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| Re: OT: The FX5200 [message #216432 is a reply to message #216034] |
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Halo38
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The FX5200 lol i remember those!
A good budget card I remember buying a geforce 2 card and thats upped my renegade graphic quite considerably from my onboard graphics, so if your just after a small cheap upgrade i'd recommend the FX5200.
However I did buy a 2nd hand one of these for £25 (and that was a year ago) for my dads computer and the fan makes a really loud noise when it's been on for a while so I'd recommend getting a new one if you can. but I'd say it's definatly not worth spending hundreds of pounds on the latest graphics card if your just playing renegade, as dollar (or pound) per bit of extra performance or graphical improvments it's a waste of money.
I also went form a Geforce 3 Ti 200 to a Geforce 6200 and didn't see any improvements, so save your cash what ever you chose to do. 
Edit: the Geforce 2 was a PCI card and the Geforce3 and 6 were AGP cards but i'm now using a standard Nvidia 64 mb Quadro PCI-E card that came with my 1 year old Dell and that does the job as well as the rest too
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| Re: OT: The FX5200 [message #216501 is a reply to message #216034] |
Thu, 31 August 2006 13:22 |
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To my knowlage, that board supports both DDR and DDR2 (DDR = black, DDR2 = yellow), however, the clock speeds are 500+, no less.
But there's another for just over £120 on scan too.
They take the 755 core, prescott and Core 2 Duo. 
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| Re: OT: The FX5200 [message #216742 is a reply to message #216723] |
Fri, 01 September 2006 18:12 |
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Halo38
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| Xylaquin wrote on Fri, 01 September 2006 19:02 |
Ok just one more question about the FX5200 (i'm not saying I'm buying it, it's just i asked this question a few posts ago and it wasnt answered).
For those who have 256mb card, what FPS do you get playing Ren on high settings?
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I'm no graphicas card genius but i'd say from experience that the MB don't really matter, just a marketting ploy, the thing that does effect performance is if your card is a 'high end' model for example
geforce 5200 - cheap <-- low end
geforce 5800 - expensive <-- high end
geforce 6200 - cheap <-- low end
geforce 6800 - expensive <-- high end
some people say that a geforce 5800 is better than a geforce 6200 purly because of it's make up giving it better performance, weather your chosing between a 128 mb or a 512 mb it don't really matter unless your playing extremely demanding games. I've only noticed a drop in performance when using a 32 MB graphics PCI card.
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| Re: OT: The FX5200 [message #216759 is a reply to message #216723] |
Fri, 01 September 2006 19:31 |
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| Xylaquin wrote on Fri, 01 September 2006 17:02 |
Ok just one more question about the FX5200 (i'm not saying I'm buying it, it's just i asked this question a few posts ago and it wasnt answered).
For those who have 256mb card, what FPS do you get playing Ren on high settings?
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With that patch that Scorpio made, (I think it was him), I remember getting over 100 FPS. This was only in singleplayer mode with little to no action going on besides running around.
Don't take this into consideration though, ever. You may want a card to play Renegade now, but someday you will quit Renegade and want a higher end game, which this card will never run.
David Anderson
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DCOM Productions
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| Re: OT: The FX5200 [message #219374 is a reply to message #216034] |
Thu, 14 September 2006 07:11 |
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Zion
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Modems, Ethernet cards etc etc. Maybe some USB expansion cards.
AGP x4/x8 and PCI-e x8/x16 are for graphicas cards since they have more bandwidth to communicate through.
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