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XpertVision Nvidia GeForce 6200

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This budget video card achieves a nice balance between price and performance.
The GeForce 6200 range is the entry-level product line from Nvidia, designed to bring some of the feature sets of more expensive GPUs into the mainstream market. It’s the cheapest GPU to support DirectX 9, OpenGL 1.5 and Shader Model 3.0 (part of the CineFX 3.0 engine), for instance, and it sports an internal clock speed of 300MHz, four pixel rendering pipelines, 128MB DDR RAM (128-bit interface) and is PCI Express ready.
With VGA, DVI and S-Video outputs, this card supports HDTV at resolutions up to 1,920 x 1,080i, and features MPEG-2 and WMV-HD hardware acceleration, making it a good choice for video playback. It will fit in a standard desktop and is cooled by a 3in onboard fan that draws power from the bus. XpertVision has bundled the card with CyberLink PowerDVD 5, Chaser (a game), and an S-Video- to-component/S-Video/analog converter.
The 6200 was put through its paces with 3DMark2001Pro SE, 3DMark03 and the Halo and Doom 3 timedemos on a Pentium 4 3GHz, 1GB PC3200 RAM, Intel 915G/ICH6 motherboard and version 66.93 Nvidia drivers. The card didn’t produce blistering performance on any setting, just managing 8,858 at 1,024 x 768 in 3DMark2001 Pro SE with no filtering applied. It can handle some basic gaming, though it can’t cope with applied visual effects very well. With only four rendering pipelines, high detail games like Doom 3 are too affected by rendering lag for enjoyable play.
Although the card supports filtering technologies such as Intellisample 3.0 and UltraShadow II, the same can’t be said for sampling compression. Its inability to perform at all in the 3DMark03 test demonstrates that even though it supports DirectX 9 natively, it doesn’t have the grunt to pull it off. Even the DirectX 8 tests in 3DMark2001 Pro SE pushed the card to its limits.
XpertVision’s GeForce 6200 offers basic gaming and 3D performance, especially for games without intense 3D engines. Those who want acceptable resolutions above 1,024 x 768 will have to look elsewhere. However, with all the standard outputs and HDTV support this card would be a sound purchase for a high-end workstation, multi-display system or Media Center-equipped machine, especially given that the bundle contents lean in that direction and the card is PCI Express-based.

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