Simviation Forum - 128MB GeForce FX 5200 Graphics Card?

Nov 20^th, 2003 at 12:04pm

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Can someone recommend the best drivers for a 128MB GeForce FX 5200 Graphics Card?

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P4 2.6 Ghz w/ 800Mhz FSB & HT Technology, XP Home, 512MB Dual Channel DDR SDRAM at 333 Mhz, 128MB GeForce FX 5200 Video Card, 80GB Ultra ATA/100 HD, Sound Blaster Live! 5.1 w/ Dolby Digital Sound Card.

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Reply #1 - Nov 20^th, 2003 at 12:25pm

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Any Driver will do.

1. Make sure there are no small children around.

2. Just Place the FX5200 on any solid surface and get the driver to repeatedly drive forward and reverse over it until it should be replaced with, say, ....... a TI4200 FX5600 or better card.

3. Dispose remains of FX5200 in a proper manner. Grin

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Reply #2 - Nov 20^th, 2003 at 1:35pm

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Any Driver will do.

1. Make sure there are no small children around.

2. Just Place the FX5200 on any solid surface and get the driver to repeatedly drive forward and reverse over it until it should be replaced with, say, ....... a TI4200 FX5600 or better card.

3. Dispose remains of FX5200 in a proper manner. Grin

HAHAHA! That was good!!

But seriously....whats wrong with it!?

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Reply #3 - Nov 20^th, 2003 at 2:08pm

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It's the seriously crippled version of the FX range of cards.

Benchmarking from personal experience shows these figures from 3D Mark 2001:

GF4 MX460......................... 5500 points

FX5200 .............................. 7000 points

GF4 TI4200....................... 12200 points

So, you see, the MX series cards were a crippled bunch.

The FX 5200 wasn't much of an improvement and doesn't come close to the much older GF4 TI4200
(the TI4200 is the crippled version of the TI4000 series!)

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Reply #4 - Nov 20^th, 2003 at 5:28pm

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I'm getting very good performance from my Detonator 45.23 drivers which I found at Nvidias website.
http://www.nvidia.com/content/drivers/drivers.asp

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It's the seriously crippled version of the FX range of cards.

Benchmarking from personal experience shows these figures from 3D Mark 2001:

GF4 MX460......................... 5500 points

FX5200 .............................. 7000 points

GF4 TI4200....................... 12200 points

So, you see, the MX series cards were a crippled bunch.

The FX 5200 wasn't much of an improvement and doesn't come close to the much older GF4 TI4200
(the TI4200 is the crippled version of the TI4000 series!)

To give some comparison, the FX line up was launched as follows....

5800 (Ultra) - NV30. High-End, a replacement for Ti4800
5600 (Ultra) - NV31. Middle class, a replacement for Ti4200
5200 (Ultra) - NV34. Low-end, a replacement for MX440

As a base card which is exactly what an FX5200 is, I think there damn good for the money and considerably better than the card (the MX's) they replace.

Also, Ati's 9200 (Ati's entry level card) has'nt got full Direct X9 support which the lowly FX5200 has, I think the FX5200 offers a good combination of future software support with fair performance.

Alas, for gaming, any entry level card is going to struggle equally, its worth pointing out, for example my machine with an FX5600 only scores about 6800 3D marks, obviously, a crappy Celeron CPU is killing my FX 5600's performance...... If you look at Congo's quote, his FX5200 out performs my card..... Thus, don't overlook what CPU you want to use your new card with!

I recently tried an Ati 9800pro in a pIII 667, it scored about 5000 3D marks - The same card in a 3.0ghz p4 would approach at least 13,000 3D marks.

I bought an FX5600 as I like gaming, I've tried gaming on an entry level card before (GF4 MX440) spending a little extra on a "mid-range" card is IMHO the best option.

And lack of driver problems kept me firmly with Nvidia.

Your money, Your choice in the end. Wink

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Reply #5 - Nov 20^th, 2003 at 5:44pm

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Thanks guys! The reason I was asking is that I have the GForce MX 64 meg card and I bought a new pc and it comes with the FX5200 so I just wanted to know if there was any tweeking that should/could be done with it...

Here is the rest of my system specs...

Intel® Pentium® 4 Processor at 2.60GHz w/ 800MHz FSB & HT Technology
-Operating System Microsoft® Windows® XP Home Edition - English
-512MB Dual Channel DDR SDRAM at 333MHz
-Keyboard Dell® Enhanced Multimedia Keyboard - English
-Monitor Dell 17" M782 (16.0" V.I.S., .25dp) Monitor
-Video Card New 128MB GeForce FX 5200 Graphics Card with TV-Out
-Hard Drive 80GB Ultra ATA/100 Hard Drive (7200 RPM)
-Mouse Dell™ Optical USB Mouse
-Network Card Integrated Intel® PRO 10/100 Ethernet
-CD ROM/DVD ROM 16X DVD ROM Drive
-Sound Sound Blaster Live! 5.1 (D) Card with Dolby® Digital 5.1 capability
-CD or DVD Burner for 2nd bay Free 48x CD-RW Drive with Sonic RecordNow

P4 2.6 Ghz w/ 800Mhz FSB & HT Technology, XP Home, 512MB Dual Channel DDR SDRAM at 333 Mhz, 128MB GeForce FX 5200 Video Card, 80GB Ultra ATA/100 HD, Sound Blaster Live! 5.1 w/ Dolby Digital Sound Card.

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Reply #6 - Nov 20^th, 2003 at 6:12pm

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Quote:

Thanks guys! The reason I was asking is that I have the GForce MX 64 meg card and I bought a new pc and it comes with the FX5200 so I just wanted to know if there was any tweeking that should/could be done with it...

Here is the rest of my system specs...

Intel® Pentium® 4 Processor at 2.60GHz w/ 800MHz FSB & HT Technology
-Operating System Microsoft® Windows® XP Home Edition - English
-512MB Dual Channel DDR SDRAM at 333MHz
-Keyboard Dell® Enhanced Multimedia Keyboard - English
-Monitor Dell 17" M782 (16.0" V.I.S., .25dp) Monitor
-Video Card New 128MB GeForce FX 5200 Graphics Card with TV-Out
-Hard Drive 80GB Ultra ATA/100 Hard Drive (7200 RPM)
-Mouse Dell™ Optical USB Mouse
-Network Card Integrated Intel® PRO 10/100 Ethernet
-CD ROM/DVD ROM 16X DVD ROM Drive
-Sound Sound Blaster Live! 5.1 (D) Card with Dolby® Digital 5.1 capability
-CD or DVD Burner for 2nd bay Free 48x CD-RW Drive with Sonic RecordNow

Seriously, The best tweak with a system like that is to get a much better card, namely an FX5600 or better.

You have so much performance locked up in that machine! and, considering the overall cost of a system like that, another $ / £ 100 or so would be money very very well spent.
You have the basics of a superb system there sadly, manufacturers of complete systems often sacrifice the graphics power to keep prices low which is silly really, it means ultimately you pay for a card (an FX5200 in your case) that is miss matched and thus not really what you want in your setup.

Or, putting it another way, my card is begging for your machine Cherokee_6!!! Grin

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Reply #7 - Nov 21^st, 2003 at 8:02am

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congo,
please check your private messages.
Thanks,

Kevin

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