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 1P8Eey-00055V-5L for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 19 Oct 2010 16:03:32 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id CF465E080D for ; Tue, 19 Oct 2010 16:03:31 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-yw0-f53.google.com (mail-yw0-f53.google.com [209.85.213.53]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5C217E055E for ; Tue, 19 Oct 2010 15:44:56 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ywo7 with SMTP id 7so2230465ywo.40 for ; Tue, 19 Oct 2010 08:44:54 -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=6Op+mnywyieyyr5TlNtLN4BDyomorzMTOMvezeHKovc=; b=vXT1fTypMRmu3oXMjnn4s66DpksNnDDAk16WtGpCkvs/KRE4aJMEvaMz7wVszqU067 1IOckx2pjn0phJdF2MhMy7YJDa4SF66fn+rOuTrJLkBZYZdlpVrSd67Ws8L2zqa7U/Z6 1CNjFfJ8pIE/o8EyiBppB58+rYwaJvMUOEzUk= 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=T6ZTji+lixOn5aVAJ/0O6KLiU7SUBnJVUAXQqIZO7+oH4RQB60IPjFLd07zOV1J7Qz yDoH3LH4lrVJ3KiUf8d/hApMCxh/PTjZIn/SgV6lUlRX9qlVJe5IVNj38JyHGODTgRkD wQJOsPMnpq8i1QEGdxXNFBe5s2Ki6Iys3H+40= 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 10.239.134.134 with SMTP id 6mr602491hbz.159.1287503093035; Tue, 19 Oct 2010 08:44:53 -0700 (PDT) Sender: paul.hartman@gmail.com Received: by 10.239.162.67 with HTTP; Tue, 19 Oct 2010 08:44:52 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <4CBD4C85.2010500@gmail.com> References: <4CBD4C85.2010500@gmail.com> Date: Tue, 19 Oct 2010 10:44:52 -0500 X-Google-Sender-Auth: ZpEYp5bY86NBG_pfnYf7Gu-1zNM 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: 35ea9d34-9efc-412d-b24e-9cb203a4a7f1 X-Archives-Hash: 2fde3c5bd640bb35b43ef449411c342e On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 2:45 AM, Dale wrote: > I am thinking of upgrading from a FX-5200 with 128Mb video card to a GeFo= rce > 6200 with 512MB. =A0It will be AGP since this is a older rig. =A0My syste= m 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.