The GeForce 4 MX

[tbaher]

What is the geforce 4 mx good for?
it is slower than a gf3..

i hate nvidia for confusing people

then they come up with the gffx5200 which might as well be MX too

and then they have the audacity to come up with the geforce 2 MX
how slow is this card???

[Monty Burns]

MX cards are usually budget cards, just for people who wanna tell their friends: "Look I have a GF 2,4,...."

For later cards, they changed it....

Nevertheless, not everyone needs a high end card, so it is good, they exist.

[DABhand]

I have a machine with a Geforce FX5200 256MB, and my games work well, but mine is from XFX (pine) which is a division of Nvidia, so not a 3rd party GFX card.

[tbaher]

we did a speed test on a DX8.1 game .. GF4Ti vs GeforceFX5200 .. both 128MB..
the geforce4 won..

the geforce4 is not capable of dx9 .. so the GFFX5200 wins by default..

I dunno .. people i know who had gf4s bought the fx5200.. (just cause it's the next gen.)

[puppeteer666]

The Geforce 4 mx is good for doom 1,unreal1,solitaire and excellent desktop clarity otherwise no P.S no new games the geforce4 mx is not even faster than a geforce 2 ultra.

[DABhand]

Not entirely true, a Geforce 4 MX440 is relatively like a 5200/5500 but without pixel shading and other useful hardware options.

[Play]

Originally Posted by puppeteer666

The Geforce 4 mx is good for doom 1,unreal1,solitaire and excellent desktop clarity otherwise no P.S no new games the geforce4 mx is not even faster than a geforce 2 ultra.

You are wrong! Oh boy, you are wrong like hell. Let me tell you something:
I have GF4 MX440. I haven't got the money to buy a better one, but I don't need to: I think they labeled my card wrong !
Guess what? I play with UT2004, KOTOR2, and I tried Doom3 too, and all these games run like a dream on my comp. A little stuttering here and there in doom3, and no pixel shading or other DX9 stuff, BUT GF4 DOES IT'S JOB!!!
We use to play UT2004, CS:CZ and other games in LAN Partys and my PC beats all my friends's. I think I can see from where they scrached off the NASA sign from my card I know what you think. you think I'm crazy for praising GF4 but I can't do anything. See, I'm not that well funded to buy a better card, I never was. I alway valued long lasting good performance against short term high quality. When prices drop to a level I can afford a better card like GFFX, I will buy one. Until then, I'm happy I got this card. It runs all games, though not high quality, but I like the good gameplay, not the shiny graphics. If a game is good, it is good at medium or low quality. If only the look is good in a game, it is busted.
I think you got my point...

[Meiosis]

Originally Posted by Monty Burns

MX cards are usually budget cards,
....
Nevertheless, not everyone needs a high end card, so it is good, they exist.

I agree, I believe the whole MX line was designed for office use more so gaming. The MX offered enough power to power up traditional 2d-3d renderings using in programs like Power Point and Word, and Publisher.

They were and still are cheap today, my father has one and it plays most games fine but he uses it for office programs.

Like mentioned before, if you want a gaming card, stick with non MX cards if you're going the nVidia way.

[tbaher]

@Meiosis

I want to think nvidia was unclear. I like to believe that the box said that it's "good for gaming" on the box.
I switched to nvidia after 3dfx's voodoo5. (got a 4600)
I reluctantly then switched to radeon (got a 9800)

I dislike nvidia for the mx line.

[Meiosis]

Well I'm glad some of us has had good luck with ATI.

After my Voodoo 3 aged to death I switched to one of ATI's 3d Rage Pro cards, as soon as I installed it, it messed everything up! I called ATI's tech support and all they did was give me a link to their newest drivers which fuced up the display even more!!

That's when I said, screw it, I'm getting a Geforce 3 Ti 200, and never had problems with nVidia since then. I now have one of their rarest cards ever made, the FX 5950 ULTRA, never will you see this card in stock again!