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Jul 20^th, 2005 at 11:03pm

stevewilson Offline
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Thinking of getting a Radeon 9250 PCI graphics card with 256 mb on board.

Any comments, good or bad.

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Reply #1 - Jul 20^th, 2005 at 11:55pm

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It's worse, far worse, than your current card. Don't fall for the megabyte myth. Performance is determined by clock speed/bandwidth rather than amount of memory. That has very little to do with it.

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Reply #2 - Jul 20^th, 2005 at 11:58pm

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Wait a minute, PCI card? Is it going in your sig spec system? You don't have many options for PCI.

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Reply #3 - Jul 21^st, 2005 at 1:22am

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Weatherman, Sorry, I had not upgraded my spec in my sig. Unlike my other computer, This one doesn't have an AGP slot. The other two things that are about to be changed is to increase the ram to at least 1 gb, and the psu to a higher wattage.

So the 9250 isn't good. Ok I'll go for something else then. Any sugestions?

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Reply #4 - Jul 21^st, 2005 at 1:31am

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Weather_man,

I deffenatly like your temp indicator. I went to the site but can't figuar out how to get one to show up.

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Reply #5 - Jul 21^st, 2005 at 4:31am

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For PCI:

Geforce 5200. It will be a major improvement on integrated graphics by a lot, and it is cheap.

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Reply #6 - Jul 21^st, 2005 at 4:53am

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Asuming you have PCI get the Sapphire Radeon X300SE Hyper Memory $52.50
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16814102528

Asuming you have AGP then get the Sapphire Radion 9600XT $89.00
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16814102510

Dosnt really matter what you get as long as it is atleast a 128-bit card. Anything less will be like having the intagraded graphics.

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Reply #7 - Jul 21^st, 2005 at 5:13am

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Ctjoyce, I have standard PCI slots, so the express is out, plus I failed to mention that I really would like dual monitor ability. Does the Gforce 5200 have dual monitors?

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Reply #8 - Jul 21^st, 2005 at 12:21pm

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I think the FX cards will do dual monitors. You can definately do it with 2 PCI cards. Wink

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I'd go with the FX5200 or FX5700 PCI, if you can find one.

What's your zipcode? I'll give you a direct link to your temp thingy for your area.

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Reply #9 - Jul 21^st, 2005 at 2:02pm

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Asuming you have PCI get the Sapphire Radeon X300SE Hyper Memory $52.50
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16814102528

You seem now to have a histroy of misquoting information. The x300 is a pci-express card, something his system would not support.

For future reference, In the x line of ati cards, only the x800 xt, xt pe and pro have AGP counterparts, the rest are pci-express.

For pci, get the 5200 or 5700 le over the radeon 9250 b/c the 9250 is a dx8 card while the 5200 and 5700 are dx9 cards.

5700 le:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16814139166
5200:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16814145087

Both are PCI and are the best you can get for PCI.

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Reply #10 - Jul 21^st, 2005 at 2:08pm

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Quote:

You seem now to have a histroy of misquoting information.

It was 4:53 AM and I was writing short hand. I figured that it would be understood that I ment PCI-E X16

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Reply #11 - Jul 21^st, 2005 at 4:17pm

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I recently had a Gforce 5200FX for my computer which has only a PCI slot. It was a good card until I fried it. Well worth the money. I had it set up on dual monitor's also so it should be what you need.

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Reply #12 - Jul 21^st, 2005 at 5:34pm

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Thanks guys for all the responses.

Looks like I'll be going for the 5700 LE, the price is right and I will still be able to upgrade my ram to a ghz.

@Lintonam: How did you fry your card?

@ weather_man: here is my zip code, 93230. I found the site, but not sure how to put it in with my sig and have both.

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Reply #13 - Jul 21^st, 2005 at 7:34pm

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Here you go steve, paste this to your sig:

For the temp graphic only:
Code:

[img]http://banners.wunderground.com/weathersticker/smalltemptr/language/www/US/CA/Hanford.gif[/img]

If you want a clickable graphic to the current conditions on the weatherunderground website:
Code:

[url=http://www.weatherunderground.com/cgi-bin/findweather/getForecast?query=93230][img]http://banners.wunderground.com/weathersticker/smalltemptr/language/www/US/CA/Hanford.gif[/img][/url]

My sig clicks through to my personal weather station data.

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Reply #14 - Jul 21^st, 2005 at 9:28pm

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The FX series Geforce are not DirectX9 cards, but I don't think there are any PCI cards that are DX9. Good choice on the 5700 PCI card, it will cream any integrated graphics.

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