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Eclipse9069 · Jul 17, 2006, 11:30 PM

Hey guys, just registered here because I wanted to really know what I should do, and because I like this community and I wanna support it also.

Anyways, my cousin bought a new radeon, and he has his old video card just laying around so he asked if I wanted it and I said sure. It's a Nvidia Geforce FX 5200 256MB of Video Ram.

Anyways, what I wanted to know was if I should stick with my Radeon 9600 SE 128MB card, or switch to my cousin's old Geforce FX 5200 256MB.

Specs for each:
Graphic Processor NVIDIA GeForce FX 5200
GPU Clock Speed 250 MHz (Gonna overclock)
RAMDAC Speed 400 MHz
Card Interface AGP 8x
Installed Memory 256 MB
Memory Tech DDR SDRAM
Memory Data Width 128-bit
Fill Rate 63 Million vertices/sec

Graphic Processor ATI RADEON 9600 SE
GPU Clock Speed 325 MHz
RAMDAC Speed 400 MHz
Card Interface AGP 8x
Installed Memory 128 MB
Memory Tech DDR SDRAM
Memory Data Width 64-bit
Fill Rate 1.3 Bilion pixels/se

(If you need more info, I can try to get more.)

Thanks for any of the help

The_Neon_Cowboy · Jul 18, 2006, 12:11 AM

9600 SE is a better card

Eclipse9069 · Jul 18, 2006, 12:35 AM

I was thinking the 5200 would be better then the SE because the SE is 64-bit and the 5200 is 128-bit, which I thought was a huge difference.

kn00tcn · Jul 18, 2006, 12:59 AM

i think AA'ing might be slower, but the 9600 looks like it has 1 more pipeline + opengl2.0 instead of 1.5

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compari...ocessing_Units
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Jul 17, 2006, 11:30 PM	#1
Eclipse9069 DriverHeaven Newbie Join Date: Jul 2006 Posts: 2 Rep Power: 0	Need an experts help Hey guys, just registered here because I wanted to really know what I should do, and because I like this community and I wanna support it also. Anyways, my cousin bought a new radeon, and he has his old video card just laying around so he asked if I wanted it and I said sure. It's a Nvidia Geforce FX 5200 256MB of Video Ram. Anyways, what I wanted to know was if I should stick with my Radeon 9600 SE 128MB card, or switch to my cousin's old Geforce FX 5200 256MB. Specs for each: Graphic Processor NVIDIA GeForce FX 5200 GPU Clock Speed 250 MHz (Gonna overclock) RAMDAC Speed 400 MHz Card Interface AGP 8x Installed Memory 256 MB Memory Tech DDR SDRAM Memory Data Width 128-bit Fill Rate 63 Million vertices/sec Graphic Processor ATI RADEON 9600 SE GPU Clock Speed 325 MHz RAMDAC Speed 400 MHz Card Interface AGP 8x Installed Memory 128 MB Memory Tech DDR SDRAM Memory Data Width 64-bit Fill Rate 1.3 Bilion pixels/se (If you need more info, I can try to get more.) Thanks for any of the help

Jul 18, 2006, 12:11 AM	#2
The_Neon_Cowboy HardwareHeaven Extreme Member Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: U.S.A. Posts: 16,009 Rep Power: 92 System Specs	9600 SE is a better card __________________

Jul 18, 2006, 12:59 AM	#4
kn00tcn DriverHeaven Senior Member Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Toronto Posts: 649 Rep Power: 0 System Specs	i think AA'ing might be slower, but the 9600 looks like it has 1 more pipeline + opengl2.0 instead of 1.5 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compari...ocessing_Units http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compari...ocessing_Units __________________ http://www.kn00tcn.net/site/ati-catalyst-profiles/ http://www.kn00tcn.net/FPSLimiter.rar

Jul 18, 2006, 12:35 AM	Thread Starter #3
Eclipse9069 DriverHeaven Newbie Join Date: Jul 2006 Posts: 2 Rep Power: 0	I was thinking the 5200 would be better then the SE because the SE is 64-bit and the 5200 is 128-bit, which I thought was a huge difference.