Nvidia counterattacked against the ati juggernaut today,. These models use lower clocked, simpler versions of the nv30 core, but all support directx 9. Benchmarks will not be available until next week., although only about 10,000 of these cards will be made.

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Will be nvidia's mainstream part, and will be the budget card. With both nvidia and ati now offering reasonably priced cards that support directx 9, games that take advantage of dx 9's features should begin to appear within the next 18 months. Nvidia used the game developer conference. Nvidia apparently also ran a demo showing not only the, but also her two sisters. The nv35 will simply be an enhanced geforce fx, so nvidia should have the part available within the next 6 months. More information on nvidia's chips can be found at,. Thanks to marketman for the heads-up.

User comments 85 comment(s) wooooo (2:35pm est fri mar 07 2003) first post. And i was researching graphics cards just now. – by wooooo wwooooo (2:43pm est fri mar 07 2003) haha – by hehe yayyyy (2:46pm est fri mar 07 2003) i love geforce!

– by woooooo the tom's article (3:24pm est fri mar 07 2003) although they weren't allowed to release benchmarks, they implied that the 5600 and 5200 underperform the ati equivalent gpus. – by marketman what has nvidia come to? (3:38pm est fri mar 07 2003) a paper launch counter-attack ala amd? This is the beginning of the end for nvidia. – by gamefan makes no difference (3:45pm est fri mar 07 2003) nvidia has been on a downslope since ati there asses with nvidia in sales.

There is never anything wrong with a new leading contender in technology. I for one was a very big fan of nvidia. Great company, but no one is the best forever with the minor exception to microsoft. If nvidia is gloating now wait till ati bitch slaps em with the r400 and above its all business and marketing. Ati has and is on the rise now its just a matter of who runs promotional tools better and performs to all the big hype.

– by ati afterburn good bye nvidia, (4:10pm est fri mar 07 2003) i hate ati but since their 9800 card is faster then your 5800 (and quieter) and you only made 10,000 of them and will not make one with 256 megs of memory (according to your site) and your only alternative is go with one of these two mini cards which are each more then half the speed of the 5800 i am going to have to leave you.sniff.sniff. – by imdepressed!! Its more complicated then that (4:34pm est fri mar 07 2003) im sick of hearing nvidia is going out of business. It will take about 5 years and things could change by then, they get money from xbox's, and have the fastest amd chipset, huge oem support, and they have many board makers.

Ati has lasted since the 80's. And in the mid late 90's when there cards were beaten by nvidia and 3dfx, they made it through.

Nvidia has 1 billion in cash on hand and is profitable. They will have a 80 dollar directx 9 card that will almost certainly get cycled through the oem sector because its a huge marketing figure. Alot of gamers don't know what graphics cards do and what is fastest, but know they want the latest directx. All of those people who complained that no one makes new tech affordable, here's the fx 5200. It has the same 128 bit color, vertex and pixel shaders. And it has passive heatsink on it.

That is the product thats gonna hurt ati. Nvidia real problem is there memory bandwidth and the dual texture pipelines. So, when developers write backends for the fx cards, they will most likely add multitexturing because its almost cost free. So better looking games, im no annalyst, but these are my theories. – by neuromancer what is nvidia thinking? (6:09pm est fri mar 07 2003) they cant compete with the new radeon 9800 or the radeon 9600 for that matter.

The radeon, although with a.15 micron processor, is 380 mhz. And using a “flagship” is not a good idea. Although neuromancer is right about many things, i still see nvidia treading down the wrong path.

– by wildwargreymon proposed nvidia strategy (6:33pm est fri mar 07 2003) do what ati was forced to do for a while, sell mid-end videocards for really low prices, while planning your revenge and bring out a killer card that not only catches up with the latest of ati but really outperforms it significantly. Nvidia should be planning to bring out a quantum leap card for pci express to regain the initiative – by imnotafanboy shut up ati fanboys (6:42pm est fri mar 07 2003) i too am the proud owner of a radeon 9700 pro. Unlike you guys though, i don't want the death of nvidia. Don't you guys realize how much that would suck?

That would be like having amd die. Nvidia is going to be making more money than ati if they release stuff like the 80 dollar geforce fx 5200. That thing will sell like mad. – by solid snake die or on die (6:43pm est fri mar 07 2003) in order to eliminate all the heat problems they should have sram on die (!) wich switches faster than ddr and dramatically lowers power consumption and the need for noisy fans. Only thing is that on die ram is frigging expensive cause you need really good waver yields.

You should have some redundancy logic to compensate for parts of the ondie ram that are not produced 100 percent. This will keep the yields adequatly high to be economical.

– by quantum leap agreeance (6:54pm est fri mar 07 2003) nvidia will not die, but definately be sitting second for a while. I also harness the power of a radeon 9700 pro, i also have a sapphire 9500 overclocked to a 9700 pro.

With my experiences with nvidia they were great cards and performance wise ati has better stuff now and coming out. If you all were not aware nvidia was gonna make a mortar out of the 9700 pro with the fx asylum what happened they pulled the plug and naturally they bring out flagship cards. Again nvidia will not die even though it should. Means ati will jack up prices cause they would dominate the market, but definately nvidia will be draggin second in the wake of ati for now. And a 5200 for 80 bux that's a negative try around 250-300 bux around launch give it a while.

Save up get an r350/r400. Shoot spend 142 bux on a 9500 and overclock it thats plenty of power to hold anyone over till r350 /doom3 launch! – by afterburn (7:06pm est fri mar 07 2003) 1. There is too many fan boys in here. Would you really stop saying nvidia will die, i've been hearing it in just about every post and i'm plain sick of it. And second, nvidia's strength is their mainstream card, its what brought nvidia to their position and frankly, its whats going to keep them there. These cards seems affordable, if and when ati puts up a better mainstream offer that goes well with the oem's then you may scream all you want that “nvidia is going to die”, until then please shut up cause it's irritating and nvidia is still leading in the mainstream with their gff4mx.

And finally, as posted many times last year by different people, the only graphics card that really going to show the best company and which is going to drive the industry is the one that plays doom3 the best when it comes out, thats what the rest of the market excluding ati fanboys is waiting upon, and at this rate, it would seem that either nv35 or r400 will be that card. – by penguinknight ati has superior products right now (7:25pm est fri mar 07 2003) right now, ati has the advantage in terms of overrall graphics cards position. I cant wait to get a ati radeon 9800 pro on a dell computer i am about to buy. – by richard re: richard (7:42pm est fri mar 07 2003) your actually buying that garbage. I'm ashame of sharing the same name with youlol. You should build your own or get somebody to build one for you(like a small business), it would be cheaper with better parts inside. Btw, building a pc is very easy, you just have to do a little research on the web if your new at it.

– by penguinknight no nvidia, nore ati in here (9:27pm est fri mar 07 2003) everyone should rush out and get a 3dlabs wildcat 7210 card. Better graphics, better performance, better opengl drivers, and a whole hell of a lot more geared for the professional artist. Note: gammers need not apply!

– by starting drama simple mistake (9:28pm est fri mar 07 2003) i mean “gamers”. – by starting drama dude, don't get a dell!! (9:47pm est fri mar 07 2003) they suck! – by 'nuff said ati (11:45pm est fri mar 07 2003) is doing amazing engineering. I wish i could be on that team sometime in the future, i dont like the us a lot, but canada seems nice.

Anyway, competition is good, am glad nvidia is being spanked since they thought they owned the world. – by laters starting drama (1:51am est sat mar 08 2003) didn't they quatro4 and the quatro fx out perform the latest 3dlabs card. I think ati's firegl x1 did also. It seems that nvidia cards do incredible well in opengl, i seen ti4200 out do 9700 pro's in some cases in opengl. Im using quatro drivers right now, it was more up to date then there consumer ones, works fine. Something else to consider if you use linux. – by neuromancer sorry (2:38am est sat mar 08 2003) but a full dx9 geforce fx 5200 with passive cooling at $79 that's quite cool for all my current app's and games, if it last 12months that's fine as both ati and nvidia will have the next few sets out by then.

Let's put it this way you need a cheap cool chip the geforce fx 5200 will beat the shit out of both a geforce 4mx and a radeon 9000, 9200. O did i say it's like $79! – by rab no nvidia, nore ati in here (10:51am est sat mar 08 2003) neuromancer, please keep in mind that the wildcat 7110 and 7210 are the cream of the crop when it comes to 3d accelleration. The cards that your talking about would be the wildcat vp series, and even so, they still beat out nvidia, and ati's firegl.

The above statement could be argued by many nvidia fans, but the wildcat is what they all try to aspire to. – by starting drama hhhiii' (11:31am est sat mar 08 2003) hello i have a geforce 4 mx 64meg, it came pre packed with my computer i think its cool, yay ati sounds realy generic to me. Well have a nice day. – by edwardxp quatro fx (3:55pm est sat mar 08 2003) it was the vp series, and it gets seriously outperformed by the quatrofx. Im not sure what wildcats have over the fx other then performance numbers, it seems the only advantage is the 256bit memory, and what good is that if it don't perform. I will admit, i don't know what they do with high end cards, but my impression was that the use them to render and design 3d objects.

Not to knock it, but it says it supports directx7, im sure thats not needed in the field. The fx has more pipelines, more color precision, better fsaa. But these are just numbers.

The only reason i would get one is for the 4 displays, 2 crt and 2 lcd, that would be cool, but the 2 on my ti 4200 are good enough. And there website is great, the compare there antialiasing with.cough. the quatro2 which i didn't think really had much to speak of. They also tried to show render errors making them running something most likely design for there cards to do. Overall, i think i would rather have a geforce fx 5800 ultra with quatro drivers then any 3dlabs card.

But i am a consumer. – by neuromancer u guyz need economics (4:45pm est sat mar 08 2003) last time i checked people were still buying geforces mxsnow their next step would be geforece tis.hmmm400$ for crap tat i dont really need until 4 years later when newer cards will come out again.or $100 for a 4200ti? Or better yet80$ for a geforce fx 5200dont insult me and urself by opening ur mouth if u dont have a clue wad ur sayingnvidia out of business?

Ahhaah.dont make me laughits like sony beating microsoft in the game console market.and microsoft would be out of business in a monthlolnaive peoplewake up. – by thejudge re: the judge (8:48pm est sat mar 08 2003) not all of us are naive, just the ati fan boys – by penguinknight hey (9:57pm est sat mar 08 2003) goat inc. To buy nvidia?? Is this true??? – by n-w-o rotflmfao (2:24am est sun mar 09 2003) dude, don't get a dell!!

(9:47pm est fri mar 07 2003) they suck! – by 'nuff said oh man, i can't stop laughing even though i can't sight my vision in too well to post this note. – by phoenixass ummmmmm.

(2:31am est sun mar 09 2003) most of the benchmarks i've read say that, on most parts, the fx beats the radeon 9700-crap. Come on people, its as simple as product cycles. Nvidia will come back and you will be cheering them, just as you are now cheering ati. – by dsnbehind nvidia and ati lies! (6:15am est sun mar 09 2003) the thing that pisses me off the most about video card companys is they always talk about cg on a computer. Final fantasy the movie took 90 minutes to render one frame out of 24 frame per second on a render farm of over 1000 computers. Now your going to tell me that a single computer and video card can do the same thing?

Stop the hype! Its going to take another 25 years to be able to do this. I'll be 50 years old by the time we see true cg on a single computer.

If we all live that long. – by bobafett rab (6:56am est sun mar 09 2003) you are still an asshole just your point is it's cheap! – by dave what comes around (10:17am est sun mar 09 2003) it's more than a litlle amusing that some fanboys who used to brag and write empty barreled statements (in caps) about their geforce and playstation 2 are “suddenly stuck” with “outdated technology” and now face an equally annoying group of treehugging fanboys themselves that own xbox and ati radeon. Hopefully they learn to distinguish technical features from trademark. After all nothing lasts forever and it could well be that xbox gets killed by playstation 3 etc.

Etc – by goes around! Dave (11:30am est sun mar 09 2003) dave wtf ok so i'm an asshole, are you still wound up that my company got the contract and you didn't. If so i sure you can come up with something better than asshole or maybe it's the wife!

Sorry that she used to be your girlfriend but hay i didn't know. I were just making a coment on the god dam graphic card and how good a passive fx maybe! – by rab rab (11:44am est sun mar 09 2003) yes i still hate you no not my ex and yes the project. And again jerk! – by dave re: dave, rab (1:41pm est sun mar 09 2003) hey now, this isn't the page for that type of conversation.

Go take it out on the front lawn – by penguinknight man (11:57pm est sun mar 09 2003) damd! – by starting drama 90nm (3:14am est mon mar 10 2003) nvidia rocks. They have always given me solid products.

Ati has screwed me too many times with drivers that made the hardware useless. (aiw video overlays 7200 – 8500). I don't like paying $$$ to be a beta tester.

With the amount of effort nvidia is putting into soi and the move to a 90nm fab, they will be around for a long time. What good is more fps than your monitor can handle? Good question, but obviously you can use all the fps you can get if you have a 100 mhz monitor and you are playing 1200. 1600 with full anisotropic filtering etc. I doubt it will pump out more fps than your monitor in this case – by bigkahuna rab (6:06am est mon mar 10 2003) sorry man, i've been talking to my sister and she told me a few things that i didn't know before. So sorry rab if i'd have known i'd not have attacked you. So sorry and thank you rab – by dave re: diddly (12:48pm est mon mar 10 2003) becuase that high number is the average frame rate.

What should really be important in the split second minimum framerate, the number that matters when you're snipering your friend with a rocket launcher and about to fire. Alot of times a card a high framerate often drops dramatically lower when new sudden calculations have to be made like firing a rocket, when so happens is the most important time to have smooth gameplay. – by penguinknight a “normal” fx 5800?? (3:53pm est mon mar 10 2003) quoted from thw: “the fx 5600 ultra (is) slower than a geforce 4 ti 4200 8x and radeon 9500 pro. This might be due to the reduced pixel pipelines (2×2, as opposed to 4×2). With 4xfsaa, it appears to reach nearly double the performance of the 4200, beating a 4800 as well, but it loses out to the radeon 9500 pro. It's a similar picture with the anisotropic filtering.

In the pixel shader tests from 3dmark 2001, it beats the 4200/2800, but loses in the vertex shader tests. In both tests, it clearly loses to the radeon 9500 pro. The fx 5200 ultra is quite a bit slower than the 5600 ultra in the standard tests.” it appears that the fx 5800 after stripped of its fancy 0.13 nm, ddrii, most transistors and “thunderstorm” heat sink fan becomes not much more than an “mx4.6”.

– by n herbon penguinknight (11:21pm est mon mar 10 2003) are there such benchmarks that show typical gaming interaction and network latency impacts on fps? Since this does seem important (thank you for the mind expanding info), shouldn't benchmark programs include this option (max, min or average) to indicate what a gamer can actually expect for interactive / network play? – by diddly re: diddly (2:53pm est tue mar 11 2003) yes they are a few, they include ut2003 and i believe serious sam.

However, thats only part of the problem, pratically all benchmarks show a count of frames per second which i've come to realize is not uniform during that second. A huge factor in this count uniformity is also what graphics mode your running.

Why am i worried about this? A night a year or so ago, i was bored so i screwed around with the different graphics implementation avaiable on unreal tournament in linux: software rendering 3dfx glide simple direct layer (sdl) opengl opengl (expermential for ut under linux) turns out that sdlopengl was liquid smooth and was the best mode to play under at 55 fps, however opengl gave the higest framerate at 70 fps, but plays more choppy that sdlopengl.

So why does sdlopengl look so much better, i don't know but i came to a conclusion it was the ut optimizations for glide (in which case sdlopengl was closest to glide) but more importantly how graphics mode work. Under windows, ut looks absolutly fantastic using glide. It was also possible for the main factor was the graphics card used (i used a geforce 2 with nvidia drivers (linux and windows) v4.1). In anycase glide (tested on a voodoo 4) was the best mode ever available, its plain sad that its expired. I wish graphics card companies like nvidia, matrox, or ati to put out cards that gives the best performance to the gamer (such as good standard drivers, picture sharpness, clean uniform rendering, etc) but that wouldn't ever happen, the only card they'll ever put out was the one with the best marketing value. This is way nvidia and ati have their own performance counters and only “recommends” certain ones. And please don't say every company was like this, 3dfx, for at one time wanted to deliver arcade graphics and playability to the pc and they did, even though it was expensive and costly.

– by penguinknight nvidia vs radeon (11:48am est sat apr 12 2003) overall it doesnt matter wich is in the lead, im gonna get the radeon 9800 probaly, because, yes its better. However without the nvidia competition, ati could get away with release crap, because what else would there be. I think its great that the 2 companies keep trying to outdo eachother by producing better and better cards. Without that there will be way less motivation, and advacement in video cards will slow to a crawl. – by toku lol (11:48pm est sun may 04 2003) winners – by wedge give me a break (12:38am est mon may 05 2003) who gives a flying sh.t what brand makes what card the point is this: both companys are offering a wide-range to choose from ati is making all the beefy cards, which cost money.

While nvidia is making all the little budget cards, for people that dont make money but just watch, within a year or so, both companys will flip-flop positions its just how it works ya'll should be happy that you got a range to work with it stop “taking sides” and grow the hell up – by mr.reasonableman i bought an fx5200 (10:20pm est mon may 05 2003) i really dont care about video cards a whole lot, nor do i care about who makes them. All i know is that competition spawns advancement. + i payed 76 bucks for my fx5200 which is both low budget and reasonable for most peoples applications and games – by n m well (5:24am est tue may 13 2003) nvidia have pushed away froim the high performance cards because there's really not enough money in it, 90% of computers will sell with the low end specs for the general populous.

Ati has taken over the top end market in a period where nvidia due to its market dominance pushed itself into more profitable development. It's basically the same reason ford makes more money than ferrari. – by adzzy fx 5200 (11:42am est tue may 20 2003) the 5200 is slower than gf4 mx.

Yes it has directx 9 but it is so slow that it is useless. So why buy a fx 5200 that is too slow to use for today's games and way too slow for directx 9 games when they come out. You should buy a 4200 or a radeon 9xxx and replace it when directx 9 games are out.

– by spdrc haha geforce4 mx wins! (6:57pm est mon may 26 2003) i bought a geforce4 mx. Everyone says “you're a dumbass, what a crap card!” but you know what, it beats my radeon 8500le pretty bad.

My radeon tears, rips, and looks pretty bad most of the time. The gf4 mx does a nice job smoothing even in the “new and improved” (??) direct 9.

I'd really rather get a fx since my current ati does a real bang-up job with all the new games. Too bad the radeons are “faster” i think nvidia has better game and driver support. Every time i open up a read-me and hit the problems section, they have about 5 ati cards listed. – by james what geforce did for me (7:08pm est thu may 29 2003) i love nvidia. I upgraded from my old gf2mx400 (perfectly gd card 4 the time) to a gf4ti4200. And wot do i find my performance in all games, especially opengl was much much worse than before. As well as this, i get massive gfx latency and my whole system has been destabalised.

And nvidia has refused to help, if you search forums, there are hundreds of people with similar upgrade problems, put simply, nvidia cards used to be good, but their customer support is non existent. – by necr0 nvidia graphix (8:18pm est wed jun 04 2003) i am a custom pc builder out of va. I use pretty much all of the vid cards on the market today.

From my learning experience with these new vid card the “fx” series is that they suck. I run a stock gf3 ti200 that runs faster than a fx5200. Come on nividia whats up with that. Nvidia card used to be good but all this dx9 nosense that they have now is really hurting the performance of their cards. Anyone that is saying the nivida's are better ur system is not setup right for the radeon card by ati. By far the radeon cards are better. Ati has a better product performance and quality wise.

Why buy a new fx5800 or 5900 and sacrafice a pci slot by the overly huge but sorry fan they put on these cards. Radeon has my business all the way. – by fdt-tech price & performance (4:14pm est wed jun 11 2003) last year, i upgraded my gf2mx440 to a radeon 9000. I like silent pcs, so i like fanless graphic cards. Performance is important, but do you really need 209 fps?

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Most new games run perfectly with my configuration at 1024×768 and rarely drop below 25 fps, but this doesn't matter, since i don't play games where ultra-fast reaction is necessary. So in the end, i spend 100$ once a year for a new graphics card. For the same money i'd have to keep a gffx5900 for five years! Last words about ati: high quality aa, high quality tv-out. – by enduro wow (1:23pm est wed jun 18 2003) i just got the fx 5600 ultra and i am shocked! The graphics look so realistic! – by jason need a rocket barrage?

(8:53am est thu jun 19 2003) i didn´t know (of course til now) that radeon 9800 was way better than fx56000. I thought: if geforce 4 ti42000 was competing with 9xxx´s ati´s radeon series, the next gpu nvidia will release would be really outta this world big mistake – by fir termish ati or nvidia (3:30am est wed jul 16 2003) without either company i think the other would sit back,put out crap and raise the price for the crap. I think it's great they are fighting it out for all of us. I have a gf3 ti 500 and at the time it was the best,but it cost $300.

Now over a year later its less then $100 on ebay and it can play anything, for now. I also bought a ati 8mb allinwonder for $300, but that was many,many years ago. I think now i'm just going to sit back wait for a card to be out for a year or so,cause by then the drivers are great and they are only $100 instead of $300. – by nvidia & ati fan ati rocks! (1:46am est mon aug 04 2003) this year i bought an ati all-in-wonder radeon 7500 graphics card. In the beginning, some games didn´t worked properly, for example: c&c renegade´s weapons were lost, and havoc´s weapons were his fingers! The weapons were invisible!

But later i upgraded the drivers and the problem was fixed, and now i can enjoy the best graphics in the world. – by el loco (colombia) slow running geforce fx 5600 (9:48pm est thu aug 07 2003) i just bought a geforce fx 5600 w/256 ram and it runs slower than my old geforce2 with 32 megs of ram. If anyone knows whats wrong post-up. – by ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!

Awful noise (9:20pm est mon sep 15 2003) i got geforce fx 5600 with 128mb ram and the fan gives me a headache,it's truely awful.even when doing non-taxing 2d operations the damn thing whines its head off,making listening to music or watching dvds late at night an impossibilty. Very unsatisfactory. – by yuck geforce fx-nasty (9:25pm est mon sep 15 2003) i got a geforce fx 5600 ultra and the fan noise just gives me a headache.even when doing non-taxing 2d operations the thing whines its head off making listening to music or watching dvds quietly late at night an impossibility.when playing games the damn thing makes you want to just turn off after a few hours. Its truely awful.

– by yuck wtf (2:04am est sun sep 21 2003) nvidia fuckin owns. Sony will kill microshit with p3. Nvidia will make a comeback against the atitan assholes. Just like david and goliath baby wooo! – by roog187 geforce 5600 256 too slow?

(5:35am est thu sep 25 2003) i installed the card and also found it too slow! Until i increased my vidio apeture to match my new card. (from 64 meg to 256 meg) big difference on my set up, 92-120 fps playing counter-strike on-line w/cable modem via home lan. My mb only supports 4x agp, card 8x. Expecting more fps when i upgrade the mb.

So try the aperture size in bios – by lvs2mffdv apeture size (2:17am est sat oct 11 2003) your apeture in the bios should be set to half of your system mem. And about the fx5600u i love it. I will never buy a ati and its people like me that will keep them going.

Why would 5 or 6 more fps make you buy a ati. Nvidia has never let me down:) – by rhconcepts fx5200 (6:05pm est sat nov 15 2003) card sucks, in mohaa graphics are blocked, in the brest map.

I am running windows xp 1.8g amd, 786 meg mem. Fx 5200 128meg card.

I have had nothing but issue's. What a peace of shit the came out backwards and smeared it self on the toliet seat!!! I am pissed at nvidia – by 5200 sucks fx 5200-now i'm nervous (11:43am est mon dec 29 2003) okay, i've read all the bad- after buying an fx5200 256mb pci.

I'm just a dad who bought call of duty and wants to play it. I'm stuck w/ integrated intel 810e chipset on a p iii 700mhz- so i have to upgrade w/ pci. Wife says no big bucks won't this card handle the t&l requirements on call of duty? Won't it get me through the next year until i have a new box built, or should i take it back before wasting my time.

– by know little fx 5200 (4:19am est fri jan 02 2004) so, i'm helping my dad rig up his new custom box. When i wasn't looking, he choose the nvidia over the radeon 9200, figuring directx 9 support made it the better choice.

Well, we're using this on an nforce board right now and it is simply dreadful. Menu choices are all in little white boxes, warcraft looks like hell and dvd playback is choppy.

We installed all the latest updates, and it still looks like hell. I don't trust the card to do anything well. I'm truly shocked they find this card acceptalbe for sale. Nvidia is really using their reputation to push crap onto people. Don't buy this card! – by 5200 a joke distortion on graphics on geforce4 fx5600 (10:40pm est sun jan 04 2004) i have just bought a geforce4 fx5600 w 128mb yesterday.

I found that in some games, there will be some distortion on graphics. It will suddenly appear rectangular strip and disappear at once. I tried ffxi and 3dmark03 (in the game test).

I can find this problem. Anyone is having the same problem? I am running winxp/p4 2.6g and dx9.0b – by fergi response to bobafett and lies (3:04pm est mon jan 19 2004) umyou said something about it taking 90 minutes to render one frame with framerate of 24/sec on 1000 compy render farm. For a one hour movie, computing non-stop, that would take about 14+ years. Dumbass – by anon nvidia is a gonner (7:24pm est wed jan 28 2004) i have a radeon 7000 pci on my celeron, it runs vice city like a normal game. Its amazing how powerful ati cards are.

Nvidia in other hand, sucks. All my friend knows that nvidia is a gonner. I used to own a nvidia 420mx card, it gave me nothing but headaches, ever since i got the mx420, my pc kept on shutting down, the graphics keeps on kurrupting.

Then ati chaged everything – by fukmasterflex nvidia fx5200 (6:44am est fri jan 30 2004) the card is a peice of sh.t ive been dealing with this damn thing since i bought it! This plastic peice of garbage by nvidia gets slow frame rates for every game at any setting this will be the last time i ever buy a nvidia card ever again im planing on saving for a ati 9600 xt it smokes the nvchips on hl2 and doom 3 all of them so nvidia doesnt know what there doing there all a bounch of morons they dont know what the hell they were doing and there customer support treats you like a moron if there is a problem – by bornnbk ge force 5200 (2:01pm est tue feb 10 2004) i was going to buy a geforce 5200, but after reading all these reviews ive changed my mind. It looks like ati is going to put nvidia under.thanks everyone for helping me make my decision. – by nightowl upgrade from a gf 2mx 400 (10:30am est thu feb 12 2004) i want to upgrade from a gf 2mx 400.is fx 5600 worth looking for? – by amit i can't believe i just read this (3:42pm est mon feb 23 2004) entire article.

What a waste of time. Has anybody every taken an english class? – by 3rd grader angree (3:48pm est mon feb 23 2004) u is so very ineducated. Just cuz i no right good no mean that i no go to scool! I have very stronng opinon on how grafix cards is but just cuz i no right good no mean that i no have valid opionion. I think that ati and nvideo boths have good grapfix cards and that i no care your opuniun of me.

Get a life englesh boy. For me, i go play shootem game cuz i no care about shcool. I no can wait to play 1/2 life 2 and doom 3 and other game that are fun. U should be the 1 to go 2 scool and get a edumacation. Both the matrox and 3dlabs cards are designed for the professional graphics markets and so are designed specifically for the users (3dlabs: opengl and matrox: 2d-acceleration).

Professional workstations almost always are on a network and using windows nt or 2000 and the drivers are far better for those os's than the simplified non-nt os drivers. Sure for games, ati and nvidia kick-ass above any matrox or 3dlabs card, because almost all games use direct3d.

But try using the ati or nvidia ones for opengl3d or 2d-acceleration, and they fail terribly for high-end graphics. And why are the nt drivers for these so-called opengl nvidia and ati cards so pathetic?? They havn't got it right yet. – by aliensodp nvidia fx5200 flicker (12:12am est thu apr 14 2005) i have a problem with nvidia fx5200 128mb, which flicker at the very top lines of the display when i play lords of everquest. I tried the same game on other machine with radeon x300 32mb and radeon 9000 64mb, both works.

I have the latest nvidia driver for winxp sp2. Does anyone have the same problem? For me i am thinking of getting a radeon. – by mann i have a nvdia geforce fx 5200 (sony) (12:35am est fri apr 29 2005) my nvdia gf is screwin up my screeen is weird it only has a quater at the bottom takin off any one who has had this problem tell me how to fix it plz because im tryin to play muonline and it doesnt show the full screen – by help above post (12:54pm est wed jun 29 2005) to fix above problem (off center) and others.compressed air blown in the slot (agp) to clean it prior to install, then make sure agp card is seated correctly! And monitor cable is tight! – by corky graphics cards (9:18pm est mon aug 08 2005) i want to upgrade my graphics card. I have only pci slot.

What is the best cast put in my pc. I am using xp sp2. Mostly my work is 3d design and i also want to use it for gaming. Can you all pls recommend the not so expensive card but great in performance. – by eugene which card is better? (10:29am est mon dec 26 2005) which card is give better performance?

Geforce fx 5200 or geforce4 mx 4000? Fx5200 is dx9 compatible while mx isnt. Please suggest before i make a wrong decision – by arun geforce fx 5200 screen flicker (6:40am est tue sep 12 2006) i have issues about geforce fx 5200 it the screen flickers at random especially when the desktop screen is stationary for 10 minuetes anything to resolve this? Thanks alvin manila, philippines – by alvin geforce fx 5200 screen flicker (6:40am est tue sep 12 2006) i have issues about geforce fx 5200 it the screen flickers at random especially when the desktop screen is stationary for 10 minuetes anything to resolve this? Thanks alvin email:mjpcs@rocketmail.com manila, philippines – by alvin.

CUDA Application Support: In order to run Mac OS X Applications that leverage the CUDA architecture of certain NVIDIA graphics cards, users will need to download and install the 6.5.18 driver for Mac located New in Release 343.01.01f02:. Graphics driver updated for Mac OS X Yosemite 10.10 (14A389). Contains performance improvements and bug fixes for a wide range of applications. Includes NVIDIA Driver Manager preference pane.

Release Notes Archive:This driver update is for Mac Pro 5,1 (2010), Mac Pro 4,1 (2009) and Mac Pro 3,1 (2008) users only. MINIMUM SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS for Driver Release 343.01.01f02. Model identifier should be MacPro3,1 (2008), MacPro4,1 (2009), MacPro5,1 (2010) or later. Mac OS X v10.10 (14A389) To download and install the drivers, follow the steps below: STEP 1: Make sure your Mac OS X software version is v10.10 (14A389). It is important that you check this first before you install the 343.01.01f02 Driver. Click on the Apple icon (upper left corner of the screen) and select About This Mac. Click the More Info button to see the exact build version number (14A389) in the Software field.

STEP 2: If your OS X software version has not been updated, in the About This Mac window, click on the Software Update button STEP 3: Continue to install software updates until your system OS is reported to be v10.10 (14A389) STEP 4: Review the. Check terms and conditions checkbox to allow driver download. You will need to accept this license prior to downloading any files. STEP 5: Download the Driver File Download - STEP 6: Install After downloading the driver package, it should automatically launch the installer. If it does not, double-click on the driver package from your download target location.

It will guide you through the installation process. Click Continue after you read the License Agreement and then click Agree STEP 7: Click Install on the Standard Installer screen. You will be required to enter an Administrator password to continue STEP 8: Click Continue Installation on the Warning screen: The Warning screen lets you know that you will need to restart your system once the installation process is complete.

STEP 9: Click Restart on the Installation Completed Successfully screen. This driver includes the new NVIDIA Driver Manager preference pane, as well as an optional menu bar item for quick access to the preference pane and basic functions. The preference pane can be accessed normally through the System Preferences. It requires the user to click on the padlock icon and enter an Administrator password to make changes, and contains the following functionality: GRAPHICS DRIVER TAB: Within this tab, the user can switch between the NVIDIA Web Driver and the default NVIDIA graphics driver that is included with OS X v10.10 (14A389). If the user switches between drivers, they must click the Restart button for changes to take effect.

ECC TAB: Within this tab, the user can enable or disable ECC functionality on supported graphics cards. The user will see a list of their system’s PCI-E slots and any devices installed in them. If a device supports ECC, the user will be able to check the Enable Error Correcting Codes box next to the list. If the device does not support ECC then the box will be grayed out.

Once the user makes changes to ECC, they will be required to restart the system. NOTE: Currently, the only NVIDIA graphics card that supports ECC functionality is the NVIDIA Quadro K5000 for Mac.

Enabling ECC requires a portion of the graphics card’s usable memory size and bandwidth. In the Graphics/Displays section of your System Information, you may notice the “VRAM (Total)” amount of your NVIDIA Quadro K5000 drops from 4096 MB to 3584 MB when ECC is enabled. This is normal. UPDATES TAB: This tab shows the version number of the NVIDIA Web Driver that is currently installed on the system and also allows the user to check for updates online.

By clicking the Check Now button, the NVIDIA Driver Manager will ping NVIDIA’s master server to see if there is a newer version of the NVIDIA Web Driver available. There are also checkboxes for the user to allow the NVIDIA Driver Manager to check automatically for updates and to download them when available.

If a new NVIDIA Web Driver is downloaded automatically, the user will be notified when it’s ready to be installed. Automatic checking is on by default. MENU BAR ITEM AND UNINSTALLER: The NVIDIA Driver Manager also includes a checkbox to toggle a menu bar item on and off, and a button to open an Uninstaller app.

The menu bar item includes the functionality of the Graphics Driver tab and a shortcut to launch the NVIDIA Driver Manager. To uninstall the NVIDIA Web Driver and the NVIDIA Driver Manager, follow the steps below: STEP 1: Open the NVIDIA Driver Manager from the System Preferences or through the menu bar item. STEP 2: Click on the padlock icon and enter an Administrator password. STEP 3: Click the Open Uninstaller button. STEP 4: Click Uninstall and then Continue Uninstallation on the Warning screen: The Warning screen lets you know that you will need to restart your system once the installation process is complete. STEP 5: Re-enter an Administrator password and click OK. Once the NVIDIA Web Driver and NVIDIA Driver Manager have been removed from the system, click Restart.

NOTE: If for any reason you are unable to boot your system to the Desktop and wish to restore your original OS X v10.10 (14A389) driver, you can do so by clearing your Mac’s NVRAM: STEP 1: Restart your Macintosh computer and simultaneously hold down the “Command” (apple) key, the “Option” key, the “P” key and the “R” key before the gray screen appears. STEP 2: Keep the keys held down until you hear the startup chime for the second time. Release the keys and allow the system to boot to the desktop. STEP 3: The original OS X v10.10 (14A389) driver will be restored upon booting, although the NVIDIA Web Driver and NVIDIA Driver Manager will not be uninstalled from the system.