Leadtek Ti 4400

[leoku]

Originally posted by Mandorallen of Molynnr
What make of card did you get? I would have gone with a GF4MX440 or 460 myself, however the lack of nVidia's nfinite engine and other features was a bit disconcerting. However, the GF4MX DDR series should be able to play a lot of todays games at 1600x1200x32, and almost all games in the next few years at 1024x768.

I must say that the 2D quality of this card is amazing. Comapared to the Radeon LE in my other system, the text definition at 1600x1200x32@85 is noticebly sharper with the GF4.

As in the subject, my WinFast A170 produces top quality 2D, and is well better than I thought it should be.

A friend of mine bought a GF2 MX card and the screen looks VERY BAD in my opinion (but I did not say anything to him). However, I do not think it is the card that produces the bad image. I would like to attribute it to the bad monitor. His monitor is at least five or six years old (a ViewSonic 15GS).

To get the top quality of image, a good monitor is a must in addition to a good video card. To me, WinFast A170 plus my veteran ViewSonic A75f is a perfect combo.

The only shortcoming of the video card is that my PowerDVD can not detect the hardware acceleration that GF4 MX4400 has (VPE), even though the playback quality is top knotch. Maybe I should wait for NVDVD to see what Nvidia can bring to us.

[mystifmagic]

Originally posted by Mandorallen of Molynnr


When are you getting that Gainward?

As it seems, some one doesn't want me to get the Gainward

So I'm settling on the MSI for now, great card, enxpenive and I've seen reviews say it overclocks to 315-330 core and 725-750 memory stock cooling nothing lower nothing higher. I was going to add my own cooling to the Gainward anyways, so this will work out just fine. On the other side, no red cards in my rig...

[halibut_stu]

k i live real close to you guys (sunshine coast) and from my experience if you get your computer from A-Power you'd better hope nothing goes wrong with it because good luck returning it. Atic is good for prices but have realy bad in-store service. NCIX has ok prices also. and for gods sake man don't let the store build it for you!! half the fun is doing it yourself

[viper726]

Mom:I took your advice and screwed around with the drivers for about an hour, after a few very wierd messages, sayin my card was not working right.... i finally got the drivers to load right and got it in agp4x mode! but as i posted in the OC area, it hurt my ability to FSB oc
thanx for the tip

[Stone_Age_Computer]

Whats wrong with Apower? I have no exprience building this thing myself, and their building cost at apower is nothing. So why not let them do it? I dont have the time, or the will to take the risk.

What expriences were bad with apower? I really need to know cuz i dont want to waste my money.

THANK!

[leoku]

Originally posted by viper726
Mom:I took your advice and screwed around with the drivers for about an hour, after a few very wierd messages, sayin my card was not working right.... i finally got the drivers to load right and got it in agp4x mode! but as i posted in the OC area, it hurt my ability to FSB oc
thanx for the tip

My GF4 MX4400 card works at AGP4X right out of the box without headache or any tweak, and is proven by WCPUID utility.

Is it because I am using Windows 2000 ? My mainboard uses the old VIA 694/686B chipset, not the latest, though.

[Mandorallen of Molynnr]

Originally posted by leoku


My GF4 MX4400 card works at AGP4X right out of the box without headache or any tweak, and is proven by WCPUID utility.

Is it because I am using Windows 2000 ? My mainboard uses the old VIA 694/686B chipset, not the latest, though.

I don't think it has anything to do with the card, more likely the mainboard (and more specific to the type of mainboard.) Mine worked at AGP 4X right out of the box too.

viper726, AGP 4X has been proven to limit FSB overclocking before on other systems, usually this is fixed by upping the AGP voltage, if you have that option. Maybe you should try benching with both AGP4X and AGP2X, and seeing if there's any performance difference between the two, I know in my case there was about 50 or so 3D Marks.

[viper726]

before i got 9229 3dmarks in 2x mode (but i was runnin the 28.32 dets) now i get a lil over 9400 (usin the 27dets) in 4x mode.

[Sgt_Strider]

Originally posted by Stone_Age_Computer
Whats wrong with Apower? I have no exprience building this thing myself, and their building cost at apower is nothing. So why not let them do it? I dont have the time, or the will to take the risk.

What expriences were bad with apower? I really need to know cuz i dont want to waste my money.

THANK!

A-power is ok, they're not bad. Don't worry about it. I don't get how you'll waste your money at a-power, I think the previous guy meant that he had a bad experience with them is all .