How About This???

[OCNowOrNeverOC]

Hi....My System is...

AMD Duron 750@920Mhz
MSI K7T266 Pro2-U
256DDR RAM KINGSTON Ultra Speed x 2
NVIDIA Geforce 4 MX440 300/598
Windows XP Home Edition without Service Pack.

My 3DMark2001=4601

Hi....my geforce is 64-bit memory....can i update it with any little trick like flashing the bios?......and maybe mod it into some kind of Quadro?.......anyway any idea about bring my system to the limit???Thanks!

[Bigjakkstaffa]

Moddign to Quadro will do nothing for your performance, indeed, as the Quadros are aimed at professional (e.g. CAD) applicatiosn you may even find game performance falls.

Similarly it is very rare that Nvidia cards (unlike ATi) are flashable up a level.

The only solution you've really got is to try overclocking the card:

http://www.sysopt.com/articles/VCOGuide/index.html

Reading various tweaking articles such as those found at www.3dspotlight.com oh how to adjust (lower) detail settings to improve performance.

You may also want to look into optimised 3rd-party drier sets such as those provided by www.omegacorner.com

--Jakk:t

[Strawbs]

I've said for a long time now Geforce MX should be avoided like the plague! They are the bottom rung of the nVidia ladder and are made only for "Brand recognition" marketting, a more accurate description would be: GeezNoForce "notforbenchingorgaming".

Sorry. :t

[jamil5454]

I had a geforce4 MX that I had for about a year before my 9600pro. I got my 9600pro last fall and honestly I wish I would have waited because up until now there have been no games that recommend anything over a g4 MX. MXs were a great value but not anymore. Almost all recent games use dx8 or dx9 technology, which none of the MXs have. But, in their day, there was nothing that would compare to their performance for ~$50.

[zybch]

I had an MX for about 2 weeks till I switched to a Ti 4400 and overclocked to to almost 4800 speeds (pitty about the missing pipelines though).
The MXs were basically just GF2 MX cards clocked higher and with faster memory, they must have made nVidia a heap of cash though as they sold like hotcakes.

[iceblue]

The most you can flash it to is a MX460, but I haven't seen many try it. But then again it's risky and the performance benefit isn't that great.

[zybch]

Isn't that just a faster clock/ram speed? Rather than a new bios?

[iceblue]

I use to see the issue pop up in other forums I visited and when it did there really wasn't that much info since most enthusiasts had Ti 4200s and higher. AFAIK, it is just a clock speed boost, but a permanent one.