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Posted: **Wed Dec 22, 2004 3:06 pm**

I am desperate to buy a new graphics card to get away from my onboard graphics, but being the low-end system my comp. is, it's only got PCI :-/

I did some researching and from what I hear, the best 2 cards that one can buy for a PCI slot (that I can afford

) are the
Radeon 9200SE and the GeForce FX5200.

Out of these two, which is the better card??
I've heard some good things about each card, and they both support DX9, so I was wondering which would make better graphics. I don't care a lot about FPS, as long as the rate is above 25 or so...

TIA,
spit

Posted: **Wed Dec 22, 2004 5:22 pm**

FX5200 outta those two. Avoid any ATI with SE at the end of its title.

Posted: **Thu Dec 23, 2004 1:50 pm**

Yeah go 5200, will prolly OC better too...

(As long as its not my MX440 wich is headed to the Nvidia Hospice)

Posted: **Mon Dec 27, 2004 12:32 pm**

What about the normal Radeon 9200 without the SE?

I saw a Visiontek Xtasy 9200 at tiger direct... is that better than the 5200?

http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=1020528&Tab=0&NoMapp=0

Posted: **Tue Dec 28, 2004 5:13 am**

The 9200 is a directx 8.1 card.

The fx5200 is a directx 9 card. Go with the fx5200.

Posted: **Tue Dec 28, 2004 9:30 am**

ok then- thanks for all the help guys

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