Re: [gentoo-user] Upgrading from FX-5200 to a GeForce 6200 512MB

2010-10-20 Thread Paul Hartman
On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 11:12 PM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: I'm wondering if the card may be getting hot and slowing down because of that?  i replaced the heat sink a good while back and I got more than enough cooling on the case.  The heat sink has a fan and maybe it is not turning or

Re: [gentoo-user] Upgrading from FX-5200 to a GeForce 6200 512MB

2010-10-20 Thread Dale
Paul Hartman wrote: On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 11:12 PM, Dalerdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: I'm wondering if the card may be getting hot and slowing down because of that? i replaced the heat sink a good while back and I got more than enough cooling on the case. The heat sink has a fan and

Re: [gentoo-user] Upgrading from FX-5200 to a GeForce 6200 512MB

2010-10-20 Thread Paul Hartman
On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 1:25 PM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: I appear to have another issue to deal with right now.  This is weird.  When I type in any nvclock command, I get something like this: r...@smoker / # nvclock -i *** buffer overflow detected ***: nvclock terminated Seems like

Re: [gentoo-user] Upgrading from FX-5200 to a GeForce 6200 512MB

2010-10-20 Thread Dale
Paul Hartman wrote: MALLOC_CHECK_=0 nvclock -i It appears that it is more serious than that setting can overcome. Same error as before. I'm running glibc-2.11.2. Anyone having a similar issue with that version? Try to fix one thing and find something else broke. lol Dale :-) :-)

[gentoo-user] Upgrading from FX-5200 to a GeForce 6200 512MB

2010-10-19 Thread Dale
Hi, I am thinking of upgrading from a FX-5200 with 128Mb video card to a GeForce 6200 with 512MB. It will be AGP since this is a older rig. My system is something like this: Mobo: Abit NF7 2.0 CPU: AMD 2500+ No overclocking Memory: 2Gbs of 333Mhz. Monitor: Gateway 19 running 1280 x

Re: [gentoo-user] Upgrading from FX-5200 to a GeForce 6200 512MB

2010-10-19 Thread Florian Philipp
Am 19.10.2010 09:45, schrieb Dale: Hi, I am thinking of upgrading from a FX-5200 with 128Mb video card to a GeForce 6200 with 512MB. It will be AGP since this is a older rig. My system is something like this: Mobo: Abit NF7 2.0 CPU: AMD 2500+ No overclocking Memory: 2Gbs of 333Mhz.

Re: [gentoo-user] Upgrading from FX-5200 to a GeForce 6200 512MB

2010-10-19 Thread David W Noon
On Tue, 19 Oct 2010 09:50:02 +0200, Dale wrote about [gentoo-user] Upgrading from FX-5200 to a GeForce 6200 512MB: I am thinking of upgrading from a FX-5200 with 128Mb video card to a GeForce 6200 with 512MB. It will be AGP since this is a older rig. From where does one obtain an AGP card

Re: [gentoo-user] Upgrading from FX-5200 to a GeForce 6200 512MB

2010-10-19 Thread Dale
David W Noon wrote: On Tue, 19 Oct 2010 09:50:02 +0200, Dale wrote about [gentoo-user] Upgrading from FX-5200 to a GeForce 6200 512MB: I am thinking of upgrading from a FX-5200 with 128Mb video card to a GeForce 6200 with 512MB. It will be AGP since this is a older rig. From where

Re: [gentoo-user] Upgrading from FX-5200 to a GeForce 6200 512MB

2010-10-19 Thread Dale
Florian Philipp wrote: Am 19.10.2010 09:45, schrieb Dale: Hi, I am thinking of upgrading from a FX-5200 with 128Mb video card to a GeForce 6200 with 512MB. It will be AGP since this is a older rig. My system is something like this: Mobo: Abit NF7 2.0 CPU: AMD 2500+ No overclocking

Re: [gentoo-user] Upgrading from FX-5200 to a GeForce 6200 512MB

2010-10-19 Thread András Csányi
On 19 October 2010 13:38, David W Noon dwn...@ntlworld.com wrote: On Tue, 19 Oct 2010 09:50:02 +0200, Dale wrote about [gentoo-user] Upgrading from FX-5200 to a GeForce 6200 512MB: I am thinking of upgrading from a FX-5200 with 128Mb video card to a GeForce 6200 with 512MB.  It will be AGP

Re: [gentoo-user] Upgrading from FX-5200 to a GeForce 6200 512MB

2010-10-19 Thread Florian Philipp
Am 19.10.2010 14:23, schrieb Dale: Florian Philipp wrote: Am 19.10.2010 09:45, schrieb Dale: Hi, I am thinking of upgrading from a FX-5200 with 128Mb video card to a GeForce 6200 with 512MB. It will be AGP since this is a older rig. My system is something like this: Mobo: Abit NF7

Re: [gentoo-user] Upgrading from FX-5200 to a GeForce 6200 512MB

2010-10-19 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Tuesday 19 October 2010 12:38:35 David W Noon wrote: Incidentally, is anybody interested in a mode line calculator program? I'll be writing it later today, and I'll make it open source if there is any interest. Someone posted a link to one of those just the other day. -- Rgds Peter.

Re: [gentoo-user] Upgrading from FX-5200 to a GeForce 6200 512MB

2010-10-19 Thread Paul Hartman
On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 8:44 AM, Peter Humphrey pe...@humphrey.ukfsn.org wrote: On Tuesday 19 October 2010 12:38:35 David W Noon wrote: Incidentally, is anybody interested in a mode line calculator program? I'll be writing it later today, and I'll make it open source if there is any interest.

Re: [gentoo-user] Upgrading from FX-5200 to a GeForce 6200 512MB

2010-10-19 Thread Paul Hartman
On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 2:45 AM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: I am thinking of upgrading from a FX-5200 with 128Mb video card to a GeForce 6200 with 512MB.  It will be AGP since this is a older rig.  My system is something like this: Mobo:  Abit NF7 2.0 CPU: AMD 2500+  No overclocking

Re: [gentoo-user] Upgrading from FX-5200 to a GeForce 6200 512MB

2010-10-19 Thread Dale
Paul Hartman wrote: On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 2:45 AM, Dalerdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: I am thinking of upgrading from a FX-5200 with 128Mb video card to a GeForce 6200 with 512MB. It will be AGP since this is a older rig. My system is something like this: Mobo: Abit NF7 2.0 CPU: AMD

Re: [gentoo-user] Upgrading from FX-5200 to a GeForce 6200 512MB

2010-10-19 Thread Paul Hartman
On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 3:27 PM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Paul Hartman wrote: On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 2:45 AM, Dalerdalek1...@gmail.com  wrote: I am thinking of upgrading from a FX-5200 with 128Mb video card to a GeForce 6200 with 512MB.  It will be AGP since this is a older rig.  

Re: [gentoo-user] Upgrading from FX-5200 to a GeForce 6200 512MB

2010-10-19 Thread Adam Carter
There's a humongous matrix of nvidia chipset and model numbers somewhere on the internet that explains the differences but I can't seem to find it at the moment. My Google-fu is failing me. :) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_NVIDIA_graphics_processing_units

Re: [gentoo-user] Upgrading from FX-5200 to a GeForce 6200 512MB

2010-10-19 Thread Dale
Paul Hartman wrote: On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 3:27 PM, Dalerdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Paul Hartman wrote: On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 2:45 AM, Dalerdalek1...@gmail.comwrote: I am thinking of upgrading from a FX-5200 with 128Mb video card to a GeForce 6200 with 512MB. It

Re: [gentoo-user] Upgrading from FX-5200 to a GeForce 6200 512MB

2010-10-19 Thread Dale
Adam Carter wrote: There's a humongous matrix of nvidia chipset and model numbers somewhere on the internet that explains the differences but I can't seem to find it at the moment. My Google-fu is failing me. :)

Re: [gentoo-user] Upgrading from FX-5200 to a GeForce 6200 512MB

2010-10-19 Thread Dale
Florian Philipp wrote: Am 19.10.2010 14:23, schrieb Dale: Florian Philipp wrote: Am 19.10.2010 09:45, schrieb Dale: Hi, I am thinking of upgrading from a FX-5200 with 128Mb video card to a GeForce 6200 with 512MB. It will be AGP since this is a older rig. My system is

Re: [gentoo-user] Upgrading from FX-5200 to a GeForce 6200 512MB

2010-10-19 Thread Adam Carter
Nice link. I didn't even think of looking on that site. I guess one good thing to go by is the processing power and memory. After all, that's what makes it all work faster. Looks like I'm still getting a pretty old card but I don't play any hard core games or anything. Playing videos is

Re: [gentoo-user] Upgrading from FX-5200 to a GeForce 6200 512MB

2010-10-19 Thread Dale
Adam Carter wrote: Nice link. I didn't even think of looking on that site. I guess one good thing to go by is the processing power and memory. After all, that's what makes it all work faster. Looks like I'm still getting a pretty old card but I don't play any hard core games