is it worth upgrading from Geforce 1 DDR to Geforce 2 MX400

[nick_woods]

Hi

I have an original Geforce 1 DDR card (Creative Labs Annihilator Pro) and was wondering whether there's any benefit to upgrading to a GeForce 2 MX400 card ?

Current CPU is an Athlon XP1600 on Epox 8KHA and 256Mb DDR memory

TIA

Nick

[kilacomp]

Not really, save your $ and get a ti200 or a g3.

[nick_woods]

Thanks.

In betwen my original post and your reply i finally found what I've spent all morning looking for (it's not exactly a busy day at work today :-) ), which is some benchmark comparisons at anandtech between the two and it shows that my cards is about the same speed as an MX

Regards

Nick

[iggybaseball]

get a Geforce Ti. It is a great card. This weekend I went to a friend's house and upgraded his old Geforce card to a Geforce Ti. He had all the options on maxed out and it was beautiful. We also added 128mb so that he now has 256mb of ram. I think the cards run around $110 at newegg, this is just a rough estimate. Good Luck

[wolfsid]

Originally posted by iggybaseball
get a Geforce Ti. It is a great card. This weekend I went to a friend's house and upgraded his old Geforce card to a Geforce Ti. He had all the options on maxed out and it was beautiful. We also added 128mb so that he now has 256mb of ram. I think the cards run around $110 at newegg, this is just a rough estimate. Good Luck


I would get a gainward gf3 ti 200 cheap and a very nice card you can get a nice overclock on it and also it looks pretty too...

and Welcome to the forum

[o770]

the system you have can compensate the small difference between both cards but despite the fact both benchmark close to each other the geforce2 demands a lot less of your cpu and all the system because it can process many things yours cant. the diff would be greater running a less powerful system.
if you can wait to get one Ti200 or even one geforce2 pro is in fact a lot better.

[Cisco Kid]

All great replies , yep a G2 Ti200 is one option or a G3 Ti200 for about $50-60 more (now you are in 8500 OEM price range which is a better buy for more performance)

A better otpion imho over a G2 Ti200 is a Radeon 7500, faster, and very overclockable and can be found for $108 online, sports newer technology as well.

Only card that does TV out at 1024x768!! But if I stumbled upon a nvidia thread pardon me LOL

Cisco Kid:p

[iggybaseball]

yes i have heard that the 7500 is good and i have heard that it is bad. The reason why i recomended the gf2 ti is because I have seen it's performance increase from a gf, and i still havent seen a machine witha a 7500 or 8500 or gf3 ti200, though i plan to buy a new vid card soon. Happy Holidays!