VisionTek Xtasy 5332 GeForce2 MX200 (PCI) for 29.99 @ CompUSA

[MJ99]

i am considering getting this card for a pc i'm building for my wife. the main uses would be for office, pint shop/master apps and browsing. a few other things but no real taxing 3d games. what kind of preformance can i expect? seems like it might be a good card under these conditions.

tia

 

[Muddauber]

Even though this Geforce has relatively sucky memory bandwidth in comparison to its siblings, it still does handy job of decoding DVDs on the fly.

Worth $30 IMO.

I snagged the AGP version, BTW thanks for letting me know the AGP rebate is on the CompUSA website.

 

[Racketear]

I am not too involved in this, but why would they they say minimum requirements. The olny reason I see is that it needs the kni instruction supllied with the 3dnow chips, or the p2mmx. There was a huge difference in the amount of instructions from the Pentium mmx and the PII mmx. That is the onyl reason I can think of because it also requires the k6-2 and not the good ol k6. Must be something required in the multimedia instructions to run the drivers. Also if this isn't a pci (wich it sounds like) card your sol. Most PI motherboards don't support agp.

 

[Souka]

<< Wow, I didn't know ANYONE made a PCI card with the GeForce 2 chipset, but obviously (based on the illustration) this company gave it a try. >>



Acutally there's a number of PCI Geforce2 MX cards solutions out there. I have a GF2Mx PCI from creative....use it in my laptop's docking station to play games at work.

 

[indd]

my friend has one of these cards in his AMD K6-2 300mhz system .. 96 mb of ram and it ran unreal tournament pretty well at both 16 and 32-bit (640x480 of course, but it was still pretty playable).

indd

 

[manly]

Racketear,

A lot of times, software will list arbitrary system requirements, but in theory you it would "run" under a 386 w/ Windows 95 and 8 MB RAM.

Sometimes, the requirements are important, as the publisher doesn't want a user running a game on a machine that's too darn old, for example.

Other times, the opposite effect happens. To try and attract as many customers as possible, the system reqs might be P166/16 RAM. The app will run, but it runs like a dog. It all depends on the software.

As far as KNI (isn't this the SSE instructions?), unless I'm wrong, the earliest P3's didn't have these new instructions. And the K6-2 never had them at all.

In this case, I think the listed requirements are more to target the computers that could benefit from the product, than incompatibility.

Most people who slapped a GF2 MX card into their Pentium systems (assuming it works) would find little performance benefit, and then think that the product is either defective or lousy.

 

[Technogeek]

As far as PCI or AGP..They dont seem to have this one in AGP On thier website,,
Click retail products (on the upper left) and then you will see no option for the Xtasy? 5332 AGP.

 

[Popup]

If you have a friend or relative over 65 buy this for you you can save another 10% with the senior citizen discount. That would make the total around $23.