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 1P8LAs-0003Im-0n for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 19 Oct 2010 23:00:54 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 13827E0764; Tue, 19 Oct 2010 22:59:57 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-fx0-f53.google.com (mail-fx0-f53.google.com [209.85.161.53]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C5D60E0764 for ; Tue, 19 Oct 2010 22:59:56 +0000 (UTC) Received: by fxm8 with SMTP id 8so2858171fxm.40 for ; Tue, 19 Oct 2010 15:59:56 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:sender:received :in-reply-to:references:date:x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject :from:to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=lc7qQ/h5/rv/W+s2xPj2+CwJOT+ghdbgFT0K8CkAWz0=; b=dANSE1eaTFn02NdiniodFJOqcaT/s8wlvAi1F1ZUVptDmnIbR8EO99N8J0tRkvM+Ob jZlWaZJCmndsNmy1m2hbo3aVKJ1gSZ2vJ9RNpZYP9xjzz3gp++Mk+g/uu/FCm/XOdRoI V60zKShHhtkrmnspv8doAi+1snoCcYKi6EArE= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:date :x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; b=I9zIPE2RMVU8189iGV5LAqh/jdmXYVO7mveRmS/9B1ND8vwOwcQApgcyV+iLUgGybO T5unKo0+DaWEseQhC5Yro4RLogj65gOSiBqT9CgLCqXgp0Pt6HCJHUb3XmsYxlq/sdW/ mLZe6M1nyZS2t9OSDoaHmXW1Xd0neN0hWb6so= 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 Received: by 10.239.189.67 with SMTP id s3mr122758hbh.124.1287529195773; Tue, 19 Oct 2010 15:59:55 -0700 (PDT) Sender: paul.hartman@gmail.com Received: by 10.239.162.67 with HTTP; Tue, 19 Oct 2010 15:59:55 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <4CBDFF4F.3000907@gmail.com> References: <4CBD4C85.2010500@gmail.com> <4CBDFF4F.3000907@gmail.com> Date: Tue, 19 Oct 2010 17:59:55 -0500 X-Google-Sender-Auth: KlWxMIM3TyfWQTZJq52IcEAH7Uc Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Upgrading from FX-5200 to a GeForce 6200 512MB From: Paul Hartman To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: b7c77a70-9c8e-4029-9ed4-83b87ea4666b X-Archives-Hash: 3382ba4dd990be46a5cc72cf09359301 On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 3:27 PM, Dale wrote: > Paul Hartman wrote: >> >> On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 2:45 AM, Dale =A0wrote: >> >>> >>> I am thinking of upgrading from a FX-5200 with 128Mb video card to a >>> GeForce >>> 6200 with 512MB. =A0It will be AGP since this is a older rig. =A0My sys= tem is >>> something like this: >>> >>> Mobo: =A0Abit NF7 2.0 >>> CPU: AMD 2500+ =A0No overclocking >>> Memory: =A02Gbs of 333Mhz. >>> Monitor: =A0Gateway 19" running 1280 x 1024 >>> >> >> Based on the selection at Newegg, I would highly recommend going with >> one of the Radeon HD 3650 or 4650 cards which only cost a little more >> than the one you're looking at. HD3650 is going to be 5x faster than >> GeForce 6200 and HD4650 probably 10x faster. >> >> I think your motherboard supports AGP 8x, and I'm not sure if there >> are any power supply considerations or other features (number of DVI >> heads, etc) but anyway that's my 2 cents. :) >> >> I am an Nvidia video card guy through and through, but in this case >> the AGP Nvidia cards on offer there are ancient and slow compared to >> their ATI counterparts. >> >> > > I'm a nvidia guy. =A0I'm not big on ATI at all. =A0Just sort of not my cu= p of > tea. =A0I have read they have better Linux support than a long time ago b= ut > they came in a little to late for me. > > I just wish that thing had a bigger heat sink on it with fans. =A0I may c= hange > that thing pretty quick. > > Thanks. Okay then :) To return to your original question, I think going from FX-5200 to Geforce 6200 should probably give you something like 15% performance improvement. I don't think either card is new enough to be supported by vdpau so there won't be anything gained there. 6200 uses the current drivers (260.xx) whereas the 5200 is on the legacy drivers (173.xx), maybe there are additional 3D effects supported by the newer chipset/drivers. There's a humongous matrix of nvidia chipset and model numbers somewhere on the internet that explains the differences but I can't seem to find it at the moment. My Google-fu is failing me. :)