It's a cute small card, with a nice little heat-sink and was immediately recognized by nvidia-kernel. As 6200 and not 6200AX, but the benchmarks tell, that the power gets used.

DooM3
640x480 - low detail - all effects - 0x AA - 0x AF
41.5 fps - min. 19fps - max. ca. 100fps
640x480 - medium detail - all effects - 8x AA - 2x AF
41.8 fps - min. 19fps - max. ca. 100fps
640x480 - high detail - all effects - 8x AA - 0x AF
26.7 fps - min. 12 fps - max. ca. 50 fps(?)

I think, that's fair enough for a completely silent card. :)

x.org 6.8 KDE with xcompmgr still crashes on me though.

Yesterday my graphics card died. I came back to my computer and the image was dark, blurry and overall erronous. After some switching of monitors and graphics cards with my flat-sharers computer I concluded, that it's the graphics card. Currently I'm having my flat-sharers graphics card in my computer since he is away this whole week. But I had to buy a new one, since my flatsharer sadly needs his computer, too. ;)

So after some thinking and doing and stuff, I decided to go with an nvidia based card again - MSI NX6200AX-TD128LF. The GeForce 6200AX chipset is an AGP version (indicated by the X)of the 6200 series, which was first only made for PCIe. The A indicates some enhancement over the standard 6200 and that's also, why I decided for this card. I didn't find much tests of those cards, but two DooM3 benchmarks of cards with the 6200(Q?) and 6200A chipsets. And they indicate a serious performance-boost for the A-series. On some russian site I found a benchmark of the MSI-card and it was over 50 frames per second with AntiAliasing and anisotropic filtering. Seems like the not needed PCIe-to-AGP bridge in the X-version really pays off. ;) Since DooM3 is for now the only game of interest to me and around 30 frames with the smaller 6200 without AA and AF are not to guarantee a great gaming-experience, I decided to put the extra 15 bucks in and go with the 6200AX.

Let's hope, that my bang-for-the-buck calculation works. In the nvidia-kernel README-file I don't find explicit mention of the 6200AX....

Music: The Doors - The End (live in concert)

amette and his flatsharer today terminated the lease contract for the six year old base of WG Stollen (EDIT: WG == FlatsharerCommunity).

An era is going to end - but I'm actually currently more concerned with getting all that stuff and crap out of here.

Everybody prepare for having the final party here in September! :)

Yes, I canceled it, while the 30 day test period was running. I wasn't satisfied with their support at all. Actually I was amazed, that I needed their support the very first weekend and everything was dead the whole weekend. Then they were not very flexible on change issues and then somehow came the idea to cancel it. Well, then was finland and it brought some unexpected expenses, now I can cancel it with an almost pure conscience. ;)

It took some time and fiddling with Tiki image galleries, but the images are finally up here in Gallery 3.