nv5200

[Opferlamm]

Sorry, but i can't believe this

Yes, i am the tuning specialist with FX 5200 and 5500 cards *g*

In my opinion the best driver for this cards is the DHzerOpoint 0.7803. With this driver i get moderatly 30-50 Fps at the 2.0 Version of Nexuiz. But at the moment i use the FX 5500, cause this card comes with a fan and so i can overclock it a little bit. The card runs stable with 291 MHz Corefrequenzy and 311 MHz Memoryfrequency.

The FX 5200 that i own, is a passive one with no cooling fan.

[esteel]

Well the overall response was very mixed.. but at least it seems possible to play with a 5200. So there is still hope for the future with new models to make it 'ok'

[Shoe]

I remember 1.0 being playable at what I suppose might be a medium configuration, but I ditched it for a 6600 not long after 1.0's release.

My friend still has a 5200 and says that 2.0 is totally unplayable for him, unless he turns everything down to the absolute lowest, and that level of muddiness and lack of eye candy just doesn't suit him. He's upgrading his PC here soon, though.

[esteel]

Hmm there are people telling otherwise.. would be nice to find out whats the different on the systems it runs ok and were it does not.

[Urmel]

quite easy, last is the least:

1. the performance of this chip is quite heavly influenced by the power of the whole system.

2. people have different oppinions of "playable" or "acceptable".

3. performance isn't provided by the GPU only. Many of the newer cards have slower RAM, and many of the older (cheaper) models are crappy in other ways.

[KadaverJack]

Are there different revisions of the 5200 by any chance?
It wouldn't be the first time, that different hardware is sold under the name...

[Zico]

I know of different versions... some with 128 and others with even 256MB VRAM... Different clock speeds are (at least on some NVidia cards) not unusual as well ... depends on the vendor.

[tZork]

Are there different revisions of the 5200 by any chance?
It wouldn't be the first time, that different hardware is sold under the name...

can anyone say athlon, celeron, p4, and duron

well i havent seen any diffrent cores on em, but clock speeeds seems to be rather diffrent. specialy on the "gs" ones.

[Ed]

5200's (including PCX5300 and 5500 as they are derivatives) were available in a few different versions:

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Model        Core          Clocks            memory bus 
FX 5200    NV34    1:4:4    250/200    64 or 128 bit    
FX 5200 Ultra    NV34    1:4:4    325/325    128 bit
PCX 5300    NV34    1:4:4    250/325    64 or 128 bit
FX 5500    NV34    1:4:4    270/200    128 or 256 bit

Entry level chip. Replacement for GeForce4 MX family. Quadro FX 330, 500, 600 is based on the GeForceFX 5200. Lacked IntelliSample technology. No lossless color compression or Z compression. PCX uses AGP to PCIe bridge chip for use on PCIe motherboards. Has 2 pixel pipelines if pixel shading is used. Each pixel pipe = 1 FP32 ALU handling 2 TMUs + 2 FX12 Mini-ALU (each one can do 2 MULs or 1 ADD or 1 MAD)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geforce_fx ... _FX_models