Creative Geforce2 mx DDR -Is it slow?

[Guest]

Is it true what i've heard - that the creative 3dblaster GeForce2 mx DDR is slower than ths ones with SDRAM considering it has DDR?

 

[Grizely1]

Not Slower - just not any better than the SDRAM ones. It's because the Creative's DDR bus is 64bit while the other ones are all 128.

 

[Guest]

Thanks...
So the DDR solution is a good one as long as I stay away from creative? Any suggestions - staying in the same priceclass.

 

[mpjesse]

No- benchmarks have clearly shown the DDR version IS slower-not by a huge margin though.

-MP Jesse

 

[Guest]

A bunch of follow up questions...
1st Should I fx chose the asus AGP-V7100 GeForce2 MX 32MB over the creative Geforce2 mx 32MB DDR?

2nd I've also heard that that RAM on creative's board only run at 64 bit while others run at 128 - that's bad -isn't it?

3rd Is it true that the Geforce2 mx chipset is really weak in higher resolutions?

Thanks in advance
-Marklar

 

[mpjesse]

OK, first off Creative isn't known for it's blazing performance. Yes, 64bits compared to 128bits is bad- that's why the SDRAM versions of the GF 2 MX run faster. Yes, the GF2 MX is weaker because it's using SDRAM and 64bit DDR SDRAM. But, at 1024x768 my GF2 MX blazes in ANY game.

-MP Jesse

 

[Arrow]

I would personally get a Geforce 2MX.

Rob
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