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Geforce 2MX -> Radeon VE Switch. Performance issues?

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Magicthyse

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Hi. I'm looking to do something temporary while still mulling over my new PC. I've got a Sony N80 monitor (which is the first component I've bought of my new PC-to-be) doing nothing at the moment, as my main desktop currently has a perfectly nice Iiyama 19" monitor. I'd like to use the monitor as well, in a multi-monitor environment.

The Geforce 2MX card in the PC at the moment only has 1 VGA connector. However I have a Radeon VE card with VGA/DVI/TV connectors.

I've heard that the Radeon has lower performance than the 2MX, so that was my original reason for sticking the 2MX inside the desktop. However I'm a bit curious before I do this - assuming I swapped out the Geforce 2MX in my desktop and put in a Radeon VE 32MB (with the DVI connector), what kind of performance hit can I expect in a) Rogue Spear, which is the game I play most, b) General Windows operation and c) DVD movies? Is there a performance hit associated with multi-monitor usage?


 
There is quite a large performance hit for 3D games, as they took out most of the 3D hardware on that card. The DVD playback will be improved, as will normal windows usage though. I think the VE scores close to the MX200.
 
The Radeon VE Blows the GF 2mx out of the water for everything except for gaming performance, it'd be just up to par with it because of a removed texture pipeline and no hardware TnL.
 
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