Gaming card my arse!

Soulblade2 · 27th November 2004, 1:33 AM

That's it, I'm so fucking sick of this card!

I have a GF4mx440SE, it doesn't have pixel shader support.

You can't play games like Richard Burns Rally, Silent Hill 3, Splinter Cell, etc. How is this even a gaming card? Perhaps it should be renamed to a 'business' card.

P.S. Radeon 9600 is on it's way as a solution, doesn't change the fact this card is useless.

Oblong Cheese · 27th November 2004, 1:36 AM

Are you getting enough air below that rock?

thrillhouse · 27th November 2004, 1:36 AM

You are right, the GF4mx440SE is the Shit Edition.
They are for office work and real basic games. 9600 will make up for your bad videocard though. Sit tight.

Soulblade2 · 27th November 2004, 1:46 AM

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Originally Posted by Oblong_Cheese

Are you getting enough air below that rock?

Why should I need to research it? The fan on my Herc 8500 broke and I used this card as a spare, but noticed it was labled as a gaming card..

Perhaps they should not name it as such..

verudium · 27th November 2004, 2:48 AM

arh sometimes you cant just compare a card which was launched like ,say ,nearly 3 yrs ago to the nowadays rich and intense games.they just doesnt fit in the same cat.
i use to work for the albatron main distributor here in singapore and when they 1st came out with the mx440,i was so disappointed cos the performance is not much or almost close to that of the gf2 series.thank god they have the Ti 4600 at that time.

ruski · 27th November 2004, 3:57 AM

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Originally Posted by Soulblade2

Why should I need to research it? The fan on my Herc 8500 broke and I used this card as a spare, but noticed it was labled as a gaming card..

Perhaps they should not name it as such..

That's as intelligient as trusting those computer system adds on tv...."double the memory"....."super fast graphics card to play the latest games!".

Well u'll see a world of difference with the 9600

evilasdeath · 27th November 2004, 5:59 AM

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Originally Posted by thrillhouse

You are right, the GF4mx440SE is the Shit Edition.
They are for office work and real basic games. 9600 will make up for your bad videocard though. Sit tight.

All the GF4 Mx cards fall into that catagory i think all they were was a GF2 core clocked higher but still only a Direct X 7 card which is kinda stupid hence why they made all FX cards and 6800 cards dx 9 cards (fx cards fall back onto dx 8.1 i believe thou for speed)

MX cards did have one good thing going for them some of them could be passive cooling if i remember correctally and you could get them in half height with tv out good for a media pc

other than that total shite
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bluedreamer · 27th November 2004, 6:29 AM

You pay for what you get.

hellcat · 27th November 2004, 7:08 AM

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Originally Posted by bluedreamer

You pay for what you get.

Very true, though you can't expect a card released that long ago to provide any real gaming experiance with newish games
-Hellcat

Torr · 27th November 2004, 7:40 AM

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Why should I need to research it? The fan on my Herc 8500 broke and I used this card as a spare, but noticed it was labled as a gaming card..

Unfortunatly now adays the marketing departments love to make products seem a lot better than they really are and stretch the truth (as was the case of the Sound Blaster Audigy).
If there is any way a manufacture can make a claim and make it stick legally they will. So doing some research is just good practice to ensure your hard earned dollars don't get waisted because of some marketing's departments' advertising (which I like to call "Giftwrap").

elvis · 27th November 2004, 9:31 AM

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Originally Posted by Soulblade2

P.S. Radeon 9600 is on it's way as a solution, doesn't change the fact this card is useless.

I hope to God you've bought a 9600Pro or XT, and not a 9600SE. Here's hoping experience taught you better than that.

Soulblade2 · 27th November 2004, 10:56 AM

Lol yeah, 9600xt xe 2.5ns 500/700

Can't wait for the good old Anistropic 16x days.

SLATYE · 27th November 2004, 12:05 PM

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Originally Posted by bluedreamer

You pay for what you get.

Exactly. So many people seem to say "look, a 256Mb card. It must be good", and then completely fail to consider that the 9600SE 256Mb is actually cheaper than the 9800Pro 128Mb for a good reason.

You can't really blame the companies for advertising it as a gaming card. If you want a business card, you use Intel Extreme graphics (or Via Unichrome, or whatever the SiS equivalent is). Almost any card which comes as a discrete card (apart from workstation ones) will be designed around gaming, even if it's just extreme budget gaming (as in this case).

annandin · 27th November 2004, 12:14 PM

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Originally Posted by Soulblade2

Lol yeah, 9600xt xe 2.5ns 500/700

Can't wait for the good old Anistropic 16x days.

I hope u dont think you can run any half new game with Anistropic 16x

Soulblade2 · 27th November 2004, 1:44 PM

Nah I meant for the older games, Just a playable fps is all I need.

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27th November 2004, 10:56 AM	#12
Soulblade2 Member Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: Brisbane. Posts: 908	Lol yeah, 9600xt xe 2.5ns 500/700 Can't wait for the good old Anistropic 16x days. __________________ Main: i7 2600@4.2Ghz, 8GB Mushkin 10666, Gigabyte G1.SniperM3, 2X Gigabyte gtx680, 1.5TB Raid0, 16x Pioneer, Dell 2408WFP, ATH AD900, Silverstone FT02B, G15 Keyboard, Win7 64bit Ultimate. Server: AMD965 @ stock, Corsair 8GB PC-8500, GA-MA785G, Dual Aoc-usaslp-l8i, Seasonic x-750, o/s WDS 160GB, data 32.65tb, Norco 4220, whs2k3. Folding team rank: 1,722nd

27th November 2004, 1:44 PM	#15
Soulblade2 Member Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: Brisbane. Posts: 908	Nah I meant for the older games, Just a playable fps is all I need. __________________ Main: i7 2600@4.2Ghz, 8GB Mushkin 10666, Gigabyte G1.SniperM3, 2X Gigabyte gtx680, 1.5TB Raid0, 16x Pioneer, Dell 2408WFP, ATH AD900, Silverstone FT02B, G15 Keyboard, Win7 64bit Ultimate. Server: AMD965 @ stock, Corsair 8GB PC-8500, GA-MA785G, Dual Aoc-usaslp-l8i, Seasonic x-750, o/s WDS 160GB, data 32.65tb, Norco 4220, whs2k3. Folding team rank: 1,722nd

27th November 2004, 1:36 AM	#3
thrillhouse Member Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: sydney sydney sydney Posts: 1,845	You are right, the GF4mx440SE is the Shit Edition. They are for office work and real basic games. 9600 will make up for your bad videocard though. Sit tight.

27th November 2004, 2:48 AM	#5
verudium Member Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: singapore Posts: 67	arh sometimes you cant just compare a card which was launched like ,say ,nearly 3 yrs ago to the nowadays rich and intense games.they just doesnt fit in the same cat. i use to work for the albatron main distributor here in singapore and when they 1st came out with the mx440,i was so disappointed cos the performance is not much or almost close to that of the gf2 series.thank god they have the Ti 4600 at that time.

27th November 2004, 6:29 AM	#8
bluedreamer Member Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Sydney Posts: 1,744	You pay for what you get.