Not sure which card to use!

[marc_howarth]

Hi there,

I'm not that clued up with gfx cards tbh! The one in my current system is a Nvidida Geforce FX5500 (zeus 5500) however when playing games and doing trickjump i can't make the higher fps.

I have been given a card by a mate but i'm not sure how good it is and i will be needing drivers aswell, from looking at the card i found it says Gigabyte R9200NF rev1:0. Correct me if i'm wrong but i guess that it's a Gigabyte Radeon 9200.

Is it worth changing the cards round at all??

Could someone point me in the right directions for the drivers??

Thanks a lot

marc

 

[wiggy]

I think you need to consider an upgrade, both those cards are dated and that they will struggle with most games, especially if you fancy playing some recent ones anyway. Here are the drivers though!
https://support.ati.com/ics/support/default.asp?deptID=894&task=knowledge&folderID=27

http://www.nvidia.com/object/winxp_2k_91.31.html

Note both are for xp, as you dont say your operating system
Hope this helps

 

[marc_howarth]

Yes I'm on XP, i know an upgrade is needed sooner rather than later however i'm strapped for cash atm, am i right in saying that there will not be much of a increase of fps in the 2 cards then?? I only really play one game and that is RTCW 1.0 so higher power GFX cards are not required

thanks for your helps

marc

 

[Xplo]

H there

The 5500 is faster by a good margin compared to the 9200. The FX5200 is about on par with the 9200.

If all you play is RTCW the 5500 should be fine right? I used to run RTCW on the following;

GF3 Ti200/500
and FX5200

And they both ran RTCW fine, quite good infact.

If not consider selling both cards. I sold my 5500 on a popular auction site for £27 last sunday. The 9200 should fetch £20ish. So your looking at £45 to spend on a newish card. That would get you in 9800Pro/6600GT/X800 (If your lucky) territory.

 

[marc_howarth]

Wow that sounds like a great idea!! Will have to do that ASAP

thanks for all the help

marc

 

[Xplo]

Nice one

Ebay is your best bet for selling, MM for the new card.

Good luck