toy OCing FX5200!!!

hahahahah! awesome. that was my first vid card in my very first build! an old school socket a barton 400fsb, the asus k7 top of the line board, and a gainward fx5200. that was fun, and worked pretty good! i have a server i want to build and it has an oldie but goodie 9600xt. wonder what that can do?

WOW it was not only me playing with old toys!!
that cooling is awsome , what tems are you getting?
i tried other games, found out that i OCed too much, there were crashes every 5minutes.. so i lowered it to 290/420 STABLE
when mem was at 440, i touched that mem on the card, and it was so hot. and i touched cpu heatsink, the memory was hotter than the cpu!! so i quickly lowered it.

only 40core, 20mem 16%core, 5%mem not very much....
compared to my 2600pro, ICEQ 25%core, 15%mem stable

i still have barton in my old pc with fx5200
Athlon Xp 3200+ @2.2Ghz 400FSb this was the best cpu at that time..

I have been screwing with a

WinFast A380 aka 5950ultra... its seems about half as fast as a 6600GT. I have that plugged into a gigabyte board with a AMD 2100xp

I also screwed with a MSI MX440 the other day.

haha, i remember OCing my first fx5200. i wanted to play CC:Generals so bad and my gf2 64MB couldnt handle that well so I upgraded to a fx5200. WHAT AN UPGRADE!!!
At least I was able to play at 1024/7 . After OC it was a bit smoother at higher setting...They never OCed well.

my fx5200 only has heat sink, i put a 80mm fan and tied to the heat sink by using paper clips, dont go higher than 50C with OC

When the AXP 3200+ came out, there was no better CPU, at least for gaming.

At the time, the best intel was no match, when it came to gaming. Maybe for other things, like synthetic benchmarks and encoding stuff. And those things were probably only marginally better.

when i first got that AXP 3200+, i loved it, i could do everything with it.
all OCing people, is it okay if you write your clocks?

dude, there were the 2500-m series chips that could hit high overclock, well for their day, and could out-game the 3200+. i am sorry if i made anyone upset bout calling their current puter old school. i have came a long way from my first build in 03. but yeah, that stuff was still good to play wow on, the 5700le (flashed to ultra) played wow a ton better than what my buddy had before, but still nothing compared to anyhitng today. i kinda wish i still had my first puter, but i got a decent one and that broke so i upgraded...stupid asrock! anyways, rock on with the older parts, its good times!

Between a fx5200 and a 6200, the former has actually some potential: while the chip itself is 'sh*t', the DDR2 RAM is accessed through a 128-bit bus (the 6200 only has a 64-bit bus). OC'ing the core and not the RAM does make some sense; the 6200 is clocked pretty high already, so it doesn't o/c well - and is anyway memory limited.

An fx5200 is a nice toy to fiddle with, but it's only a toy - a 'stock' Ati 9600 cleans its clock violently.