which is the lesser evil?

[uther100]

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 ?

 

[eden]

Ironically it would be the GTS. Crashman's likely to agree.

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[c0d1f1ed]

If you have both why don't you test both?

 

[Crashman]

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]

GF2 GTS

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[uther100]

At half the memory bandwidth thats what I figured

 

[uther100]

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 ?

 

[Crashman]

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]

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[Spitfire_x86]

GTS also has twice fillrate

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[jmecor]

remember the gf2 gts destroyed 3dfx's chances of survival

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