[a12ctic]

Hey, my friend has a crapy old ati rage in his computer pci, and we need a new gfx card, the best weve found is the fx5500, is that good enough? or should we keep looking?

[Muser]

That sounds fine! (I have NVIDIA 5200FX and do alright!)

[Nihilanth]

Heh, I have an ATI RAGE PRO in my older box. They aren't bad cards despite their age.

[a12ctic]

he wants to be abble to play cs :-/

[SpaceSquad]

an FX 5200 will do okay in CS:S...on low. i had one for awhile.

the BEST you can get in PCI form is a 5700LE...but it's still horribly crippled.

You may just wanna upgrade the mobo and get a AGP card...it would actually be cheaper...cause PCI cards cost a fair bit nowadays.

[Nihilanth]

uhh, what i use to play cs 1.6 (I assume your talking about) is a GeForce MX 4000 PCI. It was about 30 dollars at newegg.

I tried overclocking that rage pro the other day, and I got cs to start up at 40 fps.

[Oxygen]

Originally Posted by a12ctic

he wants to be abble to play cs :-/

That's a different problem.

[the0r3tic]

Originally Posted by SpaceSquad

an FX 5200 will do okay in CS:S...on low. i had one for awhile.

the BEST you can get in PCI form is a 5700LE...but it's still horribly crippled.

You may just wanna upgrade the mobo and get a AGP card...it would actually be cheaper...cause PCI cards cost a fair bit nowadays.

What fps did you get on CS:S with that card? I get 15-30 with same model, but I have a piece of shit Intel Celeron CPU,

[a12ctic]

Originally Posted by the0r3tic

What fps did you get on CS:S with that card? I get 15-30 with same model, but I have a piece of shit Intel Celeron CPU,

well he has a peice of shit pentium 3 600 mhz

[winter]

A 600 will not run cs:s i had trouble with a 750mhz with a ge force 5200. At minium it has to be a 1 ghz cpu