Which card is the better?

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jordan172005

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I had a MSI 6200LE PCI-E video card that I sold with my computer. I am about to get a FX5900XT in the mail ( hopefully tomorrow ) and am wondering weather it will be better or worse than the 6200le? If it help any the FX5900XT is made by Aopen which comes with a 20mhz overclocked GPU core.
 
Wel the 6200 has more features, but slow as a snail, so the 5900XT should be faster, but you're gonna have to force directx8 in some games such as HL2 to avoid the performance hit.

Unless they fixed that issue but I doubt it.
 
Even though the 5900XT is of the older and much worse FX architecture, since it was a higher end card at the time it should be quite a bit faster than the rather slow 6200le. The 5900XT will have inferior image quality compared to the 6200 though.

Chris
 
well with the 6200le I play COD2 at 1280x1024 using DirectX 7 and max texture settings. will the 5900xt also be able to do this? will it do it any better or worse?
 
How much power will this card consume? I have my case set up so I can hook another power supply in there but am not sure if it's needed. I have an austin 450w powersupply with 18a on +12v but I have a 150watt power supply with something like 10 or so amps on +12v. System specs will be as follows.

MSI KT3 Ultra-ARU
AMD Athlon XP 2200+
2x 512mb nanya pc2700 DDR
2x 40gb maxtor 7200rpm ata100
1x Magic I/O 16x DVD burner
Aopen FX5900XT
Austin 450w

Will the 450w alone be enough or should I put the 150w in there to power just the video card?
 
The 450W alone will be fine.

The FX5900 was a pretty cool card before the 6800GT came out.
The only blight on its character is the lack of 24bit support in its shaders. It did support 16bit and 32bit tho.
As pointed out by aZn_plyR and iceTraxX, this means games like HL2 which are written to use FP24 shaders in Directx9 had to use FP32 to get the same image quality.
It made the card a lot slower in those games when using DX9.
The fix is to force the card to use FP16 or use DirectX8 and get a slight drop in quality.
 
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