eVGA e-GeForce 6200 256MB DDR PCI Graphics Card-256-P1-N399-LX

List Price: $49.99 Discount Price: $42.16

Features:

• PCI 2.1 Compatibility
• 256-bit GeForce 6200 with 300MHz clock
• 256MB 64-bit DDR2 memory
• 266 MHz clock/533 MHz effective memory rate
• DirectX 9.0 Support

Customer Reviews:

Does what it's supposed to do [Posted on 2008-02-22]
Bought this videocard for my wife's emachine so that I could play Counter Stike: Source. I also bought PCI slot fan to go with it, due to the fact that this card only uses a heat sink for cooling.

I knew going into this, that it's a PCI slot video card, so I didn't expect to get a whole lot. I just wanted to play CS:S at a decent rate. While the onboard Intel Extreme Graphics were ok for playing CS 1.6, it was horrible for CS:S.

This card does a really good job of letting me play CS:S. On maps such as Office and Dust2, I will normally see from rates of 25-35fps, unless a lot is going on, then it will drop down to 14-25fps. On larger maps that are custom made, the game play does have significant slowdown, lag and lower frame rates. This is especially true for some of the CS:S Zombie games that I like to play.

I decided to try and take it a bit further by installing F.E.A.R. on the PC to see how far I can push the graphics card. Unfortunately, you have to run F.E.A.R. at a pretty low rate in order to get it to run smoothly. Anything higher than the lowest configuration and you will see a significantly lower frame rate.

The card comes with no instructions so installing it may take the n00b a bit of time to get it going (Disable the onboard graphics!). Also, the card has two outputs a DVI and a VGA. I cannot get the VGA output to work but luckily the card came with a DVI to VGA adaptor.

great grafix card for a small sum of cash works great on my old-ish computer (even works with linux)  [Posted on 2008-04-06]
awesome card works flawlessly after the right drivers were installed (cough x-org cough)
tryed ubuntu gentoo debian and sabion totally spelled the last one wrong
love the card will never go back to ati

Works great with Vista [Posted on 2008-04-11]
I bought this card because I wanted to add a third monitor to my computer (a Dell Vostro 400), and my PCIe slot was already taken by my first dual video card.

I was having trouble deciding between this and the GeForce FX 5200 by PNY. I couldn't find anywhere (product page or reviews) something that would assure me the video card would work fine with Vista (and Aero). I finally decided on this card, because I saw that it worked with Vista and the AGP version was Vista certified.

When I installed I had a little problem (a blue screen), but after two restarts, it booted. I installed the drivers (Vista 32-bit and 64-bit come in the included CD) and everything was fine from that point on. I even recalculated the Vista Customer Experience Index, and I kept my previous values for video (5.9 and 5.6), which probably means this card is at least equal if not better than the one I already had.

Just what I hoped for. [Posted on 2008-04-18]
I have a SFF HP computer and only 1 LOW profile AGP. I recently bought what i thought was a low profile card for my AGP slot BUT even with the low profile brackets it did not fit! and to make a long story short I ended up breaking the card..SOOO I 64bucks down the drain and i needed another one..This time i didn't want to go with AGP so i went with PCI(since i have 2 full length slots on my pc) and i installed it in 1 minute! ..IT works PERFECT..it is the same type of card as the one i ended up breaking..*fx6200* and for PCI its about the Best you can get..Infact I think It is the best. I am able to play warrock now and OWN!

Good performance, easy install [Posted on 2008-05-02]
See my review of the eVGA 7300AGP - same easy install, good performance. eVGA e-GeForce 7300GT Superclocked 512MB AGP Graphics Card-512-A8-N501-LR

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