Wow, Geforce FX 5700LE sucks!

[Blomberg]

Geforce FX 5700LE sucks!

I second that.

I own one of these (PNY Technologies FX 5700LE) and they range in the low end of the FX series along with the FX5200 and what have you.

In my humble opinion, calling it something with "5700" borders on deception, as its specs are closer to that of a Ti4200 (around 250 mhz on the core, 500 mhz for the RAM, 4 pixel pipelines).
Incidentally, that's what i originally had (it broke, the store swapped it under warranty to the 5700LE, since the Ti4200 was no longer in production at that time), so I'm not complaining, but the LE is certainly no match for the latest generation of games.

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I found Doom3 to be rather demanding and I doubt many systems can manage to run it properly with all the bells and whistles at a very high resolution, save for the top of the line ones, maybe.

[Blomberg]

@ DonnyEMU

What does the 5900 Ultra have to do with anything? I was talking about the 5700LE which seems to represent a dip in the (arguably already underpowered) FX line, that is if you follow the numbering scheme (low is bad, higher is better).

I already know the 5900's are relatively good performers, I use an XT one myself (clocked to about Ultra specs when needed).

[Blomberg]

DonnyEMU wrote:
The point of bringing this up is someone was saying the entire line sucks.

Well yeah, but it wasn't me. I just don't understand you quoting the bit I said about the 5700LE, because this card does indeed suck for anything other than office work and 2 year old games.

Also, my point was that he could probably overclock to get better performance (or at least acceptable)..

I don't think it's worth the trouble with this card. I'm not sure if the chip on it really is a 5700, but in any event my particular 5700LE is a very poor overclocker, I only ever managed marginal increases with CoolBits. Seems to me that in case it really is a 5700 chip, it must be a very crippled one, because it comes nowhere near the 425 mhz on the core a full 5700 is supposed to run at.