Performance: Geforce 2 mx 400 PCI

[Gunslash]

I decided to buy a new video card for my HP 7940... its a 1ghz 386mb ram system, except agp video is built in.... how would it run current games at high detail setting with my new card being PCI based? I'm planning on ordering the card next week...

Thanks in advance

[Gunslash]

oh yah I forgot, its a 64mb version of Geforce 2mx400 pci

[gotmonopoly?]

It will run very close to it's AGP variant. I used to run a PCI Voodoo3 and it ran great. I am sure you can expect some excellent framerates with your new card.

[PointlesS]

I don't think it'll run that great...it'll be a step up form the v3...but a small step...pci doesn't provide the same bandwidth an agp can...and since the gf2 cards are very bandwidth hungry...performance will not be the same as the agp part....when t&l is used...it'll really suffer because t&l is another bandwidth hungry thing...sorry if I seem so negative...but it's the facts...

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[coolent]

Originally posted by gotmonopoly?:
It will run very close to it's AGP variant. I used to run a PCI Voodoo3 and it ran great. I am sure you can expect some excellent framerates with your new card.

No it wont.Dont take it as personal sorry.
PCI was the grafix thing back when 3dfx rulled the scene.You could do very well w/ the voodoo's however they were "3d accelarators" and they still needed a "2d" card as support(well atleast voodooI&II did)
So they were good for their times(and thats why you recall pci good)
however it doesnt even get near the agp version of the card,sorry
I had seen a few sites benching the card,do an extensive search and you will find it
You will get "good" framerates,but it depends on what you wanna call a "good" framerate.
For example on my laptop 15fps is great!i would call that a "good" fps for that,however on my desktop machine nothing below 72 is good .
Well whatever..as long as you dont up the res,pci bandwith *should* be enough but im not sure


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