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fx5200 info
I have a fx5200 pci, I read from the posts that you can either get a 64 bit
or 128 bit. What software can I run to find out which I have??? I bought it from e-bay and I want to make sure I got what was advertised.... As a previous poster said I was one of those that got f#$%* with no agp slot on the mb. But it's the kiddies/wife machine and adding it made the graphics speed up by 4x's via 3dmark2001. Went from 1k to 4k still pathetic but I play unreal II just to rate the comparison of the inboard and pci fx5200. Unplayable with the onboard graphics card, upto 1024x768 32bit, via the fx5200 as far as I dared go and playable. |
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Get Rivatuner from http://www.guru3d.com/ it will tell you "stevest" wrote in message ... I have a fx5200 pci, I read from the posts that you can either get a 64 bit or 128 bit. What software can I run to find out which I have??? I bought it from e-bay and I want to make sure I got what was advertised.... As a previous poster said I was one of those that got f#$%* with no agp slot on the mb. But it's the kiddies/wife machine and adding it made the graphics speed up by 4x's via 3dmark2001. Went from 1k to 4k still pathetic but I play unreal II just to rate the comparison of the inboard and pci fx5200. Unplayable with the onboard graphics card, upto 1024x768 32bit, via the fx5200 as far as I dared go and playable. |
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"stevest" wrote in message ...
I have a fx5200 pci, I read from the posts that you can either get a 64 bit or 128 bit. What software can I run to find out which I have??? I bought it from e-bay and I want to make sure I got what was advertised.... As a previous poster said I was one of those that got f#$%* with no agp slot on the mb. But it's the kiddies/wife machine and adding it made the graphics speed up by 4x's via 3dmark2001. Went from 1k to 4k still pathetic but I play unreal II just to rate the comparison of the inboard and pci fx5200. Unplayable with the onboard graphics card, upto 1024x768 32bit, via the fx5200 as far as I dared go and playable. Aida32 http://www.aida32.ru |
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steve,
Did it sharpen up 2d text, etc? How did you undo the shared motherboard memory? thx bob stevest wrote: I have a fx5200 pci, I read from the posts that you can either get a 64 bit or 128 bit. What software can I run to find out which I have??? I bought it from e-bay and I want to make sure I got what was advertised.... As a previous poster said I was one of those that got f#$%* with no agp slot on the mb. But it's the kiddies/wife machine and adding it made the graphics speed up by 4x's via 3dmark2001. Went from 1k to 4k still pathetic but I play unreal II just to rate the comparison of the inboard and pci fx5200. Unplayable with the onboard graphics card, upto 1024x768 32bit, via the fx5200 as far as I dared go and playable. |
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Thanx for the replies, maybe the experts at this can look at the ad of the
card, rivatuner said it was a 64 bit pci. Is the ad correct then? My memory is only running at 320MHz. Is it suppose to be 350MHz?ramdac? In the ad it doesn't say 128bit pci, but it does throw around 256bit/128bit etc. http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...tegory=40 161 &sspagename=STRK%3AMEBWN%3AIT&rd=1 "stevest" wrote in message ... I have a fx5200 pci, I read from the posts that you can either get a 64 bit or 128 bit. What software can I run to find out which I have??? I bought it from e-bay and I want to make sure I got what was advertised.... As a previous poster said I was one of those that got f#$%* with no agp slot on the mb. But it's the kiddies/wife machine and adding it made the graphics speed up by 4x's via 3dmark2001. Went from 1k to 4k still pathetic but I play unreal II just to rate the comparison of the inboard and pci fx5200. Unplayable with the onboard graphics card, upto 1024x768 32bit, via the fx5200 as far as I dared go and playable. |
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The ad does not mention it one way or the other.
"stevest" wrote in message ... Thanx for the replies, maybe the experts at this can look at the ad of the card, rivatuner said it was a 64 bit pci. Is the ad correct then? My memory is only running at 320MHz. Is it suppose to be 350MHz?ramdac? In the ad it doesn't say 128bit pci, but it does throw around 256bit/128bit etc. http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...tegory=40 161 &sspagename=STRK%3AMEBWN%3AIT&rd=1 "stevest" wrote in message ... I have a fx5200 pci, I read from the posts that you can either get a 64 bit or 128 bit. What software can I run to find out which I have??? I bought it from e-bay and I want to make sure I got what was advertised.... As a previous poster said I was one of those that got f#$%* with no agp slot on the mb. But it's the kiddies/wife machine and adding it made the graphics speed up by 4x's via 3dmark2001. Went from 1k to 4k still pathetic but I play unreal II just to rate the comparison of the inboard and pci fx5200. Unplayable with the onboard graphics card, upto 1024x768 32bit, via the fx5200 as far as I dared go and playable. |
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"stevest" wrote in message ...
Thanx for the replies, maybe the experts at this can look at the ad of the card, rivatuner said it was a 64 bit pci. Is the ad correct then? My memory is only running at 320MHz. Is it suppose to be 350MHz?ramdac? In the ad it doesn't say 128bit pci, but it does throw around 256bit/128bit etc. http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...tegory=40 161 &sspagename=STRK%3AMEBWN%3AIT&rd=1 "stevest" wrote in message ... I have a fx5200 pci, I read from the posts that you can either get a 64 bit or 128 bit. What software can I run to find out which I have??? I bought it from e-bay and I want to make sure I got what was advertised.... As a previous poster said I was one of those that got f#$%* with no agp slot on the mb. But it's the kiddies/wife machine and adding it made the graphics speed up by 4x's via 3dmark2001. Went from 1k to 4k still pathetic but I play unreal II just to rate the comparison of the inboard and pci fx5200. Unplayable with the onboard graphics card, upto 1024x768 32bit, via the fx5200 as far as I dared go and playable. I see allot of numbers..but not the memory bandwidth mentioned, so basicly you bought a crappy card on the premise of a good card. he...marketing gotta love it. Nope you have no rights to return it... after all he sold it you as he got it! Don't you love nvidia/branches to throw around with numbers that way. Most FX5200 are sold with "128-bits internal precision" ... yeah... but that aint the size of the memorydatapad! hehe, if you didn't pay tomuch it's worth it's value. If you wished to be sure of an 128-bits version, then you had to buy the FX 5200 Ultra! |
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I'm really not sure about the text quality, the onboard is a Intel Extreme
Graphics 845gv,which text wise didn't seem to shabby. As for the shared memory allocation, I'm clueless there too. All I did was picked up 512mb memory stick, giving me like 768Mb. Went into cmos selected pci instead of onboard, and disabled the on-board graphics in device manager. At least now with the fx5200 it will go the whole way thru 3dmark2001/2003 shareware version. Intel extreme graphics, now that was a joke. So untill someone makes a faster pci card, the system will be great for the kids games and some of the newer/older games of mine, when I can get it away from them.heh. Now I wait for my ati 9800, for my system, should be any day now, luv those prices on ebay. Thanks for the help, people!!!!! Alot of stuff I don't know about, guess that's what newsgroups are all about. "steelguitar" wrote in message ink.net... steve, Did it sharpen up 2d text, etc? How did you undo the shared motherboard memory? thx bob stevest wrote: I have a fx5200 pci, I read from the posts that you can either get a 64 bit or 128 bit. What software can I run to find out which I have??? I bought it from e-bay and I want to make sure I got what was advertised.... As a previous poster said I was one of those that got f#$%* with no agp slot on the mb. But it's the kiddies/wife machine and adding it made the graphics speed up by 4x's via 3dmark2001. Went from 1k to 4k still pathetic but I play unreal II just to rate the comparison of the inboard and pci fx5200. Unplayable with the onboard graphics card, upto 1024x768 32bit, via the fx5200 as far as I dared go and playable. |
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On Tue, 20 Jan 2004 11:39:53 -0500, "stevest"
wrote: I'm really not sure about the text quality, the onboard is a Intel Extreme Graphics 845gv,which text wise didn't seem to shabby. Intel onboard video is a joke for 3D, yes heheh. but I find that as your RAISE the rez on intel - they start to get blurry. Its fine for 1024x768. At least now with the fx5200 it will go the whole way thru 3dmark2001/2003 shareware version. Intel extreme graphics, now that was a joke. So untill someone makes a faster pci card, the system will be great for the kids games and some of the newer/older games of mine, when I can get it away from them.heh. That's not going to happen. An AGP version of the fx5200 would be faster. PCI is limited, hence you won't find high-end PCI graphics card - in fact, you bought the BEST PCI video card you can get. Now I wait for my ati 9800, for my system, should be any day now, luv those prices on ebay. How much? They're hitting $200 (non pro) Got mine free. Thanks for the help, people!!!!! Alot of stuff I don't know about, guess that's what newsgroups are all about. usually... let us know how it goes... The ATI newsgroup is around the corner. -- Remember when real men used Real computers!? When 512K of video RAM was a lot! Death to Palladium & WPA!! |
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