[will182]

right come on i want a straight honist answer is the ge force fx 5200 pci 256mb graphics card from bfb rubbish

 

[cheese]

By todays standard now, pretty much yeah. Plus its PCI - which tops it off.

 

[Triple6]

Hmm...yes. It wouldn't even be that good if it was AGP.

 

[will182]

so is there any graphics cards out there for about £50 that are better than the current card i have like at places like pcworld.co.uk

 

[cheese]

If you can spare an extra 30 bucks you can get this http://www.pcworld.co.uk/martprd/st...188&category_oid=-9928&fm=2&sm=8&tm=undefined

 

[brite750]

right come on i want a straight honist answer is the ge force fx 5200 pci 256mb graphics card from bfb rubbish

Well its not rubbish, the agp version I had that was 64bit/128 mb ram ran current games pretty well, on medium/no aa, I mean if your not a heavy gamer it was great & cheap, it all depends on what your doing with the card. If you want to play HL2 on full settings your going no where with a pci and your budget anyway, so dont waste your time. What does the rest of your system look like, if all you have is a pci slot, chances are your pc isnt going to run games that well anyway, pci slot only pcz are office machines.

 

[stevec500]

get the 5700 look here:http://www.pricegrabber.com/search_getprod.php/masterid=3525606/search=fx5700

this card is awsome for the money i have the bigbrother of this one the Evga-fx5700ultra,194.00 if you can swing that go for it if not get the 5700reg. youll like it

 

[brite750]

get the 5700 look here:http://www.pricegrabber.com/search_getprod.php/masterid=3525606/search=fx5700

this card is awsome for the money i have the bigbrother of this one the Evga-fx5700ultra,194.00 if you can swing that go for it if not get the 5700reg. youll like it

The poster has a pci slot only, nice card though, thats what my FX5200 was a Chaintech

 

[Triple6]

The FX5600 and FX5700 are available in PCI although somewhat hard to find.

 

[will182]

i have an agp slot but i am wanting to run doom 3 and hl2 and unreal tournament witch runs well slow on all high and i only like playing games on the highest setting

 

[Triple6]

i have an agp slot but i am wanting to run doom 3 and hl2 and unreal tournament witch runs well slow on all high and i only like playing games on the highest setting

If you have AGP do not consider a PCI video card. PCI does not have the bandwidth nor is it solely used for one device such as AGP. Wiht AGP you have a massive selection available for video cards. For Doom3 and HL consider nothing less then a 9800 PRO or 6600GT. Yes both will run on lower hardware and pretty well on the mid ranged cards but you won't be able to get the best frame rates or visual quality. Doom 3 cannot even run super smoothly on a 9800 when the settings are cranked.

 

[will182]

what do u mean cranked and surely a 6600gt or 9800 pro will make doom 3 run smothle on ultra settings becouse i got my ge force fx 5200 to run quite good on ultra but freezing all the time and i bet a 6600gt will be 10 times better and i bet the 6600gt and 9800 pro costs load and is ther away to improve my graphics card performance to like a fx 5700 becouse i overclocked my fx 5200 from 250 mhz core clock to 350mhz and memory from 400mhz to 450mhz but i then restored the clock setting to default becouse i think i would of fried my 5200 on stock heatsinks but i could be wrong i was wondering if u could actually help me on this too well the whole post

 

[Triple6]

If you go into the driver settings of the video card and set all the settings to the highest, including the AntiAliasing and Anistropic Filtering and turn on the Aliasing and all the effects in Doom 3 you can apparently lag in some spots even on the Radeon 9800XT. Now this was a while back and both ATI and Nvidia have made driver improvements, with Nvidia cards generally leading in Doom 3. Also note that something like the 6600GT has features and settings not available on the FX5200 to improve visual quality which can impact frame rates when the settings are increased.

http://graphics.tomshardware.com/graphic/20040809/

http://graphics.tomshardware.com/graphic/20041004/vga_charts-08.html

As for your freezing, probably caused by too high overclocking or lack of cooling.

Depending on your FX5200 it might be either 64 or 128bit, for the memory interface. The 5700 can be either 64 or 128 bit as well but the 5700LE is no better then a FX5200. Clock speeds aside that will make a big difference - the 9800XT, X800, or 6800 are 256 bit. The 5700's use a different core from the FX5200. Overclocking the memory, GPU, and using the latest drivers while keeping an eye on the temps will work to get the most out of your card but you'd be hard pressed to get it to a 5700Ultra performance level even if you have a 5200Ultra.

 

[will182]

there is an option in the graphics settings on my computer it says additional properties and i cant access them it wont let me click it and i dont know how to get into them is there a way

 

[Triple6]

Your video driver may need to be reinstalled. First go to Add/Remove programs and unisntall the Nvidia driver. Then download and run Driver Cleaner: http://www.drivercleaner.net/ Make sure you reboot whenever requested. then downlaod the latest driver from www.nvidia.com and install that.

if you have any tweaking utilities the problem might be with them, so uninstalling and reinstalling those.