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This is mostly for orientation...probably I won't have money for this for some time, but it's good to know for what, and what amount of money to save if I want to swap my ancient G400 SH 16mb at some point...
So, first some basic system specs (this probably won't change for a long time, so it's reasonable not to consider "too fast" cards...)
Athlon XP 1700+
256mb of ram, at some point probably 768 or eventually 512
all on ASRock K7S8X (SiS 746FX, single channel only - although I was considering changing it for some Nforce2, it's unlikelly)
monitor: Eizo F520 (17', 1280x1024@85Hz desktop usage)
Systems:
Windows 2003, perhaps XP, and for sure Ubuntu.
Story: I was considering Radeon 9600 (or one of its flawors, Pro or 9550) for a long time, however lack of proper Linux support and time/new propositions on the market brought interest in GeForce 6200. I know it will have good Linux support and it's a little more future-proof and probably faster, but...no reviews about it. None :/ At least about the AGP version. Especially the one with 128mb 64bit memory - the version which is very competitively priced, but I've found only one review of it. Which claimed btw that it performs surprisingly good for a graphics card with 64bit memory bus, and for the price is highly recommended...but that's only one review. Do any of you know any better?
And one more thing - I've made the mistake of choosing Matrox
, so now I have hard time using setup with lack of image quality. Weak card will show on Eizo... How is Nvidia in this regard with 6200? How is Leadtek? I think it's the best from my choices...Galaxy is totally unknown to me, Gainward uses something similar to IDE tape to connect analogue output to board (!!!), but...there's also reasonably looking Gigabytem even higher clocked out of the box. Is Leadtek best from the two for 1280x1024@85Hz at Eizo? If I won't see a difference with G400 during normal use (I won't look for them specifically), that's good enough...
edit: turns out Gigabyte is also passive...
So, first some basic system specs (this probably won't change for a long time, so it's reasonable not to consider "too fast" cards...)
Athlon XP 1700+
256mb of ram, at some point probably 768 or eventually 512
all on ASRock K7S8X (SiS 746FX, single channel only - although I was considering changing it for some Nforce2, it's unlikelly)
monitor: Eizo F520 (17', 1280x1024@85Hz desktop usage)
Systems:
Windows 2003, perhaps XP, and for sure Ubuntu.
Story: I was considering Radeon 9600 (or one of its flawors, Pro or 9550) for a long time, however lack of proper Linux support and time/new propositions on the market brought interest in GeForce 6200. I know it will have good Linux support and it's a little more future-proof and probably faster, but...no reviews about it. None :/ At least about the AGP version. Especially the one with 128mb 64bit memory - the version which is very competitively priced, but I've found only one review of it. Which claimed btw that it performs surprisingly good for a graphics card with 64bit memory bus, and for the price is highly recommended...but that's only one review. Do any of you know any better?
And one more thing - I've made the mistake of choosing Matrox
, so now I have hard time using setup with lack of image quality. Weak card will show on Eizo... How is Nvidia in this regard with 6200? How is Leadtek? I think it's the best from my choices...Galaxy is totally unknown to me, Gainward uses something similar to IDE tape to connect analogue output to board (!!!), but...there's also reasonably looking Gigabytem even higher clocked out of the box. Is Leadtek best from the two for 1280x1024@85Hz at Eizo? If I won't see a difference with G400 during normal use (I won't look for them specifically), that's good enough...edit: turns out Gigabyte is also passive...
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