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Geforce or Geforce II MX??

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WishMaster

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I was all set to get a GeForce then today I saw that their coming out with a Cheaper Version of the GeForce2. www.planethardware.com did a Review of it. It looks decent, good for the money. but im a little confused now. I was saying well i could get a GeForce DDR...then if i was gonna spend the money on that. i might as well spend another 40 bux to go for a Geforce2. Any Suggestions?
 
Konichiwa - do you know when and where I can get a geforce 2 MX? I've been looking for a few weeks now. I know they're not out yet, but I'm not sure of exactly when they're supposed to come out. Thanks
 
I'd wait for the NV20. Apparently September release. More like November, just b4 Xmas is more likely.

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Yea, but it will cost you your leg. Im sure the most basic NV20 will carry a price tag no less than $450.
 
i doubt NV20 will have that high of a price tag i'm sure they will be no more that then 350 like the current ones and maybe highest being 450 like u said for one w/ more ram or something the other geforces will drop down (remember nv20 is brand new not an upgraded geforce256 like the geforce2 gts) then i'm sure the geforce2's will drop like rocks

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Josh
 
<<remember nv20 is brand new not an upgraded geforce256 like the geforce2 gts>>

You just stated the perfect reason for nVidia to price them at $400+.
 
Generally the GeForce 256 DDR seems to perform better than the GeForce2 MX in the reviews I've seen. Point me somewhere that shows me wrong if I am.

However, there are support that the GeForce2 MX might get that the GeForce 256 DDR might not. For example, with the cheating drivers nVidia said they would only support the GeForce 2 GTS and GeForce 2 MX. However, they said FSAA would only work on the GeFOrce 2 GTS and it works just fine (albeit slower) on the GeForce 256.

They are pretty much the same chip just .18 instead of .25 and a different core and memory speed.

It's a real tough choice.
 
I think that the GeForce 2 MX has a bigger o/c possibilities than the GeForce, so it just depends whether you are going to o/c. But also, you have the price differece. GeForce 2 MX I think.
 
The GeForce2 MX due to the smaller and cooler .18 micron chip might have higher O/C potential for the CPU, but that won't affect performance very much. Overclocking the memory is where its at.

http://www.anandtech.com/showdoc.html?i=1266&amp;p=3

The GeForce 2 MX uses slower memory than the GeForce 2 DDR.

It appears that the MX can either use 64-bit or 128-bit SDRAM. Hopefully it uses 128-bit otherwise the memory bandwidth will be even less than the GeForce 256 SDR. I couldn't find any info on Guillemot's/Hercule's websites about the memory used in their 3D Prophet II MX. The review over at PlanetHardware http://www.planethardware.com/reviews/videocards/hercules_prophet2_mx/index2.shtml just shows 32MB SDR SDRAM running at 166Mhz and implies its 128-bit, but doesn't flat out state it.

The GeForce 256 DDR runs at 150Mhz DDR and generally overclocks fairly nicely. I'm running mine at 170Mhz and I haven't really experimented enough to find where the boundary is. I'm not very good about noticing snow or other artifacts, so I don't generally push my video cards. Anandtech got the Asus V6800 up to 158/173.

I'm not really sure if the GeForce2 MX really does o/c better, at least where it counts. One might be able to overclock the memory on the MX past 189Mhz, however one would have to push it past 212Mhz to provide the equivalent performance boost of overclocking the GeForce 256 DDR's memory. I'm not sure it will be able to overclock that much. Anyone have any pointers to overclocking the MX yet?
 
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