I did not want to splash on new motherboard, ram and cpu for some amateur picture jpeg editing. So I did this:
1) spent about $200 trade in to have a total of 1000 MB RD Ram (this old system, but wanted this because of wide pipeline?)
2) spent another $100 on Geforce 6200 by fxforce.
Then I had problems:
a) very low readings with 3dMark5: only about 775 ! not even a thousand. When I compared my system with a similar, the other party had over 7000+. [My system is Abit TH711 motherboard, 1 GB RD Ram, fxforce geforce 6200. other peripherals are creative audigy, aztech usb moden, 7200 rpm hdd. Oh yes, 1.7Ghz, the comparative system was just over 2.0GHz)
One problem is that the driver NV 44 is not recognised digitally by Windows XP, and the geforce is not recognised by the system, until I used 3dguru's forceware driver 7311 (I think?)
The performance of the new card was slow, comparable to my old card GTS2 geforce2. This however could not run 3Dmark5, but based on pix editing software.
What would you advise?
Thx for your time.
achanth
1) spent about $200 trade in to have a total of 1000 MB RD Ram (this old system, but wanted this because of wide pipeline?)
2) spent another $100 on Geforce 6200 by fxforce.
Then I had problems:
a) very low readings with 3dMark5: only about 775 ! not even a thousand. When I compared my system with a similar, the other party had over 7000+. [My system is Abit TH711 motherboard, 1 GB RD Ram, fxforce geforce 6200. other peripherals are creative audigy, aztech usb moden, 7200 rpm hdd. Oh yes, 1.7Ghz, the comparative system was just over 2.0GHz)
One problem is that the driver NV 44 is not recognised digitally by Windows XP, and the geforce is not recognised by the system, until I used 3dguru's forceware driver 7311 (I think?)
The performance of the new card was slow, comparable to my old card GTS2 geforce2. This however could not run 3Dmark5, but based on pix editing software.
What would you advise?
Thx for your time.
achanth