9100 or 440 SE?

[wackoguy]

Hey guys, im new to this forum.
I bought a MX 440 SE 64mb the other day and realized that a Radeon 9100 would of been a better choice.

I live in NZ so graphics prices arent 2 cheap. OK...
I bought the 440 for about $50 US and I can get a Radeon 9100 64mb for about $80 US, shod I sell my geforce for about $45 and get a radeon? Is it worth it?
Is the 9100 a good choice, would a 9000 be alrite since thats cheaper.

Yeah, I'd apreciate any feedback

[Omardeth]

i don't think you are really anybetter off with the 9100 or the 9000 . i don't think you will see any preformance difference other than the way your wallet will preform when it is lighter ...

[Eladijaz]

Greetings - Welcome to the board,
The 9100 is a much better card than the 440se. The GF4 MX440se is based on the Gforce 2/directx7 and is an ok budget card - the Radeon 9100 is based on the Radeon 8500 (Almost Identical in most cases), is a Directx 8.1 based card and quite a bit quicker than the 440se.
I would chooose the 9100 over the 9000 personally - although the 9100 is clocked higher it has been trimmed somewhat with only half the texturing power (per cycle).
THG gives these numbers in 3Dmark2001 for those cards:
8500 - 9900 3dMarks;
9000 Pro - 8500 3dMarks;
9000 - 7250 3dMarks;
Mx440 - 6850 3dMarks.
The MX440 is about 10% faster than your current MX440se.
(nforce 2 board with an xp2700+ cpu)
Regards,
Elad.

[dunbar]

(huh - thought this was going to be a Macintosh thread.... Performa 440 vs Power Mac 9100). Go with the ATI product.

[Omardeth]

the thing is he already has the mx 440 . so buying a 9100 or a 9000 isn't really a good option in my opinion . if you look at benchmarks you will see that the performance of the ati cards mentions are single digit % wise better . is they worth spending almost double the money for ? i don't think so .

also you qoute 3d mark scores . what good are they ? the scores have alot to do with alot of other things also , more than just the video card . the motherboard plays a part because of the different chipsets , ram , hd performance plays a role also . so quoting 3d mark score means nothing unles they are his exact setup .

[tony_j15]

I totally disagree with Omardeth. The mx440 doesnt have half the features you really need for good gaming. Sell it and get the 9100.

[Omardeth]

and what features are you talking about may i ask ?

MX 440 SE - 2 pipelines, 2 TMU per pipeline, 270/183 Mhz, 2.9 GB/s Bandwidth, Bilinear, Trilinear, 2x Anisotropic filtering support, Hardware T&L, Accuview AA, No pixel shader or Vertex shader.

Radeon 9100 - 4 pipelines, 2 TMU per pipeline, 250/250 mhz, 8.0 GB/s bandwidth, Bilinear, Dual Bilinear, 16x Anisotropic filtering support, Hardware T&L, Pixel Shader version 1.4, Vertex Shader version 1.1.

I'd go with the 9100.

The MX 440se is DX7, The 9100 is DX8.

[wackoguy]

thanks for all the replys guys,

Even though the 9100 seems quite a bit better, i geuss for twice the price I might aswell just stick with the 440 for now, atleast until i got enough money to buy a WAAAAY better card.

[Peter M]

realized that a Radeon 9100 would of been a better choice.

would HAVE been. Thank you for writing understandable English.