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  • SerienSerien Member CommonPosts: 8,460

    DARNIT! i wish it was canadian,...lol

    i emailed customer service as to free shipping...

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  • DjinDjin Member, Newbie CommonPosts: 3,263

    To bad you couldn't get what I'm buying and build it yourself.  I think my system is awesome for under $600! image

    And after that I'm not done.  I will be getting a new videocard,  and another 512MB of that RAM.

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  • SerienSerien Member CommonPosts: 8,460

    ...nice

    see the thing is...u already havae a monitor...I on the other handimage

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  • DjinDjin Member, Newbie CommonPosts: 3,263

    This is my monitor.

    http://h20015.www2.hp.com/en/document.jhtml?lc=en&docName=bph05048&prodId=hp19inchm913584&cc=us#P9_242

    Max res 1600x1200@75Hz.

    And I don't like my monitor... I don't have those silly speakers,  they where garbage.

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  • SerienSerien Member CommonPosts: 8,460

    nice....

    my dad said that even though if he pays me back i wont have enough to get the pc....hes gonna keep giving me 20bucks a day till i do!

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  • SerienSerien Member CommonPosts: 8,460

    Djin, does this card support DirectX 9? EVGA GeForce FX5200 128MB

    o yea...and a poll on what color pc/lights i should get

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  • DjinDjin Member, Newbie CommonPosts: 3,263

    Any GeForce FX card supports DX9.

    ATI 9700, 9800 do too.  I'm not sure about the 9600.

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  • SerienSerien Member CommonPosts: 8,460

    really now?

    i thought the lowest GeForce one that supported it was the 5200 ultra...i was mistaken

    woot that saves me moneyimage

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  • SatansDiscipleSatansDisciple Member Posts: 2,782

    im not sure but i think the 9500 might as well... i know the 9600 does. and any fx card supports dx9.

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  • herculeshercules Member UncommonPosts: 4,925

    The word "supports direct x 9" has been thrown around by ati and nvidia and has caused the required effect people panicking that their older cards will not work.

    I know someone that actually threw out his geforce4200ti and got a fx5200 in its place!!!

    Why because he read that geforce4ti do not support direct x 9 and did not have the money for the fx5600 so bought this and threw away a better card then the fx5200.

    Truth is the word is actually "fully support" which basically means this cards have been tested fully with direct x 9 and if anything goes wrong this companies will provide support ,if you have a problem with direct x 9 on this newer cards ie the fx series.

    It sure as hell does not mean it will not work on older cards and can tell you i have tried direct x 9 b (latest version of direct x 9) on a tnt2 card(ancient card!!!!) and it passed all the tests!!!

    If you need to confirm this get any card no matter what it is  and how old and run the full test on dxdiag.exe and i can guarantee nearly all cards will pass without a problem.Yet to hear of one that failed to use direct x 9 fully.

    If you want to upgrade your card for better system performance then by all means do but not rush into it because of a notion direct x 9 will not work with your old card like my friend  did .

    In the end he discard a much better performing card for a worse one simple because of that notion.

    Oh and he went back to his ti4200 after i explained it to him and after he saw how laggy the fx5200 was with SWG for him  LOL(SWG is a direct x 9 game).

     

  • DjinDjin Member, Newbie CommonPosts: 3,263

    I could get DirectX 10 to work on my TNT2/Ultra,  what I'm trying to explain to Murt is this.

    The 5200 series of the GeForce FX FULLY supports DX9,  meaning you will get all the great "extras" DX9 has over DX8.  Better shadders,  smooth shadows, better bump mapping, etc.  My GeForce 4MX "supports" DX9,  but it's only really optomized for DX8.1.

    See what I'm going with this?

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  • SatansDiscipleSatansDisciple Member Posts: 2,782

    whoa whoa whoa... dx10?

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  • DjinDjin Member, Newbie CommonPosts: 3,263

    I was using that as an example... there is NO DX10 kiddies. . .

     

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  • SerienSerien Member CommonPosts: 8,460

    lol i was wondering too...

    but yea...tahts great that geforce fx supports direct x 9..oops im sorry i mean FULLY supportsimage

    thanks for the insightimage

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  • SatansDiscipleSatansDisciple Member Posts: 2,782

    games that will require dx9 will install it automatically... and i dont think theres a way to go back except reformatting.

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  • SerienSerien Member CommonPosts: 8,460



    Originally posted by Gunblade

    I believe we should from now on leave murt alone and for him to discover his answers on his thus he will also learn more by reading about other things on PC's.....image 
    also just cause it supports DX 9 doesn't mean it will have all the bells and whitsles of DX 9 and performance so with those cards 5200, 9500 you should just run them with DX 8.

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  • SatansDiscipleSatansDisciple Member Posts: 2,782

    i for one do, some1 lock this thread, use google! search more that page 1! or the google directories site, i forget the site.

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  • herculeshercules Member UncommonPosts: 4,925

    Actually you do get all the "bells of whistles" if you upgrade to direct x 9 .Basically when you upgrade to the next direct x the old one is completely overwritten thus the warning (yeah there is one we just never read them) to make sure your computer hardware is 100 percent compatible.

    Again all the support means is that you are guaranteed that the graphics card will work with direct x 9 and failure to do so you can return the card.But is it does not have the symbol saying it is fully supported you are on your own.

    As long as your hardware has the required features eg T & L,the direct x 9 will recognise it and use it.

    However,if your card does not have the feature to begin with(back to mentioning old  TNT2 here hehe) it will ignore it .

    Thus you do stand a greater risk of direct x 9 not working on the card the older the card is because some of the features the direct x 9 uses have not been invented at time of card production.

    So round up 1)all the features will work IF you card has been build with them in first place

    2)older cards stand less of a chance to work with them

     3)all FX series have full support of direct x 9 

    4)loads of publicity been thrown around to get people to buy their newer cards.You have to remember the geforce4 is not old  and they have to give people a reason to dump them espically since only the $400 dollar fx5900 got a good review while the fx5600 and fx5200 got a blasting on reviews.Since most people would think twice about buying the fx5900 due to cost(amazing card by the way) they need to promote the rest.

    Heck why do you want this thread locked ?Not like anyone insulting anyone here and this is one of the few threads that talks about of the graphics card and since this site is about MMRPGs it is essential.

    System specs unlike in offline or small online games is essential  for mmrpg so a useful thread.

    Also this stands a chance of hitting the 1000 post thread !!!!!

  • SerienSerien Member CommonPosts: 8,460



    Originally posted by hercules

     3)all FX series have full support of direct x 9 
    Also this stands a chance of hitting the 1000 post thread !!!!!



    hehe thanks......im glad mine will support fully direct x 9....

    o yea,.....this is one long topic.....im pretty sure it wont die till i get my pcimage

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  • Odin1985Odin1985 Member, Newbie CommonPosts: 342

    and that when???????

     

     

    btw djin cn you tell a good computer specs? to see if i cna build one

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  • SerienSerien Member CommonPosts: 8,460

    odin...try this

    AMD Atholon processor with atleast 512k cache

    512mb pc3200 ram

    80gb hard drive SATA - if possible

    GeForce FX 5200 128

    cd rw

    floppy

    Asus motherboard

    fans etc etc etc

    try that image

    o yea......i have $120 as of today.......with $20 a day...I CAN ALMOST GET MY MACHINE!

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  • SatansDiscipleSatansDisciple Member Posts: 2,782

    grr... some of us work and dont make half that... uhhh sry... anyway, im gettin basically the same thing except 120 gig hd and gf mx 440 integ. graphics

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  • SerienSerien Member CommonPosts: 8,460

    I GOT THE PIC!

    when looking at it...keep these things in mind.....

    Case if Green

    Lights are Green

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    hehe i LOVE IT!

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  • Odin1985Odin1985 Member, Newbie CommonPosts: 342
    well murt something of that can't get be bought here :P they don´t arriveimage

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  • herculeshercules Member UncommonPosts: 4,925

    Still say you be rather better off with a ti4200 then that fx5200(it is a mx after all  even ndvidia admitted it  is an "upgrade in the mx line" with a new name).

    If you are worried the ti4200 will not work with direct x 9 games then go check out the SWG board  most popular card in use is the ti4200 and seems no one complained about problems with it(SWG is a direct x 9 based game even says you must download direct x  9 before playing the game on box).

    The AGP x4 ti4200 is almost same cost as  fx5200 and a heck of a better card.Add a couple of bucks more and you have the AGP x 8 one which clocks nearly same performace with the fx5600 .

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