All my searches come up with it being a Biostar NVidia GeForce 5200, My question is why is the fan missing?
Thank you, Albert. I wasn't sure how universal a UPC really was (yes, folks, I know what the "U" stands for). I considered that search and thought, 'nah, I'll have to sift through reams of irrevelant products.'
I don't know how reliable labels are, really. Especially as 2 of the labels seem to be either contradictory or redundant.
The card is currently packed for shipment to a secret testing laboratory. So I can't take another look. I suppose removing the heat sink could have revealed the 4 - RAM chips, right? - obscured by it, the possibility indicated by the Biostar, but for the heat sink to fit over those knobs - capacitors? - on the inside upper part of the card... well, I suppose the heat sink could have been formed to fit over them. I never thought to peer at it from that particular angle. I encountered the suggestion to remove the heat sink and look directly at the GPU, but at that point I was still thinking, man, there must be an easier way.
It seems to me that I've encountered that peculiar gigantic heat sink the card came with *somewhere* in my searching, on a card that didn't otherwise seem to match, but now I can't relocate it.
Thanks again for checking it out. It's a lead, better than I've come up myself with so far. Not that it rules anything out, but unfortunately, I couldn't find that Biostar here - http:// www.xgcdb.com/ - in pursuit of a little more info.
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