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Taken from the back of the XFX FX5200 box:
Persons having high blood pressure, a back or heart condition, or who are pregnant should not use this card, the unmatched graphic quality may be too exhilerating and realistic for the weak of heart
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lmao lol oh man whats funny is the FX5200 is slower than the 8500...of course I love the 8500:)
 
voodoo1 said:
lmao lol oh man whats funny is the FX5200 is slower than the 8500...of course I love the 8500:)
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but not slower than ATIs competeting produtc - the 9200.
The 8500 has reached its EOL months ago.
 
Even worse, the XFX 5200 is an underclocked 5200, as it's memory has 6ns chips making it a 166Mhz instead of 200Mhz...
 
DukeNukem said:
but not slower than ATIs competeting produtc - the 9200.
The 8500 has reached its EOL months ago.
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Sorry, the 8500 is faster than a 9200. AND, a 9200 is still just a DX8 card.


Say it ain't so!

As far as it the 8500 being faster/slower than the 5200....I don't know.


End of life the 8500 may have reached, slower than a 9200 it is not. Therefore, life continues for the 8500.
 
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Rayder said:
Sorry, the 8500 is faster than a 9200. AND, a 9200 is still just a DX8 card.


Say it ain't so!

As far as it the 8500 being faster/slower than the 5200....I don't know.


End of life the 8500 may have reached, slower than a 9200 it is not. Therefore, life continues for the 8500.
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it seems that you did not understand me.
I said the FX5200 is not slower than the 9200 which is ATIs offering in this marketplace.
The 8500 does not count anymore because it is EOL - plain dead - not available from ATI anymore.
As long as the competition - in this case ATI - falls behind Nvidia's FX5200 - the FX5200 has to be considered as the best low end product which has been the case for about 9 months now.
Still no competitive offer from ATI in this market segment. The 9200 is a joke.
 
The 8500 is still sold by ATi, it's simply been rebadged the 9100, although with slightly lower clockspeeds on average, and faster than the 5200.

John
 
Johnmcl7 said:
The 8500 is still sold by ATi, it's simply been rebadged the 9100, although with slightly lower clockspeeds on average, and faster than the 5200.

John
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still not comparable because that is only some inventory left over.
That's why it doesn't count. If you are a huge manufacturer, customer, OEM or whatever you can't order as much chips as you want because ATI doesn't make them anymore.
Their low end product is the 9200 and this one simply is not competitive.
As long as this situation remains FX5200 is the winner in the low end space - period.
 
XFX = Pine

What do you expect from a company that makes crappy cards like pine? And the FX 5200 is so slow that a Geforce 2 PRO outperforms it in 3dmark 2001SE.
 
There is crap like that on every video card box , they all go , blistering framrates . no bottlenecks..lol..give me a break .
 
The FX 5200 128MB on pricewatch.com is $54.
Radeon 9000 is $50, $69 for $128 MB, $67 for pro 64 MB, and $72 for pro 128MB.
9100 128MB is $69.
9200 128MB is $42.
9600 128MB pro is $68

So even on pricewatch ati doesn't have anything that can directly compete with it, but I would say pay the extra money for the 9600 pro, and if you say that is too much of a price increase, then someone could get the 9200 128MB and save even more money!

Shame 3dfx doesn't have anything capable of competing in the same pricerange, the voodoo5 is $105.(looks like prices haven't gone down that much since the collapse of 3dfx all those many years ago)
 
funny story my friend got the xfx 5200 card i put the card in his machine did all the things nesessary for the install ran a few bench tests and the card died.
did'nt get through the second one and just fizzled out.
he ended up buying a radeon 9600pro.
so much for thier blistering speed huh:lol:
 
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actually XFX has 64-bit and 128-bit models for their FX5200 line

ROTFLMAO TO THAT QUOTE
 
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