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Great card.

Had an integrated Intel onboard on my DELL PC. This card has changed the way i game!

Superb!

ive got a dell dimension 1100 celeron pc with an intel interaged graphics card which is a diaster for trying to play these mordern games. I have also purchased counter strike source (great game) from amazon and found out it didnt work cus my existing graphic card does not support the game.

I didnt really no much about graphic cards, so i browsed through the internet and read posts forum, articles before i purchased one because i wanna make sure i get the right one, saves me the hassle of returning it. After surfing through the net about graphics card for 2 days i came upon xfx geforce 5200 graphics card, after getting through the first hurdle i now had to find out which type of card i needed (agp or pci). After reading more reviews and articles i was positive that the graphic card type i needed was pci.

I got the product and was happy that it worked with my computer and did what i wanted

I got this card couple of months before as an upgrade from motherboard integrated graphics. Installation was straight forward. Open the case, pop this card in the PCI slot, screw it to place, power up the computer, Lo And Behold! the computer recognized it as an nVidia 5200 PCI device. Windows XP driver installation was a breeze with the supplied driver CD. With this card my ageing Win XP desktop comes alive again. I'm running this card with resolution of 1280 x 1024(naive) on my 17" lcd monitor with no probs. Now to the gaming part- NFS underground 2 looked pathetic running on this card. Its playable at 1024 x 768 resolution and low detail setting. I didn't bother trying FarCry with it. But hey you wouldn't be hardcore gamer if you are looking at this range of cards. I tried this card with Linux distributions like Ubuntu, Yoper, Linspire, SUSE etc with failure. I got kernel panic with those distros each time I fire them up. So be cautious using this graphic card with Linux though nVidia cards are said to be working well with Linux. It could also be my own hardware causing the panic. All in all this card is a good value buy for those of u have no other choice than "PCI" graphic solutions. So if you use this card for normal word processing, watching DVDs, browsing the net, PowerPoint's and every other thing except playing latest games, it's a champ. Remember the overall performance (in gaming) depends on type and amount of RAM you have, processor etc. (for reference my pc specs : Pentium 4 2.00 GHz, RAM- 1 GB DDR, mercury mobo with 3x PCI slots)

Update: Regarding kernel panic, I found out that my other hardware is the one interfering with the card and causing panic. I managed to boot Slax by disable commands in the boot screen. And boy doesn't it look wonderful at maximum resolution. So if you want to dual boot into Linux, by all means this card will work magically. I can say this because, now the distros recognize the card at boot and also I don't have to do any additional tweaking and NO driver installing for it to work at naïve resolution. Even Win XP didn't do that!

A great card that performs aswell as some £100+ ones and yet cost less than £50, for such a low price its a bargain.

I have also got a dell which has a disapointing intel intergrated extreme graphics cards, but with this 128mb card i can run all the games that are even out now like doom 3, san adreas, call of duty 1+2,pacific assualt was a bit crappy- still playable
but are on a medium-low quality although call of duty run like a beauty, this is not a bad card at all!!!!!
its must buy as its cheap and to be honest if you have been looking around this is what you are going to end up with anyway so stop looking and get it already!!!