6150 v. ti4200

[JoJammin]

Hi!
I recently purchased the HP a1540n with a built in 6150 on the mobo and am curious as to whether it would out perform my old compaq with a ti4200 128mb in Half-life 2. If not I will continue to use the compaq until a new video card (probably 7600gt) is purchased for the HP and will leave the HP in the box.

Specs:
New HP a1540n
AMD Athlon 64 X2 4200+ 2.2GHz Processor,
built in nvidia 6150 on mobo
2GB RAM,
250GB Hard Drive,
16X DVD+/-RW Drive

Old Compaq
Athlon XP 2600+
Geforce 4 ti4200 128mb
1GB Ram
120GB Hard Drive
4x DVD+RW Drive

 

[nukemaster]

the 4200 is a Direct X 8 cards...

so in short the 6150 is better in that light.

You could just bench mark it.... gives you an idea of what u are looking for. IMO the 6150 will still out do it...

 

[angry_ducky]

If you want to know which one is better, download FRAPS and benchmark. My money's on the ti4200. Also, I didn't know that there was such thing as an Athlon XP 3600+; did you mean 2600+?

 

[JoJammin]

yea, I meant 2600+

I would benchmark it but.....
I don't want to take it out of the box until I know it can best the old computer in half-life 2 or the new video card arrives. (Mostly because I am lazy + not alot of room for two computers )

I have an average of 67fps in half-life 2 (stress test) with the ti4200

 

[tekzor]

as I can remember, the 4200 was close to radeons 9600pro or better in dx8. radeon9600pro>6150 so the ti would be of course better. It will be a while until onboard graphics come close to mid range graphics cards.

 

[JoJammin]

http://www.anandtech.com/printarticle.aspx?i=2643

Guess I'll just wait for the 7600gt to arrive before setting up the new comp

Thanks for the opinions

 

[angry_ducky]

yea, I meant 2600+

I would benchmark it but.....
I don't want to take it out of the box until I know it can best the old computer in half-life 2 or the new video card arrives. (Mostly because I am lazy + not alot of room for two computers )

I have an average of 67fps in half-life 2 (stress test) with the ti4200

All onboard grahpics suck, and they'll never be comparable to a dedicated video card. Onboard is just for laptops and cheapo desktops. BTW, why the hell did you buy a Compaq? Too lazy to build your own?

 

[joefriday]

The IGP 6150 is better than an fx5200 64 bit card, but the same as or crappier than a 128 bit fx5200 (or fx5200 ultra). The Ti4200 is better than the 6150 IGP by a fair amount. The Directx9 issue doesn't matter much when the IGP doesn't have the balls to run it anyway, so they're both in a sense dx8.

The 6150 is currently the best performing IGP. Intel's GMA X3000, which should be coming out in a month or so, will topple it. When ATI finally releases its RS600 IGP (I'm thinking late fall), it should easily be the best IGP to date, having power supposedly equivalent to that of an x700. Needless to say, my next mobo will have an RS600 chipset.

*edited for redundancy

 

[nukemaster]

if it is as bad as a 5200...then ouch..... i still have my 4200ti in a box ...LOL