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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Silvanos" data-source="post: 1444216" data-attributes="member: 9732">CPU: AMD Athlon™ XP 3000+ ProcessorQuantiSpeed™ Architecture operates at 2.167 GHz512KB L2 cache & 333MHz FSB Operating System: Microsoft® Windows® XP Home Edition  Chipset: NVIDIA® nForce™2 Memory: 512 MB DDR (PC 2700) Hard Drive: 160 GB HDD Optical Drives: 48x Max. CD-RW Drive; 16x Max. DVD Drive; 3.5" 1.44MB FDD; 8-in-1 Media Reader(USB 2.0, Secure Digital (SD), Smart Media, Compact Flash, Memory Stick, Memory Stick PRO, Micro Drive, Multimedia Card) Video: NVIDIA® GeForce4™ MX graphics (1 AGP 8x slot available) Sound: nForce™ 6-channel Audio Modem: 56K* ITU v.92 ready Fax/Modem Network: 10/100Mbps built-in Ethernet Peripherals: Premium Plus Multimedia Keyboard, 2-Button Wheel Mouse, Amplified Stereo Speakers Dimensions: 7.25"w x 14.125"h x 16"d Internet: AOL 3 month membership included, click here for details Ports/Other: 5 USB 2.0 ports (4 in back; 1 in Media Reader), 1 Serial, 1 Parallel, 2 PS/2, Audio-In & Out Pre-Installed Software: Microsoft Works 7.0, Microsoft Money 2004, Encarta Online, Adobe® Acrobat® Reader™, Microsoft Media Player, Real Player, Power DVD, Internet Explorer, Netscape® Navigator, MSN®, CompuServe®, AOL (with 3 months membership included**), Norton AntiVirus 2004 (90 day complimentary subscription)  That is the system specs for those who are following this...Ok.  So the it is a GF4 MX...  Here is some info on that POS from TOM's Hardware site:When you look at the three different GeForce4 MX offerings, it is easy to see that the low-end version, the GeForce4 MX420, will be a product for OEMs only. Its 166 MHz SDRAM memory will slow down the performance of the GeForce4 MX chip so much that it will hardly perform any better than previous GeForce2 MX400 cards that you can get for a mere 50 bucks. The performance of the GeForce4 MX440 and 460 cards, however, proved to be very impressive. Especially the GeForce4 MX460, which is able to score results as high as those of the GeForce3 Ti200, or even the Ti500 cards. Both are able to beat ATi's Radeon 7500 in most cases. Still, none of the GeForce4 MX cards has full DirectX 8.x support, because of its lack of vertex and pixel shaders. This weighs heavily when you remember the lowest priced offering out of the GeForce4 Ti bunch of cards. It's only $20 more than GeForce4 MX460. I therefore suggest the GeForce4 MX440 for value buyers, but they should try to get the price down to less than $149. Better yet, a value buyer should watch out for GeForce3 cards. Any GeForce3 card that costs less than $190 is a bargain right now. GeForce3 comes with full DirectX 8.x functionality, vertex/pixel shaders and lots of 3D power! If you can chose between a GeForce3 card and a GeForce4 MX card for similar prices, I would clearly go for the GeForce3! That is what I was talking about.  Your paying for a premium card, that says GF 4 on it.  So it must be better than the other ones right?  Same speed as the GF2?!?  Better off buying the GF3?!?  Just realize what you are getting.  And that review was posted on February 6, 2002!  2 years ago!  Your not getting a Game useable card there.  And you WILL Have to replace it to Play NWN's and such games at any resolution above 800x640.DrewDrew</blockquote>

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