GeForce SDR or GeForce 2 MX ?

[riceboi5]

The price on the SDR's are pretty low nowadays (~$125). I have a Voodoo 3 on a c2@896mhz right now and playing some games at 1280x1024 can be a tad slow.

Most benchmarks show the SDR and MX neck to neck. So what benefits does the MX have ? More overclockability, smaller die size, etc ?. Trying to stay under $150 for this upgrade.

Also how is the 2D quality on the Nvidia boards vs my Voodoo 3, which produces very nice text on my PF790.

 

[EvilCoconut]

geforce 2 mx. uses less power... and also it is an overclocking beast! it comes with no heatsink... mwhahahaha time to attach a gw fop32 to it! overclock the p00p outa it. then add some nice alpha ram heatsinks... mahahahahha. i bet i could get that sucka up to say.... 215 core and 210 ram or so... almost preforms as good as the geforce ddr.

 

[Gstanfor]

Cost is one advantage, but the main advantage as I see it is the power consumption at only 4 watts versus 16-18 watts for SDR.

This means that people stuck with poorly designed/older motherboards such as the LX's and The ALI Alladin's should be able to use this card with no trouble.

It's also going to be a very strong partner for a 600mhz Duron in the value pc stakes.

Regards

Greg

 

[sov05]

get the mx and oc the hell outta it.

If you overclock it, it beats SDR in everything

 

[Quickfingerz]

Isn't it supposed to come with a TV tuner? If it does i'll definitely get the GF2 MX.

 

[riceboi5]

Good point Greg. Wow didn't know there power consumption's were so different. Even non-oc'd the Mx 2 seems to be about 10% ahead in most bench's.

However I guess if I want the MX 2 I'll have to wait at least 2 months before stores have them in stock ?

 

[atom]

Last I heard you should be able to buy MX cards at the end of this month.

 

[SUOrangeman]

As others have posted, the first MX cards could appear as early as July 10.

-SUO

 

[JellyBaby]

The MX has the improved GTS GPU chip. That plus lower power consumption means this is the chip to get vs. the SDR GF1.