FX5200?

[tofumonster]

I was at CompUSA (it was closing and having a sale ) and I saw a bunch of nVidia's FX5200's. I wasn't amazed at all that there were like 25 of them still there (not sure of how many people actually buy those). But I was wondering why they still MAKE FX5200's in such abundance. I mean why not cut those out and bring in the 6/7 series cards as the "low end" of the market?


Edit:

Also I was wondering how the ATI2600PRO card compares to nVidia? Which model numbers are the approximate equivalent (just out of curiosity)?

 

[mooncancook]

so they are still trying to get rid of their FX5200 stocks after all these years? This must be one of the best video card ever made, still going strong after so many years.

 

[tofumonster]

Originally posted by: mooncancook
so they are still trying to get rid of their FX5200 stocks after all these years? This must be one of the best video card ever made, still going strong after so many years.

Maybe I'm not getting your sarcasm...but in any case...The boxes on those 5200's also mentioned "updated this and that". Obviously people are still looking into this card.

For what though? minesweeper? :laugh:

 

[Sylvanas]

Originally posted by: tofumonster

Originally posted by: mooncancook
so they are still trying to get rid of their FX5200 stocks after all these years? This must be one of the best video card ever made, still going strong after so many years.

Maybe I'm not getting your sarcasm...but in any case...The boxes on those 5200's also mentioned "updated this and that". Obviously people are still looking into this card.

For what though? minesweeper? :laugh:

The people who buy them are likely either clueless about components or just want something to make it run and do Email/internet/videos for a cheap price.

1000th post woot!

 

[spittledip]

My pc at work has one... it rules!!!!!

 

[vhx]

Because Dell, HP, Compaq, etc sold lots of crappy upgradable computers for almost a decade with only PCI slots. A big market like that is just too stupid to pass up, of course they are going to provide them. Not everyone is sporting PCIe systems waiting for Geforce 9's.

The FX5200's are better than integrated graphics, which is what most of those computers have.

 

[j0j081]

here was my reasoning for buying one.

http://forums.anandtech.com/me...ht_key=y&keyword1=5200

 

[Elvis2]

Originally posted by: vhx
Because Dell, HP, Compaq, etc sold lots of crappy upgradable computers for almost a decade with only PCI slots. A big market like that is just too stupid to pass up, of course they are going to provide them. Not everyone is sporting PCIe systems waiting for Geforce 9's.

The FX5200's are better than integrated graphics, which is what most of those computers have.

that's exactly right. my parents bought a new dell back in the day (2-3 yrs. ago) p4 3.0 northy, gig of ram, 160gig hd and they lost the video about a year l8tr. dell tech comes out and replaces the oem 5200 with another one. no charge.
that's why they're still around.
in fact, just last night i went out to BB to get a new monitor and they had about a dozen 5200's on the shelf for....$69.99. lol.
up their's!

here was my reasoning for buying one.

lol...

 

[palladium]

Apparently the FX5200 can be worse off than GMA950 because the PCI slot is bottlenecking. I played RBO with both and the GMA950 gives slightly higher FPS ( GMA: 60, 5200:~ 50). Lol.

 

[CP5670]

Yeah, I would think even the integrated graphics chips have caught up by now. The 5200 was crap even when it came out, and that was almost five years ago.

 

[AVP]

Sylvanas I loved your response the linked 5200 thread. Thank you for that. lol.

To the rest of you, at least you did not spend $100 of your saved, hard-earned, "14 year old allowance" money for a mx420.

 

[Elvis2]

To the rest of you, at least you did not spend $100 of your saved, hard-earned, "14 year old allowance" money for a mx420.

lol...that's true

 

[BlueAcolyte]

Lol... I see those at Circuit City, but even an idiot would look at the low number... Big difference between 8600 and 5200, must be better right?

A 2600PRO is like an underclocked 2600XT (HINT!) which in turn is like a 8600GT.

 

[Syntax Error]

Originally posted by: vhx
Because Dell, HP, Compaq, etc sold lots of crappy upgradable computers for almost a decade with only PCI slots. A big market like that is just too stupid to pass up, of course they are going to provide them. Not everyone is sporting PCIe systems waiting for Geforce 9's.

The FX5200's are better than integrated graphics, which is what most of those computers have.

I, unfortunately, was one of those noobs.

 

[maevinj]

I still buy them when people loose their IG at work. Can't beat 70 bucks for a quick/cheap fix. Let's me surf the forums more

 

[SorryImLate]

Yea i got an FX5500 OC....i think its only factory overclocked by like 10mhz but yea it sucks ass.

Ive walked into bestbuy though and they still have the 5200, 5500, and the 6200 still sittin on there shelves. Im supprised also cuz i bought this card over 2 years ago so i could play CS cuz my comp didnt have AGP or PCIe.

 

[d3lt4]

I had this card for a while. Athlon xp 2700 emachine! It lasted until HL2 came out. Then it kept crashing, so I put my box fan facing into the PC to cool it down. It gave me an extra 10 min before every crash. I think the mobo died first. Then the GPU. Then the PSU. lol.

 

[MegaVovaN]

When I was a newblet I bought it for $100 like 4-5 years ago at buy.com for this PC:
1.2 ghz celeron
120 (256?) mb RAM
IG

Played GTA VC very good, and some CS too!

Friend uses one in a multi desktop environment at work

fan died on my 5200fx though...she was a good card :brokenheart:

 

[hamguy]

BestBuy too. And the FX5200 flat kills an SC1430. No boot.

 

[SanDiegoPC]

I have one here that I 've used as a testing video card for trouble systems.

 

[schneiderguy]

Originally posted by: AVP

To the rest of you, at least you did not spend $100 of your saved, hard-earned, "14 year old allowance" money for a mx420.

I did Only I think I was 11 or 12 at the time I bought it. It actually was OK in Medal of Honor Allied Assault, Call of Duty 1, CS, and HL2. Since I had no idea what anti-aliasing and anisotropic filtering jaggies and blurry textures didn't bother me.. I had to upgrade to a 6800 though when I got a LCD monitor that looked like crap running at 640*480

 

[CurseTheSky]

Before I ever LEARNED anything about computers, just tinkered, I made the mistake of buying a bunch of cards in search of better performance for Starcraft, Warcraft III, and a few other games.

MX420
FX5200
FX5600
FX5900SE (XT)

The entire time, I swore off the 9600XT and 9800Pro that everyone told me to get. I really wish I had just grabbed one of those and called it a day. So much money wasted. I think the 5900SE alone cost $225ish at Best Buy.

Then I finally did some research, and upgraded to an X2 4200+, 1GB DDR400, and 6800GT

 

[ArchAngel777]

I remember stopping by my dad's house and seeing a shiny new box near his computer. It was an FX5200. I almost had a heart attack, he replace his 8500 Radeon for it... I was like, WTH, why didn't you consult me before that purchase? That card is a POS. Then he said "It seems to work good for me"... LOL... I promptly replaced it with a 6800LE and unlocked the vertex shaders and pipelines and instant 1000% increase

 

[v8envy]

They're used in HTPCs as well. The fx5200 has decent XvMC support and many are fanless. 6200TC is useful in that capacity too. No Radeon card supports accelerated video playback under Linux and those tens of thousands of Myth boxes need something with TV out...