The nVidia 128MB DDR GeForce FX 5200 - great card?

I absolutely hate that card i would instead buy a Radeon 9600 pro :thumbup:

the 5200 sucks. go with anything else

What moron buys Dell? Dont want to hurt your feelings, but people with no experience with computers buy Dell or people that dont know computer prices and parts.
I suggest people to buy this card http://www.newegg.com/app/viewProductDesc....-130-178&depa=1 look at Core Clock and Memory

What you all are f**kIN saying!IT fully supports directx9!!!as other fx's!!
yep the videocard isnt so powerfull but it supports directx9!!i'm tellin you!! :thumbup:

Originally posted by ddr@Jun 14 2004, 10:50 PM
What you all are f**kIN saying!IT fully supports directx9!as other fx's!!
yep the videocard isnt so powerfull but it supports directx9!!i'm tellin you!! :thumbup:

it doesnt matter, its perfomance sucks!

THE f**kING ati 8500 owns the shit outta that piece of shit video card glad i didnt buy that shit for the pci because if i did i would've broken my piece of shit celeron 1.4.

Originally posted by Bruckout@Sep 22 2003, 10:49 PM
dude..... dont get a dell.... its just not cool! that card is ok..... will play the games fine...... but dont expect to play hl2/doom3 type game with any directx9 features going....... get a 9600pro at least.... its more than worth it... 512 ram...... would be the best upgrade though.......

He said he was low on cash.... Atleast get a ATI 9500/9700. Those won't last long, but it'll suit games pretty well. I'd also recommend upgrading the ram: as everyone has said.

i got a 9600SE that works fine on far cry max settings(the important ones)

so you really don't have to go pro if that'l save you abit

but i'm with every one on the ram need...more...

you might aswell go the full wack if your buying new otherwise your only going to be buying new upgrades in the near future

I have a Dell P4 2.6ghz with 1 gig of DDR400 RAM and that FX 5200 card.

That setup runs all of my old games like Battlefield (1942 and Vietnam) just fine at high settings.

It has been running Painkiller just fine at fairly high settings until just now - when I encountered the 'snowy bridge' level. Rendering the weather effects with such vast horizons and soo many bad guys caused it to slog really hard. I thought something was wrong but as soon as I went to the next level that had mere arena sized map the game resumed its normal reasonable frame rate.

Need For Speed Underground did require me to run at medium detail levels to keep the frame rate up at 1024x768.

With that in mind, I would hardly call the FX 5200 rubbish. In fact, it marginally outperforms my previous nVidia GeForce 4 ti whatever - especially on DirectX 9 titles (which the 5200 runs in DirectX 9 mode).

The main reason I would be reluctant to shell out an additional $200 for a ATI 9800 is that it is only a few months from becoming old news and being deeply discounted as the X800 cards are widely available.

The FX5200 has been a perfectly acceptable interim solution until Half-Life 2 comes out. By then I will likely leapfrog the older 9600/9800 cards and go straight to the newer generation cards.


David