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Is the Geforce 6200 256 Good for Age of Empires III?
I was looking at this one from newegg.com:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16814150107 XFX PVT44AWAMG Geforce 6200 256MB DDR AGP 4X/8X Video Card - Retail Model #: PVT44AWAMG Item #: N82E16814150107 I only have $100.00. I can wait and save, if I have to. I want the best from my RTS games. Sorry, don't do a lot of FPS, so Doom and the like do not factor in. I know that nVidia recommends the 6800, but that is way outside my price range. Also, is the difference between 128 versus 256 discernable with the human eye? Am I just paying for a number that I really can't tell the difference with? Thank you for any help. |
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Is the Geforce 6200 256 Good for Age of Empires III?
Hello sir,
I did a quick search for you and I think you should be to enjoy the game: http://www.hardocp.com/article.html?art=Njc0 Please note that, according to this article, the author was able to play DOOM 3 just fine. But AOE III uses less resources than DOOM III and similar games. Hope you have a fast CPU though. 128 vs 256 when playing AOE III? Hmmm....not too sure...don't think it would be noticeable. Good luck wrote in message oups.com... I was looking at this one from newegg.com: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16814150107 XFX PVT44AWAMG Geforce 6200 256MB DDR AGP 4X/8X Video Card - Retail Model #: PVT44AWAMG Item #: N82E16814150107 I only have $100.00. I can wait and save, if I have to. I want the best from my RTS games. Sorry, don't do a lot of FPS, so Doom and the like do not factor in. I know that nVidia recommends the 6800, but that is way outside my price range. Also, is the difference between 128 versus 256 discernable with the human eye? Am I just paying for a number that I really can't tell the difference with? Thank you for any help. |
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Is the Geforce 6200 256 Good for Age of Empires III?
So you think the Geforce 6600 128 would be good or would that be like a
Geforce 6200 256? Thanks again. |
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Is the Geforce 6200 256 Good for Age of Empires III?
Thank you. I spoke to some guy today and he said that because I had an
AMD 2500XP that I should get a 128 because my computer could not "fill up" the 256 and it would cause my games to lag. Is that true? What is he talking about? Thanks again for being helpful. |
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Is the Geforce 6200 256 Good for Age of Empires III?
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ups.com... Thank you. I spoke to some guy today and he said that because I had an AMD 2500XP that I should get a 128 because my computer could not "fill up" the 256 and it would cause my games to lag. Is that true? What is he talking about? Thanks again for being helpful. Whether or not you will fill up your video RAM has nothing to do with what type of processor you have. It's dependant largely on what resolution you play at and what eye-candy settings you are using. But to answer your question, no, your computer will not lag if it can't "fill up" the 256. It will, however, lag if it fills up the 128 and needs more (having to use some slower system memory). There is no downside to getting the 256MB version (except cost). -- "I don't cheat to survive. I cheat to LIVE!!" - Alceryes |
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Is the Geforce 6200 256 Good for Age of Empires III?
On 21 Oct 2005 20:05:46 -0700, wrote:
I was looking at this one from newegg.com: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16814150107 XFX PVT44AWAMG Geforce 6200 256MB DDR AGP 4X/8X Video Card - Retail Model #: PVT44AWAMG Item #: N82E16814150107 I only have $100.00. I can wait and save, if I have to. I want the best from my RTS games. Sorry, don't do a lot of FPS, so Doom and the like do not factor in. I know that nVidia recommends the 6800, but that is way outside my price range. Also, is the difference between 128 versus 256 discernable with the human eye? Am I just paying for a number that I really can't tell the difference with? Thank you for any help. You wanna be careful here. There are 64bit, and 128bit memory bus versions of this card. You'll wanna stay clear of the 64bit as it is half the performance of a full 128bit card. Of all the 128bit cards I've seen, they usally have fans cause they would overheat running at full speed, but there are 64bit cards with fans as well. The only AGP 6200 with a` 128bit bus listed at Newegg is this MSI for a $106.00. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16814127186 This looks to be a 6200 based on the NV43 core which is the 6600's core. You can unlock the 4 masked pipes, and have a 6600. Nvidia replaced the 6200's NV43 core with an NV44A to lower the cost. Those new cores come on 64bit memory buses, and have no masked pipes to unlock. However... If your gona try to unlock the extra pipes on a NV43 based 6200 to score a 6600 like card, for $7.00 more you can get a true 6600. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16814130232 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16814164043 If you save an extra $50.00, you can get a 6600GT. |
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