Suggestion?

I am planning to buy a new graphic card since my FX5200 is a bit outdated.
My system setup is Celeron 1.7Mhz,AGP4X,512MB RAM.

I have check up all the sites I have known, the Nvidia official sites, even
newsroom here, and seems makes thing more complicated.

From what I know, a 128bit graphic chip is faster than 64bit one, but from
Nvidia on 6200, the 64bit one seems faster than 128bit, fill rate 1.4billion
as 1.2, and vertice/s in 262 Million as to 225. More astonishingly, 5950
Ultra is a lot faster than 6600. Since my PC is a bit old and on budget
too, 6800 & 7 seriesis out of the question.

Anyone can help out here as which card should I buy? 5950 seems good but
lack of pixel v3.0. So the choice should be around 6200 and 6600.

Thanks for the help.

p.s. I use the PC mainly on gaming but I isn't that picky, a few drop of
frame-rate is acceptable and I use 5200 to complete Half Life 2 and Doom3!

On Thu, 17 Aug 2006 00:32:10 +0800, "Rayson"
wrote:

I am planning to buy a new graphic card since my FX5200 is a bit outdated.
My system setup is Celeron 1.7Mhz,AGP4X,512MB RAM.

I have check up all the sites I have known, the Nvidia official sites, even
newsroom here, and seems makes thing more complicated.

From what I know, a 128bit graphic chip is faster than 64bit one, but from
Nvidia on 6200, the 64bit one seems faster than 128bit, fill rate 1.4billion
as 1.2, and vertice/s in 262 Million as to 225. More astonishingly, 5950
Ultra is a lot faster than 6600. Since my PC is a bit old and on budget
too, 6800 & 7 seriesis out of the question.

Anyone can help out here as which card should I buy? 5950 seems good but
lack of pixel v3.0. So the choice should be around 6200 and 6600.

Thanks for the help.

p.s. I use the PC mainly on gaming but I isn't that picky, a few drop of
frame-rate is acceptable and I use 5200 to complete Half Life 2 and Doom3!


between those 2 I would get the 6600

here's a couple

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16814122206


but for the dame price you could get a 6800xt

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16814150163

On Wed, 16 Aug 2006 17:21:20 -0500, bandit wrote:

On Thu, 17 Aug 2006 00:32:10 +0800, "Rayson"
wrote:

I am planning to buy a new graphic card since my FX5200 is a bit outdated.
My system setup is Celeron 1.7Mhz,AGP4X,512MB RAM.

I have check up all the sites I have known, the Nvidia official sites, even
newsroom here, and seems makes thing more complicated.

From what I know, a 128bit graphic chip is faster than 64bit one, but from
Nvidia on 6200, the 64bit one seems faster than 128bit, fill rate 1.4billion
as 1.2, and vertice/s in 262 Million as to 225. More astonishingly, 5950
Ultra is a lot faster than 6600. Since my PC is a bit old and on budget
too, 6800 & 7 seriesis out of the question.

Anyone can help out here as which card should I buy? 5950 seems good but
lack of pixel v3.0. So the choice should be around 6200 and 6600.

Thanks for the help.

p.s. I use the PC mainly on gaming but I isn't that picky, a few drop of
frame-rate is acceptable and I use 5200 to complete Half Life 2 and Doom3!


between those 2 I would get the 6600

here's a couple

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16814122206


but for the dame price you could get a 6800xt

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16814150163

meant same hit wrong key haha

On my Ath 2800+ I got a 6600GT. This is almost as powerful as the 6800
series. I am very happy with it. It only had 128-memory but it works
well w. recent games such as Oblivion that stress the GPU.

what about the 64bit and 128bit comparison?

I just found another sites:
6600GT fill rate:4billion vertice:375million
6800XT fill rate:2.4billion vertice:300million

6600GT sure is faster

"KenP"
om...
On my Ath 2800+ I got a 6600GT. This is almost as powerful as the 6800
series. I am very happy with it. It only had 128-memory but it works
well w. recent games such as Oblivion that stress the GPU.

The 6800XT is different from other 6800 cards like the 6800NU and 6800GT and
Ultra.
It's a POS comparitively.

"Rayson" wrote in message
...
what about the 64bit and 128bit comparison?

I just found another sites:
6600GT fill rate:4billion vertice:375million
6800XT fill rate:2.4billion vertice:300million

6600GT sure is faster

"KenP"
om...
On my Ath 2800+ I got a 6600GT. This is almost as powerful as the 6800
series. I am very happy with it. It only had 128-memory but it works
well w. recent games such as Oblivion that stress the GPU.

but comparing to 6600 series! Seems like people can't just buy the card via
the chip number but have to causious with the performance, as a 6200 might
be as good as 6600!!

"job" ¼¶¼g©ó¶l¥ó·s»D
...
The 6800XT is different from other 6800 cards like the 6800NU and 6800GT
and
Ultra.
It's a POS comparitively.

"Rayson" wrote in message
...
what about the 64bit and 128bit comparison?

I just found another sites:
6600GT fill rate:4billion vertice:375million
6800XT fill rate:2.4billion vertice:300million

6600GT sure is faster

"KenP"
om...
On my Ath 2800+ I got a 6600GT. This is almost as powerful as the
6800
series. I am very happy with it. It only had 128-memory but it works
well w. recent games such as Oblivion that stress the GPU.

Exactly.It's a big PIA.you gotta look at 64bit vs. 128 bit. GDDR2 Vs. GDDR3
etc.,etc.

"Rayson" wrote in message
...
but comparing to 6600 series! Seems like people can't just buy the card
via
the chip number but have to causious with the performance, as a 6200 might
be as good as 6600!!

"job" ¼¶¼g©ó¶l¥ó·s»D
...
The 6800XT is different from other 6800 cards like the 6800NU and 6800GT
and
Ultra.
It's a POS comparitively.

"Rayson" wrote in message
...
what about the 64bit and 128bit comparison?

I just found another sites:
6600GT fill rate:4billion vertice:375million
6800XT fill rate:2.4billion vertice:300million

6600GT sure is faster

"KenP"
om...
On my Ath 2800+ I got a 6600GT. This is almost as powerful as the
6800
series. I am very happy with it. It only had 128-memory but it
works
well w. recent games such as Oblivion that stress the GPU.

still no one able to help me with the 64bit and 128bit differences!!

Which should I check on the speed of the graphic card? The fill rate?
Vertice/s? or the pixel per clock?

A 6200 running on 64/128bit the comparison as in fill rate/vertice/pixel is:
64 bit - 1.4billion,262 million,4
128bit - 1.2billion,225,4
from the figure shows, 64bit running faster than 128bit!!

Another from my old 5200(MSI FX5200-T128)card
don't know about the memory interface but the fill rate/vertice/pixel is
1.3billion,81million,8
5200 has a larger pipeline? and in term of fill rate, they are all the same!

the 64/128bit 6200 is around the double price, but in term of speed, how
many percent of increment? Worth and the double for a bit of speed?

"job" ¼¶¼g©ó¶l¥ó·s»D
...
Exactly.It's a big PIA.you gotta look at 64bit vs. 128 bit. GDDR2 Vs.
GDDR3
etc.,etc.

"Rayson" wrote in message
...
but comparing to 6600 series! Seems like people can't just buy the card
via
the chip number but have to causious with the performance, as a 6200
might
be as good as 6600!!

"job" ¼¶¼g©ó¶l¥ó·s»D
...
The 6800XT is different from other 6800 cards like the 6800NU and
6800GT
and
Ultra.
It's a POS comparitively.

"Rayson" wrote in message
...
what about the 64bit and 128bit comparison?

I just found another sites:
6600GT fill rate:4billion vertice:375million
6800XT fill rate:2.4billion vertice:300million

6600GT sure is faster

"KenP"
om...
On my Ath 2800+ I got a 6600GT. This is almost as powerful as the
6800
series. I am very happy with it. It only had 128-memory but it
works
well w. recent games such as Oblivion that stress the GPU.