That 5200 is 99.99, a good price.......how would you recommend it? What did you have before and is the change noticeable.
One last question, do you think the video card I have right will manage? I don't want to be spending any money when I don't need it.
The 5200 is a good card at a good price like I said. I got it for $67US off eBay from a place called Hytek PC Labs. I didn't notice a lot of differenc between my old Geforce2 and my FX5200 except Jedi Outcast runs faster and FS2002 doesn't shutter as much and is a bit faster.
Lets compair your TNT2 to the Geforce2, Geforce4 Ti 4200, FX5200, and Nvidia's top card the FX5900.
-TNT2 Price Unknown
Memory Bandwith: 1.2 GB/S
Graphics Core: 128bit
Fill Rate: 250 Million Pixles/Second
Ram: 64MB SDRAM
-Geforce2 MX400 Approx $50-$70 US
Memory Bandwith: 2.7 GB/S
Graphics Core: 256bit
Fill Rate: 800 Million Textles/Second
Ram: 64MB SDRAM or DDR
-Geforce4 Ti 4200 Approx $150-$200 US
Memory Bandwith: 8.0 GB/S
Graphics Core: 256bit
Fill Rate: 4 Billion Samples/Second
Ram: 128 MB DDR
-Geforce FX5200 Approx $70-$100 US
Memory Bandwith: 10.4 GB/S
Grapics Core: 256bit
Fill Rate: 1.3 Billion Textles/Second
Ram: 128MB DDR
-Geforce FX5900 Approx $500 US
Memory Bandwith: 27.2 GB/S
Graphics Core: 256bit
Fill Rate: 3.6 Billion textles/second
Ram: 256MB DDR2
I hope this comparison helps. Check out Nvidia's web site or internet electronics stores to compair features and prices. I think with the Geforce 5200, you will see a major difference in speed and image quality.
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The Rig:
AMD Athlon XP2000+ Palomino, ECS K7S5A 3.1, 1GB PC2700 DDR, Geforce FX5200 128mb, SB Live P
