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General Forums => Hardware and Software => Topic started by: hblair on October 27, 2003, 11:32:36 AM

Title: Looking at a video card
Post by: 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.
Title: Looking at a video card
Post by: BB Gun 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.

BB
Title: Looking at a video card
Post by: Roscoroo 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.
Title: Looking at a video card
Post by: hblair 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.
Title: Looking at a video card
Post by: Roscoroo 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.