eVGA GeForce 6200 128mb and vx2025wm monitor

[Excal78]

I need to buy a monitor and I was between the viewsonic vp930b and the vx2025wm but after reading how good is the vx2025wm and its reviews around here and other forums, maybe I'll end up ordering this soon.
There's also new release from Samsung that I was thinking would be a good rival to the vp930b, I'm referring to the 940bx, its contraste is 1000:1 with a response of 5 ms and is supossed to be on sale the end of this month.

I'm going to upgrade my video card just for the meantime before I make my major upgrade (motherboard, cpu and videocard) and since right now my budget is very limited , I will be buying the eVGA GeForce 6200 with 128 mb 64bit found here:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16814130008

And I was wondering if this card would be able to scale non widescreen content, like 4:3 movies or old games instead of stretching.
I know this card is not very good but will it be good enough to run the 1680 x 1050 resolution?
I have read that I will be to only plug it throug the vga connection since the DVI on this card does not support any resolution above 1600 x 1200.

Also, Is it worth it to buy the GeForce 6200 with 256 mb with the same specs (64bit, 4 pipelines) over the same card with 128 mb? Is it same? I have read that it would be same for this kind of card to have the 128mb or the 256mb.


I'd appreciate any help, please comment on this.

 

[Job]

With such a low-end card the extra memory isn't going to help you at all. Any graphics card will be OK for 2-D displays - I spent a while using 16MB onboard graphics (ugh) and didn't have any problems with simple desktop displays. I wouldn't be expecting much in the way of quality for photo apps tho.

Will the VGA support a higher resolution?

You can scale video content through software players in the options menus. For games, you will really only be able to play the older ones which (I think) don't have an option for widescreen gaming - although I think Quake 2 had quite a few resolution options, but you'd have to choose the resolution manually for game scaling. For newer games you should be able to play widescreen, but you'll have to drop the resolution down considerably

Do you really have only $40 to spend on a card? With a nice monitor like that I sincerely hope you'll be upgrading to a decent card soon!!!

 

[Excal78]

Originally posted by: Job
With such a low-end card the extra memory isn't going to help you at all. Any graphics card will be OK for 2-D displays - I spent a while using 16MB onboard graphics (ugh) and didn't have any problems with simple desktop displays. I wouldn't be expecting much in the way of quality for photo apps tho.

Will the VGA support a higher resolution?

You can scale video content through software players in the options menus. For games, you will really only be able to play the older ones which (I think) don't have an option for widescreen gaming - although I think Quake 2 had quite a few resolution options, but you'd have to choose the resolution manually for game scaling. For newer games you should be able to play widescreen, but you'll have to drop the resolution down considerably

Do you really have only $40 to spend on a card? With a nice monitor like that I sincerely hope you'll be upgrading to a decent card soon!!!

What monitor did you use you 16mb onboard graphics with? It was a widescreen like this one?
Also, there are some video card that have problems with scaling like the 7900gt, for which there's not solution for it yet, at least right now.
I currently have a GeForce2 MX200 64mb, 64bit SDRAM, core clock: 175, memory clock: 166, 2 pipelines and with 350 of RAMDAC.

 

[Job]

I was using a 17" CRT at 1280x1024 - that Geforce2 you've got there was the exact same card I used when I upgraded to S939 (had to wait to afford 6600GT).

for scaling problems see http://forums.anandtech.com/messageview.cfm?catid=31&threadid=1895809

Your monitor should have scaling options built in also, but you'll have to check me on that