Bought a Abit Siluro Gf2 mx t200

[Tithulta]

I put it on my secondary system and after installing the included drivers etc I used 3dmark2k to see how it did. Now other than the card the system is nearly exactly identical to my previous system which I got a 3dmark of 1375 using a k6-2 500mhz with a voodoo3 3000 and 128mb pc100 sdram. Well to my surprise the much newer/advanced card actually did WORSE. It got 1207 3dmarks, with the only differences in configuration was a older isa sound card(yamaha chip) and an NIC card(realtek;heard they are clock hogs to an extent).

I was really expecting much better scores out of the card out of the box. I was really expecting at least close to 2000 3dmarks.

The abit site has some(i assume) newer drivers and such, but are they any good or should I get some of the other drivers out there from nvidia?

Btw what is the detenator drivers I've seen mentioned?

Anyone know what the best drivers might be?

[!-=sky=-!]

the detonator drivers are drivers for the nvidia cards
the best det drivers are the newest ones(21.xx)


anyways....the reason u are getting low marks is because you got a geforce2 mx200 version......they are horrible as limited by memory bandwidth

[Tithulta]

understand that, but thought it should still beat my old voodoo3 3000 with its 16mb

[Da Whip]

GeForce 2 MX200 is not a very good card. It is bare minimum for any kind of gaming.
http://www.xbitlabs.com/video/mx400/[/URL]

[Tithulta]

oh well it is still a h*ll of alot better than the old card..4mb cirruslogic :D

Find it strange though that my voodoo3 3000 basically kicks it's @rse...you'd think a NEW card would be better than something over 2 years older.

[Zuck Gou :)]

Not when Nvidia goes and cripples the dang thing.

[!-=sky=-!]

lol, they do that to save $$$