Thread: G4MX vs FX5200
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Old July 27th 03, 10:45 PM
Bobby
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The latest (beta) driver cured my FX5200 issues.

"klunk" wrote in message
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advise for buying a G4MX440 vs FX5200 (non ultra) ?

Another question, my MB has got AGP 2x actually (i will change the MB

later)
so can I install a 8x/4x card on my AGP 2x ? Will it work ?



An 8x card will generally work on a 2x or 4x MB.

I found the FX5200 to be finicky with motherboards.
The card I have is an ASUS 9520 128MB.
I put it in an ABIT KT7A (4xAGP) system and could
never get it working flawlessly. Went back to the
old GF4-440MX which works fine.

I put the FX5200 in an old ABIT BH6 with a 700 celeron
(2xAGP) and it works just fine. It's faster than the
GF2 GTS that was in it, but not a whole lot.

Like others have said, the DX9 feature of the FX5200
is pretty useless now, and probably will be when
DX9 games come out because it is underpowered.