Which Card Is Better...

[SingaBoiy]

The ATI Radeon 8500 LE or the 9200 SE. I trying to get the best GFX card I can for $60 or less after shipping.

[Mr. Elmo]

uhh fx5200 beats both of those

[SingaBoiy]

Anything to back that up? And does anyone know of any good deals for a video card?

EDIT: Should also mention I am looking for atleast 128mb of ddr.

[tesco]

Originally posted by SingaBoiy@31 March 2004 - 17:31
Anything to back that up? And does anyone know of any good deals for a video card?

EDIT: Should also mention I am looking for atleast 128mb of ddr.

The 5200 beats them both in benchies as you can see in bigdawg's pinned Graphics Card Guide.

The 5200 also supports direct x 9 which is a plus over both of the other cards.

[SingaBoiy]

According to the first 2 bench marks, the 8500 beat the 5200 Ultra. The last 2 dont even have the 8500

[Mr. Elmo]

Originally posted by SingaBoiy@31 March 2004 - 23:07
According to the first 2 bench marks, the 8500 beat the 5200 Ultra. The last 2 dont even have the 8500

because the 8500 is quite old and has no dx 9 support , the 9200se also has no dx9 support and is on a 64bit memory bandwidth

[GrubMe]

I have a GFX5200 128M 8XAGP // $79.95 CDN
It works fine...
If you want to run complex games such as Call of Duty and etc.
Just to note that it won't run as smooth as you think, but okay enough to play.
CS, Warcraft 3, Starcraft, Max Payne 2 and etc. They run smooth. They can run up to 1048x767 resolution. Not accurate of the resolution but you know what I mean. The graphics card good for its price and card.