Alliedassault - View Single Post - this video card is choking on me, what am i doing wrong?

Bridger · 01-01-2002, 04:15 AM

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by 3/504th-Cpt.Knight:
[B] It looks like shit in 16 bit. I have the same prob Tyler. I have a amd 450 and a voodoo 5 5500 64mb and it looks ok but I get shitty fps. We just have to bite the bullet and upgrade. I'm looking at the new nforce boards. They have a GeForce MX 400 onboard and use DDR ram. For 300 bucks, I'm gonna get the mobo, an AMD XP1600 and 256 PC2100, in a couple of monthes that is.[B]<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

actually, i don't think the solution lies in an MX card, the reason MX is cheaper then other GF2 is because it lacks processing power on the card, it allows your CPU to do most of the work, thus, on machines with 1ghz+ its a really cheap card that gets about the same performance as a normal GF2, but on our machines with sub gigahertz processers it just makes a crappy card hehe. The solution is to upgrade your processor or get a GF2 normal (not MX)

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Bridger is Offline Member Posts: 38 Join Date: Jan 2002	01-01-2002, 04:15 AM <BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by 3/504th-Cpt.Knight: [B] It looks like shit in 16 bit. I have the same prob Tyler. I have a amd 450 and a voodoo 5 5500 64mb and it looks ok but I get shitty fps. We just have to bite the bullet and upgrade. I'm looking at the new nforce boards. They have a GeForce MX 400 onboard and use DDR ram. For 300 bucks, I'm gonna get the mobo, an AMD XP1600 and 256 PC2100, in a couple of monthes that is.[B]<HR></BLOCKQUOTE> actually, i don't think the solution lies in an MX card, the reason MX is cheaper then other GF2 is because it lacks processing power on the card, it allows your CPU to do most of the work, thus, on machines with 1ghz+ its a really cheap card that gets about the same performance as a normal GF2, but on our machines with sub gigahertz processers it just makes a crappy card hehe. The solution is to upgrade your processor or get a GF2 normal (not MX)