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NVIDIA's GeForce 6200 with TurboCache Preview
[Abstract]
Do you know what excites me most about TurboCache 6200 in the reference board form I've evaluated it in, as it is with small PCB, passive heatsink and decent, if unexciting performance? The pr...
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HardwareNVIDIA GeForce 6200, NV43, PEG16X, 128MB, 300/700
NVIDIA GeForce 6200 TurboCache, NV44, PEG16X, 16MB, 350/700
NVIDIA GeForce 6200 TurboCache, NV44, PEG16X, 32MB, 350/700
AMD Athlon 64 3500+, 2200MHz, 512KB L2, Dual-channel, Socket 939
1GB OCZ PC3200 Platinum rev2, 2 x 512MB, 2-2-2-5
NVIDIA nForce4 Ultra Reference, nForce4 Ultra, PEG16X, Socket 939
SoftwareWindows XP Profession w/ Service Pack 2
NVIDIA ForceWare 71.20
NVIDIA Unified Platform Driver 6.11
GL_EXT_reme
3DMark05
D3D Rightmark 1.0.5.0 BETA
Shadermark 2.1
RTHDRIBL 1.2
Half-Life 2
Unreal Tournament 2003
NotesWhile Athlon 64 3500+ and 1GB of memory doesn't represent the kind of system the TurboCache 6200 will reside in, it removes the rest of the system as a bottleneck without going over the top. NVIDIA's latest 71.20 driver helps with the testing. They helpfully crippled it to only work with 6200 TurboCache and not any of their other gigantic range of products, but some addition of the right device IDs saw it install fine on the NV43-based 6200.
The driver has a new information panel that tells you just what you've got in your system.
Testing was without issue except when system memory sizes were 256MB (unexpected, 256MB of system memory is a supported TurboCache configuration) and 2GB (I doubt NVIDIA have done much testing with 2GB systems since the likelyhood of the two being in the same system are roughly zero in reality). 512MB and 1GB were fine however and 1GB was used at all times for the recorded benchmarks.
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