Which graphics card is better and why?
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Overall, the 6200 is better, due to the absolutely terrible shader performance of the 5500. I also think the 6200 is meant to have better hardware video acceleration than the 5500, so assuming you can actually plug it into your system and there's enough system memory for the TurboCache thing to work properly, it's a better deal all around.
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Those are both pretty badly out of date, even for the budget market. You can't get something more recent?
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Dude if you're on a budget get an 8800GTS ... pretty cheap and way better than those two dinos.
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Almost certainly the 6-series card. I had a 5-series card and it sucked.
Those are still about $250 in this country despite being obsolete. I'm not sure what the pricing situation in the US is like for obsolete stuff, but I do know that the Radeon 4850 cards are under $200, quite a bit faster and use less power.Dude if you're on a budget get an 8800GTS ... pretty cheap and way better than those two dinos.
I could if I needed to get one. Right now, I have the 6200 in my pc, but the local Fry's has that 5500 on sale for free (after the rebate). I was wondering if I should switch out mine for that.Darth Wong wrote:Those are both pretty badly out of date, even for the budget market. You can't get something more recent?
Really, don't do it. The 5500 is just a mildly overclocked version of the GeForce FX 5200, one of the most notriously awful graphics chips ever to exist. It is worse than the 6200 in absolutely every way you could imagine.
If you're limited to an AGP slot, then there's some AGP versions of the Radeon X1950XT still floating around; they're about the fastest AGP cards I know of that were produced in any great quantity.
If you're limited to an AGP slot, then there's some AGP versions of the Radeon X1950XT still floating around; they're about the fastest AGP cards I know of that were produced in any great quantity.
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Seconded.DaveJB wrote:Really, don't do it. The 5500 is just a mildly overclocked version of the GeForce FX 5200, one of the most notriously awful graphics chips ever to exist. It is worse than the 6200 in absolutely every way you could imagine.
Seriously don't touch it with an eighty foot barge pole, the 5200 is a complete dog.
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If by "obsolete" you mean there are newer cards out there, then yeah. If you mean that it has been rendered useless, then no wai. In the US it'll set you back about $170 bucks and it'll run anything up to and including AoC just fine.Starglider wrote:Those are still about $250 in this country despite being obsolete.
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The 4600 is better than the 5500, which is one of the worst graphics cards ever made. Games looked better on cards made a year BEFORE the 5500 came out. Swapping out a 6200 for a 5500 is a downgrade.
But even the 6200 is badly out of date. Get the 8400.
Edit: That'll teach me to read all the posts.
But even the 6200 is badly out of date. Get the 8400.
Edit: That'll teach me to read all the posts.
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