Chaintech A-G441 GeForce 4 MX440 64Mb
"Special Edition"
March 17, 2001
Manufactured by: CHAINTECH
Supplied by: PCGear
Introduction
We have seen the performance of the GeForce 3, now comes the 4th generation of GeForce cards, the GeForce 4. With new features delivering new levels of performance and display capabilities to desktop and mobile PCs, it is sure to be another big hit from nVidia. A lot of companies has already released their video cards based on the GeForce GPUs and today we'll be looking at one of them. This particular company has been producing motherboards for quite some time now and some have probably seen their video card offerings in the past too. We have tested their motherboards before, here, and was quite happy with what it offered the consumers. Now we'll be taking a look at their line of video cards. The company is Chaintech.
The GeForce 4 Family
The GeForce 4 family consist of 3 different categories: PERFORMANCE, MAINSTREAM and MOBILE, making it the most complete family of graphics solution. The GeForce 4 Performance card is the GF4 Ti series, the Mainstream is the GF4 MX series and the Mobile card is the GF4 Go series. The GF4 Ti gives the user ferocious graphics power that is ideal for advanced 3D applications, extreme gaming and HDTV/DVD playback. The GF4 MX on the other hand is ideal for multiple display and desktop flexibility, 2D office applications and web surfing. The GF4 Go series is,like what the name suggest, ideal for mobile business presentations, gaming on the go and multiple display flexibility.
Below is a comparison table of the features each series have....
| GeForce 4 Ti (NV25) | GeForce 4 MX (NV17) | GeForce 4 Go |
nfiniteFX II | x |
|
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LMA II | x | x | x |
Accuview AA | x | x | x |
nView | x | x | x |
VPE |
| x | x |
PowerMizer |
|
| x |
For the desktop user, our card of interest here is the GF4 Ti and GF4 MX series. The GF4 Ti series will be discussed on our next reviews (or as soon as I could get hold of them. hehe). Today were gonna review one of the the GF4 MX series cards and see the performance this new card can bring to the consumer.