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9100 or fx5200?

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Lazark

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wich is the best?...I can`t afford a g4ti4200, so don`t insist 🙂....Is just want to play some new games like max payne 2, deus ex 2, c&c...then in May I will go to USA and buy a great card...

any suggestions?..thanks!
 
How much are the cards that you are looking at? I've seen 4200 TI's for $70.

Out of these two I would go with the 9100.
You can also get a 9600SE for under $100.
 
Doh, sorry about that.
If you are picking between the 5200 and the 9100, definitely go with the 9100, it's the better of the two.
 
and....if I had to choose betwen 9100, 9200SE or fx5200...wich is the best? (for C&C, Max payne 2, and if I can, deus ex 2)...

thanks!
 
Yes, the 9200 aka 9000 is based on a stripped-down 8500 core. The 9100 and 8500LE (the same thing, really) are both just slightly lower-clocked 8500's (depending on the manufacturer), so they have almost all the power of a normal 8500. The 9200's stripped down core gives it most of the features of the 8500 (9100), but at the cost of some performance.
 
Hi,


Ok, the 9100 is faster, but what about 2d/3d image quality & features & OpenGL??! GeForce FX5200 supports OpenGL 1.4, while Radeon 9100 supports "only" OpenGL 1.3. What do you think?!

I am NOT a gamer, I bear in mind CAD-like/OpenGL applications. I just started programming OpenGL in Fortran(I´m not sure yet of the differences between 1.3 and 1.4 versions, so I don´t know if it´s worth buying a FX5200 because of that).
 
Originally posted by: ruther
Hi,


Ok, the 9100 is faster, but what about 2d/3d image quality & features & OpenGL??! GeForce FX5200 supports OpenGL 1.4, while Radeon 9100 supports "only" OpenGL 1.3. What do you think?!

I am NOT a gamer, I bear in mind CAD-like/OpenGL applications. I just started programming OpenGL in Fortran(I´m not sure yet of the differences between 1.3 and 1.4 versions, so I don´t know if it´s worth buying a FX5200 because of that).
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If you're running OpenGL go for either a GeForce4 Ti4200 ($70-100) or an FX5700 Ultra or higher (5900 preferrably for around $200). Nvidia just about wipes the floor with ATI in OpenGL, DirectX is a different story though...
 
Originally posted by: MonkeyDriveExpress
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If you're running OpenGL go for either a GeForce4 Ti4200 ($70-100) or an FX5700 Ultra or higher (5900 preferrably for around $200). Nvidia just about wipes the floor with ATI in OpenGL, DirectX is a different story though...
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Thanks, it is interesting... but my ATI Radeon LE 32MB video card just overheated and died(curiously just after installing and running a Fortran OpenGL library), so it isn´t a planned upgrade and I want a low budget card to replace it.

My choices are among GeForce FX5200 and the Radeon cards(9000,9100,9200). I was even considering MX440...

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I thought it was more of a hardware issue...
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Any hardware that has DirectX 9.0 hardware support can almost certainly support any current version of OpenGL. OpenGL 1.5-2.0 is supposed to roughly match DirectX 9.
 
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