I was originally just going to get the 5200, but someone told me to go with the 5700LE... im new to this stuff, so im lost on what everything means and which card is better overall.
I'm wanting to play Half Life 2, FFXI, and World of Warcraft. Yea, I know i'm not going to get anywhere close to the highest settings but I just want the best possible for a PCI card in this price range.(Up to $100.. i'm buying 512MB of memory also.)
So if you have experience with these cards, please let me know which is the better overall choice. Can someone explain what over clocking is too? I've read that some people overclocked the 5700LE and have HL2 running on the highest settings. Over clocking sounds like something I would screw up and ruin my computer... any details on that would be great.
The very 1st Graphic card i got was a FX5200 and they suck, i would go for the FX5700le for sure, i have the agp version and have had no probs yet. As for overclocking it am not sure.
I know this has nothing to do with this topic, but can anybody please tell me why the framerate slows down whenever there is smoke or fog effects in a game?
PC Specs:
Radeon x300SE
512MB RAM
145GB HDD
3.0GHZ Processor
Do any of the parts need like a driver update or something?
Either go with the FX5200 or an FX5900 or up. Don't waste your money on the little move up with the FX5700 or LE. See my sig, I have actually both and not much difference between them. Spend a bit more and move up past them.
HP AMD Athlon 64 3800+ 2.4Ghz
1.5 Gig DDR SDRAM PC3200
200 Gig Harddrive 7200RPM
Nvidia Geforce 8600GT 512meg(PCI-E)
Windows XP Media Center 2005 Edition
