02-25-09, 07:53 AM
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Which is the best card of these 2?
Hi all,
I have 2 nvidia agp cards. 1 is a Geoforce 5200 with 512mb of ram 1 is a Geoforce 5500 with 256mb of ram I know the 2nd card is the newer of the 2 but the 1st one has twice as much memory. Of the 2 which is the best card/should give the best performance? Cheers, toe |
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02-25-09, 09:27 AM
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Re: Which is the best card of these 2?
Second one, they both suck. Don't expect to play games.
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02-26-09, 01:30 AM
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Re: Which is the best card of these 2?
Half Life 1 and Quake 2 is as far as you will be able to go gaming wise i think.....
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02-26-09, 02:06 AM
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Re: Which is the best card of these 2?
The 5500 is "faster" but I use that term very loosely. The 5600 was a terrible card 6 years ago and its much faster than the 5500 and 5200.
Don't bother trying to play any games made after 2001. Either of them should be fine as a general desktop card (for windows XP... probably not Vista) but I don't recommend putting yourself through the pain of using either for 3D gaming.
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03-26-09, 12:58 AM
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Re: Which is the best card of these 2?
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Having had a Gateway Profile5 PC with an 5500 256MB daughter card(AGP interface, think it was a laptop card used for profile machines aswell), it played quite a few games just fine that were made after 2001. DDO(DnD Online), WOW(Come on, this game will run on a GF4MX for crying out loud), Farcry. I could go on, but you get my point I hope. I wouldn't expect to use monster settings for most games, but it shouldn't have 2 much trouble playing a good number of them.
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