From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1P86tu-0004NC-QA for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 19 Oct 2010 07:46:27 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 58C95E04D6; Tue, 19 Oct 2010 07:45:13 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-gy0-f181.google.com (mail-gy0-f181.google.com [209.85.160.181]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 336A4E04D6 for ; Tue, 19 Oct 2010 07:45:13 +0000 (UTC) Received: by gyg8 with SMTP id 8so1734813gyg.40 for ; Tue, 19 Oct 2010 00:45:13 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from :user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=YsyAbaOINi0G+Smm0GSxnESAPWPtcbvrkV4G88lI0QY=; b=BjulC7APvqm4LkamvLK/CxdrFarOMbzeoaTvDqdDuWOk0PzmQ5D0Lieueq4FCaGAGj RtrUYClyVDO894djcAMAhVX4GHLa7LSa911ND0OaCxWZHjYB+R+9qgQ1SNhFiJvGbDtA FaBvI2E7/EsFOtdR0Rryc0EyiuAQcI/g1UEWM= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=h/onqmSLi3PdohdRWwWcHDBOHKzPxgpHypDo3wdmeKP0Mm16y/l8Rr//6PcrBpGpxg h0BbMLbVmVM52Cm1VxWZMDzoJipBZuADaS9M8jD+6xfwKdB19wPZIF0qhhb1bc4MTOY5 4X/e0F6XENYe+ME5dus65hjNXz7xZ8LdDOiLc= Received: by 10.100.9.3 with SMTP id 3mr1560326ani.49.1287474312680; Tue, 19 Oct 2010 00:45:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.1.2] (adsl-95-109-148.jan.bellsouth.net [98.95.109.148]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id z10sm14136608anj.34.2010.10.19.00.45.10 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Tue, 19 Oct 2010 00:45:11 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4CBD4C85.2010500@gmail.com> Date: Tue, 19 Oct 2010 02:45:09 -0500 From: Dale User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.1.13) Gecko/20101006 Gentoo/2.0.8-r1 SeaMonkey/2.0.8 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Gentoo User Subject: [gentoo-user] Upgrading from FX-5200 to a GeForce 6200 512MB Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: c26abde5-d744-4410-b208-108be8aa9983 X-Archives-Hash: bfa003fde62c1835aebeaa82271caaa7 Hi, I am thinking of upgrading from a FX-5200 with 128Mb video card to a GeForce 6200 with 512MB. It will be AGP since this is a older rig. My system is something like this: Mobo: Abit NF7 2.0 CPU: AMD 2500+ No overclocking Memory: 2Gbs of 333Mhz. Monitor: Gateway 19" running 1280 x 1024 I think my memory is fine, it never uses all of it, or even half of it, except for caching stuff. I may try to get a 3000+ or 3200+ CPU if I can run up on a good deal. I'm thinking of doing the video card first because it is cheaper. I have also noticed that playing movies on here is getting a bit slow if I go full screen or close to full screen. I'm bad to download from youtube and then play them locally full screen or as close as it will allow. I do use the nvidia drivers. Currently: nvidia-drivers-173.14.25 I'm on that one because I think I need to upgrade my kernel to use the latest one that was recently put in the tree. I'm looking at this card: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814133328 What kind of improvement can I expect from this video card upgrade? While I am at it, the CPU upgrade won't make that much difference right? Maybe 20% or so faster or something like that? Thoughts? Opinions? Thanks. Dale :-) :-)