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"i have a x4 agp do xfx geforce 6200 cards support this?"

hello i am thinking about buying a new graphics card as my 64mb geforce 4 has been fried playing games like half life 2, far cry, and css lol. Anyway i looked on special reserve and the xfx geforce 6200 cuaght my eye but it says it is only agp x8 compatible. I was wondering if it would be possible to run it on my agp x4. Could somebody please help me out and if it is not possible to run this card on agp x4 what other simular card would you recommend wich would run on agp x4

thanks :)

Im having the same problem as cheesey, got exactly the same card as him. So ive been considering a 9800 pro so i can buy and play BF2, do you think this card will be good enough to play BF2 very smoothly?

You can get a 9800Pro for about 70 quid brand new from overclockers.co.uk.

Its not as good as the 6600GT but its about 50-ish cheaper, and still runs games okay. I'm running WoW at 1600x1200 with most details on and still getting 45ish fps, and 45ish with good settings on CS:S.

Not saying its the best card any more, but its about the best for less than £100

I see your point and thanks for the advice everyone i am still lookin in to geting a 6200 but now also looking at the 6600,dont no how im goin to raise enough money 2 buy the 6600 though

I agree with Memorandum!. If you want your card to last more than a couple of months, get a 6600GT or a 9800Pro. Most 256MB cards outperform some of the 512MB cards out there, so VRAM isn't much of an indication any more.

the 6200 is still a poor card.
Amount of memory is only one small thing.

You have too be looking into memory bandwidth, number of pixel pipelines, number of vertex shaders, the ability of the core itself etc etc.

If you look for benchmarks you'll see that it's not a very fast card.
If you want a cheap upgrade you'd be better off going for one of the older top range cards like the Radeon 9800 Pro, or if you want to stick with nvidia nothing less than a 6600.

It's not all about the memory you should research reviews before buying.

thanks for the advice chip its helped alot :),Memorandum let me explain something the card i have now has 64mb (ge force 4 440mx) of memory and is extremly outdated a 6200 has 128mb or 256mb of memory how can that be equally crap lol ? also please dont post if its erelivant

Well it's certainly not the best card he could get, i think £50 more would be a good idea and get a much better card. Depends how long he wants his card to last really.

Won't a 6200 be almost equally crap anyway?

You should be able to run it as far as i know, i'm pretty sure if a card does 8x it can do 4x.

Have you had a read through your motherboard manual to check that it doesn't do 8x anyway?