Simviation Forum - What's killing my FPS?

Jul 25^th, 2004 at 5:29am

DiveBomber89 Offline
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I have a:

AMD Athlon 1.67GHz
GeForceFX5200
512MB RAM
WindowsXP Home

I know it's all very weak, but what one thing could I get that would most drastically increase my FPS? I'm willing to spend $200. I wish I could just get a whole new computer... Sad

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Reply #1 - Jul 25^th, 2004 at 6:17am

bm Offline
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I'm afraid its the Graphics card. Despite many people on this forum singing the praises of the FX5200 it just can't cut the mustard. Unfortunately there is not a lot of point upgrading right now to a new FX5XXXx or ATi 9XXX because they will not be able to cope with much in a short while.

If you can go for the any of the new generation cards then that would be great, otherwise I should wait until you can. If you really can't then you could go for a 9800pro but that would be a bad decision.

Sorry!

PS. If you are confident on ebay (i'm not) you may be able to pick up a cheap second hand 9800.

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Reply #2 - Jul 25^th, 2004 at 10:13am

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Buy yourself an FX 6800 GT 128MB, approx £240, it'll trounce any FX5xxx series or its ATI 9800 equivalent.

Add another 512MB of RAM and you'll be laughing. Wink

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Reply #3 - Jul 25^th, 2004 at 1:36pm

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Bear in mind that getting a 6800 will almost certainly mean upgrading your PSU aswell. Unless what you have is already good enough, typically 500w is the minimum, although if it is high quality like an Antec or Enermax you can have 350w.

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 #4 - Jul 26^th, 2004 at 12:18pm

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Bear in mind that 240 british pounds = $440 U.S. dollars

Quite over the $200 budget.

Mainboard: Asus P5K-Premium, CPU=Intel E6850 @ x8x450fsb 3.6ghz, RAM: 4gb PC8500 Team Dark, Video: NV8800GT, HDD: 2x1Tb Samsung F3 RAID-0 + 1Tb F3, PSU: Antec 550 Basiq, OS: Win7x64, Display: 24" WS LCD

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Reply #5 - Jul 26^th, 2004 at 1:41pm

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And I love my 5200.... Angry

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Reply #6 - Jul 26^th, 2004 at 4:46pm

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I've no probs with my 5200.... but i won't get the gun out on you birdman as i've never had another card to compare it with. Roll Eyes

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Intel Core 2 Duo E2180 2GHz
GA-P35-DS3L Intel P35
Kingston HyperX 4GB (2x2) DDR2 6400C4 800Mhz
GeForce 8800 GT 512MB
2 x 22" monitors
200GB Sata
Be Quiet! Straight Power 650W

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Reply #7 - Jul 27^th, 2004 at 4:15am

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I've no probs with my 5200.... but i won't get the gun out on you birdman as i've never had another card to compare it with. Roll Eyes

Ben

Umm, that's a compliment to the 5200 right?

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Reply #8 - Jul 27^th, 2004 at 4:35am

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If you are looking at an upgrade, a cost-effective option is to look at the FX5900XT (UK price is about £150.00) and then upgrade the card's BIOS; all the mags here you then end up with a card that is virtually a top range 5950Ultra!!

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Reply #9 - Jul 27^th, 2004 at 9:26am

bm Offline
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I've no probs with my 5200.... but i won't get the gun out on you birdman as i've never had another card to compare it with

I dug out the body armour from the roof before writing it. I happen to think that anyone who owns an FX5200 and is happy with it has got life pretty well worked out! Unlike us suckers for high-end kit Roll Eyes

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virtually a top range 5950Ultra!!

Top range six months ago - now just expensive boxes of soon to be bargain box junk Grin

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