Geforce FX 5200 128 MB

[RA|shock]

Is a Geforce FX 5200 good enough for future games preferrably HL2, I was gonna buy a GF4 Ti4200 but its like 25 dollars more, can a GF FX give me that advantage i need even though it might be worse than the GF4 ti

[RA|shock]

Im trying to spend less than maybe a 120 dollars on my card, so if maybe u think that is bad u can tell me what is good if u can help :D

BTW: plz dont say www.newegg.com i can jsut go there and look again but i still wont actually know what is good or not

[RA|shock]

aiight thanks so my best bet would prolly be the Ti4200

[agt_alan]

A FX 5200 is in the same league of ripping off the consumer as the geforce4 mx. It has directx9 support but it is so crippled that when a game that comes out which uses the features, it won't run at more thna 7 to 10 fps. Just look at a 3dmark2003 bench on the Nature game test, which uses dx9 shaders. The 5200 can only muster at most 9fps, and that's coupled with a 3Ghz cpu.

[Ep.]

The 5200, like the MX series is billed as a maintream / value product, not a gamer / enthusiast or professional product. NVidia makes no pretense about the product and prices it accordingly. It's ABSURD to phrase this as 'ripping off the consumer'.


Originally posted by agt_alan
[B]A FX 5200 is in the same league of ripping off the consumer as the geforce4 mx.

[alphatronics]

I'd consider GF4 MX'es as ripping off, as they're just an optimized GF2 chip.

False advertising = no.