need some help on this geforce2mx

[badxcow]

hey i have an OLD voodoo3 and want to get a geforce2 mx , only got money for that. im unsure as if i should buy this

CardExpert GeForce2 MX 400 64MB SDRAM AGP, With TV-Out - RETAIL - NVIDIA GeForce 2 MX 400 GPU. 256-bit 3D and 2D graphic accelerator. NVIDIA Shading Rasterizer. Integrated Second Generation Transform and Lighting Engines. 4 texels per clock. 32-bit color with 32-bit z/stencil. Cube environment mapping. DirectX and S3TC texture compression. 700M texel fill rate. 20M triangles/sec setup. 2.8 GB/second memory bandwidth. Retail box.

the main thing is the TV-out. Can I connect my pc to my television to watch divx movies? I found this to be a great deal since i hear their geforce2mx's are good. My friend has the 32mb and told me to get this one, since its 64 and has tv-out.

too bad not ddr

what to you think? speedwise and about the tv connection?
thanks

-kev

 

[sMashPiranha]

Well the GF2MX isn't too hot. Don't bother with the 64MB, just get the 32MB and save the money, there is barely any performance difference between the two. Also, if your thinking about getting a GF2MX with DDR, don't bother, they have the same bandwidth as the SD-RAM versions because the DDR is only 64 bit. If you want DDR, at least go for a GF2 GTS. If I was buying it I would save a little more and get a card with DDR (but NOT the GF2MX DDR).

 

[Le Québécois]

Two years ago I had 2 Voodoo2 in SLI ( about the same speed as your Voodoo3)..I changed them for an Asus Geforce2 Mx
with TV out...
TV quality is great, a 450mbs Mpeg looks like satelite TV, easy to use, but don't expect it to give you full screen...you loose about 1 or 2 cm at each side of the screen( for a 21 inchs TV ).
Like sMashPiranha said...don't waste your money for 64mbs of SDRam or for DDR on a MX, there's no real performence diference.
If you go for a Geforce2 GTS or PRO with TV out...You must know those are not twin view like the MX...if you use your TV you can't use the monitor at the same time.

And for your games FPS...expect a great boost in all games...except for those based on Unreal engine... a 3DFX is much faster in Unreal.

 

[VBboy]

Depending on your CPU.. you computer may not even be able to take advantage of a very fast videocard, or even of a GeForce2-MX. If you're talking about games, an old CPU will not be able to pump enough data for the videocard to render, so the videocard will be sitting idle some or most of the time.

Include your PC info in your post.

By the way, GeForce2-MX is pretty old.. Why not get a GeForce2-Ti (which is faster than the GeForce2-Pro, but is cheaper)?

 

[Le Québécois]

I had a Celeron 500 when I did the upgrade...so expect a boost in speed if you have something like that or more powerful.