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On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 3:27 PM, Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> Paul Hartman wrote: |
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>> On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 2:45 AM, Dale<rdalek1967@×××××.com> wrote: |
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>>> I am thinking of upgrading from a FX-5200 with 128Mb video card to a |
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>>> GeForce |
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>>> 6200 with 512MB. It will be AGP since this is a older rig. My system is |
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>>> something like this: |
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>>> Mobo: Abit NF7 2.0 |
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>>> CPU: AMD 2500+ No overclocking |
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>>> Memory: 2Gbs of 333Mhz. |
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>>> Monitor: Gateway 19" running 1280 x 1024 |
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>>> |
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>> Based on the selection at Newegg, I would highly recommend going with |
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>> one of the Radeon HD 3650 or 4650 cards which only cost a little more |
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>> than the one you're looking at. HD3650 is going to be 5x faster than |
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>> GeForce 6200 and HD4650 probably 10x faster. |
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>> I think your motherboard supports AGP 8x, and I'm not sure if there |
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>> are any power supply considerations or other features (number of DVI |
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>> heads, etc) but anyway that's my 2 cents. :) |
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>> I am an Nvidia video card guy through and through, but in this case |
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>> the AGP Nvidia cards on offer there are ancient and slow compared to |
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>> their ATI counterparts. |
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> I'm a nvidia guy. I'm not big on ATI at all. Just sort of not my cup of |
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> tea. I have read they have better Linux support than a long time ago but |
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> they came in a little to late for me. |
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> I just wish that thing had a bigger heat sink on it with fans. I may change |
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> that thing pretty quick. |
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> Thanks. |
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Okay then :) To return to your original question, I think going from |
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FX-5200 to Geforce 6200 should probably give you something like 15% |
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performance improvement. I don't think either card is new enough to be |
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supported by vdpau so there won't be anything gained there. |
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6200 uses the current drivers (260.xx) whereas the 5200 is on the |
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legacy drivers (173.xx), maybe there are additional 3D effects |
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supported by the newer chipset/drivers. There's a humongous matrix of |
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nvidia chipset and model numbers somewhere on the internet that |
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explains the differences but I can't seem to find it at the moment. My |
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Google-fu is failing me. :) |
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