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XFX Geforce Fx5200
I am looking to replace a Geoforce 4 MX420 64Mb DDR. My price limit is
about £75 tops. I have seen a XFX Geoforce FX5200 AGP8x 256MB DDR DVI TV-Out for about £60. Is that a good buy, and is the card any good. I have just started playing alot of PC games so I want a powerful card. I have got a AMD 2600+ XP processor and 1.5 gig of PC3200 DDR. All help and advice appreciated. Thanks -- remove SPAM to reply Victoria Concordia Crescit |
The 5200 is the entry level card and is slowww as molasses. It is NOT a
"powerful card". -- DaveW "KerplunKuK" wrote in message ... I am looking to replace a Geoforce 4 MX420 64Mb DDR. My price limit is about £75 tops. I have seen a XFX Geoforce FX5200 AGP8x 256MB DDR DVI TV-Out for about £60. Is that a good buy, and is the card any good. I have just started playing alot of PC games so I want a powerful card. I have got a AMD 2600+ XP processor and 1.5 gig of PC3200 DDR. All help and advice appreciated. Thanks -- remove SPAM to reply Victoria Concordia Crescit |
On Fri, 13 Feb 2004 19:51:52 -0000, "KerplunKuK"
wrote: I am looking to replace a Geoforce 4 MX420 64Mb DDR. My price limit is about £75 tops. I have seen a XFX Geoforce FX5200 AGP8x 256MB DDR DVI TV-Out for about £60. So you want to replace a piece of crap card with another Piece of crap card? Is that a good buy, and is the card any good. I have just started playing alot of PC games so I want a powerful card. I have got a AMD 2600+ XP processor and 1.5 gig of PC3200 DDR. All help and advice appreciated. Okay... you're saying you WANT a powerful video card and want to PLAY PC games?! The 5200fx is not "powerful" its pure **** for gaming. Here, look at this... Double your budget to get DECENT ability. Then download the UT2004 deom from www.unreal.com - or from Nvidia's website... and see how it runs. The 5200 on your setup would get about 10~15fps. Read this and let me know what you think: http://www6.tomshardware.com/graphic...ournament_2003 -- Remember when real men used Real computers!? When 512K of video RAM was a lot! Death to Palladium & WPA!! |
Ok read the article and I see where you are coming from. However I can
double my budget. £100 is top whack I can afford. What can you suggest then. I know nothing about graphics cards at all so I apologise for my stupidity. -- remove SPAM to reply Victoria Concordia Crescit "Darthy" wrote in message ... On Fri, 13 Feb 2004 19:51:52 -0000, "KerplunKuK" wrote: I am looking to replace a Geoforce 4 MX420 64Mb DDR. My price limit is about £75 tops. I have seen a XFX Geoforce FX5200 AGP8x 256MB DDR DVI TV-Out for about £60. So you want to replace a piece of crap card with another Piece of crap card? Is that a good buy, and is the card any good. I have just started playing alot of PC games so I want a powerful card. I have got a AMD 2600+ XP processor and 1.5 gig of PC3200 DDR. All help and advice appreciated. Okay... you're saying you WANT a powerful video card and want to PLAY PC games?! The 5200fx is not "powerful" its pure **** for gaming. Here, look at this... Double your budget to get DECENT ability. Then download the UT2004 deom from www.unreal.com - or from Nvidia's website... and see how it runs. The 5200 on your setup would get about 10~15fps. Read this and let me know what you think: http://www6.tomshardware.com/graphic...ournament_2003 -- Remember when real men used Real computers!? When 512K of video RAM was a lot! Death to Palladium & WPA!! |
"KerplunKuK" wrote in message m...
I am looking to replace a Geoforce 4 MX420 64Mb DDR. My price limit is about £75 tops. I have seen a XFX Geoforce FX5200 AGP8x 256MB DDR DVI TV-Out for about £60. Is that a good buy, and is the card any good. I have just started playing alot of PC games so I want a powerful card. I have got a AMD 2600+ XP processor and 1.5 gig of PC3200 DDR. All help and advice appreciated. Thanks You say 1. I want a new card and I have around 75 pound 2. I want a fast powerfull card that can play games with ease! That is..mutually exclusive. Though...look for the GF4 ti 4200 ..maybe second hand ...that gives performance for a good price! |
any fx 5200 sux ass, get a geforce 4 ti a good performace and will be a
5600ultra, the 5200 is like same performace as a geforce 3 ti 200 undercloked and with 64 bit ram wich is purely ****, like a dx 8 geforce 2 lol "KerplunKuK" wrote in message ... I am looking to replace a Geoforce 4 MX420 64Mb DDR. My price limit is about £75 tops. I have seen a XFX Geoforce FX5200 AGP8x 256MB DDR DVI TV-Out for about £60. Is that a good buy, and is the card any good. I have just started playing alot of PC games so I want a powerful card. I have got a AMD 2600+ XP processor and 1.5 gig of PC3200 DDR. All help and advice appreciated. Thanks -- remove SPAM to reply Victoria Concordia Crescit |
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On Sat, 14 Feb 2004 02:28:40 -0000, "KerplunKuK"
wrote: Ok read the article and I see where you are coming from. However I can double my budget. £100 is top whack I can afford. What can you suggest then. I know nothing about graphics cards at all so I apologise for my stupidity. By all means, you're not stupid... you're asking before you spend what little money you have. £75 is wasted if it can't give you the performance you want or hope to get. If you can, try to get your hands on a Ti4200 64mb, they are about that price - IF YOU CAN FIND THEM. (At least $70USD) I bought my first Gf2 card many years ago, I had problems with it and coming here HELPED me... I wasted 2 days of pain with the POS - but I took it back and got something better... paid $15 more. (64bit DDR GF2mx = crap, took it back and paid $15 more for the 128bit SDR vesion - for a total of $145usd) if you want DX9 - the absolute LOWEST you should go for is the fx5600Ultra... its at least as fast as the TI4200 is many cases. Anything lower - would mean sub-standard performance. -- Remember when real men used Real computers!? When 512K of video RAM was a lot! Death to Palladium & WPA!! |
KerplunKuK wrote:
I am looking to replace a Geoforce 4 MX420 64Mb DDR. My price limit is about £75 tops. I have seen a XFX Geoforce FX5200 AGP8x 256MB DDR DVI TV-Out for about £60. Is that a good buy, and is the card any good. I have just started playing alot of PC games so I want a powerful card. I have got a AMD 2600+ XP processor and 1.5 gig of PC3200 DDR. All help and advice appreciated. Have a look at other threads discussing the price of the FX5900, available from £115 upwards; I think that is the smart place to be in terms of most card for your money. Yes, it's over your budget, but you won't end up doing what I did - I spent £60 on an FX5200 at Christmas (yeah, I thought it was a powerful card as well - I didn't do my research!!), and I'm now throwing it out and replacing it with the FX5900. This looks like a far better balance for my 2800+ and 1Gb RAM. Regards, Pete. Derby UK |
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