rec.autos.simulators

I currently have a GForce 2 MX 440 installed on my Celeron-700
based *** box. I have got an offer to buy a used GForce 4 MX
440 for about $60.

Do you think I'll see any frame rate improvements with

- GPL on graphics intensive tracks like Adelaide / Solitude?
- F1 2002 hotlaps?

Thanks in advance for any input,

Uwe

--
Uwe Schuerkamp //////////////////////////// http://www.racesimcentral.net/
Herford, Germany \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\ (52.0N/8.5E)
PGP Fingerprint:  2E 13 20 22 9A 3F 63 7F  67 6F E9 B1 A8 36 A4 61

I did a search on MadOnion.Com and came up with the following scores for 3DMark
2001 with your current configuration (Celeron 700 + GeForce2 MX 400) and with
the GF4 MX 440 (although there were no Celeron 700's with that card).

Bottom line is that scores went from around 2000 to 3000 in the benchmark.  How
does that factor into GPL and F1-2002?  I guess it couldn't hurt :)

- David Cook

Score 2128
Date  2002-3-21
Res 1024x768 32bit
OS Microsoft Windows ME

CPU Intel Celeron 700 MHz
GPU NVIDIA GeForce2 MX/MX 400

Score 1926
Date  2002-6-12
Res 1024x768 32bit
OS Microsoft Windows XP

CPU Intel Celeron 700 MHz
GPU NVIDIA GeForce2 MX/MX 400

Score 1700
Date  2002-2-12
Res 1024x768 32bit
OS Microsoft Windows ME

CPU Intel Celeron 700 MHz
GPU NVIDIA GeForce2 MX/MX 400

Score 1697
Date  2001-11-30
Res 1024x768 32bit
OS Microsoft Windows XP

CPU Intel Celeron 700 MHz
GPU NVIDIA GeForce2 MX/MX 400

----------------------------------------------

Score 3214
Date  2002-3-22
Res 1024x768 32bit
OS Microsoft Windows 2000

CPU Intel Celeron 798 MHz
GPU NVIDIA GeForce4 MX 440

Score 3213
Date  2002-6-15
Res 1024x768 32bit
OS Microsoft Windows 98

CPU Intel Celeron 768 MHz
GPU NVIDIA GeForce4 MX 440

Score 3174
Date  2002-5-20
Res 1024x768 32bit
OS Microsoft Windows XP

CPU Intel Celeron 782 MHz
GPU NVIDIA GeForce4 MX 440

Score 3114
Date  2002-3-21
Res 1024x768 32bit
OS Microsoft Windows 2000

CPU Intel Celeron 798 MHz
GPU NVIDIA GeForce4 MX 440

"Don't touch that please, your primitive intellect wouldn't understand
alloys and compositions and,......things with molecular structures,....and
the....." - Ash

    I say this is a terrible purchase.  It's precisely what nvidia's
marketing department want you to do: blow money on a marginal increase,
thereby forcing you to upgrade yet again in 6months.  If you insist on
buying nvidia products, at least get a 4200 or better.

rms

I can get a steady 36fps with a few AI cars around, but the res
and detail are turned way down :-(

Jonny

Milhouse

However, I'm aware that my Matrox is not the fastest *** card
in the world, hence wondering if it's worth changing - more for
processing power than video memory.

It seems agreed that the MX series aren't worth it - is a TNT2-
-based card going to be any better than my G200, anyone?  Dabs
have a "TNT2 M64 32MB AGP" for 31 quid, which is more the area
I was looking at ;-)

Jonny

Where in UK are you...?

Andy

You should be able to find a faster GF3Ti200 for just a little more at this
site.

David G Fisher

Excellent, thank you Goy!

I've just done a quick ranking exercise on the 533/500 results,
and it looks like the GF2 Pro 400 and the GF2 MX come top (the
MX is better at 533, the Pro at 400) followed by the GF DDR and
the GF 256.  The V5 is the only non-GF card in contention!

From that, maybe a GF4 MX might just make sense - perhaps with
a look at some mild overclocking...

Cheers!
Jonny