PNY GeForce FX 5200 256MB PCI Graphics Card $29 at Staples.com

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I want to charge Staples $29 to take this crap from them and dispose appropriately.

king0fSpades said:I want to charge Staples $29 to take this crap from them and dispose appropriately.

Actually I agreed with that. Everyone should be able to afford at least either a old end 6x or 7x series. Or a Radon X1x00.

For Call of Duty, you'd be much better off buying an old PCI NVidia Ti 4200 card. The 5200 lies somewhere between a Ti 200 and Ti 300 card. Check out eBay. There are a couple there for the same price range.

Before I read the price on this deal I was thinking it better be "make money after rebate"

nsdp said:For what it is the price is a good price for a 256mb memory graphics card. If your choice is this or an ATI 8mb Rage or Intel D-Sub graphics built in a Server MB, this is a good deal. The quality server boards come with SCSI, PCI and PCI-X slots and a onboard graphics chip; no PCI-E or AGP slots. PCI graphics cards of any quality are hard to find, Hell of a note when a $1200 MB comes with garbage graphics but that is the way it is.

To what end are you going to stop shilling for AMD/ATI products? You revealed yourself to be a AMD/ATI company man/shiller when you think a FX5200 card is currently worth $25, and is a good deal.

MeraNamJoker said:Just couple of months back I got 7200 PCI-e card FAR !!!
I had bought 5200 FAR a full YEAR BACK.. north pole coldI have a couple of EVGA brand FX5200 cards from Fry's that were FAR. At first I thought they were better than the PNY brand card from Staples because it had a much bigger heatsink and capacitors that were each about twice as large and seemed to be the solid type, not the wet type. But those capacitors turned out to be both wet and junk, and most of them exploded (picture. OTOH nothing like that happened on the PNY card, probably because the capacitors were Sanyo brand.