fast video card

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Whats the fastest card a nvidia 5200, radeon 9200 128MB, radeon 9250 128MB
or radeon 9250 256MB?

The 9250 are new and I can't find any comparisons with the 9200.

Its for an old computer with only PCI slots.
 
5200 is a bit faster than the 9200 I think, so more of a tie with 5200 and
9250 IMO. I dont know the statistics with the 9250, but I am assuming that
it is faster. Obviously you dont want to do hardcore gaming here, so both
cards are fine.
 
M Berki said:
Whats the fastest card a nvidia 5200, radeon 9200 128MB, radeon 9250 128MB
or radeon 9250 256MB?

The 9250 are new and I can't find any comparisons with the 9200.

Its for an old computer with only PCI slots.
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Might work out more efficient to buy a new motherboard that has graphics on
board. This opens up your options for the future - could put in an AGP card,
maybe more memory, maybe a faster processor. I don't know the prices of the
cards you are looking at, but maybe worth investigating?!? Any old board
that has only PCI cards, must be pretty slow by modern standards, so this
might speed everything up a bit for you.
 
Gareth Tuckwell said:
Might work out more efficient to buy a new motherboard that has graphics
on board. This opens up your options for the future - could put in an AGP
card, maybe more memory, maybe a faster processor. I don't know the prices
of the cards you are looking at, but maybe worth investigating?!? Any old
board that has only PCI cards, must be pretty slow by modern standards, so
this might speed everything up a bit for you.
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Not all motherboards are old with only PCI slots, any motherboard with on
board graphics won't have an AGP slot. My brother recently had problems
trying to run the latest thief game (Thief Deadly Shadows) on a Dell
Dimension less than a year old but bought a PCI Radeon 9200 128MB and can
now run the game fine.
 
Whats the fastest card a nvidia 5200, radeon 9200 128MB, radeon 9250 128MB
or radeon 9250 256MB?

The 9250 are new and I can't find any comparisons with the 9200.

Its for an old computer with only PCI slots.
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Depending on how "old" this box is, it may not matter much
which card is fastest, the system may bottleneck it enough
that the best choice is the cheapest card, or putting the $
towards a newer system and/or motherboard/CPU/etc upgrade if
performance is important. Then again "old" is relative,
some people call a Dell 2GHz server "old".

Keep in mind that with a power hungry PCI card you'll be
placing higher demand on the power supply... some old boxes
with aged power supplies may not POST anymore after adding a
new video card.
 
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