Author Topic: Looking at a video card (Read 240 times)

hblair · « **on:** October 27, 2003, 11:32:36 AM »

I used to know the ins and outs of the hardware, what was good and what wasn't, etc. But I've been away a while and have a question, Is a Geforce 4 mx440 64 meg card a good gaming card? I have one and might put it in my gaming machine. Thanks.

BB Gun · « **Reply #1 on:** October 27, 2003, 11:37:06 AM »

Its essentially a souped up Geforce2. Not worth it.

see http://www.hitechcreations.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=99850 for current crop of vid cards.

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Roscoroo · « **Reply #2 on:** October 27, 2003, 12:12:28 PM »

The GF4 mx 440 still works for gamming its not as good as say an ti4600 or the 9500 -9800 ati cards ..

But it will play ah2 . and alot of other games . at least its alot better then a 32mb card .along with the fact its a ddr ram vs the older sdram cards.

Cash wise its the best value card out there right now 45.00 us

In the next year+ though the new games will get more demanding then what the 64mb cards can support though ..

Stay away from the 42.xx 45.xx drivers though with the mx cards .
some guys say they work .. but for me they didnt work on 3 pcs.

hblair · « **Reply #3 on:** October 27, 2003, 12:45:43 PM »

Thanks guys, here's the deal, I'm running an ati radeon 7800 ( i think its a 7800) It's at least two years old. I just discovered our new server here has a mx440, which I would think would be a considerably better card than I'm running at home now. I'm thinking of swapping them out.

Roscoroo · « **Reply #4 on:** October 27, 2003, 01:35:46 PM »

Im not really shure which card is better .. they are bolth 64mb cards .. the 7500 is more of a tv/dvd oriented card. along with still costing more then the Gf 4 mx 440 card.

i think it depends on the maker of the gf4 card and if its the 4x or 8x card, i think theres 8 different manufactures of the gf4 cards.