I take it you are looking for more information than GeForce FX 5200?

Either way it looks like a very low end card.

paradigital wrote on 2025-12-13, 15:32:

I take it you are looking for more information than GeForce FX 5200?

Either way it looks like a very low end card.

oh? i thought its a someting like geforce4. thanks.

Yes, FX5200 - moreover looks like 64bit memory interface, so you dont want it.

These make great "expendable" cards.
For testing in that unknown MB in case something lets the magic smoke out.
And if something goes pop no one will cry over a broken FX 5200 =)

Low-end nvidia's graphic card, but nice caps ^^ !
https://vgamuseum.ru/gpu/nvidia/nvidia-geforce-fx5200/

bofh.fromhell wrote on 2025-12-13, 19:04:

These make great "expendable" cards.
For testing in that unknown MB in case something lets the magic smoke out.
And if something goes pop no one will cry over a broken FX 5200 =)

It is not so bad card, if it has 128bit memory and is intended for W98 games - DX7 or max. DX8. For DX9 was weak and slow.

Haustor wrote on 2025-12-13, 19:53:

Low-end nvidia's graphic card, but nice caps ^^ !
https://vgamuseum.ru/gpu/nvidia/nvidia-geforce-fx5200/

I've seen those caps blow open like popcorn.

Looks like hybrid poly-elyt.

Yeah, it's an FX5200.

It's missing its heatsink, though, so you can't run it as-is. Need to find a cooler for it. It doesn't have to be anything fancy - just look at what other similar nVidia cards of the era used (e.g. other FX5200/5500, MX 440/460, TI 4200, and etc.)

Are there more memory chips on the back of the card? If yes, that would make it a 128-bit card. Otherwise, it's 64-bit memory bus.

These are not terrible cards for old Win95/98 retro builds meant for DX7 and DX8 games, as Ydee mentioned. Actually, I like these quite a bit, since they are cheap and abundant, yet still provide relatively good performance in old games - even the 64-bit versions with slow RAM. Anything up to year 2000 should play nicely and with decent FPS and resolutions. Beyond 2001-2002 is where games will quickly start to feel slow. That being said, MX 440 and 460 will usually provide better performance under DX7. The FX5200 isn't that far behind either, though, so that's why I like it too.

Ydee wrote on 2025-12-14, 10:23:

Looks like hybrid poly-elyt.

No, these are just regular electrolytic caps, but without sleeves.

Lostdotfish wrote on 2025-12-13, 21:53:

I've seen those caps blow open like popcorn.

Only Sacon FZ will absolutely do this every time.
These aren't Sacon FZ (you'll know by the "FZ##" text typically written on them.)

That said, these might not be the best quality either. But I doubt they will give any problems. Notice that there is not a single power inductor on the card. This means there are no buck-regulated rails, which in turn means both GPU V_core and RAM voltages are generated by linear regulators. These hardly put any stress on the caps... perhaps except for external thermal stress (since linear regulators dissipate heat equal to the difference between their input and output voltages times the current that passes through them... so can be a few Watts, which is not insubstantial). Aside from that, the linear regs aren't too picky about the input/output caps, so often they will work even if the caps become degraded quite badly.
In short, you probably won't have issues with this card.