Get your S-Media GeForce FX card

ButtersButters CA Icrontian
edited July 2003 in Hardware
http://www.komusa.com/smedia.html

Okay, so the makers of this graphics card has nothing to do with this site, I just thought it was interesting that there was an "S-Media" graphics card.

Too bad the cards aren't as half as good as this site.

Comments

  • danball1976danball1976 Wichita Falls, TX
    edited July 2003
    Is $66 for a GeForce FX5200 AGP 8x w/128MB DDRAM and DVI a good price?:scratch:

    //EDIT//
    Looking at the photo, they don't look all that hot:
    <img src="http://store1.yimg.com/I/komusa_1750_2545625"&gt;
  • SimGuySimGuy Ottawa, Canada
    edited July 2003
    You could probably get some mean overclocks out of that card. That's Nanya DDR SDRAM, which is known for it overclockability. In tests conducted by AMDZone.com, Nanya's DDR333 SDRAM modules consistently performed higher than Crucial's DDR333 SDRAM modules. There's also enough space around the GPU to remove that paltry cooler & install a 1U rackmount server heatsink & fan to allow mean overclocks on the GPU. :D

    It's not what the card looks like that dictates how it performs: It's what's under the hood that counts. :)
  • danball1976danball1976 Wichita Falls, TX
    edited July 2003
    Maybe so. Would it be a good upgrade from my PNY Verto GeForce 4 Ti4200 w/64MB DDRAM, AGP 4x?
  • ThraxThrax 🐌 Austin, TX Icrontian
    edited July 2003
    no.

    The 5200 is one cripled, weak, and fundamentally ill-designed card.
  • GnomeWizarddGnomeWizardd Member 4 Life Akron, PA Icrontian
    edited July 2003
    amen brother!
  • WuGgaRoOWuGgaRoO Not in the shower Icrontian
    edited July 2003
    Thrax said
    no.

    The 5200 is one cripled, weak, and fundamentally ill-designed card.


    lol...i love it... fundamentally ill-designed
  • Geeky1Geeky1 University of the Pacific (Stockton, CA, USA)
    edited July 2003
    The 5200 is one crippled, weak, and fundamentally ill-designed card.

    So, in other words, it's like 99.999% of the stuff nVidia makes...
  • GargGarg Purveyor of Lincoln Nightmares Icrontian
    edited July 2003
    For $66, that's a good deal though. Mainly for a new rig situation, becuase most people probably already have better cards. They're about what, Radeon 8500/9000 level?
  • Geeky1Geeky1 University of the Pacific (Stockton, CA, USA)
    edited July 2003
    That's stretching it. The 8500 is a much much better card than the FX is, and with decent cooling, it'll kick the 5200's @ss... I just hit 12000-odd in 3dmark 2001se @ default settings with my 64mb 8500 (326 core, 306 ram as i recall)
  • ThraxThrax 🐌 Austin, TX Icrontian
    edited July 2003
    TNT was good.
    TNT2 was good.
    TNT2 ULTRA was good.
    GeForce1 SDR was good.
    GeForce1 DDR was good.
    GeForce2 GTS was good.
    GeForce2 ULTRA was good.
    GeForce2 Ti was good.
    GeForce3 ti200 was good.
    GeForce3 was good.
    GeForce3 ti500 was good.
    GeForce4 ti4200 was good.
    GeForce4 ti4600 was good.
    GeForceFX 5600 Ultra is good.
    GeForceFX 5900 Ultra is good.
    nForce2 is good.
    nForce3 is good.

    GeForce2 MX 420 was not.
    GeForce2 MX 440 was not.
    GeForce2 MX 460 was not.
    GeForce4 MX 420 was not.
    GeForce4 MX 440 was not.
    GeForce4 MX 460 was not.
    GeForceFX 5200 is not.
    GeForceFX 5800 is not.
    GeForceFX 5600 is not.
    nForce1 was not.

    By pure nature of the game, the MX lines are suppose to suck. Fundamentally the GeForce2/4 MX were solidly made cards with good drivers, they just had the low performance to settle into needed pricerange.

    In the grand scheme of things, out of all of their high-end products, only 4 can be taken as failures.

    99.999% is a miserable and ignorant overstatement. Exaggeration aside, the intended purpose of the comment is equally narrow-sighted.

    And how many successes has ATI really had, that being cards who are worth the buy over another product in a given price range for any period of time?:

    8500
    9500 Pro
    9700 Pro
    9800 Pro

    Perhaps you need to reconsider.
  • ShortyShorty Manchester, UK Icrontian
    edited July 2003
    I watched one of these 5200 do a run of 3dmark '03 on an nForce2 board with a 3000+ processor.

    1245 :rolleyes:

    Thrax's verdict was exactly right.

    However, they are cheap. If you only need basic 3d performance, $66 isn't damn bad.
  • mmonninmmonnin Centreville, VA
    edited July 2003
    For someone that just does office work and their young kids play games, heck yeah. For a gamer, they will be crying at the frame times.
  • EnverexEnverex Worcester, UK Icrontian
    edited July 2003
    nForce 1 is still a decent cheap integrated mobo kit and the GF4 MX series are the best budget cards you can get, so I dont see the problem with those.

    NS
  • danball1976danball1976 Wichita Falls, TX
    edited July 2003
    Shorty said
    I watched one of these 5200 do a run of 3dmark '03 on an nForce2 board with a 3000+ processor.

    1245 :rolleyes:

    Thrax's verdict was exactly right.

    However, they are cheap. If you only need basic 3d performance, $66 isn't damn bad.

    Thats better than the 885 I got with my video card.
  • GargGarg Purveyor of Lincoln Nightmares Icrontian
    edited July 2003
    danball1976 said

    Thats better than the 885 I got with my video card.

    That's A LOT better than what I got on my Radeon 8500. Of course the mainboard and processor are also a lot better.

    And GOOD GOD!!! How did you overclock your Radeon like that, Geeky1?! You must have modded the hell out of it? Mine didn't go near that high! Most 3dmark01 points I ever got was 9000.

    Hot Hardware, what I based my comment regarding the 5200 being performing about Radeon 9000 level on, if anyone was curious.
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