Hot? Warm? Or just icy cold? GeForce 2 MX

[GhostSoldier]

Admittedly, in 32-bit, the high-end Radeons will see some slight performance gains over the GeForce, but only in EXTREMELY HIGH resolution, (1600x1200), and you still have the bad drivers issue.

In 16-bit, ANY GeForce wipes the floor with ANY Radeon, and the GeForce drivers are great.

 

[bleuiko]

wow, it has been a long time since i returned to this post... (had to search for it lol.)
thx for all the info, i would definitely settle for GeForce 2 MX or GTS.

as for radeon, i've never used it, and it might as well be a good card for its price... but since it carries the ATi tag... i would never touch that thing... ATi has been horrible with their drivers... bottom line, radeon might be good now, since it is new... but u just wait until the next line comes out... u won't be able to find any driver for it.

thanks for all the kind replies.

p.s. = gonna wait till this GF3 to show its pretty face on the market or more hints... the GF2 prices are going DOWN!! =) (oh, whoever mention the price match for evga.com.. thanks much, will look into that)

 

[RobsTV]

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Why is it that every time a site shows the Radeon winning 5 out of 30 tests, someone jumps up and says, "Look at all the 32-bit benches. Radeon's taking the GTS in every one". This bull will make most people no longer believe anything ATI owners say. We are not stupid, and we CAN read the results. Still, those results that the ATI card actually won in, didn't look right. Madonion scores were higher than any Radeon's I've seen, and the GF2 GTS were lower than anyone gets. A simple check at Hardocp's GF2 GTS test showed the correct info. Instead of 1024x768x32 scoring 4722, it is actually around 5077, and that is still a little on the low side for us GTS owners. This then would be yet another 32bit test the ATI card loses, as it scored 4989, (and unlike the GTS card, that number would be difficult for any ATI owner to get).

These results can no longer be ignored. Over and over again, testing shows the Radeon loses 95% of the time to the GTS card with a high end PC, at high end resolutions with 32bit. As to the GF2 MX, now that is the card the ATI needs to compete with, and explains why it is priced at the MX level. In low end PC's, at lower resolutions, and at 16bit, and even many times at 32bit, the MX can beat the Radeon card. If you have a CPU less than 600MHz, or a monitor 17" or less and primarily game at 1024x768 (which 80% still do game at), then the Radeon is no longer the best choice, as the MX is right there with it for performance.