eVGA FX5200 128-bit or Albatron FX 5200 ???

improwise · **eVGA FX5200 128-bit or Albatron FX 5200 ??? -** 10-05-2004, 13:59 | posts: 22

http://www.newegg.com/app/Showimage....130-151-07.JPG
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http://www.newegg.com/app/Showimage....170-024-05.JPG

10-06-2004, 00:04 | posts: n/a

how about niether.dude u will be very disatisfied with that 5200.i got 1 lookin at it as we speak figuring if i should crush it,break it in half or throw it away.i fell for that same trick.Geforce FX.its no where near the 5900 series.dude if u can atleast get a 5700 with 128bit mem dont be fooled into 64bit ram.a powercolorcolor 9800se is fast but make sure that has 256bit mem.u can mod it into a 9800xt easy

improwise · 10-06-2004, 11:48 | posts: 22

Ati doesn''t work for me!
http://www.bionicfx.com/ will explain why

AlecRyben · 10-06-2004, 12:38 | posts: 7,781 | Location: Utopia Planitia, Mars

Get a GeForce4 Ti 4600/4800 then. It's not DX 9 capable (DX 8.1 only), but you wont be able to use DX 9 with those 5200 POS anyway, and the Ti4800 will kick some serious 3Dbutt (it's even faster than 5700 in DX 8.1)...

10-06-2004, 17:56 | posts: n/a

yup it sure is.actully a ti if faster than any fx car exept 4900 an up

AlecRyben · 10-07-2004, 11:40 | posts: 7,781 | Location: Utopia Planitia, Mars

Eh, you should've told us you are not interested in graphics performance, but an floating point processor acceleration for audio work.
As i suggested in the other thread, get a 68XX card for that (or at least a 5900/5950) . You need all the shading performance you can get since shading = floating point performance.

I bet they don't support ATI because of the lack of 32 bit precission (ATI has 24bit)

improwise · 10-07-2004, 13:20 | posts: 22

What if I get 5900 and softmod to quatro
What is the deferance between Quadro and 5900 floting point wise?

AlecRyben · 10-08-2004, 02:43 | posts: 7,781 | Location: Utopia Planitia, Mars

It's practicaly the same thing - the only thing that's different is the way the drivers work -> for a Quadro GPU they are defaulting to precision & quality, for a GeForce GPU they are defaulting to low precision for performance.

improwise · 10-08-2004, 05:37 | posts: 22

thanks Alec
I will stick with the fx 5200 to quadro cause audio FX don't use a lot of cpu power.
This UAD card wich coasts $777 is very old PCI fraphic card and still handles a lot of FX.

one question though

When I soft mod FX 5200 to quadro,can I use the dual display option the same as the quadro?Divide screen and stuff like that?
best regards

AlecRyben · 10-08-2004, 11:33 | posts: 7,781 | Location: Utopia Planitia, Mars

Someone else will have to answer that - i am not into dual screens myself since it tends to kill performance. I only use the video overlay mirror feature from time to time in order to watch DVD's on my DVI enabled TV.

10-10-2004, 01:30 | posts: n/a

i got a 5200FX for that music thing it pci 64bit. i think it will be fast enogh for audio