Originally posted by: wafflesandsyrup
9700, but why are you considering either of them?
Originally posted by: InlineFour
comparing the 9700 to the 5200 is an insult to the 9700.
Originally posted by: Kaido
Originally posted by: wafflesandsyrup
9700, but why are you considering either of them?
I got a Mac Cube, it's about 5 years old. It's got a 16 meg video card that actually works pretty well now, but I want one that will support Core Image and Quartz Extreme. It only has an older AGP port in it, so I can't do alot, plus I'm limited by heat & card size, as well as the noise level I prefer. That's why
Originally posted by: InlineFour
Originally posted by: Kaido
Originally posted by: wafflesandsyrup
9700, but why are you considering either of them?
I got a Mac Cube, it's about 5 years old. It's got a 16 meg video card that actually works pretty well now, but I want one that will support Core Image and Quartz Extreme. It only has an older AGP port in it, so I can't do alot, plus I'm limited by heat & card size, as well as the noise level I prefer. That's why
i didnt know that macs support intel/amd pc parts.
Originally posted by: Kaido
Originally posted by: InlineFour
comparing the 9700 to the 5200 is an insult to the 9700.
Is the 5200 a basic card or something? I haven't bought Nvidia in a looooong time, not since the GeForce days...
Originally posted by: InlineFour
Originally posted by: Kaido
Originally posted by: InlineFour
comparing the 9700 to the 5200 is an insult to the 9700.
Is the 5200 a basic card or something? I haven't bought Nvidia in a looooong time, not since the GeForce days...
back when they were new, the 5200 was the cheapest model on the nvidia side, and the 9700 was among the highend on the ati side. it's like comparing david and goliath, goliath would have pwn david if it wasnt for God.
Originally posted by: Kaido
Originally posted by: InlineFour
comparing the 9700 to the 5200 is an insult to the 9700.
Is the 5200 a basic card or something? I haven't bought Nvidia in a looooong time, not since the GeForce days...
Originally posted by: InlineFour
comparing the 9700 to the 5200 is an insult to the 9700.
Originally posted by: manly
GeForce 5200 can be slower than the CPU for Core Image rendering:
http://developer.apple.com/qa/qa2005/qa1416.html
Originally posted by: Aznguy1872
9700 easily. FX 5200 is such a bad v card.
A year ago, plus or minus a month, my oldest PC here had a GF3 Ti-200, the next-oldest had the FX 5200, and the newest had a GF4 Ti-4200. In 2D, the 5200 trailed behind both of those, and even its text handling seemed worse than anything I'd used in a long while (I acquired the 5200 on eBay for peanuts). Last summer, I put a Radeon 9700 Pro in the system I rebuilt at the time into my newest/ fastest/ most powerful, and an FX 5900se in the one then (and now) second- fastest.Originally posted by: fire400
A 5200 isn't a bad video card, it may not compare to a 9700 the way we may all see it, as far as performance, but for a budget AGP card, you can't go wrong with building a computer that meets better demands with CPU load versus integrated graphics.
Originally posted by: Kaido
Is the 5200 a basic card or something? I haven't bought Nvidia in a looooong time, not since the GeForce days...
Originally posted by: toattett
Originally posted by: Kaido
Is the 5200 a basic card or something? I haven't bought Nvidia in a looooong time, not since the GeForce days...
When was the GeForce days? like now (GeForce 7800GTX)?
Originally posted by: fire400
Originally posted by: Aznguy1872
9700 easily. FX 5200 is such a bad v card.
A 5200 isn't a bad video card, it may not compare to a 9700 the way we may all see it, as far as performance, but for a budget AGP card, you can't go wrong with building a computer that meets better demands with CPU load versus integrated graphics.