Mau1wurf1977 wrote:
Hmm the GT520 is really a media centre card, not that recommended for playing games. And it's very new. For XP I would really start off with some second hand cards like the ones I listed. Or even older ones.
Because the thing is for a GT520 there aren't any old drivers, the card is way to new...
The Nvidia GT520 has more then enough muscle for anything I care to throw at it. It should be similar to the AMD HD6450 which already proved to give me enough FPS.
I won't buy any Nvidia Geforce 6, 7 or 8 series card again. As I had my fill with their solder overheating issue. For anything later: I agree the drivers are new and one should expect problems with certain older games. Still, I haven't tried the newer Nvidia cards and drivers myself yet.
My AMD HD5450 was installed temporarely in the Sandy Bridge PC for testing: I was quite happy with the stability and compatibility, using the the latest driver v12-1. This again proved me the HD6450, which I returned to the shop, was defective. Even though the shop says it behaves perfectly fine on their test system.
I bought the exact same HD6450 model from another shop, to avoid getting that bad specimen back. And hope the new one will behave as well as the HD5450 when it arrives.