How good is the Geforce MX graphics?

Jeff H

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formulav8, yesterday I installed the Hercules Prophet II MX retail card in my Abit BH6/P!!!-650 system. The Hercules card replaced a Leadtek TNT2 Ultra card, and by my observation both the MX's 2D and 3D is improved over the TNT2 Ultra card. The Leadtek card replaced a Hercules Thriller 3D 8MB PCI card, and the Rendition v2200 based cards are generally accepted as having some of the best 2D available, and good 3D - for their time <g>.

Compared to the Thriller, the TNT2 Ultra's 2D was inferior, and it's good to see that the MX has 2D on a par w/ the Thriller. And, the 3D capability (albiet w/ little testing on my part thus far) of the MX is quite good for a $150 card. From what I've read, the MX's 2D capability is controlled by the filtering circuitry on the video card. Reportedly the Hercules card, along w/ the Asus V7100 cards, have the best 2D. 3D is much more even amongst the available cards on the market.
 

Quickfingerz

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hey jeff,
have you overclocked your card? i have friends that have gotten their card to 220/230 the max possible with the nvidia drivers. Unfortunately, I have the OEM version and I've only been to 232/223 but with the nvidia drivers i was only at 210/220.
 

Jeff H

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Quickfingerz wrote:

> have you overclocked your card?

No, I haven't gotten around to that yet. I just installed the card two days ago, and yesterday I swapped out the system memory (two Mushkin Samsung GH CAS2 64MB SDRAM sticks) for a Samsung CAS2 PC133 128MB stick (got a good price on the 133 stick). Then I swapped out my p.s. for an Enermax 330w box.

B4 I do any vid card o/c'ing I want to put a fan on the blue heatsink. When I get around to doing that I'll let this thread now what results.