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4800ti -> 6200, Will I notice the diference?
Alistair Hutton
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I've currently got an aging AGP machine. In the fullness of time I'm going to be building me a new machine but while I wait I want to eek out a bit more performance from my machine as cheaply as possible. I can get a 128Mb GeForce 6200 for £22/£26 pounds. The £26 version has a 350 Mhz GPU rather than 300 Mhz.
Basically I'm wondering If I'll notice a significant difference over my current 128 Mb Geforce 4800ti? OR should I save my money for my custom build.
Basically I'm wondering If I'll notice a significant difference over my current 128 Mb Geforce 4800ti? OR should I save my money for my custom build.
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To clarify - it's beacuse the 4 has more pixel pipelines... or something like that; IMO changing to anything below 6600GT/X1600Pro wouldn't be worth it - I would suggest a 7600GS or, better yet, a 6800GT.
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I thought they had the same number of pipelines...
I've just checked and they do, however I didn't realsie the 6200 only has a 64bit memory interface, and slower memory speed. Oof, that's a bit sucky.
I'd love to get a better card but the £30-£50 price range is notably absent of cards that don't sucks compelete ass, mostly FX5200's. Anymore than £50 and it's not really economical to get a card for that rice that I'm only going to use for 6 or so months.
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I'm under the impression that 6200 is the bottom of the barrel, but I can't say I've seen a direct comparison of these two so :shrug:
eidt: You could try getting a used 9800Pro maybe?
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I think I'm going to look for a 6800LE. Everything I've read about them says that they are highly unlockable, and even if they aren't it's still double the pipelines and a 256bit memory interface. I missed out on buying one new for £45 a month or so ago so it's trawling E-Bay for me.
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Goddamn, yes you'll see a diff! The Geforce 6 series is damn near twice as fast as the 5 series, which was much faster than the 4 series. However, you might want to think about getting out of AGP and into PCIe... that might be something worth saving your money for, though they do sell cheap PCIe cards these days.
I made a game, it has penguins in it. It's pay what you like on Gumroad.
Currently Ebaying Nothing at all but I might do in the future.
The 6200 is a crap piece of hardware, at best equivalent to a midranged card from two-three years ago. It has economy written all over it, and performs badly.
Stick with your 4800 and save up for at least a 6600GS, or higher.
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It's just as I suspected, I made a really good choice when I put the machine together a few years ago. The FX line had come out and had depressed the price of the Geforce 4 series before everyone realised the first gen FXs were crap.
I made a game, it has penguins in it. It's pay what you like on Gumroad.
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you have to compare the same product level when comparing old nad new lines
a 4800 was top end of N40's..... the 6200 is bottom end of N60's
ha 5 was much faster than the 4 series.. RIGHT
6600 gt
The only this is the speeds seem a little low, the GPU is clocked at 300Mhz and the memory is reported at 400Mhz. That seems awfully low does it not?
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The 6600GT was the budget/performance card to buy through I think 2004/2005 and some of '06, and has now been replaced by the 7600GT.
It's a great card, I have one in my pc right now. It can run HL2 at an ok framerate at 1280x960, but don't expect it to run oblivion on anything more than 800 x 600.
Yeah, it should be 500/1000, even if they don't state the effective memory frequency that's still 100MHz slower memory and 200MHz slower core.
For AGP you can either get a 7600GS/X1600Pro, or I think you'll be able to get a used 6800GT/X800XL for ~100GBP on eBay, which should be roughly comparable to a 7600GT.
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PC Format still recommend it as their budget option for a graphics card.
Lies and slander. My Asus 6600GT runs Oblivion at 1280x1024 and gets 20+ FPS outdoors.
It isn't all dependant on the graphics card, and seeing as his current card is a Geforce 4 I'm thinking he doesn't exactly have a very fast PC, and neither do I, so we won't get 20fps outdoors.
But personally I think my 6600GT is just shit. It is very buggy. Make no mistake it's a great card, but from a shitty manufacturer. I believe it may have some memory issues.
I can thoroughly recommend it to any AGPers out there who don't want to get a new system.
I made a game, it has penguins in it. It's pay what you like on Gumroad.
Currently Ebaying Nothing at all but I might do in the future.