eVGA GeForce4 MX440 review

Posted by Thomas McGuire on April 25, 2002
Manufacturer: eVGA     Product: GeForce 4 MX440

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GeForce4 MX line at a glance

Specifications

Listed beneath are the specifications for the eVGA GeForce 4 MX 440 as from the company themselves.

• 256-bit GeForce4 MX (270MHz clock)

• 64MB 5ns 128-bit DDR Memory (200MHz clock – 400MHz effective)

• 6.4 GB per second Memory Bandwidth

• AGP 4X with Fast Writes & Texturing support

• PC99 DB-15 analog connector (VESA DDC2B + DPMS)

• S-Video Connector for TV Out

• 700 Million Pixels per Second (chipset spec)

• 34 Million Triangles per Second (chipset spec)

• 1.1 Billion Texels per Second (chipset spec)

• eVGA Asymmetric Cooling System (ACS)

2D/3D Features

• NVIDIA Accuview Anti-aliasing – includes FSAA (2X, 4X, 4XS & Quincunx)

• Integrated Hardware Transform & Lighting engine

• NVIDIA Shader Rasterizer

• True Reflective Bump Mapping

• Cube Environment Mapping

• 32-bit Color with 32-Bit Z/Stencil Buffer

• DirectX & S3TC texture compression

• High Performance 2D Rendering engine

• Multi-Buffering (Double, Triple, Quad)

• 2 dual-rendering pipelines

• 4 texels per clock cycle

Other Features

• Lightspeed Memory Architecture II

• NVIDIA nView Multi-Display Technology

• NVIDIA Video Processing Engine (VPE)

• Integrated TV Encoder

• Video Acceleration (DirectShow, MPEG-1, MPEG-2, Indeo)

• High-quality HDTV/DVD playback

• Integrated Dual 350MHz RAMDACs

• Integrated Dual-Channel TMDS Transmitters

Driver Support

• Auto installer with ADM & Chipset

• ResChanger

• NVIDIA Unified Driver Architecture (UDA) – Windows 98/Me/NT 4/2000/XP

• Full OpenGL ICD for All Supported Operating Systems

Dimensions

• Height: 3.75in – 95mm

• Length: 6.9in – 175mm  

Test System

The eVGA GeForce 4 MX 440 was installed into my system which has the following components;

• Windows XP

• Abit KG7 RAID (& for a short time Abit NV7-133R)

• 256MB DDR RAM

• Creative SoundBlaster Audigy

• IBM Deskstar 75GXP

• Diamond Supra Mac PCI Modem

• Intellimouse Explorer

• 19" Monitor

Select eVGA GeForce4 MX440 - Card impressions Technical Specifications DVD/MPEG 2 decoding & Lightspeed Memory Architecture II Serious Sam & HSR (GeForce3 Ti200 comparison) Accuview Anti-Aliasing tests & Anisotropic Filtering Texture Compression, nView & Stability Final Thoughts, Pros & Cons

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