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ajsimeon   11-26-2004 at 04:33:57 AM

Any suggestions? Also anybody selling any?

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pauldh   11-26-2004 at 04:46:29 AM
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Lets see, you, or someone you know, bought a "value" system with no AGP slot and Integrated Intel Extreme, right?

The top dogs as far as PCI graphics cards are GF FX5600, Radeon 9100, Radeon 9200 and FX5200. All will perform fairly similar with the first two taking honors by a little. The FX5600 is costly and rare, so finding a R9100 might be the best. More likely you will have to settle for a R9200 or FX5200. None will wow you, but will be far better than Intel Extreme.

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ajsimeon   11-26-2004 at 06:05:20 AM
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Haha, exactly on the "value" system. Got a great deal at Dell and got the Dimension 3000. Thanks for the reply. I will definitely look at the first two. Thanks!

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rx7000   11-26-2004 at 07:13:30 AM
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My brother bought a ghetto dell with no agp slot, we bought him the Radeon 9200 and were both suprised with its decent performance for a pci card, I highly recommend it, I highly unrecommend the Geforce 2 mx440 Pci.

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pauldh   11-26-2004 at 02:21:55 PM
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Don't stress over it if you can't find a R9100. If so great, but the R9200 and FX5200 even aren't far behind. Try to avoid "SE" or 64-bit versions. For instance, a 64MB Radeon 9200 is better than a 128MB 9200se. And a 128-bit FX5200 is better than a 64-bit one, reguardless of how many MB of ram they have.

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ajsimeon   11-28-2004 at 02:28:06 AM
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Is this any good for the price? GeForce FX 5200 Plus (PCI)128mb ram for $29.99 after rebates? What is a DVI-to-VGA Adapter?

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rx7000   11-28-2004 at 02:58:29 PM
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Good for price lol, its 30 dollars. Thats almost free.

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ajsimeon   11-30-2004 at 04:07:43 PM
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Ok well that plan didn't work. Now I'm choosing between a PNY Verto GeForce FX 5200 PCI 128MB and a XFX GEFORCE FX 5200 256MB PCI. Any recommendations? One negative on the PNY is that it is 2 vga slots instead of 1 vga + 1 dvi like I want. If anybody has any suggestions feel free to reply!

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pauldh   12-01-2004 at 02:03:41 AM
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More important than the amount of RAM(64MB, 128MB, 256MB) is the memory interface. If one of those is a 128-bit and one a 64-bit, get the 128-<b>bit</b> like <A HREF="http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProductDesc.asp?description=14-145-055&depa=1" target="_new">this 128MB one</A> or <A HREF="http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProductDesc.asp?description=14-145-087&depa=1" target="_new">this 256MB one</A>

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