[AngelfireUk83]

I've seen this card in the price list to my local computer store there selling it for £45 is it worth the upgrade from a FX5200 for now till x-mas. If I buy this card I'm selling my FX5200 to my brother for his new PC as he's got onboard graphics at the moment. I'm after a small upgrade for now till nVidia release the AGP version of the 6800GS over here in the Uk.

[Blackmage]

i would keep that 5200FX until the GS AGP comes to the Uk can't be long now.

[AngelfireUk83]

Well there's that which I was waiting for but nVidia never release much on a product only to say it's coming to AGP flavour. I reckon it's either next month for the x-mas rush or maybe January for the sales hopefully soon.

[Apokalipse]

I was also thinking of getting one myself. I also have a 5200.
one of the reasons I'm looking at it, is that I've heard of some people softmodding them to a 6600.
if you can softmod them to a 6600, then I will really consider buying one within a week or 2.

[Careface]

Originally Posted by Apokalipse

I was also thinking of getting one myself. I also have a 5200.
one of the reasons I'm looking at it, is that I've heard of some people softmodding them to a 6600.
if you can softmod them to a 6600, then I will really consider buying one within a week or 2.

I was in the same boat as you, except mine was from a gf4mx4000 -> 6200.. a word of advise: dont buy the 6200 under the impression it will unlock, because there isnt a very high chance of it happening. My card has the extra pipes there, but wont unlock without a flash, which wont work for some reason (keeps telling me the BIOS are different so it cant flash.. i mean hello? the reason im flashing is because the BIOS are different lol).

Having said that, they are nice cheap cards, and even without softmod to 6600, they still OC well and can hit nice high fps with high settings, and a little eye candy (2xaf/2xaa). Id suggest buying as a temp upgrade if you absolutely needed to, or else I would just wait it out and get a 6600GT or better, which arent that much more expensive

Careface*

[Apokalipse]

what flash program did you try?
I've heard of a program called Uniflash, which does practically everything. video cards, motherboards, PCI cards...

[AngelfireUk83]

My FX5200 can play most of my games really well I played Dungeon Siege on it graphics where really good but started to get sluggish when to many things where on screen. A.K.A enemies, background drawing like really far away trees and my own characters. But I've read about the XFX 6200 good memory and core speed problems is there 64bit memory bandwidth compared to my FX5200 128bit.

[Apokalipse]

yeah, the FX-5200 is descent. it even runs Doom 3 fairly well (especially being an Nvidia card) but it doesn't always give the framerates I want.

although sometimes my CPU does limit things (Athlon XP 2800+). like if I play with at least 5-6 hard enemies in Generals (yes, I still play that) it often gets pretty slow.

[bignick]

I would suggest waiting until the GS comes out or get a 6600GT you are wasting your money on a 6200. My 2 cents. I'm sure the GT has come down in price in the UK as it has in the US.

[AngelfireUk83]

I used to play C&C Generals/Zero Hour the game played well with sort of medium settings. The Nuke's mushroom cloud caused alot of slowness when it detonated if it was on screen if I moved away it went back to normal speed. The 6600GT 128mb is still £115 in the Uk a 6600 will cost around £85 the Uk always seems to get the best cards last thus the 6800GS.

[Apokalipse]

my Generals settings are 1600x1200 with low/turned off everything else, except for behind buildings.

and yeah it runs CS:S too, but on really low settings (640x480, noAA, noAF, low details)
I want to run on higher settings so yeah.
maybe I will just get the 6600 GT or even 6800 GS (if I can get one in AGP)

[Acidburn]

it runs CS:S too, but on really low settings

hmm i dont have torun my 5200 that low

[Apokalipse]

what's your CPU?
and what drivers?

I've got an XP 2800+ and using 81.85 XG drivers

[AngelfireUk83]

Careface looking at your 6200 speeds for a 400+ core and 600+ memory it's very tempting from a 250/300 speeds on my FX5200. I could just buy it the 6200 even if it can't be unlocked (never tried and never will) and then wait till the 6800GS hits Uk shores and is main stream. Then sell the 6200 to my brother he's using a GeForce4 MX440 64mb card so the upgrade to him would mean alot.

[Acidburn]

Originally Posted by Apokalipse

what's your CPU?
and what drivers?

I've got an XP 2800+ and using 81.85 XG drivers

before the cpu fan quit and fried my cpu i had this

Athlon XP 2000+@2ghz
Nvidia Gforce FX 5500 256mb 323 core 470 memory

i was using an older driver per someones suggestion

pretty sure it was 71.84 but not positive

if you were to do a search on the DOD forums(www.dayofdefeatmod.com) theres a post on using that driver its DOD:S oriented but alot of it will be useful on CS:S

i pretty much could run things on medium with alot of the effects shut off
no AA or anything like that turned on either

the water in DOD:S looks like real water even on my card and i got close to 60 fps

[AngelfireUk83]

I've come across this version of the 6200 it's from ASUS http://www.dabs.com/ProductView.aspx...lectedId=11137 and it's the 6200GE Dabs.com says it has 128bit bus width for an extra £20. Over the one from my local store which has 64bit bus width would this version be worth buying till I can get the 6800GS next year.

Or should I buy a standard 6600 128mb for now It's really confusing cause basically if I get either a 6200 or 6600 I'm upgrading the grapchic engine quite alot over a FX5200.