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_giorgos   06-15-2008 at 04:34:54 PM

Hello guys!
I have an old P4 2.0 GHz with 1 gb of ram and an Ati AIW 8500DV but
lately i have serious problems with every graphical gui in windows and i think that the card is broken.
Take a look here
http://i293.photobucket.com/albums/mm79/geocha/th_MOV00189.jpg
I would like to buy one,new or used from ebay for 30 euros and found the nVIDIA GEFORCE FX5200

Any good?
Any other suggestion plz?

Thank you in advance!

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dagger   06-15-2008 at 04:50:18 PM
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http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] 6814102726

 

A hd3650 is about as far as you can go without the old p4 severely bottlenecking it. Price is in US $, within budget with current conversion rates, but prices may be different where you live.

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Groo   06-15-2008 at 04:56:28 PM
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geforce 5 series sort of blows. my 5900xt defineatly failed to impress.

if all you want is to surf the net, your safe, but otherwise keep looking.

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DiscoDuck   06-15-2008 at 05:02:43 PM
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fx5200 is good card unless you play games. I personally like Ati for 2D graphics.

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_giorgos   06-15-2008 at 05:28:35 PM
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i hope that the problem is only the graphic card and nothing else.
Did you see my video?

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Groo   06-15-2008 at 05:55:30 PM
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thought thats was just a fuzzy screenshot.

the video problem was the slow windows performance I take it.

looks like you may be using your paging file excessivly.

go to task manager and look at your memory and CPU usage.
if either is maxed out on the desktop, you might have a virus or something.

I'd try a fresh windows install before buying anything

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godless   06-15-2008 at 06:14:22 PM
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hd 3850 agp is the best agp card out there. if you wanna get that go ahead. but your processor is most likley gonna bottleneck it.

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sprucebr1   06-15-2008 at 06:15:13 PM
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I would mention the HD 3850, which is available in AGP, though maybe not considering that it may not go to well with the P4 2GHz. There's the lower end stuff from AMD, HD 2400,2600,36XX etc. that might make a big difference with this machine.

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dagger   06-15-2008 at 06:26:17 PM
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sprucebr1 wrote :

I would mention the HD 3850, which is available in AGP, though maybe not considering that it may not go to well with the P4 2GHz. There's the lower end stuff from AMD, HD 2400,2600,36XX etc. that might make a big difference with this machine.

 


 

That's no good. 3850 will be severely bottlenecked by the P4. Not to mention far exceed his budget.


Message edited by dagger on 06-15-2008 at 06:26:35 PM
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_giorgos   06-15-2008 at 06:34:39 PM
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Groo wrote :

thought thats was just a fuzzy screenshot.

the video problem was the slow windows performance I take it.

looks like you may be using your paging file excessivly.

go to task manager and look at your memory and CPU usage.
if either is maxed out on the desktop, you might have a virus or something.

I'd try a fresh windows install before buying anything



I scanned the pc and no virus was found.
My pagefile is 1500 and 3000 (sort of)
Sometimes everything work perfect

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Groo   06-15-2008 at 06:38:58 PM
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I'd still suggest a complete HDD wipe and reinstall before buying a new vid card.

it should be done every so often anyways as maintenance.

little errors build and build, until you have a real mess.

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