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NVIDIA 6200 w/ TurboCache Released

Posted by samzenpus on from the better-looking-games dept.

duanep writes "Gamers Depot has posted a first look review at NVIDIA's just announced GeForce 6200 cards with TurboCache - the first graphics cards that truely take advantage of the PCI Express bus by using system RAM to store textures."

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  1. Woot, another 3D screensaver card by Jarnis · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Great for windows / productivity use, and running of spinning cube 3D screensaver.

    What's sad is that this card will pop up in gazillion 'budget' home machine that are then sold by clueless salesdroids to even more clueless moms and pops as 'gaming machine' with 'TURBOcache' (so it must be TURBO good).

    And naturally such computer will stutter along happily with anything slightly more demanding than CounterStrike (the original one).

    *sigh*

  2. Re:More reviews by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Interesting

    sorry but a PCI fx5700 plays doom3 pretty damn good.

    and that is the upper rung of tests for video cards.

    it should kick the crap out of a old legacy PCI card and a video chipset from 3 years ago.

    the card sucks, and ANY video card that uses system memory is crap. where are the 512 meg and 1 gig video cards? or "GASP" cards with a right angle DDR2 slot on them so I can upgrade it it myself with STANDARD ram?

    i'm tired of these low end use system ram cards that are not much better than the bargin bin cards from 3 years ago but cost 3X the price.

  3. Re:This is just a crippled graphics card! by ionpro · · Score: 2, Interesting

    It turns out that the memory isn't the part that cranks the costs up. RAM is pretty damn cheap; the difference between memory costs for 64MB and 128MB is negligable. But to add a 128-bit memory bus, you have to add more layers to the card, which boosts production costs significantly. With the 32-bit bus on these cards, a 3-layer video card becomes possible, rather than 6-8 layers on something like a 6800GT.

  4. Best passively cooled card? by Kris_J · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I notice the lack of fan. Is this the best passively cooled video card on the market? It's better than everything I've currently got, so when I do my next upgrade it might be worth trying for a silent PC, instead of giving up and going for the fastest, loudest thing available. A nice Zalman 7000-series heatsink for the CPU and my gaming PC doesn't have to sound like a plane taking off.