proskater123 Posted March 29, 2009 Share Posted March 29, 2009 Ok I havn't been all that great with choosing video cards. All I look at is the memory of the card and ports it has but i have two cards that have 256mb memory, and both vgi, dvi, and svideo on them. But if you had to pick between the two, which one would be better for gaming? I know there are better ones but if you only had the choice between these two, which one would you pick? Nvidia geforce 6200a ATI Radeon x1300 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dr0p Posted March 29, 2009 Share Posted March 29, 2009 You're not going to be doing any gaming on either of those, let's be clear about that. Personally I'd go with the nVidia 6200 because it has better linux support. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
proskater123 Posted March 29, 2009 Author Share Posted March 29, 2009 im doing alot of gaming on both actually. Call of duty 5 is running perfectly on the ati. Just installed it tho so im not sure about the BFG card. I know call of duty 4 worked perfectly on that one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
proskater123 Posted March 29, 2009 Author Share Posted March 29, 2009 acually I take that back. Cod5 is not running that great on the ati. Im going to try the BFG (Nvidia) Tomarrow. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Machstorm Posted March 29, 2009 Share Posted March 29, 2009 acually I take that back. Cod5 is not running that great on the ati. Im going to try the BFG (Nvidia) Tomarrow. You are not going to make much headway with any of those video cards. If you wanna go cheap get an 8800 GT. Those two cards that you mentioned are too old (4 years). Also do your self a favor and look at the system requirements for a game and use the recommended video card if you can. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VaKo Posted March 29, 2009 Share Posted March 29, 2009 To be fair to the 6200, I had one for a few years and to be fair in its day it was OK card, ran BF2 kinda OK. But in todays world its just a card you want to use in a linux system for a bit of compiz. I recently got a 9800GT which was very cheap (£100) and it runs everything fine at 1600x1200. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
proskater123 Posted March 29, 2009 Author Share Posted March 29, 2009 ok in my defense, I have no job or money income. There is no get another card. lol. I just have these two with the exception of a couple other crap cards. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Machstorm Posted March 29, 2009 Share Posted March 29, 2009 ok in my defense, I have no job or money income. There is no get another card. lol. I just have these two with the exception of a couple other crap cards. Oh ok that explains things. Been there, done that, got the t-shirt. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deveant Posted March 30, 2009 Share Posted March 30, 2009 i would say pick the one u don't like, OC it, and only play games that are over 3 years old, they will work fine. Anything new, isn't going to be all that great on either of these cards. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VaKo Posted March 30, 2009 Share Posted March 30, 2009 Aye, got that t-shirt to, and wore it until it had holes. I take it its an AGP system? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vector Posted March 30, 2009 Share Posted March 30, 2009 Aye, got that t-shirt to, and wore it until it had holes. I take it its an AGP system? yeah i was wondering that as well. i mean i have one box in the closet that collects dust that has an agp port and honestly if i were you i wouldnt dump any money into any upgrades on a computer that old. if you can i would get a new mobo, processor and vid card, canibalize the other parts from your old box like the hard disk, optical drives etc and just get going with some newer shit. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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