sq322 Posted July 13, 2004 Share Posted July 13, 2004 Can anyone shed light on the pros and cons of these two cards ATI® RADEONTM 9200 NVIDIA® GeForce FX 5200 Im lookin to get another system and these are two cards that came up on two systems i am looking at. Thx in advance Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kccitystar Posted July 13, 2004 Share Posted July 13, 2004 Get the ATI. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sq322 Posted July 13, 2004 Author Share Posted July 13, 2004 opinion noted.. can you shed some light on the "why'? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kccitystar Posted July 13, 2004 Share Posted July 13, 2004 Well, its only because I've used Nvidia products before and most of the time they don't perform up to the way i want to. The 5200 isn't necessarily a DirectX9 ready card and usually Nvidia releases drivers that don't work as good. ATI on the other hand, lol, their 9200 is great for direct x 9 games like MVP Baseball and their drivers are pretty good in stability. It's up to you though, if you want to use standard settings for the game on 5200, or maxed out settings with the 9200. But bah, what would I know...i'm just a modder. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sq322 Posted July 13, 2004 Author Share Posted July 13, 2004 Well, its only because I've used Nvidia products before and most of the time they don't perform up to the way i want to. The 5200 isn't necessarily a DirectX9 ready card and usually Nvidia releases drivers that don't work as good. ATI on the other hand, lol, their 9200 is great for direct x 9 games like MVP Baseball and their drivers are pretty good in stability. It's up to you though, if you want to use standard settings for the game on 5200, or maxed out settings with the 9200. But bah, what would I know...i'm just a modder. Exactly why i am reachin out to folks like yourself sir .. Thx for the extra 411. I have an ATI presently and am very happy with it. and Max'd settings BAH..who would wanna use those :lol: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kccitystar Posted July 13, 2004 Share Posted July 13, 2004 lol the graphics are sexy when everything is maxed :shock: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sq322 Posted July 13, 2004 Author Share Posted July 13, 2004 lol the graphics are sexy when everything is maxed :shock: Didn't know gaming could be sexy :lol: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jolie Posted July 13, 2004 Share Posted July 13, 2004 i have no idea which is better, but i've never tried either of the ones your looking at. i've always used nvidia and have had good performance. i have a gf4 ti4200 8x now, and everything's maxed out running without bumps. just don't neglect ram and cpu, cuz without that it doesn't matter how badass your gfx card is. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sq322 Posted July 13, 2004 Author Share Posted July 13, 2004 i have no idea which is better, but i've never tried either of the ones your looking at. i've always used nvidia and have had good performance. i have a gf4 ti4200 8x now, and everything's maxed out running without bumps. just don't neglect ram and cpu, cuz without that it doesn't matter how badass your gfx card is. a valid point Jolie.. let me say this i am looking at something near the following P4 3.0ghz 512mb ram 160gbhd should be more than ample to run it smooooooooooooooooooooooth Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
voodoo_daddy Posted July 13, 2004 Share Posted July 13, 2004 The correct answer is: ATI Radeon 9800 XT Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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