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Old Forums
02-06-2003, 06:53
Hi guys I saw this and wondered if this was a good deal and if it would fit on my machine it doesn't say whether or not its agp or pci just a vga anyway here it is


128Mb MSI Geforce FX 5200 TD Tv/DVI Retail 62.50 73.44


128Mb Gainward (4868) FX PowerPack! Pro/660 TV (FX 5200) 54.00 63.45

the 63.45 and 73.44 are prices including vat :D and that ฃ's for all you johnny foriegners :D :p

heres the spec for it any comments or advice greatly apprecaited I have at the moment a gf2 64mb.

Chipset
nVIDIA GeForce FX 5200
Support Memory
128MB DDR SDRAM
Video Output Function
• TV-out (S-Video connector)
• DVI Connector
CineFX Shading Architecture
• Support for DX 9.0 Pixel/Vertex Shader 2.0+
• Very long pixel programs up to 1024 instructions
• Very long vertex programs with up to 256 static instructions and up
to 65536 instructions executed before termination
• Looping and subroutines with up to 256 loops per vertex program
• Subroutines in shader programs
• Dynamic flow control
• Conditional write masking
• Conditional execution
• Procedural shading
• Full instruction set for vertex and pixel programs
• Z-correct bump-mapping
• Hardware-accelerated shadow effects with shadow buffers
• Two-sided stencil
• Programmable matrix palette skinning
• Keyframe animation
• Custom lens effects: fish eye, wide angle, fresnel effects, water
refraction
High-Performance, High-Precision, 3D Rendering Engine
• 4 pixels per clock rendering engine
• 128-bit, studio-quality floating point precision through the entire
graphics pipeline
• Native support for 128-bit floating point, 64-bit floating point and
32-bit integer rendering modes
• Up to 16 textures per pass
• Support for sRGB texture format for gamma textures
• DirectX and S3TC texture compression
High-Performance 2D Rendering Engine
• Optimized for 32-, 24-, 16-, 15- and 8-bpp modes
• True-color, 64x64 hardware cursor with alpha
• Multi-buffering (double, triple or quad) for smooth animation and
video playback
• True-color, 64x64 hardware cursor with alpha
Advanced Display Pipeline with Full nView Capabilities
• Dual, 400MHz RAMDACs for display resolutions up to and including
2048x1536@85Hz
• Integrated NTSC/PAL TV encoder support resolutions up to
1024x768 without the need for panning with built-in Macrovision
copy protection
• Video Mixing Renderer (VMR) supports multiple video windows with
full quality and features in each window
• DVD and HDTV-ready MPEG-2 decoding up to 1920x1080i
resolutions
• Dual DVO ports for interfacing to external TMDS transmitters and
external HDTV encoders
• Support for dual-link DVI for compatibility with next-generation flat
panel displays with resolutions greater than 1600x1200 without
the need for reduced blanking
Digital Vibrance control (DVC) 3.0
• DVC color controls
• DVC image sharpening controls
Operation Systems and API support
• Windowsฎ XP / 2000 / Me / 98 / 95
• Complete DirectX support, including DirectX 9.0 and lower
• Full OpenGL 1.4 and lower

Compatibility
• NVIDIA Unified Driver Architecture (UDA)
• Fully compliant professional OpenGL 1.4 API with NVIDIA extensions, on all Linux and Windows operating systems
• WHQL-certified for Windowsฎ XP, Windowsฎ Me, Windowsฎ 200

Old Forums
02-06-2003, 11:57
I dont think this card will provide the boost in game graphics that you are hoping for.
the 5200 model is the base one of the new FX series of Nvidia cards. It's probably comparable to the GF4 MX, and probably wont satisfy your gaming needs.
It is more of an entry level graphics solution, it is fast and have high bandwidth etc but will not perform like a GF4 Ti series card would.
There are other models in teh FX range, the 5600 or 5800 (not sure if these are right) but these are higher performers.

The GF4 ti 4200 or 4400 cards are dropping in price significantly, and will probably be a better choice.

I've got a GF4 Ti4400 atm and is great.

If i find some sittes which good prices on i'll add teh links.

Cheers,

Busta.

(please feel free to correct me on the above if i have made any mistakes, cos i did it from memory and haven't read up on the FX cards very much)

Old Forums
02-06-2003, 12:25
tbh I can't afford to pay mega on a card as wife would notice and am trying to do it on the qt...lol I thought becuase it was 128 it would be ok but wull bow down the knowledge off me betters on this one :D

Old Forums
02-06-2003, 12:31
just read a review on a 5200 card and it is good for the money, link...
link (http://www.tweaktown.com/document.php?dType=review&dId=477)
for the money i guess it is a good card., i was jut trying to highlight that it wont be the same as a Ti4200 or a 4400 etc...

i'll see if i can find any like that cheaper on other online shops i use....

Old Forums
02-06-2003, 12:37
cheers, m8:D

Old Forums
02-06-2003, 12:58
i have found an OEM version of the first one you mentioned for ฃ63 here (http://www.savastore.com/products/product.asp?catalog%5Fname=Savastore&product%5Fid=10264966&pid=44)

It's just not the retail version, so no fancy box etc, just the drivers. Not sure about wires etc, which might have been included in the retail one.