GeForce4 mx vs GeForce3

[Baztian]

Which one is better: the GeForce 4 mx440 or the GeForce 3 Ti200? And why?

Thanks for your reply,

Baztian

 

[wintek]

Geforce 440mx does not support vertex and pixel shaders. Geforc3 ti does. With vertex/pixel shaders you will have beutifull grafics. Shiny surfaces looks very real and clothing too. It is a hole new world. Try playing Q3 with vertex shaders on and I can garanty that you will play it alot more that you do. You hardly can reconize it with this on. Geforce4 440mx,I had one before my ti4200,is like a very fast geforce 2 with a little more colour and bit sharper. If you have geforce 3 ti 200 and someone replaced it with a geforce4 440mx I am not shure you would ever play again before you had got it back. Geforce4 440mx is only a little cheaper and sometimes a little more expensive than geforce3. Gf4mx does not support directx8 that means all the new 3d games would not look the way they should,actually they would look vey tiresome with saom dark shades in it-very annoying in fact. Go for Geforce3 ti 200 or even better Geforce4 ti 4200!

 

[Baztian]

Thanks for your information! I now know I´ve made the right decision to buy the GeForce 3 Ti200!

Thanks!

 

[Crashman]

The GeForce 4 MX is actually a GeForce 2.

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[10GHZ]

a GF4 MX420 is like an overclocked GF2 mx400
the GF4 mx440 performs on par with the GF2 Ti but gives better image quality and more support for directx 8.1
the GF4 mx460 is at about the same level as the GF3 ti200

 

[Crashman]

All are based on the GeForce 2 though, correct?

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[chuck232]

All the GF4MXs are like souped up GF2s. Just faster, not necessarily better. A GF3 would include a lot more support for future games. The only thing that the MX460 has that's good is the BGA RAM mmmm *drool*....

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[Myrmecophagavir]

Try playing Q3 with vertex shaders on and I can garanty that you will play it alot more that you do. You hardly can reconize it with this on.

Really? I didn't think it used them at all. In fact, didn't it come out a *long* time before GeForce 3s were available?

 

[Crashman]

Quick question, which versions of the Radeon 8500 have BGA RAM?

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[chuck232]

R8500 128MB and R8500LE 128MB. I have a R8500LE 128MB... only 3.6ns BGA RAM though instead of the 3.3ns I was hoping for. I stil got a 310/310 overclock on it though. Why were you wondering?

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[wintek]

They modify the game with patches.

 

[Crashman]

Gotta get me a new card.

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[chuck232]

LOL, I dunno, a GF4 Ti4200 seems to do a bit better on average, oh about 10%.

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[Crashman]

Not the features I want though.

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[phsstpok]

The 128MB cards, both 8500 and 8500LE, have BGA memory. The 64MB cards seem to be coming with SGRAM (DDR) but some of it is good stuff. (I'm talking about BBA cards. Don't know about the ATI partner cards). I've got an 8500 OEM 64MB with 3.3 ns memory which overclocks to 300/325 stable. Stangely I don't get better benchmarks than at 275/300. I don't know if my Tbird 150*10 and SDRAM is limiting me or if the GPU is throttling. The latter is simple to check with some additional cooling. I was considering mounting a Pentium heatsink but I used them all up on my Geforce cards. (Silver thermal compound and super glue make them hard to remove. If I got the mix right they will come off). The highest I can overclock is 308ish/346 but I get lots of texture corruption and it barely finishes 3DMark20001. 346 is as high as Powerstrip will let me go.

The BGA memory is nice but this Hynix DDR RAM is pretty impressive too. Still, 128MB is probably worth the extra money. Benchmarks seem to show that new games are doing better with this extra memory.

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