satan

looking to get a cheap simple reliable
and effective card
that will do good graphics
1280*1024 @ 32bit with a fair/good frame rate
will this card do it ?



Inno3D TORNADO GeForce MX400 64MB
Nvidia GeForce 2 MX 400 Chipset
AGP 64MB SDRAM


anyone had any experience with this card ?

any comments would be nice

GREEKRAGE

Well it depends on what you are gonna be doing with it.

If its gaming at 1024x768 @32 bit well i dont think its gonna play that good
especialy on a new game with alot of demands on graphics.
For it to play at thise setting you gonna have to really lower texture settings
making it look really bad.

There are alot of ways to gain FPS but always at the cost of quality unless you pay for a good card.

I suggest getting a GF4 mx card (alot cheaper than a GF3 ti 500) and have slightly less performance than a GF3 (about 5 to10%) but alot higher than the gf2 mx(close to 75% higher)

Look at the prices here at the online store to see that 30 extra dollars makes awhole lot of difference:

DH graphics card prices

like i said above this only my suggestion but after playing the first game you gonna regret not listening to me

GREEKRAGE

PS

Did some research for you:

The tornado specs

and

The MSI card on DH online store

Oh note : check out its software and game bundle.


im really pushy aint i ??

I hate to see people making bad buys thats all..

BTW you didnt tell us how much you are getting the gf2 for ?? (my guess if new around 70-75 dollars) and even more if you live in a small town and the retailer is
sneeky.

Matth

Out of the DH store list, I'd also pick the Radeon 7500 as a potent budget card ... price/performance, probably the best of the lot.

But from the UK, these guys are worth a look
http://www.ebuyer.com/customer/produ...VzdWx0cw%3D%3D

If that link works, you should see a list sorted by price:
The Radeon VE - pretty slow, but cheap for a vid-out card and excellent for DVD movies.
The 7000 with DVI - not great, but cheap for DVI interface (digital LCD panel) card
- and about equal to the GF2 MX in performance

http://www.ebuyer.com/customer/produ...D%3D&offset=10
The 7500LE (oops, "LE" version may be chopped in some way) - or a 7500
** we're now BEATING the 2MX by a good margin already!


Lets see if the next page has any stars!

http://www.ebuyer.com/customer/produ...D%3D&offset=20

A reasonably priced Geforce 4 MX440
And what on earth is a Radeon 9000 - seems too good to be true, so the 9000 cannot be a top-class model, surely!
http://www.anandtech.com/showdoc.html?i=1655
It's a cut-down 8500, but still retains hardware DX8 capability - intended as a "Geforce 4MX killer" - and the tests show it trading punches with the fastest of them - the MX460 ... just wait until DX8 becomes crucial!
And the same tests also give a pretty fair showing for the 7500
Ooops! - the tests are for the 9000 PRO - the 9000 is clocked a little slower (250/200) instead of (270/275)

http://www.ebuyer.com/customer/produ...D%3D&offset=30

Now I'm gonna PUKE!
http://www.ebuyer.com/customer/produ...duct_uid=33775
A GEFORCE 3 Ti200 - real DirectX8 hardware - will run the GF4 MX440 close in DirectX7 applications, and blow it out of the water in DX8 - see ALL the tests in 3DMark 2001

When I think what I paid (though it was less) for a vastly inferior card

And finally
http://www.ebuyer.com/customer/produ...duct_uid=36089

A **REAL** Geforce 4 - not the crappy cut-down MX (the worst cut-down so far, since it lacks the features that MAKE a 3 or a 4 - but a REAL, DX8-bustin' Geforce 4 ... only the weenie 4200 version though!


Nvidia have snipped, trimmed, memory bandwidth halved - and done it BADLY, for far too long - and the Geforce 4 MX (little more than a tuned-up Geforce 2) riding on the back of the DirectX8 HARDWARE Geforce 4, is just a VERY BAD JOKE!
Let's hope the joke turns out to be on them!


I must add - I have NOT dealt with them, but the regualrs at Net4Nowt (where I saw this place) seem to be reasonably happy with them.

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Ryoko

for current games, you'd be lucky to get 20fps. go with the gf3ti200, you'll get very playable speed.