"yeeyoh" wrote in message
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Hi I read this news group quite a bit and I know people seem to enjoy
putting down the MX cards and the FX5200.
I've been using a MX440se 64MB DDR PCI on a 1.2 GHz celeron, 256Mb
sdram.
I'm upgrading very soon(maybe even this morning) to an AMD 2600+ (333
FSB) 512MB 2700 DDR ram. On an asus motherboard. ( The choice of
motherboards was based on comments I read on this newsgroup).

For a short while I'll be using my present video card(mx440se PCI). I
found this card worked great in my system, but with the new upgrade I want
to take advan of the 8xAGP etc.

The best I can do for a video card will be the FX5200. (the video
cards
around here are still priced at about $129.99 +Tx Canadian for a FX5200 or
MX440 8xAGP.) I've looked on a few web sites and the Canadian stores
online
are still charging around $109.99 when the tax and shipping is added its
about the same.

I guess after all this my question is does anybody using a FX5200 want
to give it a good review. Or know were I can find one on the web (besides
Toms hardware which I've read and reread.)
And or does anyone know a good Canadian online store with good prices
and a good reputation. I'd consider a more expensive card but the jump
from
say a FX5200 to a FX5600 is huge and something I might have to put off
till
later. I'm really not interested in the Ti series at all.
Sorry for being so long winded. Have a great day and thanks for any
help, thoughts or suggestions.



I was in the same situation you are, I was going to purchase a FX5200, I
actually did, however, they ran out of stock, so I started rethinking my
decision, and instead went for a Sapphire Radeon 9600 OEM which was only
$165CND. It's an extra $35, but you get double the card (give or take a
little). I'm not sure where you're located, but check pricenetwork.ca which
might tell you some of the stores that carry the 9600 OEM.

Harry

P.S. If you're in Toronto, get the HUB paper (formerly the Computer Paper)
there's a few places that carry the card, including one of my favorites
PCCanada.com.




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