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

[Andrew Dodd]

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.