Geforce 4 MX 440-se

[Mzyxptlk]

I got one for myself since

A. It was 50 and it came with 20 buck rebate.

B. It beat the pants off the onbaord video I'd been using.

Just a few days ago I got myself a vantec cooling kit with a copper fan, thermal paste, heatsinks, and thermal tape. I got the fan on the GPU and started upping the cards speed. At stock speeds in 3Dmark I was getting around 3300. When I started increasing the speed I would notice a steady increase in my scores. 4200 was it's peak until I upped the speed to 280/380 and then there were artifacts in the high poly test with 1 lightsource. I IMEDIATLY went to the desktop and clocked it back down. I knew that it was the memory since I didn't have the heatsinks on them yet. (didn't have enough for all of the memory so I didn't see the point in have heatsinks on half the memory.) so I went and after puting the speed back down I ran a few more tests. On the second one I noticed that I was at around 270/360 and my scores were 100 points lower. And at stock speeds the scores were in the 2900 range. The next morning I went and used the thermal paste on the GPU/fan, and then I decided to stick on the heatsinks I had to the memory. The GPU is clocking MUCH higher. My current speeds are, 320/360 instead of the stock 250/333. But I have two problems.

1. I need more speed from the memory. (Once I get a hacksaw I'll cut up a much larger heatsink I have and get the rest of the memory adressed for cooling.)

2. The 3dMark 2001 scores will not go any higher than 3600. I hit 4200 at lower speeds but now with higher stable speeds I cannot get any higher than 3600.

[JupiterSSJ4]

i sometimes got lower scores when my card was clocked higher. I think it had something to do with the fact that my card was pulling more power to overclock itself than to do processing.

The GF4 MX series is basically renamed GF2's. They are not gaming cards in any aspect. That's why the very low scores.

[Mzyxptlk]

http://oc3dmark.octeams.com/db/01db/gf4mx440db.html

[DrSpanky]

i have the same card i can get 375/375 with 1 small fan mounted on the heat sink and no memory cooling i dont even think i need a fan on the gpu. but if u want to get the memory up u MUST cooling it i clocked mine up to 400 and wow i burn my finger in a matter of seconds.

any way up the core that will boost your score but increaseing the memory dosent get my score up much

[Mzyxptlk]

and what is your typical 3dmark score? btw my card uses SD ram not DDR. So I think upping the speed of the RAM will definetly boost my scores.

[Mzyxptlk]

And right now what I am shooting for is to break the 5000 score on 3d mark. Exactly what would it take to do that?

[woods]

your core speeds are what will give you the highest scores. I have one of these cards and can get as high as 9xxx in 3dmark2001se. it took a lot of work, a HUGE h/s, and some ghetto rigging but it works. My mem will be my next priority as to my cooling efforts. At the moment my gpu/mem are as follows: 375/400. I am also running my agp slot at 85mhz. I can not game long at these speeds as my current cooling of the mem is not good enough. I can game all day long though @ 375/385.

[Mzyxptlk]

I've been scrounging for parts to use. So far I've found a pair of powersupply fans. One from a 386, and one from a busted gateway. I also found a heatsink the size of Texas rattling around inside the gateway case and the large heatsink that originaly came with the card. I still have some thermal paste and tape leftover from the vantec cooling kit. I'm still strategizing but Right now I'm thinking I should get a hacksaw and cut up that heatsink I found in the gateway case and turn one big heatsink into alot of big memory heatsinks. As far as the case fans that'll need more thought because I don't know whether to find a way to use them to directly cool the card, or cool the case and drop the entire systems temp.

[Mzyxptlk]

ok, I went and cut up that Texas sized heatsink and made 4 heatsinks the exact size of the memory with 1 1/2 fins coming out of it going straight up. I put them on my card with thermal tape and now all of my memory is cooled by various heatsinks. I benched my card at stock speeds and got 3200 something, I then upped the speed of the memory to 370 to specificaly test how high I could clock it, knowing the max it could run at was 380 without any special cooling. my score went up by 100 points. I then upped the clock speed of the GPU to 315 and the memory to 380. It finished the test and I got NO CHANGE TO THE FREAKING SCORE! now, no matter how I cool it, or how high I clock the speeds the 3dmark scores WONT CHANGE!

[CeleronO/C'D]

i got mine w/128 DDR and TV OUT and i overclocked it to 400/400 with powerstrip and a cheap gpu cooler and a ramsink kit and i got 4800 on the 3d mark

[Mzyxptlk]

and what is the score at stock speeds? I'll bet you anything that when you upped the clock speeds the scores improved.

[RPM_Computing]

I am sure the mobo has a big part to play with getting scores in the 6-7k range. I own the 440se as well and score 5200 in 3D Mark 2001se with a core of 340 and memory at 421 withought extra cooling. When I was at stock speers I was scoring in the low 4k range.

And on tat note I am looking forward to a new mobo then a better display adapter like a TI Series. But if I can get 7000+pts in 3D Mark with a new board I may not upgrade the display:p

[deeman]

I have my gf440mx\se 64ddr set to 285\400 on stock cooling on warmer days i put a house fan blowing into the case but with different mobo overclocks i got some different results.
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so it shows processor speed can change scores drastically a 290mhz overclock gained me almost 500 more points.

[Anime-san]

My GF4MX440-SE goes on nicely at 415/530Mhz, orig is 270/365 it's an old Leadtek A170DDR-SE... The cooling is a Powercooler PCH137 (OCZ Gladiator) and some alu-sinks on the mem.

[the_reproducer]

You can check my crappy score in my siggy.
Anyho, default 250/300Mhz for mx440se if I overclock my memory speed to 330 it starts getting fuzzy bunny and graphical glitch happens. This is with the standard fan it had stuck on it...how some of you guys can get to near 400 without extra cooling is beyond me. Anyho, wished I'd got a radeon 7500 now...would've kicked the arse of this card any day...