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GeForce4 MX440 64MB DDR 8xAGP DVI TV-Out - DEAD

Originally posted by: Odeen
640x480 SD MPEG2 playback - yes. High-performance deinterlacing, and HD playback - no.
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HD plackback, yes (barely).
Been doing it with HTPC DVB-S and many NF2 onboard (GF4 MX 440 rough equal).
SD is also fine when used with DVB-S sat TV.
This add on card is a tad better than the onboard that does work.
3dm2k1se scores around 5500.
But, nvidia TV out blows chunks (TV out of course for SD not HDTV) and I end up tossing in cheap ATi cards to get good TV out with SDTV when using NF2 onboard (GF4MX440) for HTPC's.
Knowing it would work for many, but not all purposes well enough, I personally still would not buy this card for $15 delivered.

ATi 9250 or 9600 for $26 (+ shipping) is a card that would work well enough to use in most systems.
 
Thanks for your experiential critique Rob! Always nice when someone has hands-on experience 😉
...russ
 
Interesting.. When playing back 1920x1080 video, my Geforce 6800 Ultra (with broken HD video coprocessing,on a P4 2.8 @ 3.73) dropped frames. On an Opteron 165, my Geforce 7900GT (with working HD decoding assist) doesn't drop frames. Naturally, I assumed that a Geforce 4 MX would be even worse at HD decoding, and, without Purevideo support that takes the load off the CPU when doing motion-adaptive deinterlacing, most CPU's would struggle to scale and deinterlace video for HD playback.

This is an excellent card for a non-multimedia (read: no videophile-level video playback and no gaming) computer, though. It's faster than any AGP-era onboard video (ATI Xpress 200M and nVidia 6100 and 6150 are faster, but they're PCI-E chipsets,) and DVI output enables much higher display quality to a DVI monitor than the badly-filtered blurry onboard video.
 
Dammit. I was looking for a cheap AGP (low profile, or at least with a removable bracket) with S-video out, (Preferably composite out) to use for a low-ball media PC. Not looking for great quality, I just want to use a bargain basement, nearly silent, Dell desktop that I aquired to replace the loud box I had assembled. This card would have been perfect if it had come with an S-video - composite adapter.... Oh well, I'll keep looking...

 
I use an MX440 in my HTPC with absolutlly no problems but my HTPC is only used as a PVR for SD cable programming. YMMV depending on your needs.
 
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