The Board
Here are the main board specifications of the GeForce 6200:
Whilst, in its highest end format, NV43 scales up to 500MHz core speed and with 500MHz GDDR3 memory, the 6200 configuration has much more conservative speeds, and reduced processing capabilities, mainly to bring it closer in configuration to the NV44 based 6200 TurboCache variants.
Comparatively, the GeForce 6200 probably falls inline as a replacement for the GeForce FX 5200 Ultra, although the initial pricing of this FX part is more inline with the 6600 standard board, however the 6200 does fill-in the highest specification for the low end, as did FX 5200 Ultra. As we can see here the 6200 manages to get by with much smaller cooling thanks to its 110nm process and the speed’s its running at. Also, due to its fairly low memory speeds, it uses TSOP memory packages, all of which are on the front side of the board, probably to minimise the number of layers used, thus affect the cost of the board less. Unlike the FX 5200 Ultra, the 6200 also doesn’t require an extra power supply as it draws all it needs from the host interface – but given the 6200 is PCI Express, which supplies more power than AGP, this doesn’t tell us much in relation to the FX 5200 Ultra.
The reference 6200 we’re using here has the, fairly standard, DVI, VGA and TV-Out outputs – while this is dependant on board vendor, for a low end board such as this, we suspect that most retail models will appear to a similar configuration.
