nVidia 6200 AGP vs 7600GS

[gryhnd]

My island-cocktail build uses a low power Dell Optiplex GX260 (P4 2.4, 512MB RAM, 40Gb) with a PNY nVidia 6200 256MB AGP card.

Works perfectly for MAME.

Not so good for Future Pinball.  I can play it at low res and with a minimal set of options turned on, but it's less than ideal.

(A new PC is not in the cards right now, so to speak, so forget about that  )

I am wondering if I would see an improvement in playability if I bumped the video card up to a "PNY GEFORCE 7600GS DDR2 512MB APG Video Card"? These can be had used for not a lot of cash, compared to some of their later model brethren.

Thoughts?

[gryhnd]

...crickets...

Anyone? I would have asked over at the FP Forums, but they don't exist anymore.

Basically just wondering if moving to the 7600@512MB would give me a noticeable improvement in FP over the current 6200@256MB given the current PC specs.

Thanks.

PS - I don't ask this blindly. I have Googled around, but am interested in real world experience in arcade/pinball scenarios.

[Blanka]

If pinball relies on opengl or direct X I think it will differ a lot, as the 7600GS is a slowed down (often passive cooled!) version of the back-then-mainstream-gamers-card 7600GT and still a decent 3D card, where the 6200 is a entry level 2.5D card of a previous generation. The GS is can deliver a framerate roughly 3-4 times as high if OpenGL or Direct3D is important.

[gryhnd]

Thanks for your input, Blanka.

[Popcorrin]

Yes, to put it simply, there will be noticeable improvement.