the "PNY - Verto GeForce FX 5200 Graphics Card " is from Bestbuy, and I wanted to knwo if the GC is good enough to play WoW with decent graphics. I chose this cause its the most affordable for me at bestbuy, since its gonna be used for WoW. WoW recommends GeForce FX 5700 or above, and the one I want to buy is 5200? good enough or not...please help Im not a computer person...
2007-07-16 10:54:49 · 9 answers · asked by Allen D 1 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Add-ons
For WoW you can probably get by, but I wouldn't waste money on an FX5200 in this day and age. Does your motherboard only take old PCI cards?? If so, then get the Radeon X1550 like someone suggested earlier.
If you've got either an AGP or PCI-Express slot, there are much better cards available for about the same price, like a GeForce 7300GT or 7600GT.
2007-07-16 11:11:52 · answer #1 · answered by C-Man 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Asus version of the FX-5200 is a bit better
it comes with software driver to Overclock
however the Fx-5200 can only do up to GLI 1.4 shaders
for WoW that should be fine but for newer leading edge
MMO's you may have disable advanced texture features
to drop the lag factor
2007-07-16 11:01:15 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It will be very chooppy and may lock up. Try looking at newegg.com, zipzoomfly.com, or tigerdirect.com for the best prices. I like newegg the best. If you are not very computer savvy, you also need to make sure that you are buying the correct vid. card...some are AGP and other are PCI if your motherboard can take a PCI...then that is the way to go.
2007-07-16 10:59:14 · answer #3 · answered by Dude 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i just got the 7600 card that the guy above me is talking about for $55 including shipping for amazon.com and my fps in wow went from 6 to 50 my god i can do instances and i never knew the graphics were so well in the game its amazing
2007-07-18 19:26:42 · answer #4 · answered by little78lucky 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hmm... after looking at the specs... you could probably do it, but you might get some serious lags and cutoffs at times :/
It's on http://www.buy.com/ for $54.99
I can't seem to find any specs for the 5700 Series Model, but whatever brand you get, I'd recommend one with 256MB or greater memory.
2007-07-16 11:04:22 · answer #5 · answered by Edenlost S.S. 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Not really... It'll run WoW, but not well. While there aren't a whole lot of good PCI cards, you can do better than that. You should get this: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814161074 X1550, it'll do much better than that FX5200.
2007-07-16 10:58:55 · answer #6 · answered by William E. Roberts 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Don't buy any of the 5xxx or 6xxx series.
Get a 7600, its very affordable.
Or a Radeon 1600.
Or if you can, an 8600 or 2900
2007-07-16 11:06:35 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
no!
Don't go to bestbuy. Instead, go to newegg.com and for a similar price, grab an nvidia 7600GT or something...
2007-07-16 10:56:41 · answer #8 · answered by ? 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I think that the answer for your question is this
http://youtube.com/watch?v=9eq1sa0-0oy...
2007-07-16 10:57:06 · answer #9 · answered by corcax 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋