Simviation Forum - Which is better?

Dec 22^nd, 2004 at 3:06pm

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I am desperate to buy a new graphics card to get away from my onboard graphics, but being the low-end system my comp. is, it's only got PCI Undecided

I did some researching and from what I hear, the best 2 cards that one can buy for a PCI slot (that I can afford Tongue

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Radeon 9200SE and the GeForce FX5200.

Out of these two, which is the better card??
I've heard some good things about each card, and they both support DX9, so I was wondering which would make better graphics. I don't care a lot about FPS, as long as the rate is above 25 or so...

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Reply #1 - Dec 22^nd, 2004 at 5:22pm

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FX5200 outta those two. Avoid any ATI with SE at the end of its title.

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Reply #2 - Dec 23^rd, 2004 at 1:50pm

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Yeah go 5200, will prolly OC better too... 8)(As long as its not my MX440 wich is headed to the Nvidia Hospice)

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Reply #3 - Dec 27^th, 2004 at 12:32pm

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What about the normal Radeon 9200 without the SE?

I saw a Visiontek Xtasy 9200 at tiger direct... is that better than the 5200?

http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=10205...

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Reply #4 - Dec 28^th, 2004 at 5:13am

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The 9200 is a directx 8.1 card.

The fx5200 is a directx 9 card. Go with the fx5200.

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Reply #5 - Dec 28^th, 2004 at 9:30am

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ok then- thanks for all the help guys

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