Reply 40 of 53, by candle_86
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wrote:The FX 5200 is the worst card ever. I got scammed into getting it once when one of the big box stores was selling it with 256MB vram for cheap. The PCI version is literally on par with many of Intel's GMA graphics chips built into motherboards, it's that terrible. As long as you don't use it for gaming, it's OK I guess.
Actully funnily enough me and my friends played farcry back in 05 at lans, I had an FX5200 back then, and with all settings at medium, forced DX9B the FX5200 would not render the water correctly making it 100% transparent for me on any map, meaning i could accuratly shoot anyone swimming, was a big advantage on maps like surf 🤣[/quote]
Almost everyone I knew had an FX5200 in their setup. I was slightly less unlucky and had an FX5500. The bright side is that I feel better knowing that I wasn't the only one tricked into buying one thinking it was a powerful card because of the high video memory.[/quote]
Funny story my buddy convinced me to trade him video cards, he had the FX5200 first, and I had a Ti 4200. He convinced me that the FX 5200 was giving him problems with compatibility on his board because his board didn't support AGP 8x, and that the FX 5200 had DX9 and was way faster than my old Ti 4200. After that trade I determined to learn gaming hardware, before then I was more interested in just tweaking windows than games and gaming hardware. I never let that kind of thing happen again, but I was cursed from then on with FX 5200's 🤣