cheapest card of nVidia with pixel shaders??

The best you can buy is Nvidia Geforce FX 5200 which available for as low as 2500 or less.

The fx5200 which sucks but yes its the cheapest one. Better wait out till the 6200 series arrive.

darklord said:

The best you can buy is Nvidia Geforce FX 5200 which available for as low as 2500 or less.

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Its 8X I want it for 2X or 4X

8x cards will run on mobos which support only 4x. It will run at 4x speeds thats all. Like the others said the 5200 is the cheapest card mate.

yeps geforce fx 5200
dunno much about ATI

my mobo supports just 2X. Which card will i be able to use. I tried 5200 it does not work. I am planiing to buy GeForce 3 will tht support PoP:SoT And PoP:WW

Geforce 3 does not have Hardware Texture and Lighting support hence you wont be able to play PoP series as it needs H T&L

I thought GF3 has HW TnL Coz all the games tht require TnL have GeForce 2-6 in their supported chipset lists

Geforce 3 SUPPORTS Hardware Tranform and Lighting.

Starting from Geforce256 H T&L was introduced. It was not there on TNT, TNT2.

Even if you get GF3 it would be very expensive. Don't buy it ... there are much better cards available.

Buy a Geforce 4 Ti4200 128MB at the least and it will run on 2x. It will cost around 4.5k ... 64MB one will be a little cheaper.

Nothing like it if you can get an ATI Radeon 9600 for around 5k. And do not go for 9600SE (64-bit memory). Don't know if it has any problems with 2x. All these boards are 2x/4x/8x compatible.

Thanx Geforce but how will I know tht a card is 2X or 4X or 8X. I will search in Kathmandu for GF4 Ti200.

saketkutta said:

Thanx Geforce but how will I know tht a card is 2X or 4X or 8X. I will search in Kathmandu for GF4 Ti200.

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Listen buddy agp 8x or 4x isn't gonna make a difference , since agp standard was made to be backwards compatible. So be rest assured that the card even if its agp 8x will probably work with a AGP 4x slot.

Like others said, 4x and 8x are cross-compatible and since the 4x bandwidth is big enough, there will be negligible difference in performance if you run an 8X card in a 4x slot.

However 1x/2x operate on 3.3V while 4x/8x use 1.5V, so they are not cross-compatible and there is even some risk of damage to your card or the motherboard if you try to use a 1.5V card on a 3.3V slot. A 1.5V (4x/8x) card has an extra notch at the connecting edge, i.e., 3 notches as against 2 notches on 1x/2x cards.

Wow ! Darklord Returns.............

You can even get ATI Radeon 9200.It is a decent card.Although it doesnt support DX9,it is pretty decent.

r u guys sure that the rate of fx5200 is 2500/-. if so i gotta get one soon.

In Nepal I just got GeForce 2 MX 400 with 64 MB.
Which of the recent games does it suports. I will get it tomorrow.

svk said:

r u guys sure that the rate of fx5200 is 2500/-. if so i gotta get one soon.

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what the heck who said that
no way man it atleast gotta cost you 3-4k (approx not sure)

heck

the card is very well within the 3k budget

more than that u gotta be kiddin

the digit prices given in the reviews are like f*ck seriously

more than 3-4k u can better get a decent card instead of wasting 4k for such a card

Yeah the fx5200's with the sucky 64 bit mem will come below 3k and i m damn sure it's arnd 2.5-2.6k in mumbai.

mebbe techno is shocked coz he brot his msi fx 5200 128 mb for a lil over 5k back then

so its hard to c the price fall to half

Just inquired the XFX 5200 128MB one costs Rs.2,450 and the 256MB one costs arnd 4.9k

@saketkutta.....with an MX400 u ca play Hl2,Gta Vice city,Doom 3 (i Guess),Fifa 2005 and Ut2k4 at somewhat Low settings

now can someone temme is the fx5200 xfx 64 mb card really good?

y does digit luv this card so much

it always wins and is recommended by digit dunno y ?

Sourabh said:

now can someone temme is the fx5200 xfx 64 mb card really good?

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Nope.....but for those with low budgets this is a grab

Sourabh said:

y does digit luv this card so much

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Well here i guess digit has some affection for Nvidia cards....and say they always have an edge over Ati one's (true till some extent)

Sourabh said:

it always wins and is recommended by digit dunno y ?

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then again the best value category is targeted towards the low budget users and getting some value for money hence this recommend i gueesss

lol....saketkutta interesting id..

well i guess fx5200 and somewhat fx5700LE are gaining the same popularity once sis 6326 had.... and they are popular for one common reason i.e. they all su*k big time....

btw saketkutta what about the avaibility of ati cards in nepal....u can try them too if u get a good option..

geforce2 mx 400 will be nothing less then a headache..

ENjoy

DUde the performance of the radeon 9200 is better than the fx 5200

Fx5200 series is better than 9200

thts y for entry level cards , nVidia is recommended

rest for mid-range/high range in INDIA Ati is preferred

so does anyone knw the cost of fx5900 cards

they were abt 15-16k when Ati 9800 pro was some 14k

and now iguess the fx5900 XT is for some les than 10 k and 9800 pro still at 13k

m not sure abt this so dun take it seriously especially GX

Thanx guys i tried Doom 3 and it works on low settings
and I dont like ATi cards.

Sourabh said:

Fx5200 series is better than 9200

thts y for entry level cards , nVidia is recommended

rest for mid-range/high range in INDIA Ati is preferred

so does anyone knw the cost of fx5900 cards

they were abt 15-16k when Ati 9800 pro was some 14k

and now iguess the fx5900 XT is for some les than 10 k and 9800 pro still at 13k

m not sure abt this so dun take it seriously especially GX

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Haa Haa
Fx 5200's performance on AA is laughable