Nvidia GeForce 6200 AGP

Physical Specs and Compatibility

The GeForce 6200 is an AGP 8x card compatible with AGP 2x, 4x, and 8x slots. It's short enough and runs cool enough to work in the Power Mac G4 Cube, and it has full Core Image and Core Animation support. It was never available in a Mac edition, but flashed versions of the card are available and will work with all AGP Power Macs.

Flashed AGP 8x video cards are not compatible with the Mystic/Gigabit Ethernet, Digital Audio, Cube, Quicksilver, and Mirror Drive Door Power Mac G4 without modification. As explained by The Mac Elite, Apple uses pins 3 and 11 on the back of the card to power ADC monitors. These pins must be disabled or your Mac will not boot with the card installed. Full details and instructions are on the Mac Elite website.

Leopard (Mac OS X 10.5) boot times for Power Mac with the GeForce 6200 fall into the 4-5 minute range, and was initially suggested that you install Leopard with the Mac's original video card to avoid slowing down the process. "gotoh" has posted the fix in The Mac Elite Forum. The delay is due to Leopard not supporting temperature sensors in G4 Macs. Simply remove AppleHWSensor.kext from /System/Library/Extensions, and the delay goes away.

The GeForce 6200 can be used on a Mac running OS 9, but with no acceleration and with limited resolution settings.

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 x 1536 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, Mirror Drive Door, FireWire 800, Power Mac G5 models with AGP (excluded Power Mac G5 Dual and G5 Quad)

Online Resources

Nvidia GeForce 6200, Nvidia
Nvidia's GeForce 6200 graphics processor, The Tech Report, 2004.10.11
GeForce 6200: Nvidia's New Budget Graphics, Extreme Tech, 2005.01.21

Benchmarks

GeForce 6200 for G4 Cube, Bare Feats, 2006.03.24.
GeForce 6200 Cube Benchmarks, Everything Apple, 2006.10.29

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