Video Card Help

Technology and Gaming Help and Support
#21

I’m shocked nobody mentioned to check the voltage on the rails.

If your current PSU supplies enough watts, it doesn’t necessarily mean that your video card will go with it. Check if it has the necessary 6pin/8pin connector(s), and if it has enough volts on the rails.

If it doesn’t, you can forget about buying a new GFX card. You would need to upgrade your entire PC (in most cases, the power supply and MB of Dell PCs are proprietary, and upgradability is limited at best.

Really be careful when it comes to upgrading OEM PCs. Once you spend the money, its often too late to go back.

#22

4650s don’t need power cables, and pretty much any decent psu will give you enough juice through the rail. 4650s really aren’t that demanding.

#23

Alright, but in case he goes for a different card or the 9600 (no idea what its requirements are) I wouldn’t want him to order a card only to find that there’s no way to connect it to his PSU, or worse, that he connects it and his computer fails to start due to inadequate power.

That is, if any decent GFX card will even fit inside his PC. lol

#24

How about checking what kind of GFX slot and available power he has before suggesting stuff.

OP - do you have an AGP or PCI-e slot for graphics? Do you even know what those are? Does your case have enough physical room for a modern GFX card? Also make sure your PSU is both powerful enough AND has the required cables.

Or course, none of this will really help without knowing what type of CPU/RAM etc you have too - if those are really old and shit, then adding a better GFX card won’t help at all, as they’ll just bottle-neck your system.

If your PC is old, you’ll just have to suck it up and buy / build a more modern one. PC gaming and keeping up with it can get expensive, and you’ll have to deal with that. As you’re discovering, it only takes a few short years and your PC won’t even play newer games.

Having said all that, the OP seems to be a troll post, as no-one is stupid enough to be asking about buying an FX5200 in this day and age, unless he expects us to believe he’s ordering from a four year old magazine. They don’t even make those old GFX card models anymore.

#25

I was simply suggesting a graphics card. He should be able to tell himself, or at least ask, what does and doesn’t support his system.

I was also telling him that FX 5200 will not run L4D.

#26

C’mon. The guy was considering buying an FX5200. He clearly has no idea what cards are around, what they can do, or what the requirements are. He doesn’t even seem to know enough to know what else to ask about. If it’s not a troll thread he’s gonna need all the help he can get. Including advice on not frying his card with static just by touching it.

#27

Fair enough, but I am sure he can use google. I do not want to give him any false advice also.

#28

Lol. If he knew how to google he wouldn’t be asking stupid questions.

Sorry “Gay Zombie”, but asking if you should get an FX5200 a few days before 2010 rolls over is right up there with asking what kind of tape stores computer data the best, or what kind of rock is best for hammering your family portrait into your cave wall.

#29

Look i’m not really into computers so I don’t know much. I got the 4650 and it works. This wasn’t the first place I went for help and I am not “trolling”. I just wanted to know which card can replace my current one.
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#30

Good, you pleased?

#31

Someone should lock this now.

#32

Personally id say go with the Geforce G210. It’s also low profile, but it packs quite a bit of bang for your buck. Also, very cheap, it’d be rare to find one for over $50. I’m using one currently and I run L4D very nicely on mostly high settings. I used to have the FX 5200, and it blew up. Seriously. I tried to play l4d on it and instead I got a bunch of oversized polygons of multicolors to which my computer crashed and would no longer display graphics. A removal of the card showed that three of the transistors had blow and the GPU had overheated. Stay far, far away. Especially because you can’t get a resolution above 1024x768. Pathetic.

#33

We don’t do that here. We leave theads open so people can continue to point out their wrong opinions about the topic.

#34

FYI you can play Left 4 Dead on a lucky FX5200 that can overclock more than 150mhz over the stock frequency, I had one like that and it was pretty damn fast, around the speed of a geforce 6200.

#35

The 5200 FX hardware does not support what L4D needs to run. As far as a I know, overclocking will do nothing.

#36

If I still had my lucky card I would have showed you.

But then again, I also had 2 other FX5200 cards that weren’t even able to do a 50mhz overclock.

#37

You are very lucky!

I tried overclocking it, and succeded but it was still a bad card.

#38

Actually children, it was not a bad card in its day. When it came out, it performed well and was a great price, which is why it became so popular. Plenty of people upgraded to it from their 16mb /32mb/ 64mb GFX cards, their G-force 4 titanium’s and their MX440’s, and it was a very nice improvement. It’s only a “bad card” if you’re trying to use it to play today’s modern games on it - but of course if you’re trying to do that, you’re an idiot. Nothing lasts forever, but back in the day it was a good card for a good price that did the job.

#39

I remember watching my dad playing medal of honor allied assault with the fx5200. seven years ago,almost eight.

#40

I see where you are coming from, but it still struggles with some old games

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