Yes it does. But where does it state that the only difference is the renaming of the hardware gpu?

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It's never stated anywhere, which is the point. ATi/AMD doesn't want the common public to know that the X1550 and X1300 are identical products, since if they sell more of the higher-priced, more-powerful-sounding X1550, they profit more. NVIDIA did this too with its infamous FX5200 & FX5500.

That's some bullsh*t! Thanks a lot ATI

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Ya. At this point I've just given up on trying to upgrade my computer. I think I'm just going to wait untill I graduate from college to build myself a new computer. Only 3 more years... ... *sobs**Crysis**sobs*

I feel your pain Wagan8r me too My X1300 is just too slow for some of the games i play

Be serious, these graphic cards belong in a musuem, I do understand that some people are restricted to a budget, but come on. Instead of spendig money on a obsulute pice of technology just dont make sence. Technology is advancing faster by the day, unfortunatly we have to keep up. Red Dog.

You obviously do not understand that not everyone can spend XXXXXXX amount of money on a new system just to upgrade the graphics card. Now that would be stupid. So you don't understand that people are restricted to a budget. You seem to think spending more money on a new system is the answer but you don't seem to know where the money comes from. And just because technology is advancing doesn't mean we should keep up. Most people here have "old" AMD processors. Why keep up when "old" tech performs well enough for you? I have 2 X1900s and they're already "old". But I don't go out and buy two 8800GTXs, even though I can.

I think that something is wrong with your machine...

My spec´s
AMD Sempron 2600+ 1.6GHZ L2 128kb Socket 754 Revision E6
DDR 256 PC3200 Kingston CL=3
Hard Drives IDE UDMA 5 Western Digital 40GB and Samsung 80 both´s 7200rpm.
Motherboard Asus K8V-VM Ultra Chipset Via K8M890CE
Audio Realtek chipset ALCxxx
Power Supply Logysis 480watts (total power 330watts)
Drives Optical= LG GSA-4163B Firmware A106 and LG GDR-8162B yeah i cant copy games for Gamecube....
Video card (it will update for one PCIexpress) PNY Verto Geforce FX5500 128DDR --- Clocks= 270mhz core, Memory 64bits 400mhz, Bus PCI card.
Drivers Omega 66.93

Default benchmark:
3DMARK 2001 SE
Score in 1024x768 32bit´s = 5435 3Dmarks (single buffer, all in stock, default in 3dmark)
Score in 640x480 32bit´s = 7635 3Dmark´s

Not is possible your score, maybe is bad config....
It will update soon with the image that verifies the score and spec´s.

Bye!!

Update link
http://i178.photobucket.com/albums/w...aphicscard.jpg

Bye!!

yep
i think the same because my 3dmark score with my integrated intel grphics (i have a p4 prescott 2,93 ghz , 2gb ram , a sata HD 7200 rpm
is about the same 5500 +/- , you x1550 should perform better.

First of all, learn how to speak flippin' English!

"Instead of spendig money on a obsulute pice of technology just dont make sence."

What the crap! That's not even a sentence, with an ungodly amount of grammer errors, and you misspelled 5 words!! You obviously don't realize that buying an "obsulute" "pice" of technology is the only option for some people. That's why this thread was started in the first place!!! Even if one of us buys a "non-obsolete" video card, where is it going to go may I ask? Oh look! We all have PCI slots! That means we need a new motherboard, a new CPU, new RAM, and probably a new case and power supply. Before you know it, we're well beyond our budget. Oh, and don't forget the operating system as most of us bought stock computers without a Windows CD. No andresmal, YOU BE SERIOUS!!! You noob.

I'll try it again soon. The 03 and 05 scores seem to be correct, so it must have been a setting in 3dmark '01 that was off. But what does it really matter? That's an extremely old benchmark. BTW, what is single buffer?

Vantage, could you also post a screenshot of the settings you used in the 3dmark 2001 benchmark? This will ensure that I've set them the same as you. Also, the x1550 card does score higher in 1024x768 resolution than the geforece 5500. How does that make the config wrong?

Sure, in previous post´s i have one mistake (single buffer lol), but I talk about the configuration of your machine.

My previous hardware is one Pentium III 1.0GHZ EB 133 FSB and 384MB SDRAM and my score always it was 4105 in 3Dmark2001SE.

This equipment is waiting for one update in processor with Powerleap or upgradeware, is only hobbie... (sorry for my bad english).

http://i178.photobucket.com/albums/w...eid/3Dmark.jpg

Bye.

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Yes there IS SLi for the Geforce 5200FX if you have a SLi mobo

Try ---www.lost.eu/42bbb---

SLI requires a PCI-E compatible video card, which the FX5200 is not. Besides, why run any FX card in SLI at all? And I don't see how it's related to anything in this thread. You're lucky I'm not giving you bad karma...

i need some help here
we already know something about the diamond x1550 pci but what about the his?
specs:

Maximum Resolution
2560 x 1600 (Digital)
GPU/VPU
Radeon X1550
RAMDAC
400 MHz
Fill Rate per Second
2.2 billion pixels
Pixel Pipelines
4
Memory Type
GDDR2
Video Memory
256MB
Core Clock
550 MHz
Memory Clock
800 MHz
Memory Bandwidth
6.4GB/sec.
Memory Bus
64-bit

Will this beat the diamond x1550
im asking this because im about to buy a pci card and i cant decide whic one, i dont care about the money, i just want the best
thanks for the help

It has a 64-bit bus, while the Diamond has a 128-bit one, which will theoretically beat the HIS one. But practically, both cards should perform the same since the Diamond card would never be able to fully utilize the 128-bit wide memory bus due to the limited bandwidth offered by the PCI bus. So in real life, you'd only see about a 5% performance difference between both.

I would get the one operating at the highest core clock frequency, even if it is a 64-bit bus. Also make sure the card has DirectX 9 cause a lot of pci cards on newegg.com surprisingly only supported up to DirectX 8

Dont some games require you to have a 128-bit bus though?

Hi,

I'm proud to join this thread. One of my Pc's is a humble Dell dimension 2350 with only PCI. Currently I have an FX5500 (oc 290/350) but was wondering about getting one of the PNY 6200 PCI cards. These appear to be 64-bit only though. Anyone think this will be an upgrade ?

BTW I have got around 70% of the value of old cards on ebay, so these PCI upgrades hold their value pretty well.

well
i know maybe the HIS is better, but i wont be able to use it because its sold for a low profile case (its very small wont fit on my case slot), so if there isnt an adaptor or something to make it fit on my case i will have to buy the diamond.
Is there something to make this small card fit on my case????