I remember when an old boss of mine "upgraded" from a Ti4600 to a FX5200. I told him that was a step backwards, he was like, "the number is bigger, it has to be faster..."

"Terrible piece of silicon" are you sure they didn't used recycled milk bottles

I can relate to this video, especially "buying the FX5200 and finding if it's a good one when you get back home" part - I've spent my hard teenage savings on crappy 64-Bit version of 5200 that came in a super shiny box, but couldn't run anything decently. Trauma for life.

You know a card is beyond terrible when it's worse than the built-in graphics it's supposed to replace...

GT 210 : Finally, a worthy opponent

Actually I had one 14 years ago and I loved it because it could play NFS 2002-2005 games, GTA Vice City, Counter-Strike...etc Before it I had a GeForce2 MX200 which is way worse lol Of course I was a kid and I didn't know anything about PCs hahaha Love the video btw ♥

So I actually have a pile of the PCI version of these, and they're fantastic for one thing - windows 98 support in computers with no AGP slot. They're one of the fastest PCI cards that still has driver support for 98 :)

Damn, the FX5200 can barely run Morrowind and then you have 11 year old me playing Oblivion on it. Yes, it was terrible.

15:04 FX5200 shedding a single tear while being dissed

The moment he shorts the startup pins with a usb stick really got me

I had one of these :( all I can say is, owning one really made the upgrade to the 6600GT seem so, so, sweet

Well, don't forget Apple found a way to help Nvidia get rid of their FX5200 stock by shipping them as standard in many models of their Power Mac G5 towers.

hmmmm nvidia and memory bandwidth starving..... where have we seen that repeated *stares at gt 1030*

Also there are different variants of the FX 5200 and they are: *FX 5200 LE (The worst variant)* •128 MB DDR 64-bit •NV34 A2 •4 ROPs / 4 TMUs / 4 Pixel Shaders •GPU Clock 250 MHz •Memory Clock 166 MHz 332 MHz effective *FX 5200* •128 MB DDR 128-bit •NV34 A2 •4 ROPs / 4 TMUs / 4 Pixel Shaders •GPU Clock 250MHz •Memory Clock 200MHz 400MHz effective *FX 5200 Ultra* •256 MB DDR 128-bit •NV34 A2 •4 ROPs / 4 TMUs / 4 Pixel Shaders •GPU Clock 325 MHz •Memory Clock 325 MHz 650 MHz effective

Three years ago a friend of mine moved to another city and left me an empty PC case and a box full of old PC parts. I managed to build a retro PC from like 2003-2004. A Pentium 4 @ 3.2GHz (with HyperThreading), 1GB DDR1 RAM, a 60GB HDD (not even a SATA) and the box inside had a FX5200 with 128MB of VRAM. I installed Windows XP on it and since I already knew that the FX5200 was terrible I wanted to see by myself so I tested a few games on it. GTA SA even on lowest settings was terrible. Half Life 1 wasn't much better either, Medal of Honor Allied Assault runned almost decent for reason but when lots of enemies were in sight or explosions went off the framerate would shit itself. NFS Underground 1 topped at about 20FPS on lowest settings. The heatsink was so hot I thought it was going to explode or something. While the CPU for these games was good, the FX made a huge bottleneck. Hell, even my old Lenovo laptop from 2007 with a GM45 chipset GPU did better than this. It's OK for very basic things, but anything beyond a bunch of polygons on screen is too much for it.

The reason I hate the FX 5200, is because mine had exploding capacitors at stock settings

If you read this: I appreciate the effort you had put into this video. I also have a slow internet access and I also try to make the best out of it.

"Display adapter"

I actually had 2 good experiences with this card. My Acer laptop had a mobile version which played need for speed underground 2 well and even up to cod 4, the pc version I had was a PCI one that was all i could get for my p4 slim system. gave me many happy years of gaming and introduced me to fps online gaming.

My first “GPU” was the FX5200. It ran windows aero effects great!

Imagine a fake gt 210. It would be THAT.

And now these cards are actually getting slightly desirable due to their reasonable quality as a retro (Windows 98) gaming graphics card - old enough to do "table fog" (whatever that is), but very powerful compared to graphics cards that came out in 1999; powerful enough to run Glide wrappers. I had one in 2003 and remember playing COD2 on it! 800*600, DX7 mode, obviously :P

9:10 just reminded me that my first card was actually a Matrox Millenium P750.. It hit straight home when you mentioned that "at least all the textures are there". I went from that to an FX 5200, and it was such an upgrade. One of the first games that I booted up was Far Cry since I couldn't wait to play it with proper textures, and I was amazed how good it looked. This was around 2008-2009 I believe. My family couldn't afford a new computer and I was 11-12 years old, so I got an old one from one of my friends which had a grandfather that did CAD work and changed out his PC. Pentium 4 2,8GHz, 1GB DDR RAM, Matrox P750 and afterwards a FX 5200. I've been years behind on technology ever since, as I've gotten used to not having the newest stuff. Only exception was when I upgraded my i5-3470 (2013) to an i7-8700K back in 2018, and got a Titan X (2015) at the same time. Those are going to last me to 2026 for sure.

The first PC I built in 2004 I installed an FX 5200 128 MB card on a PC Chips T12 Tidal Wave motherboard, running a Celeron Prescott core 2.93 GHz CPU, 512 MB DDR 3200 memory, and an 80 GB SATA hard drive. I didn't have a lot of money at the time, so this was all I could afford from Tiger Direct. The FX 5200 was the cheapest card I could buy that would support DirectX 9? 10? at the time. I played a lot of Second Life with this setup as well as some other games I can't recall at the moment. No complaints with this card, not like an MX 4000, at least.

I recently got a FX 5200 for a DOS build. They have great DOS compatibility.

I remember the FX5200, a Advent PC world computer had it in, could not even play half life 2 at the lowest settings.

There are many good things about those cards (largely not mentioned in the video): As long as you get a 128meg version or better, it has an awesome driver set (universal drivers), allowing it (or pci/agp/pci-e variants) to run on many an OS, ranging from win98/me/2k/xp (with server 2003 to 2008) to vista which thereby includes win7 and win 8.1 so you can use it in server2012 _(and none of that hypermemory rubbish an AMD cheap card would demand, or nvidia equivalent)._ And yet it is higher spec than the typical matrox you'd get in a server2012 PC, so you can run aero and html5 web-pages. Also it has older linux drivers but also open-source drivers in linux as per 'Nouveau'. Furthermore, that means the Nouveau drivers use the pci to pci-e translation chip (BR02) which is a very clever bit of nvidia hardware to allow fx series pci cards (or agp) chipsets to run on pci-e. Not to be sneezed at when you see the alternatives. Also, even the lower spec 64meg fx5200 cards have a nice usage (with low power) as they (especially PCI) can be used in a KVM cisco emulating mboard (e.g. a domestic level Gigabyte or ASUS board you rig-up with an fx8350) to allow the uefi bios to post past the 8meg video-card limit. And the fx5200 cards use up basically none of your iommu bandwidth slots (so you can use those for vmdq etc.). They can be underclocked to run silent (and are low-profile). Then you can have ut2004 running in the background so it uses basically no resources (and patched, ut2004 is far better than ut2003 and has great mods to adapt it into sports games or ww2 etc.). The fx5200 can also display in a reasonable high resolution for spreadsheets etc. If using cpu-only in dolphin-emulator, the card still works. The ubiquitous nature of the card means you can get spare parts such as cooling. The svideo out is in PAL (Perfect At Last), which is nice for amiga retro emulation or even on a CRT (and you can route it around your house's coax if its in such a server). One of the main things the video missed is that there are games that simply won't display graphical effects correctly on on some AMD/ATI cards and so an nvidia (even an fx5200) is better. NeverWinterNights is a game from the era (which would commonly run on a computer of 1GHz or 2GHz as many people owned such rigs with an fx5200, be it singlecore or dualcore). The same computers (with or without upgrades) would continue to run the game for years while expansion packs were released such as Shadows Of Undrentide and Hordes of the Underdark (let alone the community expansion pack that went on for years). A Radeon9800pro (no matter the drivers you tried) would not display correctly graphic effects such as doors breaking open, and yet a fx5200 would do it just fine. It may seem all very well to slag off the fx5200 for being "slow" but actually the effects (which the reasonably speedy RAM would handle) actually worked where as a 9800pro (a very popular card) would break the game's special effects graphics, and the card "being faster" simply makes a faster broken game. The 9800pro btw had a great many drivers. The particle effects such as colourful lasers (in other games too) would stiil run fast enough on such a card for people who are not interested in high polygon count requiring cards with an expensive FPU. This review pits the card for jobs it is not really intended for, and the game's graphics setting should have also be tried for the purpose of the card for which people bought it (when planning a careful budget build). Also, those cards, when overclocked (which you are not meant to do unless you take responsibility for maintaining the hardware and cooling) were meant to have kits installed such as ram heatsinks and fans you mount of the PCI screws in the computer case. If a person wants better graphical effects, they put copper heatsinks on the RAM with good paste and overclock the RAM ever so slightly, whereas the GPU and its FPU are not so important. The video did not do that. One of the reasons to have later versons of the fx5200 (and the 6200 and 7100/7200) was not to have a faster card on the GPU but for faster RAM to be available for those aformentioned special-effects in games that relied on the RAM. The card is also capable of decoding some video codecs. Gamers were often very happy to play a game with a low polygon count but a high resolution on some dualcore pentiumD (with a heavy PSU power-draw) without the need to upgrade the PSU when using a low-power fx5200, and so they would overclock the RAM just a little for a few fancy sparkly effects, and to hell with the high count of polygons or draw distance. Not all games are about draw-distance. Not only does the video compare the card to solely a ATI card (which does not have the same effects standard), but the era of the card's competition is ignored in terms of intel GMA graphics (which btw ran farcry water effects) and matrox cards, and some voodoo cards. The video seems happy to complain about the effects problems on the fx5200 (and in graphics glitches in Twighlight Princess emulation of another video unrelated to the fx5200) but ignores the effects the card CAN do whereas other cards fail to (such as the NWN example). The video also ignores the competing and complementing platforms such as the playstation2. While the ATI radeon series may well have run doom3 in the way an xbox owner would have liked, the fx5200 was never marketed as that game's strongpoint but instead would be found on playstation2 titles cross-platformed to the PC. An example is "Over The Hedge" (a disney animated movie game) which clearly says on the box that an fx5200 would be required. And guess why? Because the Special-Effects were important, not draw distance. Likewise "Hola Pinata" is a family/kids game that could use it. Some people just want a pick-up-and-play fun game without needing heavy commitment. As with UT2004, the dualcore patch (v3369 etc.) meant that the fx5200 (on say a dualcore circa 2GHz) would perform very fast with the proper effects as advertised to be _"Nvidia, the way it is meant to be played"._ Even ut2004 only needed 64meg graphics. Also the video is not a fair test of the card but instead conflates the card test with a test of the pentium4 system which is by no means the system such a card would be limited to, especially considering its many variants (pci-e etc) and the card's longevity in being sold and produced. A PCI-e system would easily use such a card when competing with onboard intel graphics GMA (such as a 945 or 950) of the era, and so those mainboards would commonly accept a pentium4 and pentiumD range, including singlecore and dual (or even quad) core processors, for core2duo at say 1.8GHz, or even a cedarmill/presler dual-core at about 2GHz or more. Definitely a fx5200 would commonly be found (just as would a 6200 or 7200LE) in a dual-core machine playing ut2004 patched for dual-core performance. A lot of this video was very unfair and wasn't especially knowledgeable as to how, in the past, it would be purchased sensibly by those making good builds in the day and the video lacked knowledge on how to deploy tweaks to the cards and systems to make it run at its best, all on contemporary hardware. It is a pity because some parts of the video were pretty good. You have to be careful taking potshots at technology because if you don't know the full story, you end up looking silly. It is all too easy to be impulsive and jeer at something rather than look at its pros and cons. Don't come crying if you get jeered back. Just giving you a heads up, kindly. Yours dynamically instanciated, Marjorie Digluconate.

I still cry thinking about the money I spent on this card way back when.

I got burned with this one, upgraded my previous NVidia to this and was appalled as framerates plummeted with this new card.

It's red so it must be pretty fast

Hilarious thing is I remember my MSI 5200 coming with a copy of Morrowind.

Oh dear god this card. I had this on my first "true" gaming computer. The first one that wasn't hand-me-downs. I played through all of Half Life 2 on it. And I was on that phase that I think every young gamer goes through where they crank up the graphics to max even though the game runs like garbage.

Every time there's something with fx in its name, its bad

I kind of get the feeling the FX name is cursed, even though the Athlon 64 FX was pretty good

When I was a teenager, I had this paired with an otherwise pretty decent pentium 4 2.8ghz, a decent motherboard and RAM. It was the first pc I ever built myself and me and my dad picked the parts. We both didn't know a lot about pc hardware but it was super fun building our own system. After a while though I started to get horrific performance in games, and I always thought it was because the games were just getting extremely demanding. little did I know, it was actually this PoS holding back the PC. It was years later until I figured that out

My first pc had a 400MHZ AMD K6 and a Nvidia TNT2. My second PC had a Athlon XP2400+ and a Geforce 5200, 128MB. It ran about this well. I remember the DAWN demo impressing the heck out of me. A few years later i got a FX5500 BFG 256MB card and it was a big improvement. I remember having over 200+ FPS in quake3 at 1024x 768.

Didnt knew these were that bad. I used to play NFS Carbon and GTA SA just fine with it. I had a Pentium 4 at that time Now im using it for Windows 98 SE and, of course, overclocking.

I remember going from this to a 7600GT and was like "holy shit" lol,

I had an ati 9600pro card at the time, upgrading from a tnt2 if I recall. Great card that Radeon, excellent value. I dodged a bullet with nvidia that year.

Holy crap. I gotta tell a story about my 2004 Toshiba Satellite Pro M30, that got a Pentium M 725 and the FX Go5200 - in 128MB, 128-bit! It was clocked at 200/250 (core/mem) and with driver 44.64 (latest official Toshiba driver) it was slow. Even with the CPU overclocked with ClockGen and using a USB sound device because sound turns into garbage above 1757 MHz core (the PCI timings are also overclocked so yeah) Upgraded the driver to 83.60 from Guru3D inf and it ran GTA:SA at full screen resolution (1280x800) at a completely playable framerate, at maximum draw distance - that nVidia startup logo wasn't for nothing, perhaps. NFSU2 ran good at full screen resolution but at low-ish settings. NFS: Most Wanted (2005 of course) ran well...but only at 800x600 or lower. Flight Simulator X was a mess. Loaded Rivatuner (Afterburner's daddy, same developer) and started ramping the clocks. Was able to play Medal of Honor: Pacific Assault (which required Shader Model 2.0, which the FX series were bad at) in 640x480! NFS Carbon now also ran well and completed the game. An attempt to run ArmA was done...and nope...not even with hacking to get the resolution to 320x240 and mess with quality settings...FPS was single digit at average. Clocks were now at 266/400. The last stand was a visual novel, Rewrite. Drivers became an issue, as soon as I start the story intro it launched a BSOD would pop up (driver stuck in infinite loop) and had to take the last version (175 or something) and mod it. That took days...then tried going back to 83.60...then DNA-Force drivers...then plenty of restarts to safe mode to use DDU...finally figured it out! It needed all the overclocking and all the cooling I could (with a Delta 90mm blower sucking all the air out of the thing) and just as I completed the game story the GPU gave up. It ended up with half the VRAM missing, only 64-bit, then limping it two more years where it became 16MB - sometimes even failing to get past the BIOS screen without artifacts. What a journey with that laptop. Played plenty of Command and Conquer: Generals on that thing. Played competitively on LAN, along with Counter-Strike. All the Illusion games where possible. Three hard drives, one worn out, one dead after an Olympic worthy flip, other one still in. RIght now, that laptop sits right below my newest laptop, a Dell Precision 7510. Can't bring myself to take it and put the thing into storage for some reason...

I would have thought, and do think because I owned one, the GeForce 4 MX 440 was more hated because it was a GeForce 2 marketed as a GeForce 4.

That was my very first GPU.. I couldn't play almost anything (not exagerating), BSoD's everywhere, drivers issues etc... Powered by XFX... PS: 4:14 there you are you son of a ..........

It does support DiectX 9.0a, and I have this card (FX5200 PCI 128mb with 128 bit interface) in one of my retro Windows 98 computers. I use the Nvidia driver version 43.45 along with nGlide version 1.05 to run Windows 95/98 era games, and the card is quite capable in this role. But, some people insist on testing the card in operating systems, and on games it was never meant to run! My second Windows 98 rig sports the FX5700, 256mb AGP card for again windows 95/98 games using Nvidia driver version 56.64, and nGlide version 1.05, and games like Quake 3, and Unreal Tournament look glorious! Games like Halo, and Unreal 2004 I run on my high end Windows XP machine, because these games deserve that much love!

I used to have thas card in the first pc I built when I was like 12 years old. It was shit but at least it run CS 1.6 and Gta san andreas

A potato can literally handle more heat than this gpu

I had one, when i was 14. I loved it, it was way better than the integrated graphics of my first PC. So i have good memories using this GPU.

My god I had this card, I remember my dad buying me a PC back in 2005-2006 for 600usd or so, with a celeron 2.8, FX5200 128MB, 256mb RAM ddr. I remember playing games even though they lagged hard I was happy as a kid.

Awesome video! I never would’ve known there were so many others had the same beef with this card. It was in my first computer (older hand me down by the time I got it). Seeing the OG Far Cry for the first time in so many years being played on the same card actually triggered a mini deja vu for me. I hoped throughout the video to see you cover GTA:SA, it was so much worse compared to Vice City. I recall completing most of the storyline on it. Can’t recommend that to anyone. 😅

I remember having to pick my first dedicated GPU from FX5200 128mb/64bits and ATI 9200SE 128mb/64bits. Glad I went with the 9200SE.

I remember having this in my first computer and it was awful. I can't believe I had it for 7 years. But it can run Bejeweled 3 so I was happy.

PCI version was actually a life saver in 2004 when Half-Life 2 came out and your MB didn't have AGP port, and you wanted to play DX8.1 and take a glimpse on DX9.0. This card is very nostalgic for me, it made me happy back then.

It came in my first pre built, allowed me to play NFS Underground, COD, Counter strike, FIFA, Vice City and, San Andreas and many more.

Think it's already been said by others here but these cards work fine for Win98 and lower builds. You won't really have many games that should stress the card too bad. I tried one of these in a P4 I ran with 98 and it performed well. The nice thing about these cards is they are new and cheap! Also Morrowind was very good looking game for it's time. Especially considering the scope of it.

Oh wow, I remember having this "GPU" in my first PC and despite me being an almost total newbie in computers at that time, I can recall that card being trash af. The IT guy who built that machine, told me it was a great deal for gaming..... in 2005. I had 128mb of DDR RAM with it and a Sempron 2600+ (total price 450€) and I was sad because most of my games lagged a lot. I was surprised when KZfaq recommended this video to me tbh, that made me think I wasn't wrong about this card.

Mine was a BFG Asylum GeForce FX 5200 128-bit 256MB - an overall weak card, but what I could afford at the time. I had hours invested in SimCity 3000, Homeworld, and The Moon Project. That last title had plasma and electricity weaponry that looked so pretty on the screen. I replaced it with an AMD Radeon 9600 XT which was a major upgrade. I was coming from a GeForce 2 GTS which was included on my first ever computer bought with money from my high school graduation. The computer came from Cyberpower PC and included an AMD Athlon 1.4Ghz Thunderbird, 512MB of DDR RAM, the GeForce 2 GTS, and a huge 19 inch CRT monitor. It was a dream. The GeForce 3 was out, but was priced way out of my budget. This kicked off an era for me as I would later find that building my systems was the only way I would do it from that point forward. So glad I did.

I remember one day my father got home with a FX5200 and I was crazy about having a offboard vga. That time I was playing Need for Speed Underground 2 and I was excited about having more video quality of the game. Honest, I probably got 5% more of performance. As a kid I was kinda happy, but nowadays I see how bad it was

I think I even outperformed it with my ti4200. Also these videos make me feel old... :)

Even the Matrox cards had a good use - they were amazing at producing perfect colors for print/production when paired with a couple good monitors, like the older Sony Trinitron ones. The FX5200, though? Couldn't even handle multiple monitors without choking, and if you had 2 separate model screens? Good luck EVER coming close to a color match screen to screen...

I still remember when my friend got a fx5200 and could play Heroes 5 with REFLECTIONS (early 2000s ray tracing) and I had to settle for unsparkly poligons on my MX440

16 years ago I obtained PC with such card as gift to birthday. It was Intel Pentium 4, 2.7 GHZ (no HT), 512mb RAM, GeForce FX 5200 128m, 120gb Seagate Barracuda drive, and for me it was running very well for that days. Half Life 2 and episodes, S.T.A.L.K.E.R Shadow of Chornobyl, Mafia, Doom 3, Hitman:Contracts, Hitman:Blood Money (it was lagging hardly but I was able to finish game), GTA 3, GTA: Vice city, GTA:SA, and a lot of other games was played on that computer. And that PC is still alive, nobody is using it nowadays, but it's just still alive.

My dad had one of these to get an extra monitor connected to the computer iirc, TF2 and gmod really chugged.

I remember buying an FX5200 Ultra in the early 2000's when it came out. I didn't remember it being that bad at all. May have been a TI, but don't think so. I remember it being green and purple with a bionic woman's face. Got Myst 4 / Uru, Unreal, Doom shareware and some random other programs. Always wanted the Fx5800 ultra, the hair dryer. Good times!

Having 3 young kids at the time who wanted to play Halo, I had to upgrade 2 of the computers so it could run properly. They already had decent CPU's (Athlon 2500+ and 2200+ if I'm not mistaken) and plenty of RAM, so this was going to be a "cheap and easy" upgrade. One of the computers got a ATI 9600 pro, the other a FX 5200. I remember having to lower everything on the computer with the 5200 while the ATI was able to play with much higher settings smoothly. Both were approximately the same price at the time. Thank goodness the kid with the FX was a good sport, and was happy playing at 640X480. He was rewarded a short time later with a Radeon 9800 Pro. The Radeon 9600 and 9800's went for a while in those computers, the 5200 went to a friend who quickly replaced it as well.

Great video, I don't know why but I do have a thing for the fx cards, haha!

This was the generic "upgrade" that best buy sold for like 6 years straight. I got it thinking it could run tes:oblivion. Nope. My broke ass learned how to use "oldblivion" and like it.

I swear I have so many of these things, I have ACCIDENTALLY bought some a few times

I bought it back in the day because I got an offer for 128-bit version for a price of the lower spec. What attracted me was the passive cooling (I had a super tower from an old server then, excellent cooling with chimney effect). No overheating effects (I installed a massive home-made copper heatsink). Replaced my MX200. Very good picture quality - who ever used VIA integrated card, will confirm! It was very compatible and affordable card, run every game in its day. Had it for many years, actually gave the whole computer away then, in 2018 the new owner was reportedly still using the machine (retiree, just office work) with W7. I insist it was a good purchase for budget-oriented gamers. Would do it again

At the time, the FX5200 was readily available for £30-40 brand new and for desktop use was perfectly adequate. They were often available fanless for when noise was an issue, and were a cheap way of running dual screens, running Aero, DVD playback etc. I worked in a school and we bought loads of these for these purposes - they weren't great for games, but they were dirt cheap! I'm sure by the end we were only paying 20 odd pounds. A serious gamer wouldn't be buying a card in this price range anyway. They even did a PCI version which was useful, as some of the Dell PCs we had at the time only had PCI slots on the motherboard. At the time a PCI graphics card available new off the shelf was a bit of an oddball item. IIRC we chose these over the Radeon at the time as nVidia's drivers were more stable than ATi's, so long as you downloaded the generic drivers off the internet and ignored the ones on the bundled CD - they tended to BSOD.

Bought a 5200 Ultra IIRC, benchmarked it, returned it, got a 5600 instead. Still a mistake.

I used to have this around 19 years ago.. to try and squeeze something oit of it i tried overclocking it.. smoke started coming out of my pc case and it burned my gpu, mobo and some other components... Good times lol

I never understand why this graphic card was so hated, i had one XFX GeForce FX 5200 128mb paired with an AMD Sempron 2800+ (socket 754 if i'm not wrong) and this PC allowed me to play tons of games in those years (circa 2004-2009)

Back in the day,Walmart used to carry PC parts and this was one of the things I bought from Walmart to upgrade my pc.

7:45 that's basically like if halo came out on the Nintendo 64

I had this card paired with my Athlon XP 2200 in my computer growing up I actually had to unsieze the cards fan with penetrating oil a few years ago when I got the PC from my dad for old computer stuff and games. I remember it wasn't very good at gaming around 2004ish for instance we had zoo tycoon 2 and in the marine mania pack you could walk around in first person this caused this card to freak out a bit could play other games from the era we had like ghost master but not to well

I had one of those back then... on win XP Mafia, GTA VC and SA ran very well... on a AMD Duron

In France, we had a weird scam on ebay and leboncoin around 2010, where some PCs sold as "gamer" contained a Pentium E5200 and a FX5200. At the end the FX was replaced by... a GT210 or GT230.

I still have one from Leadtek with an athlon xp, made me happy those days :)

back in day, i was tricked to buy this garbage instead of Radeon 9200, and it drives me crazy.

It's funny. I feel a lot of nostalgia for this card, because I had several of them and daily drove one for some time... but that's because I got them as hand-me-downs or salvaged from recycling centers, and it was the first time that I had 3D hardware acceleration, allowing me to play Quake III: Arena. I didn't have access to 2000s PC games for some time, so it's a shock to me to hear that it wasn't just a budget card, but was poorly received and didn't perform well in the applications that came out in the time period. Interesting.

A month ago I was playing Mass Effect 2, Mass Effect 3, City Skylines, Supreme Commander Forged Alliance, PUBG Lite on HD7650 512MB! on APU of AMD. It was crazy! Most games on 720p High settings with 8GB ram. Old games can run on max settings. Now I bought a system with an A8-7600 pro APU with R7, board, DVD, PSU, case for $38! It can run most games before 2015 on 1080p max settings and you get 30+frames!. I watched 4K Infinity Wars on it today. APU was 100% busy while playing it flawlessly. It is crazy! Because I built a gaming rig back in 2008 when I was in gamming PC company, for £2500 with Core2Duo E8600, 4GB hyper DDR2 and 2GB 9800GT, 850watts CM PSU, 500GB Raid+ 1TB, DVD, DVD RW, Cosmos S, tens of 120mm fans etc. I almost went broke to build it as I was a student.(I did that to play Crysis 😕)After that I never built a PC. I gave that PC for free in 2012 as real life shits kicked in and I had no time to play. But I kept the Cosmos S and 850W CM PSU. And I hope one day I would have money to build it again with Ryzen 7 in it or atleast Ryzen 5 APU ☹️. I believe in miracles.....✌️

Hey guys, which card is better? Geforce4 MX440 or FX5200?

Imagine this with a fx cpu The ultimate fx pc 😂

Omg i had this card ganged up with an AMD Sempron 1.8 back in the day, fancy case with green leds and everything haha, loved the thing!

Food for thought, many video things from the 2000's era I found run better on a CRT at 1024 X 786 if your video card has low memory, or display issues. I'm not a gamer, but I have realized pushing a video card to run a 1080 or higher monitor and then expecting it to run video, from DVD or worse yet from the web like KZfaq you will find weakness. So it would play well in a window, but much better in what used to be called a pop-out. But if you took it to the normal full screen, it would run with more drop outs or stutter. So besides the pop-out option that not all web video had, your other option was to run your monitor at a lower resolution. So I know many games will offer that idea in the settings but it is not the same as changing your monitor setting on the video card first to that setting. This way your video card is already in a less taxed mode and will be just as relaxed when playing a game in that matched setting.

Had a FX5500, was not that bad, used to play GTA SA just fine

That is the driest thermal paste I've ever seen.

I had a 5200 I bought for an old Athlon XP 1600+. Hated every minute of that thing. Sure, it was better than the MX440 it replaced, but not by much. I believe it was Final Fantasy online that forced me to upgrade. I simply couldn't OC it enough to get it to handle the lowest settings. Moved to a 5700LE Optima from PNY, and absolutely loved that card. It OC'd to double its shipping clocks, and ran everything I threw at it with ease for a fair number of years. I wish I still had it for my retro build, as it was fantastic.

I had the a FX 5200 128bit 64MB. It came with my HP with a Athlon XP 2400+ and 512MB RAM. Back in the days I had to overclock it to play GTA San Andreas on 1024x768 in my 15" CRT. My friend bought the 128MB version but got one with 64bit, so it was a real pain. My card went up to 320MHz core (250MHz stock) and the memory also jumped up from 200MHz to 270MHz, which was 540MHz DDR clock. Imagine a modern card could be overclocked like this. I will retest it on my Core2Duo AGP mainboard in the next days. After the FX 5200 I bought a GeForce 6800 NU whith unlocked vertex shaders and pixel pipelines and a good OC. Really big improvement.

This is the first and only time in history a gamer could legitimately and proudly say "I own an ATi".

I've played Half Life 2 on an FX 5200 :P

my first video card was a PCI (that's right, PCI) FX 5500 128MB. i remember it being completely crushed by Guildwars 1 and Lineage 2. it honestly wasn't that much better than the intel GMA 950 onboard that the system had.

Good going producing a video a week now! I luckily only one have had to use a FX5200. Maxxed out a P4 Dell Optiplex GX270 to run Windows 7 on it. Put in 2GB of DDR which made a ton of difference, but I really wanted to get Aero working. So I decided I might as well try the old FX5200. And lo and behold it actually ran Aero. Having said that, that is about the only good thing I have to say about it. The whole story around the different FX5200 versions gives off the same vibe as Nvidia was doing a while back with the DDR4 version of the GT1030; severely crippling performance, but still selling it under the same name.

I remember "Upgrading" my G4 4200 Ti to this and it being worse in almost every way.

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I’m super fascinated by those underhanded optimisations in far cry.

My first decent computer upgrading from a Pentium MMX 266mhz up to a P4 2.4ghz 512mb ram and a 5200fx with a windowed black case with blue neon and black 17" CRT. It used to run Half Life 1 perfectly, Half Life 2 ok, Doom 3 on lower settings, Vice City and San Andreas again on lower settings with a bit of glitchiness (but nothing i wasn't used to), Warcraft III perfectly, and my favorite game of all at the time, Command and Conquer Generals. My next upgrade was an ASUS A8N-SLI Deluxe, Athlon 64 3500+ 1gb duel channel DDR ram and a 6600GT graphics card with a full tower Cooler Master case that I'd cart around to LANs with a brand new $350 17" LCD

It's good for a budget retro gaming PC.

This card would surely run Red Dead Redemption 2 just fine.

I still have 2 of these cards. Not sure what the problem is, they work awesome in a win98 retro gaming setup. Also had a fx 6200 in a windows xp machine (my first computer for gaming) worked really good.