PNY GeForce FX 5200 PCI 256 MB 2 Port VGA + S-Video Graphics Card VCGFX522PEB - Retail

by PNY

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 11 x 6 x 2.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B001E42QGM
• Item model number: VCGFX522PEB
• Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (130 customer reviews)
• Date first available at Amazon.com: August 11, 2008

Product Description

From the Manufacturer

From the Manufacturer PNY offers an entire lineup of graphics cards based off of NVIDIA’s GeForce graphics processors to enhance your visual computing experience. Whether looking for a smoother Microsoft Vista experience or faster frame rates in today’s latest games. With bus types ranging from PCI, AGP to PCI-e 2.0 and memory buffers ranging from 256MB to 1GB, PNY has the card for your specific computer configuration and application need.

Microsoft® DirectX 9.0 Optimizations and Support: Ensures the best performance and application compatibility for all DirectX 9 applications.

128-bit Studio-Precision Color: The industries best image quality for the most demanding applications.

GeForce 5200… High-Performance, High Precision 3D Rendering Engine
PNY's GeForce FX series offers increased performance at great prices. Experience film-quality effects, studio-quality color and industry-leading performance for the most demanding applications.

Advanced Display Pipeline with full nView Capabilities
NVIDIA® CineFX engine delivers film-quality effects and studio-quality color for every application. 128-bit Studio-Precision Color provides the industry’s best image quality for the most demanding applications. Supports Microsoft Windows Vista Basic.

PNY offers an entire lineup of graphics cards based off of NVIDIA’s GeForce graphics processors to enhance your visual computing experience.

Key Features

• NVIDIA® CineFX™ 3.0 Engine
• Integrated TV encoder
• Microsoft® DirectX 9.0 Optimizations and Support
• Digital Vibrance Control 3.0
• 128-bit Studio-Precision Color

What’s in the Box
NVIDIA® FX 5200 PCI Graphics Card, Quick Installation Guide, Installation CD.

Product Description

Leave the dull world of integrated graphics technology behind and enter the World of Cinematic Computing. The NVIDIA GeForce FX-Series graphics cards deliver industry-leading features and performance enabling special effects on par with Hollywood films. Engineered for compatibility with the latest software, the GeForce FX-Series graphics cards is the only Microsoft DirectX 9.0 GPU in its class. NVIDIA CineFX engine delivers film-quality effects and studio-quality color for every application. 128-bit Studio-Precision Color provides the industry¿s best image quality for the most demanding applications. Supports Microsoft Windows Vista Basic.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

41 of 42 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Very good value for money, January 9, 2007

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S.E. Poza (Rimersburg, PA) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: PNY Geforce FX5200 256MB PCI Graphics Card (Personal Computers)

This is an excellent card for owners of older or low end machines who cannot use newer PCI-E slots or AGP. I have a 3 year-old eMachine which this installed easily in and worked well with. Prior to installing this card, 3D games were jerky and nearly unplayable but this card fixed that up quite well.

Be forewarned though that it won't overcome the limitations of a sluggish or cheap processor. It will improve the look and feel as well as screen refresh speed. If you've got a poor integrated graphics chip which off-loads a lot of the graphics rendering tasks onto your CPU, this will help tremendously. It'll also reduce the possibility of overheating.

As a bonus, the card adds a video port as well as S-video (S-video is commonly missing from low-end PCs). S-video allows you to see your computer's screen on your television as well as interface with S-video devices (such as video capture boxes and cameras).

One note about installation though, you will probably have to disable the driver for your integrated video chip to get the card to function.

26 of 26 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Works on my old Dell E310, September 23, 2009

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Sim (Seattle, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: PNY GeForce FX 5200 PCI 256 MB 2 Port VGA + S-Video Graphics Card VCGFX522PEB - Retail (Personal Computers)

I picked this up recently for less than $30/- and installed it on my old Dell E310 which required a much needed boost. My machine have only PCI slots (and 1 PCI-E 1x) so a PCI card was obvious choice.

Pros:
- Very easy to install (whole process took less than 5 minutes)
- Decent performance for my old machine
- Supports 2 monitors
- Boosted my Vista Experience score (for 3D) from 1.0 to 2.9
- Vista Aero features now run flawlessly on my machine (they would not run on older card).
- Vista installed drivers automatically (I had to do nothing as far as device drivers are concerned)
- Movies and Pictures look a bit better (more sharper with better colors)
- Very competitive price

Cons:
- Absolutely none so far

This card thou does not seem to be powerful enough to run modern games, older games should be fine.
Definitely recommended for home users who cannot upgrade to PCI-E cards.

Update: Feb 2010
I updated to Windows 7 few months back and this card is actually performing even better in Windows 7. For some reason after install, windows experience score (for 3d) came down to 1.0 but after few days and a windows update the score was boosted to 3.0. I am more than satisfied with this cards performance on windows 7.....

Update: Dec 2010
I formated my disk drive and reinstalled fresh copy of Windows 7. This time windows 7 was not able to find the driver. Downloaded and installed the driver from nvidia's website (it was not there on PNY's website) and it works absolutely fine now - very minor inconvenience, its still a 5 star. I also have 2 monitors hooked up and the whole setup works flawlessly with this card.

16 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Upgraded from integrated graphics controller and can see a huge improvement!, November 26, 2007

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R. Webster "RaySildur" (Lynn, MA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: PNY Geforce FX5200 256MB PCI Graphics Card (Personal Computers)

I have a Dell dimension 2400 desktop with an integrated video/graphics controller (Intel 82845G/GL/GE/PE/GV Graphics Controller) After reading the reviews on this site, I wasn't certain that the geForce FX 5200 would be much of an upgrade over what I already have. But, I installed the card last night and it is great! I've been trying to play games like Half Life2, Star Wars: Battlefront 2, Counter Strike Source, NBA Live 2004, etc. on my PC for a while. And, although these games do run, there is a considerable amount of lag and slowdown which really ruins the gameplay. Especially in games like Half Life2 where there are a lot of things on the screen at the same time. Like a huge open area. Outside maps run extremely poor. But, the geForce FX 5200 gave it enough of a boost where the games run seamlessly, with little to no lag/slowdown. The graphics are noticeable better (lighting, textures, shadows). The load times are faster. I'm very thrilled that such an inexpensive card could make such a big difference. There were maps I couldn't even play on Half Life 2: Deathmatch. But, I played them after installing this card and they run with no problems. I have never used a high-end graphics card before, so I have nothing to compare this card to. But, it is a huge improvment over my integrated graphics chip that came preinstalled from Dell.