geforce 4 mx440se or radeon 7200 agpx4 both sdram? both 64mb

[BmXStuD]

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(dont care bout gf t-4200 or other radeon cards)jsut theses two which one would you pick for my system?

 

[kurt454]

For outright frames per second, the Geforce4 MX would probably be a little faster. Both would have to be run at fairly low resolutions because of their low memory bandwidth.

 

[AnAndAustin]

The GF4MX440SE is firmly ahead, you're about GF2TI speeds while the Rad7200 is closer to GF2MX speeds. It is well worth paying a little more for a FULL GF4MX440, GF4MX440-8X, Rad7500, Rad9000 or even better a Rad9000PRO, Rad9100 or Rad8500!

 

[TheCorm]

The MX440SE is essentially an MX430....it sits between the MX420 and MX440.

Anybody know why companies call it SE.....doesn't SE mean special edition....whats so special about a slower than average MX440!!??

Corm

 

[AnAndAustin]

Well originally nVidia cards used MX to denote the cut down versions and Ultra, then later TI to denote the 'special' versions. Of course that changed with GF4MX being more of a GF2-TI-2, obviously GF4MX was a naming to appeal to the big OEM's and less knowledgable users. Since then of course ATI have really hammered down the pressure and nVidia have released some questionable AGP8x versions (esp GF4TI4800 & GF4TI4800SE) and the SE (much like Radeon LE) versions, once again it is simply to allow manus to produce fast sounding cards which again are a good thing from the perspective of the big OEM's and can once again catch out the less knowledgable purchaser. Of course some manus (esp Albatron) have already used SE to denote 'Special Edition' and it's certainly clear that the GF4MX440SE and GF4TI4800SE are nothing at all special. MX440SE is still easily on par with GF2TI, Rad7500 and Rad9000 (excluding 9000's DX8) and that is something the MX420 wasn't quite able to do...