Video Card

[MasterChief1724]

Unfortunatly i have a pos celeron. But since you have overclocked equipment then that explains you being able to run games that well. I do plan on getting a new cpu but I need to get a new motherboard so i actually have a agp port. But if i am able to get a pentium 4 with the motherboard then i wil most likely overclock this 2.66 celeron just to see what i can get out of it. I plan on trashing the motherboard i have now because it doesnt have crap on it. Also i may be able to overclock because my heat sink for the cpu is FREAKING HUGE. It takes up HALF of the surface on my motherboard. Even if i had an agp port I would not be able to fit the card.

[pre98zetec]

nah I wouldn't mess with a celeron, get a asus a7n8x-x (what I have) or a a7n8x deluxe motherboard (400mhzFSB) and a good 3200+ AMD athlon, You won't be sorry. That with a 1024mb of DDR will be a monster.

[aznxthuggie]

Originally Posted by sk8ter_in_ny

Mine doesn'y lag at all and runs great, why would I lie about my framerate/settings?

There test's are performed on a 128mb model of the 5200, the extra 128mb of ram on mine help alot.


I rarely see 75fps but I've done it, normally it around 35-38 solid, in pitch black places it jumps to around 45-55 and sometimes well into the 70's. I could never run constant 70's unless I was on prolly low or medium quality.

Do you know what kinda of setup your friend has?. (ram, processor speed, mobo) doom 3 is pretty evenly processor and video card dependant.


Also I forgot to add one thing, My card is not stock, It's overclocked. Core speed is now 400mhz, memory clock speed is now 485mhz, so it's alot faster then a stock 5200. Stock is about 266, 333.


Mastercheif, what kind of CPU do you have. When you say intel I hope you don't mean celeron.

no wonder u have that huge fan next to ur video card

my friend has a 2.4ghz p4
512mb ddr
geforce 5200 256mb (not overclocked)
and he barely manages to get 20+ on d3 on normal settings

me on the other hand, my pc sucks, im looking into buying a new one, and i have bad experience with overclocking

first time, burned cpu after +100mhz
second time, burned geforce 1, i forgot the settings but i found out something on the cooling fan melted lol

and also overclocking (if done wrong) can effect the way your cpu/graphics card works later, like if u want to "un" overclock it, it'l be different, well.. it happened to me

[pre98zetec]

Yeah my stock card barely managed 20fps (about 15-17 solid) stock, but then I overclocked it and added that fan.

My computer isn't all that good either. AMD Athlon XP 2200+ (1.8ghz), ASUS A7N8X-X motherboard (400mhz FSB) 768mb of pc3200 DDR (400mhz). I plan on upgrading my processor to a Athlon 3200+ someday, But for now this is good enough for the games I play.

[Psman32@af]

wow, this thread is filled with alot of misinformation. I have an exteremly hard time beliving that you 5200 can get that. what res are you running the game at, and what are your quality settings in doom3? I want a screen shot to prove you are getting that kind of frame rates with those settings. also, doom3 is capped at 60......

please dont say the geforce fx wa sa good series, it was such sh*t. you took a huge step down in going from teh 5200 to the 9600. if it doesnt look as good as the 5200, you were doing something wrong. The 9600 all in wonder isnt a bad card, but a 9600 pro would be a better card. The 9600 pro has a 100 mhz clcok higher on the core and 75mhz more on the ram. Yes, the 9600 will play halflife 2 decently. HL2 is more forgiving than doom3 is. Also, i feel sorry for you if you think your 5200 with 256 megs of ram is actually helping that card. teh only time that much ram is helpful is at very high res and with high AA and AF settings. The 5200 would choke at high res.

[pre98zetec]

^high quality, 1024x768.. i just loaded the game and took the shot.. beleive what you want man.. why would I lie about my graphics card? I already know its a low end POS but it's good enough for what I use it for. I plan on gettin a 6600GT sometime soon but I'm gonna hold off because this card works fine.



and no, that 51fps is NOT photoshopped.

[DirtyOne]

ive seen it run that fast at skater in NY's house

[Psman32@af]

hmm, 1024*768 you say. odd as that screen shot is 800 X 600. i SERIOUSLY doubt it runs that good at that res. a radeon 9800 XT can barely do that, which is much more powerful then that card would ever be. what is the memory bus of your card, 64 bit or 128 bit or 256 bit.

What kind of processor are you running as well? also, how about proff of that OC? Also, here is a link to one of the most trusted review sites out there, and they got substainually different results with a 5200. http://www.hardocp.com/image.html?im...hfNl80X2wuZ2lm

Sorry, but i still dont believe you, specially since you didnt even post a 1024X768 pic. I'll believe you when you can prove that perforamnce is close to a 9800 pro or xt. An easy way to do that is download 3dmark03, run it, and then post it on ORB and link it here. That will also provide all of your system specs. So in short, I still dont believe your statements, give me better proof.

[MasterChief1724]

I mostly got the 9600 all in wonder because it was on sale. I really didnt mean to get that one though but i wasnt lookin close enough. hmm, Dont know how I missed that. I was looking for the regular 9600. Didnt mean to but since i got this one with 50 bucks off im not complainin. But the circuit city i went to really didnt have a huge selection. I would have gotten the 9800 but im short on $$$. My friend can run half life 2 a bit better now since he upgraded his drivers. When he first tried half life he had to have it on lowest settings and it lagged a lot. but he can now up the graphics some and have less lag. But he definitly cant run that or doom 3 on highest. Thats for sure. He has a amd 3200 with 512 mb of ram. His card has 256mb on a gforce 5200. And another reason i chose ati is because most of the people that i have asked said they are more stable. maybe thats why mine doesnt have a fan.

[pre98zetec]

Originally Posted by Psman32@af

hmm, 1024*768 you say. odd as that screen shot is 800 X 600.

ever heard of resizing a pic? apparently not, I resize ALL my pics to 800x600, just look in my previous posts.

Originally Posted by Psman32@af

Sorry, but i still dont believe you, specially since you didnt even post a 1024X768 pic. I'll believe you when you can prove that perforamnce is close to a 9800 pro or xt. An easy way to do that is download 3dmark03, run it, and then post it on ORB and link it here. That will also provide all of your system specs. So in short, I still dont believe your statements, give me better proof.

Originally Posted by sk8ter_in_ny

My computer isn't all that good either. AMD Athlon XP 2200+ (1.8ghz), ASUS A7N8X-X motherboard (400mhz FSB) 768mb of pc3200 DDR (400mhz). I plan on upgrading my processor to a Athlon 3200+ someday, But for now this is good enough for the games I play.

reading helps..


seriously you want a unresized pic ill get it. I dont have to prove a damn thing to you but I will, i seriously dont understand why you don't beleive me..

[pre98zetec]

Originally Posted by MasterChief1724

I mostly got the 9600 all in wonder because it was on sale. I really didnt mean to get that one though but i wasnt lookin close enough. hmm, Dont know how I missed that. I was looking for the regular 9600. Didnt mean to but since i got this one with 50 bucks off im not complainin. But the circuit city i went to really didnt have a huge selection. I would have gotten the 9800 but im short on $$$. My friend can run half life 2 a bit better now since he upgraded his drivers. When he first tried half life he had to have it on lowest settings and it lagged a lot. but he can now up the graphics some and have less lag. But he definitly cant run that or doom 3 on highest. Thats for sure. He has a amd 3200 with 512 mb of ram. His card has 256mb on a gforce 5200. And another reason i chose ati is because most of the people that i have asked said they are more stable. maybe thats why mine doesnt have a fan.

I don't understand why your friend has so much trouble running on high setting? mine ran BETTER on high then it did on medium.

anyways here's what psman asked for:

heres it on the highest setting with 8X antialising (i USUALLY use 4x) but wanted to see how it goes.(ill post it on 4x too if you want)


settings screen for you:



proof of overclock:



so, what else do you want.

You act like I'm saying this card is the best ever, I get prodf, you call it a lie. I already proved myself enough and Dirtyone can account for it as he was near me for vacation and he came to my house. Beleive what you want. I'm done with this thread.

[MasterChief1724]

Hmm. your using overclocked equipment then i see y. but also i never seen him trying to run those things though. he only tells me. well if hes lyin...

[pre98zetec]

I said my card was overclocked along time ago.

[MasterChief1724]

Yeah you did but now I see by how much your overclocking it. Maybe that dumass just doesnt know how to get the most out of his equipment. I know if you can do it he can.

[Psman32@af]

Im not a dumbass, far from it. I do knwo how to get the best out of my equipment. I just found it hard to believe that a low level 5200 fx could perform at the same level as a 5950 ultra. I also did ask for one more thing, i did ask for a 3dmark03 ORB link which will settle all doubt if it can get a score that resembles it performance. I asked before and you posted a screen shot with teh frame rates no where close to what you claimed (and you still havent). I would still like to see an ORB link though. Congrats on getting a diamond in the rough 5200fx that can actually eb turned into a somewhaqt useful card, unlike most of them. I still find it strange that it is able to perform that well.