EVGA GeForce 6200 512 MB DDR2 AGP 8X VGA/DVI-I/S-Video Graphics Card, 512-A8-N403-LR Reviews

The EVGA GeForce 6200 card arrived in good shape. I promptly installed it in a truly ancient computer, built in about 2001. I do not recall who built that machine and it is not labelled. It has a VIA motherboard and sports a 1.4 GHz Microsoft Pentium III-S Tualatin CPU. As best I know, this is a server chip and was the fastest Pentium III chip ever made. Of course, this is not saying much. The mobo was maxxed out at 1.5 GB of RAM and had a GeForce 5200 128 MB video card. The main problem with this computer lay in the grossly inadequate computing power of the CPU, and I was hoping that by unloading some tasks to a newer (but still pretty old) GPU that some degree of resurrection could be achieved. The GeForce 6200 was actually graphically wonderful, providing fast, sharp, nicely-colored still images and on-HDD movies. Sad to say, the CPU remained grossly under-powered for 2017. Even so, this machine does everything one could want except show streaming video, which makes it hang. It shows DVD’s and on-HDD MP4’s beautifully, streams music from my iPhone, handles Office programs, etc without problems.

I ordered this board via a tech tip on Youtube.
Completely revived my old Dell Dimension 4600 32 bit system, that was having issues after upgrading to Linux Mint Rosa edition. Graphics, videos and task bar weren’t performing well at all. Whole computer just seem overwhelmed by the Op. System upgrade. This GeForce 6200 transformed the Old Dell to a beautiful running machine. With the new Linux Mint 17.3 and this board, this Dell now runs as fast (actually faster) as my 64 bit laptop running Windows. Videos, and web pages are now opening at lightning speed. I don’t game on it, so it fits the bill wonderfully for what I do and need. Studying, bill paying, record keeping home stuff and such. And with the awesome security that Linux has naturally built in, I’m set for awhile. Just waiting for the 2 gig of memory I ordered and then, all set.