XFX PVT44AWANG GeForce 6200 256MB GDDR2 AGP 4X/8X Video Card (VGA/DVI/S-Video) by XFX
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Digital camera reviews of XFX PVT44AWANG GeForce 6200 256MB GDDR2 AGP 4X/8X Video Card (VGA/DVI/S-Video)
Digital camera Review: Excellent Service from XFX
Summary: 5 Stars
I bought the XFX GeForce 6200 as an upgrade for a Emachine with onboard video(8 megs of video memory). It installed easily and quickly. It worked for three weeks, then just quit. I contacted XFX and wwas directed to their return department. After the normal "make sure it is the card", I was given a return authorization. I received an email after they received the returned card telling me the card had failed their testing. I received a replacement card with four days. One added plus to all this is XFX has a "lifetime" warranty. Not only am I covered, but if I should sell my computer, the next owner will be covered also, for as long as the card is registered.Digital camera Review: Excellent card for the money
Summary: 4 Stars
I purchased this card to replace the onboard graphics of a 3 year old computer. Installation and setup was a breeze. For a gamer on a budget, i would definitely recommend this card. At 1024 x 768 resolution i can play all the newest games with no apparent lag. The lack of an onboard fan worried me at first but, even after hours of gaming, everything continues to run smoothly.Digital camera Review: Excellent item for price. Excellent for upgrading to Vista.
Summary: 5 Stars
Pros: Bought a couple of these. Excellent quality AGP card for the price. Dual heads, allows you to use 2 monitors. Low profile. XFX sells a low profile kit which includes an adapter for this card. It allows you to get relatively powerful graphics into a small case which has only low profile expansion slots. Vista is a CPU, Memory, and GPU hog. This is probably the most affordable way to upgrade a board with an AGP slot for Vista, and get compatibility and good performance with all versions of Microsoft's new OS.
Cons: None, other than I wish I got more of XFX 6200s, and that the card can't fix all the bugs in Vista.
Digital camera Review: Excellent price, decent graphics card
Summary: 4 Stars
This isn't exactly high end for graphics card, but I needed a functional card that played nicely with Linux and the 22" Westinghouse widescreen monitor we recently bought ($169 at Target on black Friday, woot!). I have an older computer, so I've had issues with X locking up on me when OpenGL functions were hit (glxgears, glmatrix screensaver, chromium game, etc.). I played a bit with BIOS settings and bought a new power supply and now all of the above seem to work fine with NVidia's proprietary drivers. I still can't get compiz to run with this card on my computer, but I blame my computer for that more than this card. That being said, I've seen a bunch of comments about the 6200 series having weird crashing/hard-locking problems (on Linux as well other OSen) that lead me to believe there may be some fundamental problems with this card that NVidia still hasn't ironed out yet with their drivers.
So, anyway, nice card, good cheap price, functional for 22" widescreen monitor support, but you may have problems doing anything intensive or OpenGL.
Digital camera Review: Excellent upgrade
Summary: 5 Stars
I installed this on my 3-yr old PC with an ASRock K7V3M motherboard. I bought a 19" widescreen monitor recently and the integrated graphics driver does not support widescreen resolutions (and it was giving me problems anyway) so I had to switch to AGP. Although the Mobo suport only up to AGP 4x, I had no problems using this card. The included installation guide was minimal but adequate. I connected it via DVI cable (not included) and setting up the BIOS and Windows XP to use the GeForce was straightforward. It automatically detected my widescreen monitor's optimum resolution (1440 x990) and used that by default. I downloaded the latest drivers/software instead of using the CD that came with it. The utility software was useful since I had to re-configure the color and gamma settings of the monitor - its in a well-lighted room so the default configuration is a bit washed out.
Inexpensive, AGP bus, good performance and easy to install - for a non-gamer that's all I can ask for. An excellent product and upgrade for those with older systems that don't support the new PCI-E bus.