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: Good video card.
Summary: 5 Stars
Had no probs with Amazon or the video card. Easy install. No fan on the card, so, obviously, it's quiet. Using computer for movies, internet, and general use. For our purposes, it works great. The original card was bad and caused the screen to go black intermittently. With this new card, the problem is completely gone. Had to disable the hardware accelerator in PowerDVD to get movies to run properly without crashing. For a general use computer this video card is fine. But, not sure how it would hold up under a serious gaming scenario. Computer is a 2002 Dell Dimension 4500, Pentium 4, 2 GHz, 1GB RAM, 22in LCD.Digital camera Review: Good, but...
Summary: 4 Stars
I needed a better card for a game I was playing. I assumed this would be better than my old card simply because I was going from 128 to 256. I was wrong. There's nothing wrong with the card; it works perfectly. I just still need something better.Digital camera Review: Got what i need it !! Excellent Video Card
Summary: 5 Stars
I have a Pentium V 3.0 HT with 1.5Gb Ram , i had a Ge-force fx5500 which is a good video card but did not moved the games that required Shader support 3.0 like Ubisoft games ( Rainbow six las Vegas, and GR2) well now my pc runs them really smooth. Howerever they are running in the lowest specs possible , but for less than 50.00 its a great deal .Digital camera Review: Great AGP card
Summary: 4 Stars
Pros: EXCELLENT LINUX SUPPORT, Silent, 256mb, DDR2, Dual monitor out, optional low profile bracket.
Cons: AGP, not the fastest card around.
I bought this card to bring my aging AGP based P4 system back from the dead. This card works flawlessly in Linux, using NVidia's proprietary drivers. It runs Compiz and all of Fusion's plugins, and it can handle the basic compositing add-ons like kiba-dock and avant-window-navigator. It is, however, a little slow to run all these things at full speed.
If you need a capable, silent, affordable, AGP video card for linux, this is it.
If you want a video card capable of running all of the Compiz eyecandy and the fanciest addons at full speed, you'll need a faster card (and I'd need a faster machine).
9/10 overall. Highly recommended.
Digital camera Review: Great Budget AGP Card for the Money
Summary: 4 Stars
Great card for the money. The price dropped for 7 dollars (without the rebate) a day after I bought it. Installed flawlessly on my 4 years old Dell 4600 with 2.8 GHz P4, 1 gig ram, and 250 Watts psu. It runs at full speed (AGP 8x speed on my PC). I believe it can also run on 4x if you do not have 8x on your computer. For those of you who is using a Dell with an integrated graphics card like me, make sure that you COMPLETELY delete the original graphics driver AND the driver installation files in C:/dell/drivers. I didn't delete the files in "dell/drivers" the first time I installed this new card, and the old integrated card automatically reinstalled itself after the reboot. As the result, I kept getting the blue screen of death during start ups. So I was forced to delete the drivers while I was in safe mode and start everything all over again. BTW, if you are not connecting this card to a TV, which I assume would be fairly complicated, I highly recommend you to skip the installation CD and just go download the latest Forceware driver and install that, which can be found on http://www.nvidia.com/Download/index.aspx?lang=en-us.
This card is perfect for people with old PCs that do not have PCI-e slots and for those that want a quiet computer. As many of you can tell, the card is not really cannot be called "fast" by today's standard since the Geforce 6200 was originally designed for budget minded consumers, and it is very hard to be overclocked (it's not build for OC). The card runs completely silent because I cannot hear any additional noise in my computer which only has 1 single fan. Considering it only has a heat sink, it does not run very hot. It idles around 52 Celsius and jumps to around 73 when I play graphics intense games like Need for Speed Carbon and Fable the Lost Chapter. With this card, I am able to play NFSC on medium settings and Fable on high. Photo also renders a lot faster on Photoshop. You can always get a high quality vga fan (a lot different from the plastic ones you get on cheap video cards) online for around 10 dollars if you think your card is running a bit too hot. From what I read, people at Nvidia said you do not have to worry about it as long as the temperature of the card is below 130 (personally I do not believe it, anything above 90 is pretty bad).
Again, I believe all of you who are considering buying this card are not serious gamers. If you want to play the new games on highest settings, go with a PCI-e Geforce 8800 Ultra factory OC (DirectX 10 is the future!). If you don't have a PCI-e slot, go get a PC with the slot because there is no point of buying a fast AGP card (it's expensive and still not as fast as a PCI-e card). This card is really for people who want to upgrade their old PCs since most of the old computers do not have powerful Power Supply Units. Originally, I was going to buy a faster Geforce card but the PSU on my computer is not powerful enough to power any of the faster cards. With a minimum 250 W power supply, I believe this card can run on almost every PC made in the past 4-5 years (but seriously, other than me, who's still using a PC that's 4 years old?). It really makes a HUGE difference if you are upgrading from on-board graphics. The reason why I only give it a 4 is because every time after recover from sleep mode, the card tends to freeze up a bit while I play games. I have not been able to figure out the reason why, and it seems like a few other people also have the same problem as me. After all, I hope this card can just go a little bit faster. But for the money I paid, this really is a great card for the value.
Sorry for my bad English. This is the first review that I've ever written. It's a quite late in the night so I decide not to proofread it. Just leave me a comment if you have any questions. Thanks.