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Question regarding Nvidia FX series

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imported_Lucifer

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Why was the FX series so horrible? I have the FX 5600 Ultra 128mb 8x agp card. I was going to do a trade with a friend, but I found out the comp he is getting has the 9600 xt 128mb agp card, and I have been told that the FX series is such a sh!tty series. Since he is a good friend of mine, and seeing how I hate ripping people off, I called off the deal.

Why is the FX series such a crappy series?

Thanks.
 
Originally posted by: Lucifer
Why was the FX series so horrible? I have the FX 5600 Ultra 128mb 8x agp card. I was going to do a trade with a friend, but I found out the comp he is getting has the 9600 xt 128mb agp card, and I have been told that the FX series is such a sh!tty series. Since he is a good friend of mine, and seeing how I hate ripping people off, I called off the deal.

Why is the FX series such a crappy series?

Thanks.
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ThFX series has some driver issues that affected image quality when it first launched, and people were very concerned about it's DX9 performance.

Whether the concerns were justified pretty much depended on how long you planned to keep the card, it took a year+ for big DX9 titles to start arriving.

By that time, the nV40 and R4XX had pretty much made the FX/R300 cards obsolete, but it can truly be said that a FX card is not what you want to play DX9 games.

They are fine for OGL and running DX9 games in DX8.1.

There you have it. Your friend is better off with his 9600XT, you could use an upgrade to a 6600GT.
 
Originally posted by: Rollo
Originally posted by: Lucifer
Why was the FX series so horrible? I have the FX 5600 Ultra 128mb 8x agp card. I was going to do a trade with a friend, but I found out the comp he is getting has the 9600 xt 128mb agp card, and I have been told that the FX series is such a sh!tty series. Since he is a good friend of mine, and seeing how I hate ripping people off, I called off the deal.

Why is the FX series such a crappy series?

Thanks.
Click to expand...

ThFX series has some driver issues that affected image quality when it first launched, and people were very concerned about it's DX9 performance.

Whether the concerns were justified pretty much depended on how long you planned to keep the card, it took a year+ for big DX9 titles to start arriving.

By that time, the nV40 and R4XX had pretty much made the FX/R300 cards obsolete, but it can truly be said that a FX card is not what you want to play DX9 games.

They are fine for OGL and running DX9 games in DX8.1.

There you have it. Your friend is better off with his 9600XT, you could use an upgrade to a 6600GT.
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Thanks for your great reply. I own a 6600GT. I had the 5600 ultra in my comp, before I upgraded to the 6600gt. I decided to upgrade after seeing the 5600 ultra could barely even run Halo! I thought Halo was an OGL game?? Anyways, I was trading the 5600 ultra for an LCD monitor he wanted to get rid of, and he wanted to remove the 9600 xt to put the 5600 ultra. But I told him the 9600 xt is going to be better.
 
The FX cards would be remebered as the best DX8.1 cards around if it wasn't for the fact that they supported DX9, and if ATI didn't have cards that were notably better when the FX came out then the FXs would have been considered great DX9 cards for their time as well. That is basicly it, there is nothing inherently bad about your 5600u; but like Rollo said, your firend is better off just keeping his 9600xt.
 
FX5900 OpenGL performance is superb and it's great at running Doom 3 for the most part. Yes, I want to get rid of it so that I can play the latest and greatest at full, but the card is great at what I need it for. Maybe I'll get a 6800 or 7800 AGP card if it comes out.

Other than that, it's your call.
 
It would be a good trade if your friend was a Linux user, but other than that, the 9600XT is going to be better than the 5600u.
 
I have a FX5900u and it's a great card. The FX series had some trouble at launch, but they are certainly not all bad cards.
 
Yeah, the shaders on the FX weren't too great. I had the FX5700U, and it was OK for games, up until Half-Life 2 came out. I was able to force DX9 in it, but it ran pretty slow and choppy. Not to mention that the FX5700U was bottlenecking my A64 system, so I upgraded to a 6800GT for a STEAL of $180 😀 back in January.
 
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