Re: Bought a gfx card...YOU HAVE THE SLOWEST MX CARD ON THE PLANET!!

Get thee back to the store and get rid of that Creative DDR MX as soon as you can. You have bought one of the slowest MX cards out there. The reason for this is that DDR memory. While you are correct in that, everything else being equal, DDR memory is faster than SDR memory but with an MX card everything else is NOT equal. With SDR memory an MX card operates with a 128 bit data path. With DDR memory the data path is cut in half to only 64 bits. The DDR memory is therefore useless as any gain the DDR ram gives you is more than lost in the data path traffic jam slowdown. DDR memory on an MX card is a DISadvantage and an advertising gimic only. You are MUCH better off with SDR ram. As for the SDR MX cards they are all pretty much the same UNTIL you go to overclock them. Some cards have a better grade of ram than others and the ones with the batter ram can overclock higher. At the time I bought mine before Christmas the card with the best grade of ram was the HERC GForce 2 MX. There may have been some to equal the Herc but there was none better that I heard of. Since Christmas there have been several new flavors of MX cards introduced, some with 64 megs instead of the usual 32. I dont know much about them. Incidently, I found this out when I bought the same Creative DDR MX you did. I was fortunate enough to run into a guy who told me what I just told you. I now have a Herc GForce 2 MX with SDR ram and am getting MUCH better speed. "Richard S Beckett" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:99stg9$[email hidden]... > x-no-archive: yes > > Well...I went into a shop and was surprised to discover that there aremany > different brands of GeForce 2 MX cards. I know - dopey, or what! Well, my > usual mail order place only had the one on their list and it didn't saythe

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> brand name. > > Anyhow...In the shop the cheapest card was only a couple of quid more than > the mail order one, and worked out cheaper because of no postage. > > I looked at the different ones, and ended up paying an extra 10 ukp for a > Creative Labs card, as I knew the name, it came bundled with some

software, > and it had DDR ram on it. > > This confuses me a little. There were straight GeForce 2 MXs, and therewas

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> the Blaster GeForce 2 MX DDR. I assume that the DDR version will be faster > than an SDRAM version? > > Did I make a good buy? > > I'll post performance improvements when my monitor's fixed. > > Thanks. > > R. > > >

well said, I only wish I could get people to believe me when I've been telling them this for the past 6 months. "Joe L." <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:wNww6.6235 > Get thee back to the store and get rid of that Creative DDR MX assoon > as you can. You have bought one of the slowest MX cards out there. > The reason for this is that DDR memory. While you are correct in that, > everything else being equal, DDR memory is faster than SDR memory butwith

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> an MX card everything else is NOT equal. With SDR memory an MX card > operates with a 128 bit data path. With DDR memory the data path is cut in > half to only 64 bits. The DDR memory is therefore useless as any gain the > DDR ram gives you is more than lost in the data path traffic jam slowdown. > DDR memory on an MX card is a DISadvantage and an advertising gimic > only. You are MUCH better off with SDR ram. As for the SDR MX cards they > are all pretty much the same UNTIL you go to overclock them. Some cards

have > a better grade of ram than others and the ones with the batter ram can > overclock higher. At the time I bought mine before Christmas the card with > the best grade of ram was the HERC GForce 2 MX. There may have been someto > equal the Herc but there was none better that I heard of. Since Christmas > there have been several new flavors of MX cards introduced, some with 64 > megs instead of the usual 32. I dont know much about them. > Incidently, I found this out when I bought the same Creative DDR MXyou > did. I was fortunate enough to run into a guy who told me what I just told > you. I now have a Herc GForce 2 MX with SDR ram and am getting MUCH better > speed.