hot deal?? 3D BLASTER ANNIHILATOR 2 MX DDR!!! $113

[farstar]

3D Blaster Annihilator 2 MX $113
at Buy.com. Add something and use the $30 off $150 coupon to save even more. Be sure and get your free shipping too!

Whoohoo, is this a deal or what??



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did I forget to mention that it has DDR memory!!!!??!!!!

 

[setaanbomb]

I think all GeForce MX cards use DDR memory.

 

[Finality]

No not all MX cards use DDR.

The DDR on MX boards is 64 bit not like the 128 Bit on GTS or GF1.

It has half the memory bandwidth of a similarly clocked GTS board. Its the same memory bandwidth as an SDR card with the same memory speed.

 

[Tacoma99]

$113 is a good price for this card but not as good
as $96.58 shipped. This price was available last
month when they had the $30 off $100 coupon that
has expired. I ordered one on 11/14 and I'm
still waiting. CSR said they might be in about
12/15. But I'm willing to wait since this is such
a good deal.

 

[RoadRuner]

actually the memory on most DDR geforce 2 mx's are slower than the memory on the SDR in NS, hence less overclockable, hence crappier than the SDR.

 

[farstar]

as pointed out, not all MX boards come with DDR, aamof most do not. As to the NS of the DDR vs the SDR who cares?? DDR offers twice the memory throughput of SDR. When I get the board I'll do some high res tests and report back.



can't wait.

 

[MustangSVT]

road runner your logic is funny. It is slower hence it overclocks less? that makes no sense at all. DDR is 64-bit while SDR on MX are 128-bit so on stock speeds while DDR might be better on some situations, SDR is better on most. However i dont think the difference is that large.

 

[Gosseyn]

Hate to rain on your parade, but the CLA2MX has the same memory bandwidth -- 1.6Gb/s, I think -- as a generic GF2MX with SDR-SDRAM, because the DDR-SDRAM is using a 64-bit data path whereas the SDR-SDRAM on most other GF2MXs uses a 128-bit data path.
Add to that the fact that the DDR-SDRAM is clocked at 143MHz (286 "effective" MHz), and uses 7ns DDR-SDRAM, whereas most SDR GF2MXs use 166MHz, 6ns SDRAM, and you're looking at a card that has slower, less overclockable memory. The fact that the memory is DDR amounts to marketing drivel.
Do you REALLY think that nVidia would do something as stupid as releasing a budget card that supported 128-bit data path DDR-SDRAM? That would cut directly into sales of GF2GTS-based cards.

Oh, one other item -- you can get a Visiontek or eVGA SDR GeForce2MX 32mb card for about $90 plus shipping online. They both use (last I checked) 6ns SDRAM, and outperform the Creative Labs card both out of the box and when overclocked. 'Nuff said.

 

[VBboy]

I think NO MX cards use DDR

 

[longhorn]

I ordered one of these back when BUY.COM had the good coupon
and the free shipping. It showed back-ordered for 2 weeks,
and the CSR indicated that it would be mid-December at the
earliest.

In my homework, I found that this card performed about as well
as the standard SDR MX cards, perhaps a bit slower. There was
not a lot of information available. You get DDR, but 1/2 the
bandwidth, so it's about a wash.

I grabbed a Radeon DDR for $138 w/ free shipping and a coupon.
Deus Ex, my current game, looks like crap, but I have only
just begun to tweak. The who games looks kind of fuzzy, and
mirrors and water look like there is a thick fog.

 

[Mysterie]

longhorn, I don't know if this will help but my Radeon performed poorly until I got the lastest drivers for my motherboard (Via Apollo, 4-in-1). Maybe that's what's affecting your performance.

 

[Quickfingerz]

the SDR version will be faster than the DDR version in ALL situations. Even if the memory on the DDR were clocked at 333 it would still be slower because the latency on DDR memory is slightly slower.