PowerGENE CMX2S --- nVIDIA GeForce 2 MX any good?

[Rally1]

I get confused by MX200 MX400 and just MX

I need a new card, is this one the better of the 3 Geforce2s ?

Found it for about $80 so seems a sweet deal.

Thanks!



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[masterc]

I had that video card (with the TV-out feature) bundled in my system. It was a great budget video card. Fast for gaming but the 2d, like all MX's, was a bit weak.
I have since upgraded to an ATI Radeon A-I-W, because I wanted the extra features.

 

[Simulat]

Radeon LE is cheaper, faster and has better image quality - I'd go with that.

 

[Archknight]

The MX is the deliberate crippled version of the Geforce2 on the memory side.
The MX 400 gives almost identical performance to the MX, the only different is a higher core clock speed and sometimes bundles with 64MB (this doesn't seems to have any advantage)
The MX 200 is uses slower memory than the MX and the MX400, large performance loss there. Try not to go there.

Nvidia Geforce2 MX is around for sometimes now for budget market. The MX400 and 200 is the successor of the MX(MX has been discontinued). Nvidia basically split the MX into MX400 and MX200. As mentioned the MX400 gives almost identical performance to the MX, while the MX200 is a cripple of a cripple version of the Geforce2.

I agree with the Radeon LE, it should be a better choice in most cases. (newegg.com you know)

 

[TheCorm]

MX 175mhz \ 128-bit SDR or 64-bit DDR
MX200 175mhz \ 64-bit SDR
MX400 200mhz \ 128-bit SDR

I would either go for an MX (if you can find it) or an MX400 but not an MX200, it is essentially the successor to the Riva TNT2 M64. Or the Radeon LE is an alternative choice too!

Corm