Difference between these PCI cards.

[FrustratedUser]

OK, lowtech time:

Which is quicker; GF2MX PCI or a GF4MX PCI

 

[bluemax]

4-MX should be more than 4x as fast. depending on model....

4MX-420 sucks and is barely noticably faster than 2MX-400.
4MX-440 or 460 are rarer in PCI, but would rock along at GF2 Pro or Ultra speeds. Awesome for PCI.

 

[FrustratedUser]

That 'wink' makes me suspicious

Great for PCI? True or not?

 

[bluemax]

Best you're gonna' get at this point. Better and more reliable than a Voodoo5 PCI which is near-impossible to find.

So long as it's an MX-440 or 460, you'll be quite pleased with it.
I just winked because PCI doesn't usually get high-speed video cards which are almost universally AGP.

 

[FrustratedUser]

I just asked because I have one of these famous i810 chipsets w/o AGP and I have a GF2MX PCI and it works well.
Today I went by Best Buy to pick up some small things and they had the GF4 440 PCI for ~$50. I thought 'hmmm... is this good?'.

I am planning on a new rig sometime pretty soon.

Edit: It was a GF4MX 420 not a 440

 

[sMashPiranha]

You already have a PCI GF2MX? If so I recommend you stick with it until you upgrade your system. The PCI Bus is too much of a bottleneck on a video card, wait til you can get a decent AGP card.
You could have a Geforce4 Ti 4600 on your PCI slot (if they made one in PCI) and it probably wouldn't be that much faster than what you have now, because of the bottleneck.

 

[spanky]

gf4 mx(anything but the 420)

 

[bluemax]

Agreed. You'd be better off replacing the motherboard. Something by SiS is cheap and good. You can use your existing video card or sell it to get something better.

I'd recommend going to an SiS motherboard with integrated video (if money's tight) and sell the i810 mobo. Maybe CPU as well if you want to move to AMD and get a cheap, awesome Duron. Sell the PCI video card since you'll get a little premium for being a Geforce PCI and get an AGP card when you can.
Something much, much faster like a GF3 Ti200 or Radeon 8500 for around $100.

Then you've been upgraded across the board without breaking the bank.

 

[FrustratedUser]

Thanks bluemax (and others).
I forgot to say my current rig is a Compaq so I'm going for a major upgrade later on. something like:

NForce 415d
AMD XP
GF4 Ti4200 or GF3 Ti200
60 Gb HD
New case
DVD + CDRW combo