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May 21st, 2004 at 9:46pm

Jared   Offline
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Hey all! Just purchased a new video card off of the internet the other day...

Before installation I was consistently recieving a 3d mark03 score of 823-825 marks.  This was with tweaked graphics and lots of enhancements to my FX5200 128mb card...

I went with the Chaintech FX5700LE for $130 before rebate $99 USD after rebate...256MB of raw power! Smiley Shocked

With the basic drivers that came on the CD with the card I was able easily obtain a 3dmark03 score of 2099 marks without any tweaking or changing of settings in the display window...

Needless to say the sim seems to work wonderfully well, I now have no stuttering (6-8FPS) around airports the size of Heathrow, I'm now seeing FPS of 35-40, where I would see 6-8! Smiley Mind you I never really had a problem with the ole 5200, but when I got a decent deal on this new one, and someone else has already bought the other one...Smiley

Now I can enjoy the sim, without the tweaking of the vid card drivers, or changing settings in the sim! Wink  Grin

I have been waiting years for this kind of quality! Smiley

Now it's time to change the sig. as well...Smiley

I also got another 120GB drive to install in a raid system so that I will never lose anything again! Smiley

 
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Reply #1 - May 25th, 2004 at 4:40pm

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AGP or PCI?
 

...&&[glow=green,2,300]I didn't lose my mind- I sold it on Ebay! [/glow]
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Reply #2 - May 25th, 2004 at 5:19pm

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From the 3DMark03 score i would expect it is an AGP, also it is a 5700LE.
 

My system:Intel Q6600@3.6GHz, Corsair XMS2 4GB DDR2-6400 (4-4-4-12-1T) , Sapphire 7850 OC 2BG 920/5000, X-Fi Fatality, Corsair AX 750, 7 Pro x64
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Reply #3 - May 25th, 2004 at 5:36pm

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yeppers, AGP 8X capability, as well as easy overclocking, for the future generations of FS....
 
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