Video Card guru's needed

Jon · Post by **Jon** » Thu Jul 22, 2004 12:10 pm

What would be a better card?

A 9800 pro 128mb

or

A GeForce FX 5200 256MB

I curently own both, just need to decide which one to use for gaming.

Thorazine · Post by **Thorazine** » Thu Jul 22, 2004 12:18 pm

Jon wrote:What would be a better card?

A 9800 pro 128mb

or

A GeForce FX 5200 256MB

I curently own both, just need to decide which one to use for gaming.

The GeForce FX series cards never impressed me from Nvidia. On top of that, lately I think their driver support is kinda poor. I would do the 9800, I think it's the faster card even with double the memory on the Nvidia card.

deleted_acct · Post by **deleted_acct** » Thu Jul 22, 2004 12:24 pm

Thorazine wrote:The GeForce FX series cards never impressed me from Nvidia. On top of that, lately I think their driver support is kinda poor. I would do the 9800, I think it's the faster card even with double the memory on the Nvidia card.

YARDofSTUF · Post by **YARDofSTUF** » Thu Jul 22, 2004 12:29 pm

The 9800 is a top end card, the 5200 is a budget card, no comparison teh 9800 wins easily.

JawZ · Post by **JawZ** » Thu Jul 22, 2004 12:32 pm

9800Pro by FAR.

There is really only one card in the FX line that is worth it's weight...meaning bang for buck and that would be the 5700 Ultra.

BUT! The 5200 can play games and prolly very well but not at the level of the 9800Pro.

The 5200 would be a great card for a second rig which I assume is why you are asking in the first place. I could be wrong.

Jon · Post by **Jon** » Thu Jul 22, 2004 1:44 pm

UOD wrote:9800Pro by FAR.

There is really only one card in the FX line that is worth it's weight...meaning bang for buck and that would be the 5700 Ultra.

BUT! The 5200 can play games and prolly very well but not at the level of the 9800Pro.

The 5200 would be a great card for a second rig which I assume is why you are asking in the first place. I could be wrong.

a second rig for my wife.

Thank you!!

Ghosthunter · Post by **Ghosthunter** » Thu Jul 22, 2004 1:48 pm

9800 pro 128 hands down

Joel · Post by **Joel** » Thu Jul 22, 2004 3:27 pm

Ghosthunter wrote:9800 pro 128 hands down

ub3r_n00b · Post by **ub3r_n00b** » Thu Jul 22, 2004 3:54 pm

yup 9800 pro for sure... no questions asked.

-Preet

AMPLIFRIER · Post by **AMPLIFRIER** » Thu Jul 22, 2004 8:11 pm

9800 pro

love mine

i have the 9800pro in my desktop at home (see sig)

just got a toshiba laptop with 5200 fx in it (not shared) granted its only 64meg.
cpu is 3.2gig p4 the laptop flies.

the difference is way way huge between them.

AMP