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Guest Martin@Home
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Just purchased an AOPEN GeForce4 MX440SE 64MB DDR AGP RP VO

(£32 quid from Dabs!) to replace my GeForce2 MX400.

I am running an AMD Athlon XP 1800+ processor with 256MB DDR Ram.

Have looked all over the web trying to find opinions on this card but they go from "Crap.... You wont notice any difference from your GeForce2" all the way up to "This should at the very least double the FPS you are getting".

Does anyone have any Ideas what sort of performance increase I can expect ?

Also.... What the bloody hell does the RP and the VO bit mean ? :? :?

Guest Monolithix [MVP]
Posted

RP/VO are just brand names (no doubt someone can expeand on that).

And unfortunately the low end GF4's are no great improvement and GF2's. From a GF2MX you may notice some improvement, but nothing too major. You can pick up GF4 Ti4200's for under 100 quid now...

Guest ajb3000
Posted

RP = Retail Package (I Think!)

VO = Video Out

Yes you will notice a reasonable difference over a GF2 MX400

Guest Martin@Home
Posted
Yes you will notice a reasonable difference over a GF2 MX400
And unfortunately the low end GF4's are no great improvement and GF2's.

Aaaargghhhhh ! Its happening again LOL :lol:

Guest Martin@Home
Posted

But seriously, thanx for your opinions ... :lol:

Posted

No serious improvement unfortunatly. The geforce 4 mx series are just gf 2s in disguise

Guest Martin@Home
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No serious improvement unfortunatly. The geforce 4 mx series are just gf 2s in disguise

Doh ! Not being to hot on the subject, I just assumed that a GeForce4 was 2 releases better than a GeForce2 ! Oh well, only £32 quids worth of cock up I suppose..... :cry:

Guest Monolithix [MVP]
Posted

Dabs allow returns don't they?

Guest Martin@Home
Posted

Please note..... Not a warez question !!!!

Is 3dMark available as a free download anywhere ? Maybe an older version perhaps. I want to do a comparisson between the two cards.

I have 3dWinBench but its not that good......

Guest Martin@Home
Posted

Cool ! Just found 3dMark2000 available free from the mad onion site. Its no longer supported so is available free.

Guest ajb3000
Posted

There are shareware versions of all versions of 3DMark available to download from their site for free, also it's no longer called MadOnion, it's now FutureMark :lol:

Guest Martin@Home
Posted

New question....

Whats the difference between the 440 version and the 460 version ?

Cos the 460 version appears in the top ten cards (hall of fame 2003) on the "FutureMark" site.... (albeit in 10th position LOL)

Guest Will
Posted

so erm if i wanted a sub 100 quid good geforce card? can i get some recommendations??

current card hercules Kyro Prophet 4000xt

I don't NEED tv out or digividblock thingy

Will

Guest Martin@Home
Posted

So my New card scores well over twice what my old card does then ?

But I wont notice a lot of difference ? :? :?

<------ Very Confused

Guest ajb3000
Posted

I said you would notice a reasonable improvement.

Good card sub £100 = GeForce 4 Ti4200 or Radeon 8500.

Guest Brody
Posted

sub £100 video cards eh??

GF4 ti's and radeons are your best bet (i prefer the gf's personally :wink: )

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Guest Monolithix [MVP]
Posted

The 8500 is a very nice card, not as good as the gf4 ti4200 though :lol:

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