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Paul Hartman wrote: |
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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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>>> 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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One thing I was hoping is that the newer drivers would work better. I |
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would think they only update what they have to for new kernels and |
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such. That is my hope. It does seem to get slower as time goes on but |
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I'm not sure how much that is the drivers and how much that is to do |
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with the new KDE4. I'm sure KDE4 has a good bit to do with it too. |
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That is about the fastest card I could find that was AGP tho. I may |
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look around and see what else I can find to tho. |
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Dale |
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:-) :-) |