The Nvidia 5100XT Video Card

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Is this a decent card? I would like to run doom3, will this do it?

― 57 7th (calstars), Monday, 16 August 2004 02:24 (twenty-one years ago)

No because it doesn't seem to exist (at least I couldn't find any reference to it anywhere). Any Nvidia card from a Geforce MX-440 (a card that's a couple of years old) with 64 mb of RAM and up will run it (without some of the effects) so long as your machine has:
MS Windows 2000/XP
Pentium 4 1.5 GHz or Athlon XP 1500+
384 MB RAM
8x CD-ROM
2.2 GB of HD space
Broadband (for multiplayer)

If it's a card like an FX5200 then you'll be just fine with all of the effects enabled. The game itself will sort out what to do with your card.

― Bryan (Bryan), Monday, 16 August 2004 03:36 (twenty-one years ago)

fx5200 is a worthless lump of shit, don't touch it with a 60ft pole! you'll regret it.

as for 5100xt, er, there's no such model as far as i'm aware. do you mean the 5900xt? if so, it's a pretty decent card (i have one). obv it doesn't compare to the new 6800, but it's comparable in performance to the regular 5900 but a lot cheaper. it's a very capable mid-range at a budget price. i bought the MSI version since it has great cooling which allows for lots of overclockage, if you're so inclined. i boosted mine from 390mhz core speed to 470mhz and memory up fromm 700mhz to 780mhz. a decent increase. and yes, it runs Doom3 pretty well (average 30-40fps 1028).

― g-kit (g-kit), Monday, 16 August 2004 06:52 (twenty-one years ago)

Check it, yo!

http://episteme.arstechnica.com/eve/ubb.x?a=tpc&s=50009562&f=67909965&m=844003222631

― Jarlr'mai (jarlrmai), Monday, 16 August 2004 07:55 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm going for a Radeon 9800 Pro.

― 57 7th (calstars), Monday, 16 August 2004 09:46 (twenty-one years ago)

Get the 9800Pro from HERE - £125 inc vat and delivery. According to the customer comments most of them are being shipped with the R360 core and you can flash the bios and turn them into ~9800XT cards.

I got one last week and am playing Far Cry in all its glorious watery detail before I buy Doom3. Haven't tried overclocking it yet.

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Monday, 16 August 2004 10:02 (twenty-one years ago)

I have a 9700 Pro 128MB and a Athlon XP 2400 @ 10x200FSB with 1GB RAM, I can run D3 800x600 at high, some slow down but it's still okay.

― Jarlr'mai (jarlrmai), Monday, 16 August 2004 10:52 (twenty-one years ago)

slowdown probably caused by high detail - 128mb ain't enough

― g-kit (g-kit), Monday, 16 August 2004 12:18 (twenty-one years ago)

I had a GF5600 on my system, with only 128 megs of VRAM, and it crawled when I tried to run Doom 3 above 1024x768. I swapped it out for a Radeon 9800 XT and it's much better. I'd still like the GeForce 6800 or the Radeon X800 but you know, you takes what you can gets.

― Sean Carruthers (SeanC), Monday, 16 August 2004 12:24 (twenty-one years ago)

FYI, here's a Tom's Hardware comparitive guide to video card performance in Doom 3.

― 57 7th (calstars), Monday, 16 August 2004 13:21 (twenty-one years ago)

I know 256 for high, 512 for Ultra, but I refuse to run any lower...

― Jarlr'mai (jarlrmai), Monday, 16 August 2004 13:35 (twenty-one years ago)

bah. I'd wait til HL2 before upgrading any hardware to run a game, but that's just me.

― Lt. Kingfish Del Pickles (Kingfish), Monday, 16 August 2004 14:27 (twenty-one years ago)

yeah me 2, it preloads on Steam soon.

― Jarlr'mai (jarlrmai), Thursday, 19 August 2004 08:24 (twenty-one years ago)

i want a 6800 so bad. anyone want to buy a grandmother?

― g-kit (g-kit), Thursday, 19 August 2004 08:40 (twenty-one years ago)

Does she have DDR?

― Jarlr'mai (jarlrmai), Thursday, 19 August 2004 08:49 (twenty-one years ago)

hey memory is failing, actually

― g-kit (g-kit), Thursday, 19 August 2004 10:30 (twenty-one years ago)

thirteen years pass...

holy moly NVDA stock has appreciated from $30 to $250 per share in less than three years!? Does anyone know why?

― rip van wanko, Monday, 6 August 2018 14:11 (seven years ago)

maybe related to their graphics cards being used to mine bitcoin

― ||||||||, Monday, 6 August 2018 14:13 (seven years ago)

yeah that god help us. also forced the price of graphic cards way up.

― the Joao looked at Jonny (Noodle Vague), Monday, 6 August 2018 14:40 (seven years ago)

there are a bunch of GPU compute tasks other than bitcoin, although that is what probably sold the most cards

doing a lot of machine learning and analysis tasks are better on a GPU so every cloud provider has bought a zillion cards. that kind of shifts the demand from a variable model based on how many gaming enthusiasts are buying single cards to large corporate customers buying in bulk, with a sustainable demand

― mh, Monday, 6 August 2018 15:14 (seven years ago)

i thought the ether market crashed and burned and that prices on video cards are plummeting!

― Arch Bacon (rushomancy), Monday, 6 August 2018 15:49 (seven years ago)

It’s also autonomous vehicles, lots of compute heavy tasks there. I’d assume the share price assumes future growth.

http://www.nvidia.com/object/autonomous-cars.html

― American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Monday, 6 August 2018 21:37 (seven years ago)

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