I need some advice on a gfx card.. I have been offered a "New" still in its box Nvidia GeForce FX 5200 128mb gfx card for $55.00AUD. Now my wife wants to get this card for me but before she spends the money on it she would like to know is it a good card, good for 3d work and does it have openGL...you know what gfx cards need for doing 3d work.

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Er, no, it's not a Quadro. It's a generation before the last. Not top of the line, more somewhere towards the bottom. Nvidia calls it "mainstream", which means ... well, a bit of playing, a bit of film, a bit of office work. Nothing much. Here's a review at Beyond 3D, from when the card appeared. And one from Hardware Zone. "Cinematic computing for the masses," the latter says. A quick check discovered XpertVision FX 5200 in a shop for $57.99, and a ton of other 5200s in another shop for $69-$215. (Just enter FX 5200 in the box.) Of course, Australian. And you probably get a warranty, too. I'm far from certain whether I would change my GeForce 2 Ti 64MB for a 5200. FX 5900 would be another matter. :-)

My destiny, a number of PS.'s. :-) All the Nvidia cards are pretty good with OpenGL. And you can use the latest drivers with it. Just go to nvidia.com and download it. But I still wouldn't take the card unless mine is something quite weak, like an old on-board video card or something very old.

@marc, thanks mate i looked at those links and got confused. Think what i should have asked is would that card be better than the Radeon 9600 i'm using at the moment :) @Erlik i may still grab the card and if my Radeon is better than it the wife can have the Nvidia in her pc instead of the 64mb card she is using at the moment.

Though I don't like Radeons and ATI in general, I think that 9600 is a better card than 5200, at least on paper (it should be in real use, too). Check the raw characteristics. And check whether your wife's PC can accept the card - speed of AGP, that is.

Hey CD, I'm using the lower version, 9550 and its all been working OK with Open GL. mind you, I do have it as an AGP card as my mother board already has the graphics built in.

i have an ati that rolls along fine in ut2004 with all settings at max , so id say stick with your old card and get the wife to buy a new neglige as present. ;P

I use an FX5200 card and have been very happy with it. Not sure what the going price is for them at the moment as I've had mine quite a while. It wasn't a particularly expensive card even then but it seems to do the job.