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which is the lesser evil?

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Uther100   08-22-2003 at 11:27:19 PM

I'm putting together a spare computer out of old parts and I have a Geforce4 MX420 and a Geforce2 GTS both at 32 mb which card is the better of the two ?

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Eden   08-23-2003 at 12:01:02 AM
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Ironically it would be the GTS. Crashman's likely to agree.

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c0d1f1ed   08-23-2003 at 01:32:43 AM
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If you have both why don't you test both?

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Crashman   08-23-2003 at 01:34:36 AM
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The GeForce2 GTS.

The GeForce 4 MX series works kind of like this, they enhanced the GeForce2 GTS with some new gimicks and called it the GeForce4 MX440. Then they cut that down to 1/2 performance like the old GeForce2 MX200, plus enhancements, to make the MX420.

There's also the MX440SE, which is similar to an updated GeForce 2 MX400.

So the GTS should be the fastest of those two.

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Spitfire_x86   08-23-2003 at 02:07:59 AM
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GF2 GTS

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Uther100   08-23-2003 at 02:17:18 AM
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At half the memory bandwidth thats what I figured

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Uther100   08-23-2003 at 02:21:18 AM
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Here's something how about overclocking the gts does not oc very well I never got it over 5% with default cooling. How about the mx420? it has passive cooling and I don't feel like adding any. Do you think with the more modern parts and a little higher memory clock it could pull ahead ?

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Crashman   08-23-2003 at 03:08:00 AM
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The GTS uses DDR memory, the MX420 SDR memory. Both are 6ns, so the GTS has TWICE the memory bandwidth from the start!

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Crashman   08-23-2003 at 03:08:36 AM
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Spitfire_x86   08-23-2003 at 03:58:38 AM
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GTS also has twice fillrate

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jmecor   08-23-2003 at 08:40:17 AM
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remember the gf2 gts destroyed 3dfx's chances of survival

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