the 9600 and 5200 preform about the same. Nope, the FX 5200 was inferior when it comes to SM 2.0 stuff that was introduced in DX9. nVidia did really cheat with the drivers during this moment, with games looking worse as a result. The main reason why people currently GeForce FX cards is because it …

Congrats :) Fixing your GF 256 DDR is great news. If you currently run Pentium III on VIA chipset, then it is very likely a bottleneck. In 3dMark99 especially. For example on 2 GHz Athlon XP I got 11000 points. Yeah thanks a lot for pointing at the ram being faulty. Crazy how a little defect like …

Maybe you should try a driver from the era of your Mobo? Sometimes the latest drivers are buggy for win98.

Okey guys, after reading your comment that something must be defective I inspected the card. I found on the front memory chip, first on the left, right top corner some traces were blurred out and making bridges. I reflowed the traces with some flux and now the card is seeing 32mb, and windows detect …

Hello all, First post here after reading this forum for a long time. There is so much information on here that helped me solve problems and fine tune my builds... I just bought a whole lot of cards for next to nothing. Among those, there was a GeForce 256 DDR and it seems really weird to me. Can you …