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Posted by
Julio
Franco on May 24, 2002
Manufacturer: Visiontek
Products: Xtasy
GeForce4 MX440
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The card is definitely nothing as fancy
as its higher-end brothers sporting nice HSF units; instead
Visiontek is shipping the MX440 with some passive cooling
that does some decent job. The card gets quite hot but no
trouble was caused because of this, the card ran stable, as
most products we have used from Visiontek in the past they
use pure reference drivers from NVIDIA. Our board came
equipped with some Hynix memory rated for 5ns operation.
To say the truth it had been a long time
since I saw such a vanilla card with no fan on top of it,
not even on my old TNT 2 ;) … reminds me of Matrox’s
office oriented G550 board. I’m also back to test a normal
sized videocard… after so many Titanium’s I was
definitely getting used to it, I was lucky that I never had
a problem with my case though, here you have the Xtasy MX440
on top of a Ti4600 board, see the size difference?
Visiontek decided to equip the card with
two analog VGA outputs instead of the more commonly used
VGA/TV-out combo, giving more priority to dual monitor
users. Personally I’m used to single monitor output,
though I consider Visiontek’s decision a big plus for the
card, of course, it will always depend on your real life
needs when it comes to choose what card to buy. Also
important to notice is primary VGA output connector design,
similarly to other GeForce4 boards it follows NVIDIA’s
reference design that guarantees optimum/improved 2D
quality, even in the lower-end MX’s.
Last but not least, the card bundle
consisted on the typical package we are used to see on
Visiontek boards, a quick start paper, a drivers CD
w/further installation instructions, FAQ and tech demos and
the latest version of PowerDVD. Back when I tested the new
Xtasy GF4 Ti boards I hardly complained on the software
bundle included, which is the same as for the MX440 board,
however in this case it’s much more adequate being a card
priced below the $150 mark, PowerDVD 4.0 is a nice bundle
alone, a few game demos could have helped a bit though.
Specifications
• Controller: NVIDIA GeForce4 MX 440
• Bus Type AGP
• Memory 64MB DDR
• Core Clock 270MHz
• Memory Clock 400MHz effective
DDR memory
• RAMDAC Dual 350MHz RAMDACs
• API Support Direct-X®, Open GL ICD®
for Windows
• Connectors Dual VGA
• 1.1 Billion texel fill rate
• 34 Million vertices/sec setup
• 6.4GB/second memory bandwidth
Features at a
Glance
• AGP 4x compatible with fast writes
• 256-bit 3D and 2D graphics accelerator
• NVIDIA nView™ display technologies
• Lightspeed Memory Architecture™ II
• Dual Integrated 350MHz DACs
• Accuview Antialiasing™
• High Definition Video Processing Engine
• MX memory Crossbar
Package
Contains
• Geforce4 MX 440™ Graphics Accelerator
• Installation Guide
• Installation CD
* Install Guide .pdf
* Demos
* Adobe Acrobat Reader™
* NVIDIA® Unified Driver Architecture
• Cyberlink PowerDVD™
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