ATI Radeon 9200SE Or NVIDIA Geforce FX5200 ? (2 Viewers)

[torvie]

Which one is best?

 

[carreno]

Geforce FX5200 > DirectX 9

 

[BoelShit]

If you can miss some extra money I'd go for a passive N6200...

 

[torvie]

I need a cheap lowprofile card. What about the Mpeg 2 decoding? is that supported in both cards?

 

[giovifree]

i have bought this http://www.albatron.com.tw/images/product/it/vga/picture/big/agp6200al.jpg

and it works very well[/code]

 

[wortelsoft]

the 9200se is dx only so it's slow with mp.

good ati choices are:

9550
9600
9700
9800
all x series

 

[mojuk]

5200 kid - tho i'd consider the rest of the fully fledged 9x series especially a 9600pro if u can get it as its a nice little goer for reasonable money

 

[torvie]

hi
I have heard that Nvidia tv-out are not as good as ATI radeon, is that true?
/T

 

[wortelsoft]

That was mainly due to the fact that ati used to build their own cards and their was nobody else using their chipsets. The quality of the tv out is dependend on the quality of the used components.

 

[torvie]

HI
If i'm only going to use the computer for watching/record tv (using my hauppauge PVR-500), watch DVDs and surf the web.
Why should i get the GeForce N6200 instead of the FX5200?

Thanks
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