Any significant difference b/w the Geforce 6200 & 6500

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I'm going to be upgrading to an NForce4 board so need a PCIe card. I don't game at all, but am interested in 2D performance for text, Photoshop and video (I also want to try out PureVideo). Is there any reason to get either a 6200 or 6500 instead of the other? It seems the 6500 series is less known and even somewhat overlooked on the nVidia site, but their specs are nearly identical.

 

[Corporate Thug]

there will be no noticible difference between the 2 in 2d (and not much in 3d for that matter)

 

[A554SS1N]

6200 128bit >= 6500 > 6200TC 64bit

6500 is basically an overclocked 6200TC, but not much difference in performance to the original 6200 128bit - advantage of the 128bit 6200 is that it may be 'unlockable' (i.e. unlock 4 extra pipes to turn it into a 6600 vanilla).

 

[DerwenArtos12]

I still have a 6200 128 bit from when they were just 6600's with pipes locked, it unlocked and performed just like a 6600 128mb 128bit, even overclocked well with the nv silencer on it, if you can track one of those down in FS/T I would highly reccomend them, great card for a VERY unbeatable price.

 

[A554SS1N]

Originally posted by: DerwenArtos12
I still have a 6200 128 bit from when they were just 6600's with pipes locked, it unlocked and performed just like a 6600 128mb 128bit, even overclocked well with the nv silencer on it, if you can track one of those down in FS/T I would highly reccomend them, great card for a VERY unbeatable price.

Cool! What clocks did you get it up to?

 

[DerwenArtos12]

Originally posted by: A554SS1N

Originally posted by: DerwenArtos12
I still have a 6200 128 bit from when they were just 6600's with pipes locked, it unlocked and performed just like a 6600 128mb 128bit, even overclocked well with the nv silencer on it, if you can track one of those down in FS/T I would highly reccomend them, great card for a VERY unbeatable price.

Cool! What clocks did you get it up to?

I honestly don't really remember for sure but, I think defaults were 300/500 and I was pushing 500/600, if memory serves. Great little card, especially for less than $100 well over a year ago.