AOpen GeForce 4 MX440 SE (A4)

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This topic was started by jakkie, 2003-02-04 14:09

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jakkie

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#17067

2003-02-04 14:09

I replaced my Gigabyte GF2MX400 (32MB) with an Aopen GF4MX440SE-V64(A4)VGA card. My score with 3D Mark 2001SE then decreased from 2500 to 1850! Surely this cannot be right? My system is a AMD Duron 1.2 Ghz, 384MB RAM, Gigabyte GA7ZM M/B running Windows XP Proffesional. I installed the latest BIOS update for the motherboard, installed the latest available Nvidia Reference drivers for Win XP and also used those posted on AOpen's website, as wel as the latest VIA 4-in-1 drivers. None of these made any significant changes. Anny suggestions from the experts out there? According to AOpen Tech dept. this sounds about right! :evil:

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RiCO

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#17068

2003-02-04 16:51

All MX cards blow. If you want 3Dmark score, go Ti or Radeon. I always re-install windows after a hardware change. Maybe you should try that.

One more thing, did you delete the old drivers? and is the GF2 MX400 still showing in hardware monitor?

jakkie

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#17069

2003-02-04 20:53

Yes, I did all the obvious. Re-installed Windows XP, tried different o/s's Win 98SE, Win ME, different versions of the Nvidia reference drivers, tweaked "Omega" drivers, all to no avail. I am stuck with an absolute lemon, and that because of financial constraints and NVidia's lack of openness. Nowhere on their website could I find any refference to the fact that there is two versions of this card and that the A4 variant of this particular card uses SD RAM, whist the A8 version uses DDR RAM :evil: (both 64 MB). I am truly at wits end, and have begun accepting the fact that I have been had, and must live with that.

NIKEMARINE

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#17070

2003-02-04 20:59

Reinstall windows..........

RiCO

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#17071

2003-02-04 21:02

That's a shame. But really, your GF4MX should beat GF2MX400 :)

jakkie

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#17072

2003-02-04 21:05

Already tried that. See previous post. Any other suggestions? :(

NIKEMARINE

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#17073

2003-02-04 21:13

AGP Aperature size?
Reseat the video card?
Detonators from nvidia?
Newest DirectX?

if all these fail,
your card is a POS

jakkie

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#17074

2003-02-04 21:36

Like I said, I did everything imagineable to resolve the problem. I also installed the card in my brother-in-law's pc (AMD 1700+XP, 256 MB DDR ram, Windows XP proffesional) and he experienced the same loss of performance. He now uses the "old" GF2 MX400 that I had, and his score decreased from 2800 with the GF2 to 1900 with the GF4 MX440. AOpen's only comment is that it sound about right! (according to their benchmarks)