[mythtv-users] PNY GeForce4 MX440 - $40 till 2/29/04

[Harry Orenstein]

>From: "Jarod C. Wilson" <jcw at wilsonet.com>
>Reply-To: jcw at wilsonet.com, Discussion about mythtv 
><mythtv-users at mythtv.org>
>To: Discussion about mythtv <mythtv-users at mythtv.org>
>Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] PNY GeForce4 MX440 - $40 till 2/29/04
>Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2004 09:52:17 -0800
>
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>On Tuesday 10 February 2004 09:25, Andrew Dodd wrote:
> > Quoting Malcolm <mythtv at lds.dyndns.org>:
> >
> >
> > 
>http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/searchtools/item-Details.asp?EdpNo=
> >161766&sku=P56-2732
> >
> > > Is this the card everyone's raving about?  Does this have the near
> > > perfect TV out quality and stable drivers?
> >
> > PNY?
> >
> > Stay away.
> >
> > Stay far away.
> >
> > Their build quality is pretty bad, and their tech support nonexistent.
> >
> > It took me two months to return a defective Verto I bought last year - 
>the
> > vendor told me to deal with PNY, PNY just put me on hold for 3 hours 
>then
> > dropped my call without answering.  The card should never have made it
> > through quality control - there were loose solder joints, and solder
> > bridges on the card.  It's a miracle it only had memory errors galore
> > (texture tearing, corrupted patterns of pixels in the framebuffer) and
> > didn't fry my motherboard.
>
>Huh. Another YMMV. Both my PNY cards are just fine. They're both GF4 Ti
>series, actually made by MSI and packaged by PNY. My personal preference of
>late is Chaintech though.
>
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I really need to create a permanent link to the quote from Blazing
Saddles (Van Johnson's right about Dr. Samuel Johnson being right!).

I agree with Jarod.  My PNY GeForce MX440se has been perfect!  I
have had 0 problems from day 1.  The card in the link looks to be
the 8x version of the card I have.  I don't know anything about that
particular card, but if it is like mine it should be fine.  Again, there is
no guarantee that PNY did not decide to change TV out chips when
they went to 8x, so I would find out for sure if I were you (especially
since double shipping on a $40 card is more than half the price if you
have to return it).  I have had absolutely no problems getting PNY on
the phone.  When I bought my card the box still said that NVDVD was
included even though they stopped including it.  A call to PNY support
and they sent me a new disk with NVDVD plus some other software
from their 5200 card.  My DDR RAM is PNY also, and that has been
just as good (actually, no problems, knock wood).

Everyone has their own opinions and you are going to have to make
up your own mind.  My experience has been very good with PNY.


-- Harry O.

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