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Old October 5th 07, 02:53 AM posted to alt.comp.periphs.videocards.nvidia
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Finally went ahead and bought a new video card, a 128MB GeForce fx
5200 AGP http://i10.ebayimg.com/02/i/000/b9/b4/a495_1.JPG for $12.52
to replace the Viper 770. Might add more RAM with the intension of
running FS2004.

Did a lot of homework and group discussion before proceeding. Does any
of this make sense? or should it be nominated for the most foolhardy FS
stunt of year?

-G

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Old October 5th 07, 04:02 AM posted to alt.comp.periphs.videocards.nvidia
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wrote:
Finally went ahead and bought a new video card, a 128MB GeForce fx
5200 AGP
http://i10.ebayimg.com/02/i/000/b9/b4/a495_1.JPG for $12.52
to replace the Viper 770. Might add more RAM with the intension of
running FS2004.

Did a lot of homework and group discussion before proceeding. Does any
of this make sense? or should it be nominated for the most foolhardy FS
stunt of year?

-G


I spent more than $12.52 on lunch today.
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Old October 5th 07, 05:42 AM posted to alt.comp.periphs.videocards.nvidia
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On Oct 4, 7:53 pm, wrote:
Finally went ahead and bought a new video card, a 128MB GeForce fx
5200 AGP http://i10.ebayimg.com/02/i/000/b9/b4/a495_1.JPG for $12.52
to replace the Viper 770. Might add more RAM with the intension of
running FS2004.

Did a lot of homework and group discussion before proceeding. Does any
of this make sense? or should it be nominated for the most foolhardy FS
stunt of year?

-G


a 5200 is certainly better then a v770 but it really depends on what
you expect the thing to do. Besides, for $12.52 you really cant go
wrong.

Matt

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Old October 5th 07, 06:35 AM posted to alt.comp.periphs.videocards.nvidia
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On Thu, 04 Oct 2007 21:53:00 -0400,
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Finally went ahead and bought a new video card, a 128MB GeForce fx
5200 AGP
http://i10.ebayimg.com/02/i/000/b9/b4/a495_1.JPG for $12.52
to replace the Viper 770. Might add more RAM with the intension of
running FS2004.

Did a lot of homework and group discussion before proceeding.


You did a lot of homework and still bought a 5200???
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Old October 5th 07, 08:02 AM posted to alt.comp.periphs.videocards.nvidia
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went ahead and bought a new video card, a 128MB GeForce fx
5200 AGP http://i10.ebayimg.com/02/i/000/b9/b4/a495_1.JPG for $12.52
to replace the Viper 770. Might add more RAM with the intension of
running FS2004.

Did a lot of homework and group discussion before proceeding. Does any
of this make sense? or should it be nominated for the most foolhardy FS
stunt of year?


hell you might even be able to play Hoyle Casino 3D with that puppy!

(on low res, all settings low)


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Old October 5th 07, 09:45 AM posted to alt.comp.periphs.videocards.nvidia
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well done, that taken 3 weeks pocket money?
from your previous posts it should do you, i understand
that your not expecting much from it, just more detail from
increased memory, and maybe another couple of fps.
maybe start saving up to get a whole new pc?



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went ahead and bought a new video card, a 128MB GeForce fx
5200 AGP http://i10.ebayimg.com/02/i/000/b9/b4/a495_1.JPG for $12.52
to replace the Viper 770. Might add more RAM with the intension of
running FS2004.

Did a lot of homework and group discussion before proceeding. Does any
of this make sense? or should it be nominated for the most foolhardy FS
stunt of year?


hell you might even be able to play Hoyle Casino 3D with that puppy!

(on low res, all settings low)



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Old October 5th 07, 11:26 AM posted to alt.comp.periphs.videocards.nvidia
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On Fri, 05 Oct 2007 06:35:52 +0100, Andrew brought
the following to our attention:

On Thu, 04 Oct 2007 21:53:00 -0400,
wrote:

Finally went ahead and bought a new video card, a 128MB GeForce fx
5200 AGP
http://i10.ebayimg.com/02/i/000/b9/b4/a495_1.JPG for $12.52
to replace the Viper 770. Might add more RAM with the intension of
running FS2004.

Did a lot of homework and group discussion before proceeding.


You did a lot of homework and still bought a 5200???


Yep.. scroll up about 12 or 13 post in this group..

Subject: Looking for a GeForce 3


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Old October 5th 07, 11:36 AM posted to alt.comp.periphs.videocards.nvidia
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On Fri, 5 Oct 2007 09:45:38 +0100, "tony h" brought the
following to our attention:

well done, that taken 3 weeks pocket money?
from your previous posts it should do you, i understand
that your not expecting much from it, just more detail from
increased memory, and maybe another couple of fps.
maybe start saving up to get a whole new pc?


Yeah exactly.. I just don't what to give up this Dell workstation yet.
Have always bought expensive hardware and kept it a long time. For
example, I've only had three PCs since the days of Win 3.0. A Gateway
486 for Win3.11 (obsolete), A mixed SCSI/IDE P5-120 for Win NT4 (still
running Win2k with 180MHz Pentium overdrive, 2x 40GB drive array
and all the great games of the era including Links386 golf), and the
Precision 610 all SCSI dual Xeon. WHat Next??

-G


"Franky" wrote in message

went ahead and bought a new video card, a 128MB GeForce fx
5200 AGP http://i10.ebayimg.com/02/i/000/b9/b4/a495_1.JPG for $12.52
to replace the Viper 770. Might add more RAM with the intension of
running FS2004.

Did a lot of homework and group discussion before proceeding. Does any
of this make sense? or should it be nominated for the most foolhardy FS
stunt of year?


hell you might even be able to play Hoyle Casino 3D with that puppy!

(on low res, all settings low)



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Old October 5th 07, 11:49 PM posted to alt.comp.periphs.videocards.nvidia
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wrote:
Finally went ahead and bought a new video card, a 128MB GeForce fx
5200 AGP
http://i10.ebayimg.com/02/i/000/b9/b4/a495_1.JPG for $12.52
to replace the Viper 770. Might add more RAM with the intension of
running FS2004.

Did a lot of homework and group discussion before proceeding. Does any
of this make sense? or should it be nominated for the most foolhardy FS
stunt of year?

-G


Older flight sims are mostly about processing lots of geometry with
simple texturing (even FS2004), so although the 5200 will be a massive
improvement over the old TNT - the rest of your system has to be fast
enough to supply the card with all that geometry.
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Old October 6th 07, 01:30 PM posted to alt.comp.periphs.videocards.nvidia
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On Fri, 05 Oct 2007 17:49:46 -0500, deimos deimos@localhost brought
the following to our attention:

wrote:
Finally went ahead and bought a new video card, a 128MB GeForce fx
5200 AGP http://i10.ebayimg.com/02/i/000/b9/b4/a495_1.JPG for $12.52
to replace the Viper 770. Might add more RAM with the intension of
running FS2004.

Did a lot of homework and group discussion before proceeding. Does any
of this make sense? or should it be nominated for the most foolhardy FS
stunt of year?

-G


Older flight sims are mostly about processing lots of geometry with
simple texturing (even FS2004), so although the 5200 will be a massive
improvement over the old TNT - the rest of your system has to be fast
enough to supply the card with all that geometry.


Thanks for that.. I'm aware of the tradeoff and have target FPS usually
set in the range of 17 to 21. Not expecting 60 fps here!! ) Do you
feel that speed, i.e. CPU clock and bus speeds have the biggest impact?
And the amount of RAM is important for an expanded `scenery´ footprint?
Considering an increase from 512MB to 1GB of ECC to go along with the
128MB video card.

Buds in the flightsim forum say that the fx 5200 sux, that it was the
slowest damn thing.. but Benjamin was most helpful in spec'ing it out.

-G

 




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