Graphics card replacement help - Need advise?

Hi,

This pertains to a Graphics card i am using from Leadtek viz; Winfast PX 6600GT-128 MB and am a bit of a greenhorn when it comes to graphic cards. The card has been giving me a lot of grief and after a number tests the dealer has offered to replace it with another card viz 6200 or will give me a credit note.

Is Winfast PX 6200 a better card than the one i am using i.e Winfast PX 6600GT-128 MB?

Should i take a credit note and buy another Leadtek card? if yes which one? Need a reliable PCI-Express card.

Am an ocassional gamer and watch movies too on the PC. my configuration is :

MotherboardMSI K8N Neo4 Platinum Edition) (MS-7125)v1.X ATX

ProcessorAMD-Athlon64 3000

RAM1 GB Transcend

Hard Disk160 GB SATA Seagate

MonitorDell Monitor 1707 FP

Graphics CardWinfast PX 6600GT-128 MB DDR3

BIOSSilicon Image Inc. ver 5.1.39

Appreciate any help extended.

Graphics card replacement help - Need advise?

Winfast isn't one of the more reputable card maufacturers first off. Second, the 6600gts ran notoriously hot, so that could be part of the problem. The 6200 is a crap card and is not even close in class to a 6600. You should try and replace it with the same make/model, or depending on how much credit they are willing to give you, use that towards the purchase of a 7600 series card. You will need more memory on those x6xx series cards. They all use a 128-bit bus and more than 128mb ram will bottleneck anyway, especially at ddr3 speeds. Just make sure get one with the ddr3 memory and not the ddr2 or regular ddr. They like to build some of the vanilla 6600s and 7600s with 256mb ddr and ddr2. Stick with the 128mb ddr3.

Graphics card replacement help - Need advise?

check out the numbers....6600GT and 6200.....that alone should let you know the 6600 is a better card......the higher those numbers are....the better the card is....without knowing how much you're willing to spend, i can't say which card to buy

Graphics card replacement help - Need advise?

No the 6200 isn't better than the 6600. Depending on what you use it for you should get at least a 7200. If you can't afford it then at least try to get the same model as the one you have now just with more RAM on it.

Graphics card replacement help - Need advise?

Get a credit note or ask the dealer to get you an MSI Geforce 6200 card. nVidia provides the chipsets, they don't give VGA cards. Our part is to get the card from a good company, like MSI or Gigabyte or XFX. XFX is good and cheap if it is available in your country. Anyhow, go for Fan with heatsink models rather than just heatsink models. I believe nVidia GeForce 7300 is not that costly. Here check an MSI nVidia 7300 card out. http://global.msi.com.tw/index.php?func=...

Hope this helps.