Are the gforce 4 MX cards any good?

[LordJezo]

Less the $100 for them.. are they any good though, or POSs?

 

[bjc112]

POS

no Direct X 8 support...

Get a Radeon 8500 if ur on a 100$ budget...

 

[DeschutesCore]

I wouldn't call it a POS, they can be had fairly cheaply. But I agree with bjc112, Radeon 8500 or find a Ti4200.

DC

 

[LordJezo]

Are the 4200s any good though?

 

[bjc112]

the 4200's are sweet... most can be overclocked to at least Ti4400 level....

Regardless, your games will run fine...

 

[Mem]

Are the 4200s any good though?

Good performance and very good value for money so yes .

 

[DeschutesCore]

I picked up my MSi Ti4200 64MB DDR with DVI, DVI adapter, SVideo out, and a huge game bundle two months ago for $147. I'm sure that's come down now. It uses 3.6ns ram instead of the 4.0 of the 128 version. I overclocked to Ti4400 levels on the stock cooler. Very nice card, fully DX 8 compliant.

Last price check indicates they run around 134 for the eVGA model.

DC

 

[Athlon4all]

The GF4 MX's are as bad as people say they are, but there are better options avialable, like the Radeon 9000/8500, not to mention the Radeon 7500 gives the MX440 a run for its money as well.

 

[Jeff7]

Based on the info I have on the GF4 MX, it's a Geforce2 with some of the optimizations of the real Geforce4's - that Lightspeed Memory II technology, and new anti-aliasing techniques. But as has been said, it lacks DirectX 8 support. You'd probably be better off getting a Geforce3 or Radeon 8500 card, or of course if you want to put the extra money into it, a Ti4200.

 

[majewski9]

I think the GF4 MX has gotten a bad rep. It isnt a good card for future 3d games, bu it is perfect for the non-gamer and people who play games that dont use DX8. It also has TV ecoder built in as well as MPEG2 hardware acceleration which is something the TI series lacks.

 

[McCarthy]

Why would a non-gamer be buying a nVidia card to start with? A GF2 runs games about as fast, might as well pick up a GF2 for $30 or a GF3 which is faster that a 4MX or best of all, get one of the Radeon 9000/9000Pro's when they show up, better performance, cheaper (or they better be) and some oddball features that work outside of games.

Though why a non-gamer would have anything above a Trident 9680 PCI I don't understand. Or a Matrox if they wanted better 2D quality.

 

[Judgement]

MX and gaming = evil

 

[CubicZirconia]

Though why a non-gamer would have anything above a Trident 9680 PCI I don't understand

Non-gamers don't normally build their own pc's. Hence, they buy oem. Large numbers of oem manufacturers build their pc's with geforce mx cards as stock equipment. So, equally large numbers of non-gamers have video cards "above" the trident 9680.

 

[SteelCityFan]

A non gamer is going to want high quality 2D, and Nvidia isn't exactly a market leader in that department... add in the crappy job some companies do in making the cards and well...

I popped out a TNT2 card from my work pc, and put in a Radeon 7000... what a difference.

 

[bulldawg]

Originally posted by: Mem

Are the 4200s any good though?

Good performance and very good value for money so yes .

Agreed. Plus, you can get a little more out of the card by overclocking it.

 

[Athlon4all]

Originally posted by: majewski9
I think the GF4 MX has gotten a bad rep. It isnt a good card for future 3d games, bu it is perfect for the non-gamer and people who play games that dont use DX8. It also has TV ecoder built in as well as MPEG2 hardware acceleration which is something the TI series lacks.

Agreed, in today's games, they are decent, but the R8500/9000 totally smashes them both.

 

[anexela]

Does Radeon8500 have DVI? What is a good card with DVI for non-gamer (use Phooshop a lot) for ~ $100?

 

[gf4200isdabest]

GF4 MX=suck
ATI 8500=good and cheap
GF4 ti4200=better and more expensive

anexela; I'm pretty sure the 8500 has DVI. Check at any online store with a decent description to find out...