Comparison

[javafiend]

I was told by someone yesterday that my GeForce 6200 256MB isn't as good as the ATI 9600 Pro 128MB that I replaced. Is this true and why?

Thanks!

[ajmilton]

6200 is kind of old hat with geforce, i believe

they're on either 8xxx or 9xxx series now

that's probably why they said that

and they're probably ati fanbois :p

[javafiend]

I know the 6200 is so last year, but for less than a $65 upgrade, it seemed like a good idea 8). Especially with the 9600 being about 2 or 3 years old.

[onelegout]

I know the 6200 is so last year, but for less than a $65 upgrade, it seemed like a good idea 8). Especially with the 9600 being about 2 or 3 years old.
The 6200 is 2 years old also, and even then it was released as an entry-level card...

[javafiend]

2 years? Wow, now I feel really behind...

[The Great Destroyer]

i think most newer games cant run on anything less than the 6000 series or a 9500. but both are pretty much outdated. my 9550 runs Oblivion and Need For Speed Carbon at pretty low graphics, but my X1600 and my friends X700 can run Oblivion flawlessly (still trying to figure out why my X1600 wont work with the 6.11 driver, so i cant compare it to NFS Carbon yet. hope ATI/AMD get back to me soon...)

personally, i wouldnt buy anything lower than a X700 series, IMO theres a big jump between the X650 and the X700 performance-wise.

[monoflap]

I'm running an agp 6200 and its on the slow side at stock but you can overclock it pretty far. I've gone from 300 core / 500 ram to a stable 400 core / 610 ram with a aftermarket heatsink. I can't guarantee your card will overclock as well, heck it might even go further. But if you're up to it I would give it a shot. With these clocks I can play most games (source games work pretty well. in 1024 X 768 just fine with most of the eye candy turned up. Its nothing spectacular but it gets the job done.

[simon275]

You should Softmod your 6200 to a 6600 they are the same card it is just the 6200 has some locked pipelines. You softmod it by using riva tuner to unlock and enable some pipelines on the graphics card. You will see a performance benifit.

Here is a tut on how to do it

http://forums.bit-tech.net/showpost.php?p=1025214&postcount=2

You need Rivatuner to do it here

http://downloads.guru3d.com/download.php?det=163

[ShadowSniper]

To think I've had that same card for two years and haven't known that...Thanks simon275.

[sirkillalot617]

Iv got a 6200 in my second pc even though my x1950xtx is the best my 6200 has always been relible and never broke right now its unlocked to a 6600 and overclocked and still runs bf2 on medium settings without shuttering too much

[monoflap]

If the pipes won't unlock, check your specs on the card. If it says nv42 revised, that means the cut the pipelines entirely so there is no way to unlock them (I know this because I tried it myself). However, the older cards will unlock. Since yours is a good 2 years old I think you have a chance. By the way, whatever you do, don't disable the working pipelines if the disabled ones won't enable right away. The card won't do anything. Its a pain to fix :redface: .

[sirkillalot617]

anotherthing if your card uses turbocahche it wont unlock either