Palit 6200A AGP, and 6600LE AGP frequencies?

[A554SS1N]

Mate has a 1.7Ghz P4 system, 256mb ram (he'll be upgrading and adding more) and currently uses an FX5200. He doesn't want to spend much, so I said a 6200A would be a nice increase over his 5200 - anyway, he's seen a Palit 6200A at his local PC shop, but it doesn't mention frequencies, so I just though I'd check here - Palit's site doesn't say.

Also saw a 6600le there, which I know would be alot faster, but I assume it needs a molex connector, and I'm not sure if he has one spare, or that his PSU is good enough, and buying a new PSU is out of the question, otherwise it wouldn't be a budget upgrade - said he'll probably do a completely new build sometime next year. He dosn't know what PSU he has - however, given that a 5200 runs ok, would a 6600le AGP still run ok, or should I just tell him to stick with the 6200A?

 

[imported_Kiwi]

"Frequency"? It's not a radio receiver or transmitter. But only an MX is worse than an FX 5200. The 6200A is pretty much a junker, but for only about $50 USD, you can't expect much. An X1300 is a lot more suitable, in the range of $75 - 90 USD. Taking a look with stateside price comparison engines, the availability of nVidia for AGP is rather poor, so I suggest one like this one here:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16814161015

Newegg doesn't ship outside of the states, but is amoing our most competitive on pricing. You'll need to use a local price comparison engine. Incidentally, never suggest any video device with "LE" or "SE" in its name to anyone. In order to reduce the price by only 10 - 15 %, the seller typically reduces performance by 30 - 40 %. Bad deal all around.

 

[A554SS1N]

Er.... hold on - you don't know that frequency relates to the core and memory speeds?? I.e. MHz???

Anyway, my mate is just after a temporary, quick, cheap upgrade to allow to play a few more games - all I'm after is the tech specs for that particular manufacturer, as they can sometimes use slower memory. As for availability, I'm in the UK, and I've seen one online for £30, which is near enough his price limit (Albatron), although he'd prefer buying from a local shop, as per the question regarding the Palit cards the local shop sells.

He's not after mega performance yet - he'll probably get a new pc in a fews months, maybe mid next year - just finished up with his current job, so can't afford much.

 

[imported_Kiwi]

While the speed of a CPU or GPU is measured in cycles per second of instructions, there is no broadcast involved, we aren't speaking of a SIGNAL being modulated or cycling, and as such the stateside habit is to refer to "speed", a much shorter and more meaningful term than the radio term "frequency".

The quickest way to learn about SPEED is from GPU Review.

http://www.gpureview.com

 

[A554SS1N]

It's all very well trying to go all technical, but the term "frequency", for example "clock frequency" has been used as slang for the clock rate/speed for years - I'm trying to see why you started talking about radio's all of a sudden when there was absolutely no need.

Intel Mentions frequency: "<a target=_blank class=ftalternatingbarlinklarge href="http://Intel Link">http://www.intel.com/support/processors/tools/frequencyid/"</a>
AMD uses it: "<a target=_blank class=ftalternatingbarlinklarge href="http://AMD Link">http://www.amd.com/us-en/Processors...a...ources/0,,30_182_871_9706,00.html"</a>
and: "<a target=_blank class=ftalternatingbarlinklarge href="http://AMD Link 2">http://www.amd.com/us-en/Processors...ormation/0,,30_118_12651_12658,00.html</a>

Hell, it's even got it in the NVidia driver panel!!!! "<a target=_blank class=ftalternatingbarlinklarge href="http://NVidia Driver Panel">http://www.ixbt.com/video2/images/g70-2/driver.png"</a>

So I ask again, why are you going on about radio's and "stateside" usage when three BIG USA companies use the term frequencies for core and memory speed anyway??

What's the problem?? See what I'm getting at - speed/frequency/rate are one and the same and have been used for years!!!