FX5200

[GeneticWeapon]

I was at Fry's and Best Buy today, trying to find a digital camera. Both stores had FX 5200 non ultra's from BFG and others. Prices ranged from $100 to $110 dollars US....I thought they were supposed to be $79 dollars!, what a joke. Fry's had Gainward Golden Sample Ti4200's for $119 dollars, not to bad, Visiontek 9100's for $60 dollars, A freakin' Gigabyte 9000Pro Gold for $130 dollars..it was pretty with gold ramsinks and gold HSF, but still, it was a 9000Pro!....prices are all wacky these days. MX440's are under $50 bucks, which is where they shoulda begun at. BBA 9700Pro's are still $350 bucks, and the Visiontek 9800Pro's are sitting right next to them for $400 bucks.

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[GeneticWeapon]

I just read benchmark results on the B3D forums showing the 64mb Xabre400 beating the 128mb FX 5200 by as much as 16 FPS....

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[selfbuilt]

I think the now-infamous $79 card refers to the heavily crippled 64MB version. The 128MB non-ultras seem to be in $110 US range, which still seems a little high to me since I can get a 128MB sapphire 9000 Pro or a 9100 around here for about $85 US (which is in and of itself a little strange, given the superior performance of the 9100).

From what people have been posting on some forums, the FX5200 non-ultra seems to underperform or just hold its own with the 9000Pro in non-AA/AF modes, although it beats it with AA/AF turned on, naturally. But the 9100 is a lot faster on non-AA/AF, and definitely a lot cheaper around here.

Wish I could find those Ti4200s that cheap around here ... even the 64MB versions still cost at least $130 US. Ah well, I guess my kids will have to live with their GeF2 Ti's a little longer

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[TKH]

although it beats it with AA/AF turned on, naturally. But the 9100 is a lot faster on non-AA/AF

Sounds very familiar... hmmm.


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[cleeve]

Keep in mind, these are release prices. They will fall alot in the next 4 months or so.

But why would you want to buy Nvidia anyway...

 

[eden]

Yeah, my local shop is selling FX5200s (labeled without PRO which leaves me wondering where are they and have they been cancelled or even fused into the original non-PRO name?) for nearly the price of a Ti4200! Stupid, a lie from nVidia, and a bad one.

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[Twitch]

Look, it costs a lot of money to be able to run DX9.0 badly. Ok?


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