Saltah'na
Chinese Canadian, or 75% Commie Bastard.
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The prices I mentioned earlier are in Canadian, in which $130 Canadian => 57.70 British pounds at last glance.
As for the 9200 and the 5200, I wouldn't touch them at all. They are tweaked down versions of their predecessors, the 9200 from the 9000 and the 5200 from the GeForce4 MX440. Don't bother with them, or they will become outdated faster than Beckham can bend a soc... err... football.
Besides, the first post was meant as sarcasm.
You're welcome.
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Wow. Candian dollars really aren't worth, well, much at all. Still, thanks for the help.
Is the 5200 really a GeForce4 MX? Because those aren't even DX 8.1 cards, are they? Is the 5200 a DX 9 card then or not?
I will try and get him to spend more, but it's not too likely. He can't even really afford the �40, but he wants to play Pro Evo more than, er, live. Yeah, I know those two cards will become outdated, but he's still soldering on with a TNT2, so any step up will be fairly big.
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Just read the first link, it has benchmarks of everything from the low end Geforce 4 MX to an ATI 9800. No, the 9200 is not a DX 9.0 part (its a tweaked version of the 9000, which builds on the 8500), while the 5200 is (even though its just a redesign of the Geforce 4 MX). But it hardly matters as you'll see from the link.
If you have to buy from this price bracket, get the 9200.
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Saltah'na
Chinese Canadian, or 75% Commie Bastard.
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Keywords TWEAKED DOWN. One thing is for sure, the benchmarks for the 9000 are better than the GeForce MX440.
If you could track down a Radeon 9000 Pro, get it. It would probably cost less than $100 Canadian, which would probably be less than your 50 Pounds.
Still, if you can find a Forsa GeForce FX 5600, you might as well get it for its price and performance. I wouldn't.
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