Where to Buy PCI GeForce MX?

[Killrose]

Anyone Know if this is available anywhere?

 

[RacerX]

you can get three different options from Ocie.com I have ordered from them before and they are a good company ...fast shipping, they accept PayPal, and they were awesome with an RMA that I did (probably my easiest RMA ever).

PCI MX

 

[Killrose]

Thanks RacerX, any Idea as to the memory speed on this? I see it has a fan onboard. Does it overclock?

 

[(Chanse)]

I was looking into a PCI MX, but from what I've read it takes a serious beating by being pci. Averaging as low as half the performance of the AGP version. Disappointing, i wanted one too

 

[RacerX]

Well I bought a couple different AGP Inno3d's from there and they both came with 6ns ram. The strange thing was that one of them did 200/200 easy and the other one wouldn't get above 175/175. So it just a matter of chance if you plan on overclocking it.
As far as what (Chanse) says, I'd have to see an article with actual benchmarks before I believed that. I would guess it may be 5% or possibly 10% slower at the most. Like I said they are pretty good with RMA's (at least from my experience) so it really couldn't hurt to try it out ...not sure on their restocking fee's though.

 

[Killrose]

Thanks for the info. A friend of mine has an i810 board so he's stuck with pci for an upgrade, and can't afford a V5500, and the V4500 is disapointing, so the MX is the best choice.

 

[BP]

Not really,the GF2 MX looses so much performance in the transition to PCI that in most cases it isn't any faster than the V4 and slower in some. I saw a test of both cards the other day..I'll post the link if I can find it.

My advice is to get a V3 for now and save up for an mobo/cpu/vid upgrade if you can't shell out 250$+ for a V5 now.

 

[RoboTECH]

the AGP version of the MX will be significantly faster than the AGP 4500

however, there is ZERO reason to get a PCI MX. Get the 4500. The speed improvement of the MX vs. the 4500 is simply gone when moving to PCI.

 

[Killrose]

Its my understanding that since Vodoo cards don't really use AGP texturing like other cards that they are not as affected performance wise when moving from AGP to PCI bus types, is this true? And would a V4500 make up for some of its lower performance in PCI version when benched against a PCI MX?, even possibly beating the MX?