radeon 9600se vs geforce fx5200

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just_hamish

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I am planning to upgrade my graphics card for about £50 as a short term fix (low budget i know!) Having looked in this price bracket i have come up with the radeon 9600se and the geforce fx5200. In terms of Half Life 2 which would perform better. At the moment im running a geforce 4 mx440 and it runs pretty good on low settings.

So the 9600se or the fx5200?

or maybe another card for about £50 would be better?

any suggestions?
 
get atleast a 9600pro se's are really bad might as well keep the mx if your getting a se
 
wakkkos right, don't go with an se, not enough power. I have a 9600 standard with 256mb. I think that's the minimum anybody should have to run the game. It looks nice, medium at 1024x768, and it can do even better. I'm being held back by my xp 2000+. I'd stay away from nvidia for hl2. They're having too many problems with this game.
 
I've run HL2 on two machines, both have ATI cards. One is a 9600xt and the other is a 9800pro. Both units use an AMD 2800 cpu on a Gigabyte MB. HL2 performed well on both. My buddys got a 3Ghz pentenium 4 with a Nvidia 6800 and he can't play at all, he is not happy!
 
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