Geforce 2 MX M64

[666Viper]

I have just purchased a graphics card, the Geforce 2 MX m64, and seen the memory clock speed at 286mhz...
the drivers for the card say it is a DDR card, but i have been told that DDR ram runs at 350mhz +... who is true?

thnx,
Viper

 

[BurntKooshie]

It's DDR. DDR is just like any other kind of ram -- it can run much slower than it's designed for if you wanted to. the ~350mhz stuff is for the GF2 GTS (lower end, I think), higher stuff is for higher speed chips, and lower speed stuff is...well....for lower grade stuff

The chip you have is slower because the chip is castrated, the frequency of the memory is slower (than a GF2), and the bus width is lower.

 

[Boogak]

DDR memory can run at any speed, just like any other type of memory. Usually it's used in high performance video cards so you see high DDR numbers in spec sheets. Do they make a GeForce2 MX m64? I thought the m64 only came in TNT2 flavors.

 

[InFecTed]

There isn't any GeforceMX m64
Do you mean MX200? They are pretty much what the m64 was with the TNT2.
And DDR is just a commercial trick on MX cards because it's only 64bits, the regular MX sdram been 128bits. In brief 64bits DDR = 128bits sdram, no advantage.

 

[666Viper]

er... there is a geforce 2 mx m64, cos im currently using one
i c about the DDR ram