I have an NVIDIA FX5200, im waiting on my new system to come through and am deciding whether to take my 5200 card out of the old system and put it in the new system. My old system is pretty ancient, an old athlon 1.3 and K7 motherboard. Despite its age i love this computer it runs Halo pretty well especially over the lan. It runs BF: Desert Combat flawlessy. This is what im finding hard to understand. I read in a pc magazine that the 5200 card is pretty tragic and they feel sorry for anyone that owns one. That said that it wont even be able to handle directx 9.0 games, even though it claims it can. Are they really that bad, surely if it runs Halo pretty well on my old system, a 2500XP with a A7V8X Deluxe motherboard and half a gig of corsair should make it crank?

The same thing is said about my video card, a GeForce 4 MX440, "total crap!" they all scream, yet here are some of the games I run in full detail with great frame-rates: Unreal Tournament 2003 Battlefield 1942 Call of Duty Max Payne 2 Far Cry (demo) Vice City Hidden & Dangerous 2 (well, not QUITE full detail!) I often post about my card NOT being as crap as everyone says it is, but no-one believes me :-( Why are you asking the question? you've seen the proof for yourself, you have a good card. 'nuff said. I don't suffer from insanity, I embrace it.

Oh, you may want to know my system specs: Athlon Xp 2000+ @ 2.09 GHz Leadtek WinFast mobo 512 MB DDR 400 And yes, you will notice no end of improvement if you put it in your new machine, a totally new lease of life for it! : D I don't suffer from insanity, I embrace it.

BS u can run Far Cry demo on full settings when wit my specs i can only run it on medium settings to get a constant playable fps around 40 -------------------- Asus P4P800S mb P4 2.4Ghz (800Mhz) 1Gb DDR 400Mhz Ram Geforce FX 5600 128mb

i say keep your FX5200, i like mine, get good frame rates on all games, if you wanna be a picky b---tard get something new, im sure all the ATI fanboys will come out on this thread, i think the fx5200 while being a buget card, does the trick

What you and I call "playable" are clearly two different things LeFtBehinD. Where you look for 40 FPS (totally unnecessary) I look for 20. I don't suffer from insanity, I embrace it.

"BS u can run Far Cry demo on full settings when wit my specs i can only run it on medium settings to get a constant playable fps around 40" You see my point az82? non-believers all of them. I don't suffer from insanity, I embrace it.