MX 200 or MX 400?

[Guest]

Which is better:
Geforce 2 MX 200 with 64mb, or Geforce 2 MX 400 with 32mb (200 Mhz).
Mostly I work with 16bit at 800X600.

 

[AEboy128]

Do you run games?? What will the card be used for?? If you run games the MX400 is your better choice as the mx200 is trash more or less. If you do ocasional gaming but want the best quality images the Radeon LE is your best choice. The LE can be ran at 32mb DDR speeds and hyperz can be enabled with a registry hack. The radeon LE will run about the same FPS as the MX400 in most games some better some worse but the LE will have a higher quality image(sharper).

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[Crashman]

The MX400 will always perform better no matter what the memory size.

Video killed my Radio Card!

 

[Guest]

Pass on the MX200. A MX2 or MX400 is going to be better for gaming. The MX 200 has half the memory bandwidth of the other 2 MX models.

From the Nvidia site:

GeForce2 MX
Memory Interface: 64/128-bit SDR, 64-bit DDR
Texels per Second: 700 Million
Memory Bandwidth: 2.7GB/s

GeForce2 MX 400
Memory Interface: 64/128-bit SDR, 64-bit DDR
Texels per Second: 800 Million
Memory Bandwidth: 2.7GB/s

GeForce2 MX 200
Memory Interface: 64-bit SDR
Texels per Second: 700 Million
Memory Bandwidth: 1.3GB/s

I upgraded my wife's computer to an MX 200, thinking that 200 has to be better than the MX2. So before installing it into her system, I put it on my P3 733. 3dMark2001 was less than half of my GF 256 DDR card. Hovering in the 1300 area with the default settings on. Later I upgraded CPU's and Motherboards to Athlon 1.33 and A7A266. Same 3DMark 2001 score. Then I did some research.

If you are looking for some low cost respectible power, a Geforce 256 can be had for less than the MX2 cards and get the better performance.

FYI, My son's Gf 256 SDR is running 500 points faster than the MX 200. Lucky for us the wife doesn't play games.

 

[bungee]

Simply go with MX400. With 800x600x16, 64MB would be useless and MX400 is way better performer than MX200.

<font color=red>Hail total victory of AMD versus Intel!

 

[rcf84]

How about the Radoen LE. the radeon 2d quality is the best you can get. Well MX 400 have poor 2d compared to the radeon faster 2d.

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