[mythtv-users] Cheap GeForce4 MX 440

Craig Partin cpartin at gmail.com
Wed Mar 23 23:53:25 UTC 2005


On Wed, 23 Mar 2005 14:11:23 -0800, Big Wave Dave <bigwavedave at gmail.com> wrote:
> Probably a silly question... How can you find out if you have NV17 or
> NV18... etc.
> 
> Dave

lspci will tell you.  I have 2 NV18 boards and they seem fine to me. 
Maybe I am less sensitive to TV quality than others, but it looks
pretty good to me.

> 
> On Wed, 23 Mar 2005 17:06:36 -0500, Joseph A. Caputo
> <jcaputo1 at comcast.net> wrote:
> > On Wednesday 23 March 2005 16:56, Will Dormann wrote:
> > > Shawn Asmussen wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Anybody thinking about getting one of these should keep in mind that
> > a
> > > > significant number of people (including myself) have had problems
> > with
> > > > the MX 440 and Nvidia's more recent driver versions. Unless you're
> > > > really trying hard to save the money, my recommendation would be to
> > > > shell out the extra $30 or so and get at least a 5200.
> > >
> > > What sort of problems?
> > >
> > > I'm running an MX4000 (Die-shrunk MX 440) with no real problems.
> >
> > Different revision of the GF4 MX 440 use(d) different TV encoder chips
> > for their TV-out.  Depending on who you ask, some are great and some
> > suck.
> >
> > My original LeadTek GF4 MX 420 used an NV17 encoder chip, which was
> > probably about as good as I could have wanted without going to a
> > PVR-350 or DVI/component.
> >
> > My new(er) on-board (Chaintech 7NIF2) GF4 MX 440 uses an NV18 encoder,
> > which IMHO really sucks.
> >
> > Just my $.02.
> >
> > -JAC
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