Card question

A friend of my brothers is going to build a computer for him. Sounds like a
very reasonable deal except for the video card which is a Geforce2 MX-200. I
told my brother to look into a better card but he doesn't have a lot of
money to spend. I just saw a FX 5200 for $65. How much better would it be
than the G2 MX-200?

On Fri, 31 Oct 2003 22:26:40 GMT in
alt.comp.periphs.videocards.nvidia, "BF" wrote:

A friend of my brothers is going to build a computer for him. Sounds like a
very reasonable deal except for the video card which is a Geforce2 MX-200. I
told my brother to look into a better card but he doesn't have a lot of
money to spend. I just saw a FX 5200 for $65. How much better would it be
than the G2 MX-200?

Whilst not a high spec card in itself, compared to a GF2 MX, it will
blow it's socks off.

Considerably better.

--
DaveW



"BF" wrote in message
. ..
A friend of my brothers is going to build a computer for him. Sounds like
a
very reasonable deal except for the video card which is a Geforce2 MX-200.
I
told my brother to look into a better card but he doesn't have a lot of
money to spend. I just saw a FX 5200 for $65. How much better would it be
than the G2 MX-200?

BF wrote:

A friend of my brothers is going to build a computer for him. Sounds like a
very reasonable deal except for the video card which is a Geforce2 MX-200. I
told my brother to look into a better card but he doesn't have a lot of
money to spend. I just saw a FX 5200 for $65. How much better would it be
than the G2 MX-200?



MUCH MUCH better. The MX-200 was underpowered by even GF2MX standards
(it was a later crappier version of the traditional MX with slower RAM
lower clock speeds, and I believe only a 64-bit wide bus).

I've seen local shops selling old GF4MX and GF2MX-100/200 cards for
about the same price was FX5200's for some reason, so definitely go for
the 5200.

On Fri, 31 Oct 2003 22:26:40 GMT, "BF" wrote:

A friend of my brothers is going to build a computer for him. Sounds like a
very reasonable deal except for the video card which is a Geforce2 MX-200. I
told my brother to look into a better card but he doesn't have a lot of
money to spend. I just saw a FX 5200 for $65. How much better would it be
than the G2 MX-200?

uh.... pay $15 more and get the GF4 Ti4200 and it'll blow away any
5200 card. www.pricewatch.com - MSI model rocks.

PS: The new system should be an AMD computer, it will save your
brother a lot of money and get good performance.

For about $500, you can build a kick ass AMD-2500 system with
firewire, good case, 512mb and Ti4200 card.


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

Death to Palladium & WPA!!

I agree with other posts... 5200 is the best of the MX class cards and you
get DX9 support whereas the GF4/MX and older cards have DX7 support.

"BF" wrote in message
. ..
A friend of my brothers is going to build a computer for him. Sounds like
a
very reasonable deal except for the video card which is a Geforce2 MX-200.
I
told my brother to look into a better card but he doesn't have a lot of
money to spend. I just saw a FX 5200 for $65. How much better would it be
than the G2 MX-200?

OK. it has DX9. But take a close look at the card's horsepower,

Core 256-bit
Memory 10.4GB/sec.
Fill Rate 1.3 billion texels/sec.

Now look at my 2 year old GF3 Ti200
Core 256-bit
Memory 6.4GB/Sec.
Fill Rate 2.8 Billion AA Samples/Sec.



"Helion" wrote in message
. com...
I agree with other posts... 5200 is the best of the MX class cards and you
get DX9 support whereas the GF4/MX and older cards have DX7 support.

"BF" wrote in message
. ..
A friend of my brothers is going to build a computer for him. Sounds
like
a
very reasonable deal except for the video card which is a Geforce2
MX-200.
I
told my brother to look into a better card but he doesn't have a lot of
money to spend. I just saw a FX 5200 for $65. How much better would it
be
than the G2 MX-200?

Was referring to the MX series as indicated in original post. The GF3/TI
definitely faster than the MX series.

"Sept1967" wrote in message
...
OK. it has DX9. But take a close look at the card's horsepower,

Core 256-bit
Memory 10.4GB/sec.
Fill Rate 1.3 billion texels/sec.

Now look at my 2 year old GF3 Ti200
Core 256-bit
Memory 6.4GB/Sec.
Fill Rate 2.8 Billion AA Samples/Sec.



"Helion" wrote in message
. com...
I agree with other posts... 5200 is the best of the MX class cards and
you
get DX9 support whereas the GF4/MX and older cards have DX7 support.

"BF" wrote in message
. ..
A friend of my brothers is going to build a computer for him. Sounds
like
a
very reasonable deal except for the video card which is a Geforce2
MX-200.
I
told my brother to look into a better card but he doesn't have a lot
of
money to spend. I just saw a FX 5200 for $65. How much better would it
be
than the G2 MX-200?

On Sat, 1 Nov 2003 20:59:46 -0800
"Sept1967" wrote:

OK. it has DX9. But take a close look at the card's horsepower,

Core 256-bit
Memory 10.4GB/sec.
Fill Rate 1.3 billion texels/sec.

Now look at my 2 year old GF3 Ti200
Core 256-bit
Memory 6.4GB/Sec.
Fill Rate 2.8 Billion AA Samples/Sec.

Gee, when did they make an MX board with a Ti number?

"Helion" wrote in message
. com...
I agree with other posts... 5200 is the best of the MX class cards
and you get DX9 support whereas the GF4/MX and older cards have DX7
support.

"BF" wrote in message
. ..
A friend of my brothers is going to build a computer for him.
Sounds
like
a
very reasonable deal except for the video card which is a Geforce2
MX-200.
I
told my brother to look into a better card but he doesn't have a
lot of money to spend. I just saw a FX 5200 for $65. How much
better would it
be
than the G2 MX-200?








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--John
Reply to jclarke at ae tee tee global dot net
(was jclarke at eye bee em dot net)

So let me understand this, for having DX9, you are willing to give up speed?
You can get a brand new Retail Boxed MSI MS-8879 nVidia GeForce4 Ti 4200
64MB 8x AGP DX8, from pricewatch for $77.95 -or- you can get a crippled FX
for slightly less?

When everyone in the forum knows the 4200 will run freakin circles around
that crippled FX card.


"Helion" wrote in message
. com...
Was referring to the MX series as indicated in original post. The GF3/TI
definitely faster than the MX series.

"Sept1967" wrote in message
...
OK. it has DX9. But take a close look at the card's horsepower,

Core 256-bit
Memory 10.4GB/sec.
Fill Rate 1.3 billion texels/sec.

Now look at my 2 year old GF3 Ti200
Core 256-bit
Memory 6.4GB/Sec.
Fill Rate 2.8 Billion AA Samples/Sec.



"Helion" wrote in message
. com...
I agree with other posts... 5200 is the best of the MX class cards and
you
get DX9 support whereas the GF4/MX and older cards have DX7 support.

"BF" wrote in message
. ..
A friend of my brothers is going to build a computer for him. Sounds
like
a
very reasonable deal except for the video card which is a Geforce2
MX-200.
I
told my brother to look into a better card but he doesn't have a lot
of
money to spend. I just saw a FX 5200 for $65. How much better would
it
be
than the G2 MX-200?