Nvidia Inno3D GeForce FX 5200

The 5200 FX represents the next generation?s equivalent to the MX line of previous GeForce versions. Now before you start moaning about ?another MX? you should remember that this card is fully DirectX9 compliant. This is a shift from the MX lines that always seemed significantly hamstrung with not fully supporting their respective era?s version of DirectX. Not here, NVidia seems to really want to make a go at reclaiming some of their market share. DirectX 8 brought programmable graphics to the table. The problem with this was that it was too complicated and involved for programmers to work with efficiently. With DirectX 9, these same programmable graphics have ...  Read the complete review

**Update at the end** ~**The Whys and Wherefores**~ I guess everyone knows that technology advances, the ravages of time and demands of users and gamers alike means that computers must keep advancing and programmers keep on filling up the gap. To this end the life of your PC is limited. But all is not lost, there is no reason why you should purge your entire machine and shell out hundreds for a new one. Rather you should and can replace the parts that are becoming defunct. For the most part any avid gamer will see two things become redundant, the processor and the graphics card. Faster and more powerful components are released at a rate of ...  Read the complete review