The GeForce 6200 is an AGP 8x card compatible with AGP 2x, 4x, and8x slots. It's short enough and runs cool enough to work in thePower Mac G4 Cube, andit has full Core Image and Core Animation support. It was neveravailable in a Mac edition, but flashed versions of the card areavailable and will work with all AGP Power Macs.
Flashed AGP 8x video cards are not compatible with theMystic/Gigabit Ethernet, Digital Audio, Cube, Quicksilver, and MirrorDrive Door Power Mac G4 without modification. As explained by The Mac Elite, Appleuses pins 3 and 11 on the back of the card to power ADC monitors. Thesepins must be disabled or your Mac will not boot with the cardinstalled. Full details and instructions are on the Mac Elitewebsite.
Leopard (Mac OS X 10.5) boot times for Power Mac with the GeForce6200 fall into the 4-5 minute range, and was initially suggested thatyou install Leopard with the Mac's original video card to avoid slowingdown the process. 'gotoh' has postedthe fix in The Mac Elite Forum. The delay is due to Leopard notsupporting temperature sensors in G4 Macs. Simply removeAppleHWSensor.kext from /System/Library/Extensions, and the delay goesaway.
The GeForce 6200 can be used on a Mac running OS 9, but with noacceleration and with limited resolution settings.
Asus Extreme GeForce 6200 TurboCache (128MB, AGP, RoHS Compliant) overview and full product specs on CNET. AGP 8x GeForce 6200 128MB DDR Video Card with VGA, DVI and S-Video outputs. Built for todays hottest games such as Doom3, the GeForce 6200 features groundbreaking technology innovations such as the industrys first superscalar GPU architecture, a 128-bit DDR memory interface and support for Microsoft DirectX 9.0 Shader Model 3.0, arming you with everything you need so you can play the. This driver includes security updates for NVIDIA Driver services. This driver includes a security update for the NVIDIA Display Driver service (nvvsvc.exe). Legacy Support Notification: GeForce 6-series and GeForce 7-series GPUs will be moved to legacy support after GeForce R304 drivers (304.xx to 309.xx). GeForce R310 drivers will not support.
Details
- GPU speed: 250-400 MHz, dual processors
- Video memory: 128/256 MB
- Memory speed: 225-266 MHz DDR
- Memory bus: 128 bits
- Resolutions: 640 x 480 to 1920 x 1200 (2048 x1536 analog)
- Ports: DVI-I, VGA, S-video
- Dual monitor support: yes
- Cooling fan: not necessary
- Minimum OS: Mac OS 9.2.2, OS X 10.4.3
- Compatible with: Sawtooth, Gigabit Ethernet, Digital Audio, Quicksilver, Quicksilver 2002, Mirrored Drive Doors, FireWire 800, Power Mac G5models with AGP (excluded Power Mac G5 Dual and G5 Quad)
Online Resources
- NvidiaGeForce 6200, Nvidia
- Nvidia's GeForce 6200 graphicsprocessor, The Tech Report, 2004.10.11
- GeForce6200: Nvidia's New Budget Graphics, Extreme Tech,2005.01.21
Benchmarks
Nvidia Geforce Drivers Windows 10
- GeForce 6200 for G4Cube, Bare Feats, 2006.03.24.
- GeForce 6200 Cube Benchmarks, Everything Apple, 2006.10.29