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Can someone recommend the best drivers for a 128MB GeForce FX 5200 Graphics Card?

Thanks

Any Driver will do.

1. Make sure there are no small children around.

2. Just Place the FX5200 on any solid surface and get the driver to repeatedly drive forward and reverse over it until it should be replaced with, say, ....... a TI4200 FX5600 or better card.

3. Dispose remains of FX5200 in a proper manner.  ;D

[quote]Any Driver will do.

1. Make sure there are no small children around.

2. Just Place the FX5200 on any solid surface and get the driver to repeatedly drive forward and reverse over it until it should be replaced with, say, ....... a TI4200 FX5600 or better card.

3. Dispose remains of FX5200 in a proper manner.

It's the seriously crippled version of the FX range of cards.

Benchmarking from personal experience shows these figures from 3D Mark 2001:

GF4 MX460......................... 5500 points

FX5200 .............................. 7000 points

GF4 TI4200....................... 12200 points

So, you see, the MX series cards were a crippled bunch.

The FX 5200 wasn't much of an improvement and doesn't come close to the much older GF4 TI4200
(the TI4200 is the crippled version of the TI4000 series!)

I'm getting very good performance from my Detonator 45.23 drivers which I found at Nvidias website.
http://www.nvidia.com/content/drivers/drivers.asp

It's the seriously crippled version of the FX range of cards.

Benchmarking from personal experience shows these figures from 3D Mark 2001:

GF4 MX460......................... 5500 points

FX5200 .............................. 7000 points

GF4 TI4200....................... 12200 points

So, you see, the MX series cards were a crippled bunch.

The FX 5200 wasn't much of an improvement and doesn't come close to the much older GF4 TI4200
(the TI4200 is the crippled version of the TI4000 series!)

To give some comparison, the FX line up was launched as follows....

5800 (Ultra) - NV30. High-End, a replacement for Ti4800
5600 (Ultra) - NV31. Middle class, a replacement for Ti4200
5200 (Ultra) - NV34. Low-end, a replacement for MX440


As a base card which is exactly what an FX5200 is, I think there damn good for the money and considerably better than the card (the MX's) they replace.

Also, Ati's 9200 (Ati's entry level card) has'nt got full Direct X9 support which the lowly FX5200 has,

Thanks guys! The reason I was asking is that I have the GForce MX 64 meg card and I bought a new pc and it comes with the FX5200 so I just wanted to know if there was any tweeking that should/could be done with it...

Here is the rest of my system specs...

Intel

[quote]Thanks guys! The reason I was asking is that I have the GForce MX 64 meg card and I bought a new pc and it comes with the FX5200 so I just wanted to know if there was any tweeking that should/could be done with it...

Here is the rest of my system specs...

Intel

congo,
please check your private messages.
Thanks,

Kevin