nVidia GeForce FX5200 (NV34) Video Card Review
Daytona GEF FX5200
Video cards of this manufacturer have always stood out with their low price and middling manufacturing quality.
The video card has the AGP 2x/4x/8x interface. The layout is nonstandard, which isn't strange at all, because Daytona video cards feature in their specific layout and design. The cooling is standard, passive and is a needle-shaped mid-sized radiator.
Cooling efficiency on such a chip is rather disputable, since the video card was heating up immensely anyway, and in its overclocking it is desirable the fan be replaced with some more suitable. The memory chips are not covered with radiators.
The video card is equipped with 128 MB memory and offers 6 ns of access time. The memory made by PMI is marked as HP58C2128164SAT-6. That's where the cause of missing memory cooling is - the slow 6 ns memory does not heat up much.
The clock speeds of the core and memory in Daytona GEF FX5200 are 250 MHz and 150 (300DDR) MHz, respectively. Warning! The memory operation frequency in this board is lower than it should be as per nVidia's latest recommendations (200 (400DDR) MHz).
The card has a standard set outlets: analogous, digital (DVI) and TV-Out. The TV-out is implemented by the GeForce FX 5200 chip itself, because the TV-Out features are already integrated in it.
It sometimes comes shipped in a box, but the package bundle is like in the OEM version, i.e. the Daytona GEF FX5200 card plus a drivers CD.
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