Just recently had the "luck" to find a "ultra deluxe" version of this from a junk PC: the 256MB 128-bit one made by Connect3D. It managed to get a score of 6450 in 3DMark 2001, in a Socket 939 machine, with a slightly OC'd Athlon 64 3000+. I guess it's not much better than 64-bit ones, but I didn't test it any further in this machine either.
I also have one, but it runs in almost every PC, even in very old AGP 2x slots... And these old PCs, e.g. Intel LX, often have bad voltage converters that cannot supply the strong cards with enough power. Therefore, this is the ideal upgrade card for 90's computers. Of course much too slow for Pentium 4 and Athlon XP or newer and can only be used as an office card. In addition to the AGP version, I also have one in PCI design in the old socket 7 PC from 1996 and Win 98 SE 😁 DOS games also work wonderfully with it
"Of course much too slow for Pentium 4 and Athlon XP or newer and can only be used as an office card." Haha, tell that to the guy who built our PC in 2004. Sempron 2800+ (S754 K8 "Palermo" not some 462 crap!) 512MB and an HIS 9250 128MB. I think it was a 128bit version at least.
@@jm036 It is clear to me that these cards were sold at Athlon 64,754 times. Which still doesn't make it any better. The 9250 was a long-outdated DirectX 8.1 card with the technical level of an 8500. Serious games from 2004, 2005 and 2006 could no longer be played well or at all with it. The part was only installed and sold cheaply in large numbers and could be found in every office pickle. That's why I say it's good for old PCs.
The Cockroach Card. You always find one when you shake a box of random PC gear. Good fill in's for windows 98 retro gaming machines, until you can find something better. I have a few of them, but haven't found one of the rarer 128 bit versions that are really a good improvement. For cheap shit Win98 gaming, it is usually this vs FX5200's, with the Radeons being slightly better, but not having the support for palletised textures and table fog that affects some games. Like the Radeon, the FX5200 64 bit is the worst option, with the 128 bit being much better.
9250 is a directx8 graphic card, so no surprise, that doesn't run well directx9 games. In directx8 games setting color to 16 bit should help a lot. A mean, if this magic works with fx5200 64bit version, then it should definitely work any ATI card.
i got an a3 2017 for €3 in may 2023 at the flea market it was frp locked i unlocked it i had a p20 screen fell off and cable ripped i have been using the a3 since late august 2023 barely usable since the curse of 16gb of storage and exynos
For early 2004 the 128-bit 9250 was slow. The 64-bit 9250 was... a SNAIL. It barely was a little faster than the GF 2 GTS released 4 years earlier, in the year 2000.
this was the first grapics card i ever bought, it was top of the line from what i remember when i got it. cost like 200$ or somthin like that if my memory serves me right. idk i was really young.
You are doing gods work, nobody else wants to review stuff like this.
Great video :)
The R9250 128bit version was so underrated!
Just recently had the "luck" to find a "ultra deluxe" version of this from a junk PC: the 256MB 128-bit one made by Connect3D. It managed to get a score of 6450 in 3DMark 2001, in a Socket 939 machine, with a slightly OC'd Athlon 64 3000+. I guess it's not much better than 64-bit ones, but I didn't test it any further in this machine either.
For UT2004, I use a program called UMark to bench it, and you can use any map.
I also have one, but it runs in almost every PC, even in very old AGP 2x slots... And these old PCs, e.g. Intel LX, often have bad voltage converters that cannot supply the strong cards with enough power. Therefore, this is the ideal upgrade card for 90's computers. Of course much too slow for Pentium 4 and Athlon XP or newer and can only be used as an office card.
In addition to the AGP version, I also have one in PCI design in the old socket 7 PC from 1996 and Win 98 SE 😁 DOS games also work wonderfully with it
"Of course much too slow for Pentium 4 and Athlon XP or newer and can only be used as an office card."
Haha, tell that to the guy who built our PC in 2004. Sempron 2800+ (S754 K8 "Palermo" not some 462 crap!) 512MB and an HIS 9250 128MB. I think it was a 128bit version at least.
@@jm036 It is clear to me that these cards were sold at Athlon 64,754 times. Which still doesn't make it any better. The 9250 was a long-outdated DirectX 8.1 card with the technical level of an 8500. Serious games from 2004, 2005 and 2006 could no longer be played well or at all with it. The part was only installed and sold cheaply in large numbers and could be found in every office pickle. That's why I say it's good for old PCs.
PCI-version = OKAY+ for Socket 7 Boards/Machines!
Using composit with old crt tv you can get actually decent ps2-like gaming experience on this card
The ATI 9250 was also a popular pci card.
The Cockroach Card. You always find one when you shake a box of random PC gear. Good fill in's for windows 98 retro gaming machines, until you can find something better. I have a few of them, but haven't found one of the rarer 128 bit versions that are really a good improvement. For cheap shit Win98 gaming, it is usually this vs FX5200's, with the Radeons being slightly better, but not having the support for palletised textures and table fog that affects some games. Like the Radeon, the FX5200 64 bit is the worst option, with the 128 bit being much better.
Also got a ATI Radeon 9250 recently. With 128MB video RAM and 64bit bus. It is a Gigabyte GV-R925128DE.
9250 is a directx8 graphic card, so no surprise, that doesn't run well directx9 games. In directx8 games setting color to 16 bit should help a lot. A mean, if this magic works with fx5200 64bit version, then it should definitely work any ATI card.
i got an a3 2017 for €3 in may 2023 at the flea market it was frp locked i unlocked it i had a p20 screen fell off and cable ripped i have been using the a3 since late august 2023 barely usable since the curse of 16gb of storage and exynos
Remember flatou2 with this GPU on wxp.
Amazing card, low price when you can play with no money😢
I think I had this card back in the day!
For early 2004 the 128-bit 9250 was slow. The 64-bit 9250 was... a SNAIL. It barely was a little faster than the GF 2 GTS released 4 years earlier, in the year 2000.
64 bits not so good, but 128 bits ia good
Yeah no sht. Wtf is wrong with you?
this was the first grapics card i ever bought, it was top of the line from what i remember when i got it. cost like 200$ or somthin like that if my memory serves me right. idk i was really young.