Good deal? Or let it pass?

Judg3 · Post by **Judg3** » Sun Feb 02, 2003 3:52 pm

I got a new Tigerdirect catalog a week ago or so and they have whitebox (OEM) GeForce2 MX200 32mb agp vid cards for 24.99/each. Whatcha think?

The stats on em are
- 256-bit 2D and 3D graphics accelerator
- 350MHz RAMDAC
- 64-bit memory architecture
- 2 Rendering Pipelines
- AGP 4X with fast writes
- NVIDIA Shading Rasterizer
- Integrated second generation transform and lighting engines
- 4 texels per clock
- 32-bit color with 32-bit Z/stencil
- Digital Vibrance Control
- Cube environment mapping
- DirectX and S3 texture compression

On their website they have PNY GF2 MX200 32mb cards for 19.99$ after a 20$ rebate, but I am not to up on this low end card. Thinking of picking up a few if it's worth the price.

thanks

Absolut Talent · Post by **Absolut Talent** » Sun Feb 02, 2003 4:23 pm

i have one of those retail pny cards.
I bought it last year at compusa for like $70

for gaming......it does ok in a 800x600@32. But you cant use any of the AA. And forget about using that card in a game like morrowind

Judg3 · Post by **Judg3** » Sun Feb 02, 2003 4:28 pm

Well, I'm looking for a vid card for my wife's PC, one for a linux machine, one for a win2k server and one for a mobile jukebox of sorts using a Shuttle spacewalker. You think a card like that could pump out a decent amount of frames for Winamp's graphical doo-dads? I ask because I DJ part time at a bowling alley, and would like to make a neat little mp3 player a spacewalker so I can bring it there and back

nero wolfe · Post by **nero wolfe** » Sun Feb 02, 2003 5:06 pm

if your not gaming then its a great card to us and with linux its works fine. So ya get the card but if you game with it be for warned you wont get great game play outta if like you would a gf4 or ati 8500

wvjohn · Post by **wvjohn** » Sun Feb 02, 2003 5:25 pm

card will probably get the job done but i'd check if anyone else has it at the same price - tiger direct has a very inconsistent reputation - they come through for some folks, other people have lost of problems

you might also want to consider a radeon regular or le - the 32 mb flavor - i have one of these as my utility card - it's the same generation as the mx200 - i've seen these in the $30 range at newegg -

Judg3 · Post by **Judg3** » Mon Feb 03, 2003 12:08 am

Ok, thanks guys. Since Im pretty much unemployed (recently got a job at a bowling alley, part time - thanks IT recession heh) I had to sell off all of my wonderful PCs to pay bills, now I'm stuck on my woman's Celeron 366 HP all-in-one crap box and need a new PC bad hehe.
So Im going to build a box thats good enough for here, yet cheap enough and powerful enough for me. (Probably an XP1700 on a Soyo board, found a barebones kit of Soyo Dragon Plus + Case for 150$, prolly go for that)
So youve helped me out here

(BTW, ever try working with large photoshop files on a 366 with 256mb of ram? It's absolute hell, and the simplest of filters take 10 minutes to apply on a 1000x1000 pixel image)