I actually have an AGP Radeon 9200 AIW just sitting here on my desk. I haven't bothered to test it however. I can attest to the quality of the Radeon 9000 though, I used a 128MB model as my main video card for a few years in a 2.4GHz Pentium 4 Prescott box, and my dad won a few 64MB models in an ebay auction, most of which I placed in various Pentium II and III systems.

STX wrote:

Yeah. This system needs something like this:
http://cgi.ebay.com/261311400421
(That link goes to an ATI Radeon 9250 PCI for sale for about $5.)

If they weren't so hard to find, a Radeon 9100 PCI or GeForce FX5600 PCI would be even better with the GeForce being the best, but harder to find, of the two.

How does the FX5600 compare to the 5500 and the 5200? I remember the 5200 being a pretty lousy card, and the 5500 is only a slight bit better. 🤣

mr_bigmouth_502 wrote:

How does the FX5600 compare to the 5500 and the 5200? I remember the 5200 being a pretty lousy card, and the 5500 is only a slight bit better. 🤣

The FX5600 is worlds away from the 5200 and 5500. It's about 30% faster than the 5200 and about 22% faster than the 5500. That's enough to make some DX9 features available at lower resolutions that the 5200 and 5500 choke on. The FX5600 is even a little bit faster than the 6200 but without breaking backwards compatibility that nvidia started doing with the GeForce 6 family.

i ran HP2 on my laptop which is a 16mb geforce 2 go. it's JUST playable/almost smooth.

sliderider wrote:

mr_bigmouth_502 wrote:

How does the FX5600 compare to the 5500 and the 5200? I remember the 5200 being a pretty lousy card, and the 5500 is only a slight bit better. 🤣

The FX5600 is worlds away from the 5200 and 5500. It's about 30% faster than the 5200 and about 22% faster than the 5500. That's enough to make some DX9 features available at lower resolutions that the 5200 and 5500 choke on. The FX5600 is even a little bit faster than the 6200 but without breaking backwards compatibility that nvidia started doing with the GeForce 6 family.

So it wouldn't be that bad of a card for a Pentium 4 build then. How does it compare to ATI's offerings from around the same time?

mr_bigmouth_502 wrote:

sliderider wrote:

mr_bigmouth_502 wrote:

How does the FX5600 compare to the 5500 and the 5200? I remember the 5200 being a pretty lousy card, and the 5500 is only a slight bit better. 🤣

The FX5600 is worlds away from the 5200 and 5500. It's about 30% faster than the 5200 and about 22% faster than the 5500. That's enough to make some DX9 features available at lower resolutions that the 5200 and 5500 choke on. The FX5600 is even a little bit faster than the 6200 but without breaking backwards compatibility that nvidia started doing with the GeForce 6 family.

So it wouldn't be that bad of a card for a Pentium 4 build then. How does it compare to ATI's offerings from around the same time?

The only thing that you can really compare it to would be the Radeon 9500 but that is AGP only while the FX5600 can be had in PCI (if you can find one, LoL!). I've been searching for a PCI version for a long time. If you have an AGP motherboard, there are better options than the FX5600 available.

Update:This PC has been downgraded a bit for more retro:
CPU:Pentium 2 350MHz (stock,I even checked the MHz written on it)
Motherboard:Luckystar 6BX2 v1.0 (not PCChips or ECS,this one has really good caps compared to those companies 😜)
Memory:384MB RAM (3x128,even though one of the sticks is actually a 512MB double sided PC133 RAM pulled off a HP e-pc,and this board I have recognizes only 128MB of all the 512MB)
Video:ATI Radeon 7000 32MB(AGP)
Network:IBM Etherjet
Soundcard:SB16 Value (CT2770,uses a simple OPL chip,not OPL3)
ODD:2 CD-ROM drives
PSU:400W ATX Delux PSU
Case:Black/Silver Delux MT375 (ATX too)
HDD:Same
The motherboard is by the way AT,but has a connector for 20 pin ATX too.i got it for 10 bucks with the CPU and a 128MB RAM stick.