Serious waste of chips and PCB with fx5200

Buyer beware, apparently the only fx5200 by gainward that uses the 128 bit
mem path is the Golden Sample versions all others in the 5200's are using a
crappy 64 bit pathway which absolutly kills the card as far as ANY
performance at all. A company sent me a Gainward fx5200 (lite version) to
replace a failing gf3 and it royally sux. Apparently Lite means lite on
performance. No where on the box do they even dare mention that it only uses
a 64 bit bus. You have to go look at their site to learn that. Anyway an
some tests using both cards:

3DMark01 SE
1280x1024, 32 bit, 2xAA and 2xAF

Old GF3 - 2698, 2695, 2699
FX5200 - 1058, 1050, 1055

All in all so **** poor a performer I wouldnt even wish it on my worst
enemy. Really glad the company sent it to me free as if I'd paid even $50
for it I'd be way more ****ed. As is I wrote to Gainward and am hopeing they
have some sort of step up p[rogram to deal with this but know better than to
hold my breath that they will do anything.

Just Jess