Nvidia Geforce 6200

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Hey everyone. I'm not excatly a genius when it comes to PCs, but I DO want to upgrade to play Half-Life 2.

Now, I'm contemplating upgrading my crappy old Rage card to a nvidia geforce 6200. I'm trading my PS2 and games in for one at my local store, but I've been advised in other forums to avoid it. Why should I?

If it helps, I can post my specs from Everest Home Edition. But before I do that, I'm told I could run a nvidia geforce 5700le for half-life 2 just fine on my PC, so if I can run that could I run this?

Plus, not to sound rude but I'd appreciate it if you wouldn't reply with 'ooh, get this card, it's much better'. I played on a 5700 at this store and it looked great to me. I'm not investing in a great card to play for future games that require a supersonic graphics card like FEAR, just something I can play Half-life 2 on decently.

Thanks! :imu:
 
If you wanna get the 5700 go ahead... but imo ohh get the 6600GT it's much better.
 
Yeah I know, and I'm suggesting you get the 6600GT.
 
...¬¬

Yeah, but i can only get the 6200. Would you recommend that? Is it better than the 5700? If i can run the 5700, can i run the 6200?
 
You should be able to run it.. I don't know what the wattage requirement is for the 6200 though... ask a mod to move this to hardware, people there know more.
 
Like said the 6600gt is great but I understand.

I would recommend the 6200 as it will play HL2 just fine and a lot better then the 5700le (much better graphics). You will need an AGP or PCI-E slot to plug it in so make sure you have that. If you can run a 5700le you should be able to run a 6200.

You should be able to run the game maxed at 1024x768 or 800x600 with 2aa and 4af.

It eats about 200 watts under load and 117 at idle.
 
My specs from everest home edition say I have

isa, pci, agp, and usb!
 
lol isa..

Get an agp version then (no pci-e for you!)

What's your mobo? Everest can tell you.
 
under menu: motherboard > motherboard > motherboard name
 
soltek sl-75jv...

You're running a duron then? And the 75jv only supports agp 4x just to let you know...
 
All I need to know is if I can run hl2 with a 6200 on what i've told you...

do I need 8x?
 
dang lol u must have an old computer if u have a rage card
 
You still haven't told us your cpu/ram specs- you could have the best video card in the world,, but it'd be useless with a Pentium 3 500mhz for example.
And to answer about the 4x AGP- you can run a 8x AGP card in it (like the 6200) and you shouldn't notice too much of a difference.
 
get a 5700le 5700 (non le are better) or a 6600 its not that much more expensive, you cannot get the 6200 because its only a pci-express card AFAIK. The 6200 is not a good gaming card mind you because it utilizes some of you regular (slow) RAM to use as graphics RAM wich is a big problem as for games.
 
_-_-SELAS-_-_ said:
get a 5700le 5700 (non le are better) or a 6600 its not that much more expensive, you cannot get the 6200 because its only a pci-express card AFAIK. The 6200 is not a good gaming card mind you because it utilizes some of you regular (slow) RAM to use as graphics RAM wich is a big problem as for games.
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wrong the 6200 is in agp/pci-e and only the turbocache ones are slow
 
a processor may be due instead of a Graphic Card. But 6200 is OK.
 
meh I have a Radeon X300 SE (around the same level as the 6200 + turbocache) and I can run HL2 at max at 1280*1024 with AA/AF turned off though.
 
THIS is your video card. (SAPPHIRE RADEON 9600XT) This will play HL2 very well.

However, if you don't at least have a 2Ghz Duron, then forget it. Do they make a 2GHz Duron?

I know the min specs are 1.2Ghz, but the Duron is like the Celeron, it's a defective Athlon, AFAIK
 
Here are my specs..

cpu type - amd athlon, 1600 MHz (12 X 133) 1900+
3D ACCELERTOR - ati rage128 pro

dont laugh at my rage, lol, this pc was never designed for gaming.
 
well if u can oc ur cpu alittle bit that would be good
 
You will want to make sure the card you get is an AGP card. Your board has an AGP slot which is the slot closest to the CPU.
A 6200 or 5700 will work with HL2.

How much money are you spending?
Are you going to buy this in a store near you or online? The best card for your money is a 9600, 9600Pro or 9600XT. Any card with LE (ex. 5700LE) or SE (ex. 9600SE) has a lot lower performance compared to the base model FYI.
Good GFX card benchmarks with HL2 DX9, DX8 and also shows DX7.

9600 Pro on Newegg.com (US only)
 
I just traded my ps2 and games etc. in, and apparently it's all worth £110. And basically the card is around £60, and hl2 £20, so that means I will have around £30 store credit. :)

Plus everest home ed. tells me i have a usb, psi, agp and something else, but yes I have an agp port..
 
ok heres the deal.
Buy the 6200: verrrry mediocre performance. You will play the game. It will be fun. But it will not be pretty. 800x600 will probably be the sweet spot since you have a duron and therefore on agp 4x.

Save another $50 and get a proper video card (6600gt AGP): You will play the game. It will be fun. It will look decent.

BUT, this all depends on how much ram you have. At LEAST 512mb is necessary for medium textures, or you will be stuttering all over the place.
And don't forget that the FX series of cards (NV30's?) were crippled by valve.
 
I own a ati radeon 9600XT card and it runs Half-life 2 on 1024 x whatever it is, very nicely with medium/ high settings with a lovely 40 or so FPS. Its a great card for 60/70 quid i believe now. Get that along side HL2 and you'll be happy im sure. I was asking the same question as you about a year ago and i took these guys advice and i'm glad. Asus knows his stuff.

And as the others have said, what memory do you have? How much RAM? It will be something like DDR 128mb/ 256mb/ 512mb or 1gb (unlikely).
 
9600xt or pro is the best buy for you.
 
It CAN look like that since it's a DX9 card but performance will be zero. You will be reducing lighting, shader and texture quality settings for playable framerate.
 
sometimes u cant tell a big difference between gfx cards except specularity and reflections
 
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