nVidia GeForce FX 5200 128mb shots

[Cecil118]

Hes a couple of shots, as requested

[Cecil118]

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[Cecil118]

OOOOOOOOOOORRRRRRRRRKKKKKKKKKK

[Cecil118]

heres the last one for now

[PurpleSyrup]

Oooo, that's the card I have, I think. I hope the game is that pwetty when I get it...

[Etra]

I still don't see the difference between that and that Radeon card =\

Oh well, I liked that pic with the Haro thing~

[Krystic]

Yeah i requested some of those pics..Very nice...I thionk you just convinced me in buying that card...

Wat are ur system specs and how does tha card treat FFXI?

Thanx!

Can't wait to see more!

[TenshuRune]

Yeah, what's the difference between Radeon and that card? It'd save me a ton more money to know that it'd run really well with a $200 difference.. Is it just the Radeon runs alot more smoother or what?

[TBoTB]

thank you for convincing me not to get that card *it cost 60 bucks at the walmart i work at*. i was thinking about it but see its no better than my g4 440 mx:( , oh well, my friend said the next round of fx will be out in a couple of months and will be slightly fast to way faster than the ti series. the fx 5200 is comparable to the ti 4800 se, which is only a ti 4600 with cetain addons.

in short the card you have is not bad.... but its not that greate either =P. i hope you bought it when the priced dropped to around 60 USD :(

[Cecil118]

My specs are Windows XP, 1.6 GHz P4, 256mb ram, and that card. the card is great! No reason why u shouldnt get it. Ram is pulling me down a lot, and those were taken at 800x600 or less, and graphics on medium and low because i lag a lot (because of modem and ram) i got the card for 100 bucks, its better then the mx u PoS

[TBoTB]

hehe, i hope you werent calling me a PoS not that i would care anyway. personal comments are so overated....


anyhow... im glad you told me you were on medium settings... those pick just like or little less than mine and i have settings on high, i have a p4 2.4 ghz; 512DDR ram; Dsl; WinXP;

if you go to search and put my name under the member field you can find some of my topics/post that have pics of pis that i took
but ill just post a few anyways =P

[TBoTB]

pic 1

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pic2

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pick3

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pic4

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and no i did not edit my pics in anyway besides resizing them to fit fourm regulations.

[Krystic]

Is that the GFX 5200 128MB?

If it is thats sweet!!1

Is it on high setting? Asd wat resolution?

[SSJChrono]

honestly they dont look any better than my G4MX440... the resolution is too low for me to see any diff...

course im sure if u had video it would convincing, but low res images dont do the card justice... bump it up and repost... your gonna have to get a ss program, i use capture pro its decent and looks great...
http://download.com.com/3000-2192-10153647.html?tag=lst-0-12

[Casval]

http://tech-report.com/reviews/2003q2/geforcefx-5200/index.x?pg=1

people considering purchasing a GeForce FX 5200 card should read some more information from a performance oriented source such as a hardware review website, tech-report is one such site people should consider

if you read the review above, you will find that a GeForce FX 5200 is the lowest end model that nVidia makes that supports DirectX 9 features, this makes it able to support all of the latest games, but it is still a budget oriented card, costing less than $100 and is meant for the budget market, not the performance oriented gamer

now, the 5200 is comparable to other cards in its price range, but it is not in any way comparable to a higher end card like a Radeon 9500 Pro or even a GeForce4 Ti4200, you're not going to get any more performance than what you pay for

spending an extra $40 and getting a 128mb GeForce4 Ti4200 will get you much higher frame rates in essentially all situations, the only time a 5200 will even come close to a Ti4200 is in DirectX 9 games, since GeForce4 Ti series cards only support DirectX 8.1, however, there aren't even any DirectX 9 games out there to play at the moment so this is somewhat of a moot point

people who are shopping for a video card in the price range of a GeForce FX 5200 and who are unable to afford a GeForce4 Ti4200 should consider a Radeon 8500le/9100 card instead, they have the same feature support as GeForce4 Ti cards and cost significantly less while being only marginally slower

those people who are looking for a video card specifically to play games using the highest quality settings should look at no less than a Radeon 9500 Pro or Geforce FX 5600 Ultra and above

[Cecil118]

BS Reviews. If you listen to reviews all your life, you wont do anything! Do yourself justice, buy the card or play at a friends house (or buy anything that got a less then par treview) and theres the chance you will fall in love
O yeh, and 80 frames per second isnt much better then 150, only way it is is on paper. Your eye can only reconize so much, and more frames can make things worse. Apply other parts of your life to your thoughts

[Shadowed]

My computer is practically the same as Cecil118's... You wouldn't happen to have a Dell Dimension 4300, would you?

1.6 Ghz, 40 GB, 256 Ram, Windows Xp...

No idea what a P4 is when he said that back there....

I still need to boost Ram, Video, and Sound, right?

[Namragus]

pentium 4

[Shadowed]

Oh... yeah, :biggrin: , I'm an idiot. Of course I have that....

An interesting thought came into my head, is there any way I can find out my other PC specs? Like on a website or something? I can't find my parts sheet....

[NiteFever]

here is a pic iv had around for while. its not the best shot/angle to really show off what the graphics look like on my CPU, but its pretty good. im running...

Pentium4 2.4 gig
1024 SD Ram.
GeForce 4 Ti 4200 w/ 128 MB DDR
Windows Xp
FFXI all settings max. Antialising is off, anastrophic filtering is off.
FFXI res set at 1024X768 front and back buffer.

image was resized to 800x600 in order to make the file size small enough to post here.

[Krystic]

that pic is sweet! I was thinkin of getting that card...

have anymore pics u can post a a different thread with those graphics?

Thanx!

[NiteFever]

sure

[NiteFever]

give me 20 more mins to make them all smaller

[PurpleSyrup]

All this talk about graphic's cards frightens me... ;_; I hate to think I was duped into buying a crappy card by the meanies at CompUSA... *sniffle*

[NiteFever]

you were prob duped.. what do you have?

[PurpleSyrup]

GeForce FX 5200 PCI 128MB v_v

[NiteFever]

for how much? i bought my Geforce 4 Ti 4200 128 MB DDR for $289 +taxs.... canadian.... which is like 150 American.

[PurpleSyrup]

Hrm, I dunno the exact amount, but I think the card plus installation and insurance and crap it was about 140-150 American dollars.

[Zurar]

Originally posted by Cecil118

O yeh, and 80 frames per second isnt much better then 150, only way it is is on paper. Your eye can only reconize so much.

You're both right and wrong. The human eye can only see around 30FPS (heard there was a study done that found the exact number to be 32FPS but i've only heard that). The average person can't tell the difference between 25FPS and 150FPS though, but some of us graphics freaks (i include myself in that category) can notice up to 30FPS when we're not concentrating on what we're doing quite as much.

Now, having 150 FPS over 80 FPS is alot better because that means that when you get into the more crowded areas like a bazaar that has up to a few hundred people in it, the card running at 150FPS will only drop to, say, 25FPS (depends exactly where you're looking and how many people are actually there) where the card running 80FPS will drop to 8FPS in the same position. So, infact the higher frame rate cards do make a huge difference...ESPECIALLY in MMORPGs like FFXI is due to the fact that you WILL enter areas with large numbers of people (Kind of like Everquest has about 300+ people in the bazaar on an average day)

Btw, i think of graphics freaks as 3 diff categories...the first category is the people that have to have the best looking picture possible, the second is the people that have to have the smoothest graphics possible (most FPS), and the most common ones are the people that want a good balance between the 2 or basically the best of both worlds. People that i don't consider graphics freaks are those that just plain want to play the game and could care less what it looks like as long as they can play it. Just kinda how i categorize it :p And if you ask how i'd categories myself...i'd be the third kind :thumbsup:

[Adam]

I hope the game looks like that, except that I'm running on an growing old GeForce card (about 3 years old) :sweat:
But, soon, I'm gonna get a new comp with a Radeon 9800 pro or one of the new GeForce cards... then it is guaranteed to look cool!
^_^

[TBoTB]

nitefever and i have the same system except for ram and the vid card. *his 1024 sd might be < or = my 612 ddr*

and his pic was way better than ceicil's. and on that note just download clipper, go to search button and type clipper and one of the post should have it =P. clipper is just a simple program that takes pics of what ever is on the screen at the time aka pressing crtl and printscreen button. but clipper does this for you and all you have to do is press the print screen button and it saves the pick in what ever format and quality into the folder you specified. and it automaticly numbers the pic so you can take up to who much space you hd has of pics. those screens i too was using clipper at 90% of original image qualitiy (using 100% image quality*taking the pic as is without toning it down* would make the file size to big TT*)

and its like i stated above, the fx5200 is aboiut == geforce3-4mx but with fx features...

[StarRealms]

Originally posted by PurpleSyrup
All this talk about graphic's cards frightens me... ;_; I hate to think I was duped into buying a crappy card by the meanies at CompUSA... *sniffle*

yep you were probably duped... PCI graphic cards don't really have the bandwith to do very well, if your motherboard doesn't have AGP you are most likely better off getting a new mobo + cheaper AGP video card rather than any PCI graphic card unfortunately.

[PurpleSyrup]

I wanted to buy the Nvidia 4200 originally, but they told me it wouldn't work on my PC and it /needed/ a PCI card... *sigh* They said it was cheaper and newer, they neglected to explain if that meant it would be /better/ or not. I hate CompUSA... >.<

[Eternal]

So the Ti4200 is better than the FX 5200?
:confused:

[Shadowed]

I have no clue Eternal, I just have to say one thing.

"Go Zero Wing."

[Eternal]

Somebody should know...

Move Zig...

:cool:

[MadMe]

Could someone please post a PS2 screen, just for comparison. I'd like see just how big the difference is. (I know it's really big, just let a poor man dream would ya:sweat: )

[Zurar]

Originally posted by Eternal
So the Ti4200 is better than the FX 5200?
:confused:

Yes it is better in every way accept when it comes to games that use Directx 9, and even then it's pretty close. The FX 5200 is basically like the old MX cards but with Directx 9 support.

[Cecil118]

so, i forget to catch things once in a while. About the FPS, i meant constant, not jumping all around because of varying condition.s And about comparing the FX to a GeForce MX, HA. GF 4 MX are top of the line geforce 2 or lower geforce 3. I was using the ingame screenshots because im lazy, and i never set graphics on high (except old PoS) And i do not have a Dell Demension (i hate dells with a passion)

[Casval]

well, I might as well add a few more thoughts onto this topic, I don't frequent the Screenshot Vault very often, so I've neglected this thread a bit

first of all, people who purchased a GeForce FX 5200 128mb card were in no way "duped" or cheated (unless they happened to pay significantly more than fair market value for the card, highly unlikely at a large retail store) because it is a very powerful 3d accelerator for an average gamer

PurpleSyrup in particular made a fine choice with a PCI GeForce FX 5200 if his computer indeed does not have an AGP slot, a GeForce FX 5200 is one of the most powerful PCI graphics cards you can purchase, so CompUSA's recommendation was legitimate in this case

secondly, my earlier recommendations were more tailored to people like myself who like to use very high quality settings in games, definitely not towards people who like to get as many FPS as possible, and most assuredly not towards people who use low-mid quality settings, I apologize if my recommendations did not fit the audience here, but since the topic seemed to be concerned about image quality, I assumed it was valid

going back to the topic of FPS, I do not care in most games what my FPS is as long as I get around 20 FPS in the worst circumstances (at the lowest dips in FPS) since that means you never get slow-downs in the game, on the other hand for some games anything under 60 FPS does not look quite right to me, especially when you have large FPS variations in a game using Vertical Synchronization (V-Sync) however this is just one specific example and not that important

using high quality in-game graphics settings and 4x Anti-Aliasing, a GeForce FX 5200 in a crowded scene in FFXI would probably get something under 10 FPS, this is unacceptable to me, but would be completely unnoticable to people who don't use Anti-Aliasing (their FPS would dip to something like 20-30 FPS, just fine)


this is all I wanted to get across: a GeForce FX 5200 is not meant for the hardcore gamer or "graphics freak" that wants the highest quality or the highest FPS (for bragging rights I suppose) but it is just fine when you want a card with future-proof features at a reasonable price, in fact it is the least expensive card available that offers DirectX 9.0 support



but as a parting thought, here is the difference between using Anti-Aliasing and Anisotropic Filtering and not using it, this image is from the game Morrowind and has been zoomed in to show the difference more clearly, but for me this graphics difference is important, and I'm willing to buy a more expensive graphics card to allow it (the .jpg compression affected the image quality only slightly)

[Cecil118]

pretty well said. Get it if you want to play games of today, not a few years off. Its fine, except when doom 3 comes out. This is the type of card you would want if you wont decent graphics on pretty much any game

[Mandos]

All this talk and pretty pictures from PC version of FFXI makes me want it instead of PS2 version. So...PS2 on a big comfy couch with a 36" Wega or PC(GeForce 4 Ti 4600, Athlon 2100+, 1GB DDR, Hercules Game Theater XP) on a 19" monitor and an uncomfortable chair...

of course, I could buy this:

http://www.keydigital.com/detail.asp?Product_ID=KD-VTCA2

Then I could play on my TV from my PC at 800x600 and still sit on the comfy couch. Any suggestions?

[Krystic]

get it for the PC!!!

19inch screen is big enough. You will LOVE THE GRAPHICS!

Oh and u don't have to get those adaptores and spend 200 bucks! thescreen is fine. Turst me it loks much better on 1028 res than 800

[Al-7ussaini]

my friend

im about to buy a new PC for FFXI .. but im confoused with these 3D cards .. i dont know what to buy .. GeForse 4 Ti 4800 or FX 5200 ? ..

i want ur help everybody .. plz . .:handsdown

[Krystic]

Gefrorce 4 ti4800!!!!!!!!

even though its more expensive, it is MUCH btter than FX 5200!

[Al-7ussaini]

thanx my friend ..

about that expensive thing .. here in Kuwait .. the cost between 4200 & 4800 is About 30$ ... and between 4800 & FX 5200 is 60$ ..

FX 5200 is more Expensive than the both ..

thanx anyway for your help .. :)

[UltimaWeapon]

thats with the 5200.