is it true?

[melarcky]

welli have two questions about two different Nvidea cards first?
is it true that the Fx5200 doesnt have Dx 9.0 because i have a friend who keeps telling me this.
Also he keeps telling me that the 6xxx series doesnt have SM3.0 whihc is weird because i once owned a 6600 for a little bit and it said Sm 3.0
and i was wanting to reupgrade back to the 6600,6600gt or 6800Le?
but if they dont have Shader Mode 3.0 it will be usless in a year.

 

[Anoobis]

Your friend is wrong. The FX5200 does support DirectX 9.0. He can read about it here.

The 6600s do support SM 3.0. He can read about that here.

Edit: Unfortunately the 6600 series of cards will be obsolete within a year anyway. However, a 6600GT will compliment your system quite nicely and you can pick up an AGP for a reletively good price on eBay. The 6800s will not push much further than a year as well.

 

[jaguarskx]

The GeForce FX series were the first cards to hit the market with DirectX 9, but it was very poorly implemented. A bad design by nVidia.

The GeForce 6xxx series does have SM 3.0 as stated on thier website.

http://www.nvidia.com/page/pg_20040406350192.html

 

[Morph]

Google is your friend.

Features/Specifications:
GeForce FX5200 AGP Video Card

General Features:
nVidia GeforceFX 5200 Chipset
AGP 8x interface
256 MB DDR
350 MHz RAMDAC
4 pixels per clock engine
Support for DX 9.0 Pixel/Vertex Shader 2.0+
Z-correct bump-mapping.
Hardware-accelerated shadow effects with shadow buffers
Programmable matrix palette skinning
Keyframe animation
Custom lens effects: fish eye, wide angle, fresnel effects, water refraction


2D Rendering Engine Features:
Optimized for 32-, 24-, 16-, 15- and 8-bpp modes
True-color, 64x64 hardware cursor with alpha
Multi-buffering (double, triple or quad) for smooth animation and video playback


3D Rendering Engine Features:
4 pixels per clock rendering engine
128-bit, studio-quality floating point precision through the entire graphics pipeline
Native support for 128-bit floating point, 64-bit floating point and 32-bit integer rendering modes
Up to 16 textures per pass
Support for sRGB texture format for gamma textures
DirectX and S3TC texture compression


Operation Systems and API support:
Windows XP / 2000
Complete DirectX support, including DirectX 9.0 and lower
Full OpenGL 1.4 and lower


Connectors:
15-pin VGA
S-Video
DVI connector


Regulatory Approvals:
FCC
CE
C-Tick

 

[S7A88Y]

They all have SM 3.0 and DX 9.0 but please get a 7600GT at least, everything else is usless

 

[Heyyou27]

The FX5200 does not have Shader Model 3.0 support.

 

[pengwin]

what is this doing in the powersupplies/case forum........

 

[nukemaster]

The FX 5200, did/does have Direct X 9,however it also lacked the punch to run it at a good speed. Check out the VGA charts and u can see this. The card would tell a game "hey i'm DX9" and it would cut performance bad. in many cases the Geforce 4 Ti's kicked its a$$.

Bottom line it(5200) is DX9 and the 6600gt/ultra/kickass-edition(made it up..) are SM3 and are not a bad card for the price.

Hope this helps

 

[pengwin]

wait dont the older cards run DX 9.0c isnt that like a DX9 "emulation"