I am adding a second video card and iam not able to spend more that 60 dollars ......So let me know which is a better choice.........
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I am adding a second video card and iam not able to spend more that 60 dollars ......So let me know which is a better choice.........
That Radeon should wallop that geforce without too much trouble. That would be my pick.
go for radeon way better stability and drivers.
what kind of vid card do you have now. if you have an nvidia card then get the mx, but if you have an ati card get the 7000. it reduces potential problems with driver conflicts
LOL I'd say they have good stability and great drivers (now anyway), but way better than nvidia's?? Yeah right :rolleyes: iirc the radeon 7000 does not have harware t&l so the performance between the two should be close.Quote:
Originally posted by bigpig1969
go for radeon way better stability and drivers.
Man, ive been gone 1 day any everyone's lost the plot. LOL
7000 better than a MX400? you gotta be kidding. Even in PCI flavour the 7000 isnt better than a MX200.
ATI drivers are better? Since when?
Better stability? another joke?
Did Nvidia just piss everyone off and i missed it? whats with all the sudden misslead ATI bias?
The 7000 really sucks compared to a MX400.And thats no joke.
If it were a 7000 vs a MX200 then I'd say the 7000 would be faster. It doesn't have a T&L unit so the performance wouldn't be bottlnecked as much as the T&L equipped MX200 would be.
Anyway, the MX400 is probably faster.
i want a second monitor for web developement , or gaming on the side
I just bought the GF2MX400 for a friend. Its a great card for the buck. I don't think you can go wrong with it.
just go with the gf2mx400
when i had a tnt2m64(agp) i added my old banshee (pci) for dual display(3dfx-nvidia)
so nvidia-ati isn't a problem
get the mx400...it has t&l unlike the radeon 7000...the radeon 7000 doesn't even have hyper z enabled on it which automatically looses like 10%-20% in performance...
http://mirror.ati.com/products/pc/radeon7000/index.html
A Radeon 7000 has HyperZ but the lack of a T&L unit really kills it. Still a Mobility Radeon 7000 at 166/166 is about the same performance as a Voodoo3 (Faster in Direct3D, slower in OpenGL).Quote:
Powered by the RADEON™ 7000 (a.k.a RADEON VE) graphics processor
ATI HYPER Z™ technology reduces memory bandwidth consumption resulting in improved 3D performance
I believe desktop 7000's are at 183/183 so they will probably be overall faster than Voodoo3/TNT2 calibur graphics cards.
Try to find Voodoo5 5500 PCI, it's still the fastest pci-card available.