BRUCE STANLEY wrote:
Matthias Hopf <mhopf@suse.de> wrote: On Oct 17, 06 10:11:00 -0700, BRUCE STANLEY wrote:
I am thinking about replacing my ATI RADEON 9250 PRO with a NVIDA Geforce FX5200 card.
How well is the FX5200 supported under Suse 10.0 ?
Works well, but I would suggest getting a 6200 instead. Is approx. the same price and much faster in certain cases (avoid the TurboCache variants). That said, if you already *have* a 5200, use it.
Would if be worth replacing the ATI card with the FX5200?
IMHO it's always worth replacing an ATI by something else... Hope this changes now after the AMD merger.
Matthias
Well I went window shopping this weekend but I could not find any 5200 AGP cards locally. PCI versions were available.
I did find several version of the 6200 card which brings up another question.
What is the difference betwee a 6200 card and a 6t200 LE card? I found both 6200 LE and 6200 LE Turbo cards (which I knwo now to aviod).
I just spoke with EVGA to try and figure out the differences between the different offerings. Outside of the Turbo Cache versions they told me that the only differences are the packaging. That is LX , LE and L2 are all the same card. He said that if the part number is the same then the cards are the same. The last letters/digits at the end of the part number are only to distinguish packaging. Frankly I found this hard to believe because I found price differences ranging from $149.99 to $89.99 list. I told him this but he said no worries. Bob