FX5200 HELP ME PLEASE!

[d_paluch]

Alright guys, i got a FX5200, i just benched it and i got a highest mark of 3426. i thot, wow, thats low.
MY BENCHMARK

so after that i did a research on this card, and to my surprise, i found a review on my exact card
MY VIDEO CARD

when i scrolled down the page, i saw the comparissons. MY MARK WAS THE EXACT SAME AS THE ONBOARD GEFORCE4MX!!

help me please, i got the 45.23 drivers, and latest VIA chipset drivers, please help me guys

System Specs

Intel Celeron 2.4(3dmrk01 reads as a Intel Pentium4 )
ASROCK X533 mobo
XFX FX5200 128mb
256(SDRAM)
40gb HDD
48x16x48 burner ect..

[danny2543]

Your most likely getting a lower mark because the test system at that website was a.

Shuttle SN41G2 with nForce2 motherboard
AMD 2000+XP
512 MB PC2700 DDR

You have a celeron processor (defiantly not great for graphics)
and 256mb of ram

... so it dosent mean something is wrong with your card or anything.... your system is just not as "powerful" as the test system used at that website.

~Danny

[Ryanoffski]

The fx 5200s are known to be a low-end card. They are only comparable to geforce mx cards. Any of the geforce4 ti cards are better.

[d_paluch]

but this was a geforceMX, and my system isnt that much slower, one question, wud 512 pc2100 improve this???
plus the onboard graphics are always slower than the real cards

[Ryanoffski]

DDR ram would definately be an improvement from sdram.

[d_paluch]

thanks, i love these forums, the answers are almost always great

[danny2543]

yea.. definatly ram would help ya........... there is more to a processor than speed. the AMD system at the website has a bigger L2 cache and the AMD is desigened more for perfomance, while the celeron has a smaller L2 cache intended for web surfing, word processing and lighter appplications

but ram would boost your mark. ;}

~Danny

[tony_j15]

Congratulations, you have fallen prey to the nVidia propaganda machine

Definately get some DDR, and when you have the cash go to a Pentium or Athlon, those Cellies are not as good.

[d_paluch]

thanks, thankfully p4's are compatible on my mobo, whew

this celly will be good for a while tho,m cause in all honesty, i love it, lol, cheap, and fairly good speed, thanks again guys foir the help