Ab Work Outs: PNY Geforce FX5200 256MB PCI Graphics Card Review

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(More customer reviews)This is an excellent card for owners of older or low end machines who cannot use newer PCI-E slots or AGP. I have a 3 year-old eMachine which this installed easily in and worked well with. Prior to installing this card, 3D games were jerky and nearly unplayable but this card fixed that up quite well.

Be forewarned though that it won't overcome the limitations of a sluggish or cheap processor. It will improve the look and feel as well as screen refresh speed. If you've got a poor integrated graphics chip which off-loads a lot of the graphics rendering tasks onto your CPU, this will help tremendously. It'll also reduce the possibility of overheating.

As a bonus, the card adds a video port as well as S-video (S-video is commonly missing from low-end PCs). S-video allows you to see your computer's screen on your television as well as interface with S-video devices (such as video capture boxes and cameras).

One note about installation though, you will probably have to disable the driver for your integrated video chip to get the card to function.

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Product Description:
The PNY Geforce FX5200 256 MB PCI Graphics Card features NVIDIA's CineFX engine to deliver film-quality effects and studio-quality color for every application. The high-performance, high-precision 3D rendering engine offers 128-bit, studio quality floating point precision through the entire graphics pipeline and support for sRGB texture format for gamma textures. The integrated TV encoder provides best-of-class TV-out functionality up to 1024x768 resolution, while Microsoft DirectX 9.0 support ensures the best performance and application compatibility for all DirectX 9 applications.
Open GL 1.5 support ensures the best application compatibility performance for all OpenGL applications, while unified driver support guarantees forward and backward compatibility. The card offers 256 MB of 128-bit memory with a 6.4 GB-per-second memory bandwidth.
What's in the Box
NVIDIA FX 5200 PCI Graphics Card, Quick Installation Guide, CD which includes: detailed Installation Guide (PDF file); NVIDIA Forceware Drivers; NVIDIA GeForce Demos; and PNY and NVIDIA Desktop Wallpapers; and S-Video cable.