take it behind the barn and shoot it

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4 minutes ago, Dan Castellaneta said:

The GeForce 210 is a different chip compared to what OP has. From what I remember, the original Nvidia ION was a 9400GT-based GPU largely made for netbooks for video acceleration.

Calling the ION a "GPU" is being really nice to it. I remember stumbling across some little Shuttle mini-PCs NIB a while back and seeing NVIDIA ION graphics plugged on the side with things like, "Now you can work in full 1080p HD!". It's like, I get it, but the ATI Radeon HD4200M graphics on my ancient Pentium 4 board can push 1080p in desktop use. How crap are the GMA graphics on your D525?! 

 

For some reason I thought the 9400 GT and GT 210 used more or less identical silicon. Regardless of what nameplate NVIDIA puts on it, I think we'd both agree that anything tied to the GT218 chip and its pre-die shrink fraternal twin that was used in low-end GPUs at the time absolutely blew donkey balls instantly upon release.

 

4 minutes ago, Ciuwas said:

Oh I did, the card is just old imo and I would personally just take it behind the barn and shoot it

Why shoot a horse that someone will buy from you?

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Calling the ION a "GPU" is being really nice to it. I remember stumbling across some little Shuttle mini-PCs NIB a while back and seeing NVIDIA ION graphics plugged on the side with things like, "Now you can work in full 1080p HD!". It's like, I get it, but the ATI Radeon HD4200M graphics on my ancient Pentium 4 board can push 1080p in desktop use. How crap are the GMA graphics on your D525?! 

 

For some reason I thought the 9400 GT and GT 210 used more or less identical silicon. Regardless of what nameplate NVIDIA puts on it, I think we'd both agree that anything tied to the GT218 chip and its pre-die shrink fraternal twin that was used in low-end GPUs at the time absolutely blew donkey balls instantly upon release.

 

Why shoot a horse that someone will buy from you?

True. But I'd do it for memes.

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3 minutes ago, aisle9 said:

Calling the ION a "GPU" is being really nice to it. I remember stumbling across some little Shuttle mini-PCs NIB a while back and seeing NVIDIA ION graphics plugged on the side with things like, "Now you can work in full 1080p HD!". It's like, I get it, but the ATI Radeon HD4200M graphics on my ancient Pentium 4 board can push 1080p in desktop use. How crap are the GMA graphics on your D525?! 

 

For some reason I thought the 9400 GT and GT 210 used more or less identical silicon. Regardless of what nameplate NVIDIA puts on it, I think we'd both agree that anything tied to the GT218 chip and its pre-die shrink fraternal twin that was used in low-end GPUs at the time absolutely blew donkey balls instantly upon release.

From what I remember, its main selling point was that it could handle 1080p Blu-ray hardware encoding without any issue. Which, for a netbook, actually wasn't that bad. It also had quite a bit more grunt than the iGPUs of the day, which made it a little more appealing if you were rocking a dual-core Atom.

It's largely being pedantic nowadays, as even the integrated GPU from a Haswell Intel CPU can beat its ass, but it's still interesting.

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10 minutes ago, Ciuwas said:

Oh I did, the card is just old imo and I would personally just take it behind the barn and shoot it

Pretty ignorant/idiotic thing to say. Who gives a fuck how old it is when it's going into a server. Not like you'll be daily driving one.

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5 minutes ago, Dan Castellaneta said:

From what I remember, its main selling point was that it could handle 1080p Blu-ray hardware encoding without any issue. Which, for a netbook, actually wasn't that bad. It also had quite a bit more grunt than the iGPUs of the day, which made it a little more appealing if you were rocking a dual-core Atom.

It's largely being pedantic nowadays, as even the integrated GPU from a Haswell Intel CPU can beat its ass, but it's still interesting.

I remember someone advertising it as a netbook graphics gaming solution. I'm not sure how well that marketing campaign worked out for them. I mean, DOS gaming, sure, but anything at the typical 1280x800 netbook resolution would have been a huge stretch. But yeah, for the most part I remember netbooks with ION being marketed as a means of stable 1080p video and everyday use.

 

If I weren't in the process of moving and selling/dumping as much of my computer stuff as possible, I'd be inspired to hit up yard sales next weekend, find an ION-powered netbook, give someone $5 for it, then bring it home and see what it can do.

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1 minute ago, aisle9 said:

I remember someone advertising it as a netbook graphics gaming solution. I'm not sure how well that marketing campaign worked out for them. I mean, DOS gaming, sure, but anything at the typical 1280x800 netbook resolution would have been a huge stretch. But yeah, for the most part I remember netbooks with ION being marketed as a means of stable 1080p video and everyday use.

 

If I weren't in the process of moving and selling/dumping as much of my computer stuff as possible, I'd be inspired to hit up yard sales next weekend, find an ION-powered netbook, give someone $5 for it, then bring it home and see what it can do.

I've always wanted to get my hands on an Ion netbook. They've always intrigued me and I wonder what it could do nowadays.

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1 minute ago, Dan Castellaneta said:

I've always wanted to get my hands on an Ion netbook. They've always intrigued me and I wonder what it could do nowadays.

I've never had an ION netbook, just the Shuttle mini-PC. It was...underwhelming. Although maybe incredible. I mean, I guess it depends on your expectations. Does the NVIDIA name get your attention and raise your expectations, or do you understand that there's no way anything remotely close to even the GT 610 in performance would make its way into a netbook?

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1 minute ago, aisle9 said:

I've never had an ION netbook, just the Shuttle mini-PC. It was...underwhelming. Although maybe incredible. I mean, I guess it depends on your expectations. Does the NVIDIA name get your attention and raise your expectations, or do you understand that there's no way anything remotely close to even the GT 610 in performance would make its way into a netbook?

I understand that they're pretty fucking weak nowadays (the Haswell iGPU analogy above says that) but I've always just wondered what kind of grunt the Ion GPUs have even though they were pretty low end by 2009 standards.

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19 minutes ago, flibberdipper said:

Pretty ignorant/idiotic thing to say. Who gives a fuck how old it is when it's going into a server. Not like you'll be daily driving one.

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1 minute ago, Dan Castellaneta said:

I understand that they're pretty fucking weak nowadays (the Haswell iGPU analogy above says that) but I've always just wondered what kind of grunt the Ion GPUs have even though they were pretty low end by 2009 standards.

Money where your mouth is?

 

Just kidding. Absolutely no reason to spend anywhere near that much on an Atom board in 2019.

 

Also, @MagneticEnder, just gonna leave this here:

 

https://www.ebay.com/itm/ZOTAC-GeForce-GT-218-Nvidia-ION-PCIe-Graphic-Card-512MB-DVI-VGA-GT218IONGPU-A-E/232903826567?hash=item363a265c87:g:2wgAAOSwIFRbgM7Q

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2 minutes ago, aisle9 said:

Money where your mouth is?

 

Just kidding. Absolutely no reason to spend anywhere near that much on an Atom board in 2019.

 

Also, @MagneticEnder, just gonna leave this here:

 

https://www.ebay.com/itm/ZOTAC-GeForce-GT-218-Nvidia-ION-PCIe-Graphic-Card-512MB-DVI-VGA-GT218IONGPU-A-E/232903826567?hash=item363a265c87:g:2wgAAOSwIFRbgM7Q

I actually saw that and, I'll be honest: I can justify $34 on something just to dick around with. That being said it's not very high priority so I'll wait a little bit unless I can score a great deal on something.

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1 minute ago, Dan Castellaneta said:

I actually saw that and, I'll be honest: I can justify $34 on something just to dick around with. That being said it's not very high priority so I'll wait a little bit unless I can score a great deal on something.

Atom boards can get down pretty cheap if you're willing to stalk an auction. The hard part would be figuring out which ones have ION built in and which ones are GMA boards that can't hold 30 FPS on a blank screen.

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