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

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The 5200 is the entry level card and is slowww as molasses. It is NOT a
"powerful card".

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"KerplunKuK" wrote in message
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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

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So please recommend me a card then that will be better than my current one
and available for £70 or less.

thanks

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The 5200 is the entry level card and is slowww as molasses. It is NOT a
"powerful card".

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"KerplunKuK" wrote in message
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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

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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
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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

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On Fri, 13 Feb 2004 18:31:02 -0800, "raj" wrote:

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
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

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I have a GF3 Ti200, and I've seen a 128bit FX5200 slightly
beat it out, but Nvidia made the FX5200 64bit version, and since
that's what most venders push onto unexperienced buyers, most say that
all FX5200 cards are ****. If Nvidia would have spent a little more
attention to this chip, and never created the 64bit version, it might
have been a decent entry level card.
However with the prices of the Ti4200 being comparable to the
5200Ultra, and the chip being as powerful as the 5600, I couldn't
agree more that the Ti4200 is the best bang for the buck at this time.

Is the Ti4200 direct X 9 compatible?



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On Fri, 13 Feb 2004 18:31:02 -0800, "raj" wrote:

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
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

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I have a GF3 Ti200, and I've seen a 128bit FX5200 slightly
beat it out, but Nvidia made the FX5200 64bit version, and since
that's what most venders push onto unexperienced buyers, most say that
all FX5200 cards are ****. If Nvidia would have spent a little more
attention to this chip, and never created the 64bit version, it might
have been a decent entry level card.
However with the prices of the Ti4200 being comparable to the
5200Ultra, and the chip being as powerful as the 5600, I couldn't
agree more that the Ti4200 is the best bang for the buck at this time.

"KerplunKuK" wrote in message ...
Is the Ti4200 direct X 9 compatible?



Compatible, yes.. Compliant..No!

So hardware seen the GF4 ti series can do DX8.1 effects!

On Mon, 16 Feb 2004 19:48:39 -0000, "KerplunKuK"
wrote:

Is the Ti4200 direct X 9 compatible?

DX9 will run on pretty much any card out there, including the original
GForce(1) cards.

DX9 doesn't mean squat on the 5200 since it can't handle the job of
DX8 titles.... much less DX9.


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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


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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.

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"Darthy" wrote in message
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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


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Remember when real men used Real computers!?
When 512K of video RAM was a lot!

Death to Palladium & WPA!!