Nvidia GeForce4 MX with TV Out

[Charles Davis]

I just ordered some Dell computers with 64MB Nvidia GeForce4 MX video cards.

 

Checking the Forum, there appears to be some conflicting results with this card: some have problems, others say no problems, particularly if you turn Nview off and/or turn Hardware Accel down.

 

Has anyone out there ordered a Dell lately with this card and is running v9.1? If so, any problems?

[Salahuddin]

Hi, the problem with the MX type cards that cursor in Mastercam will be in black as the background.

go for geforce card other than mx.

[Guest CNC Apps Guy 1]

My understanding is that the MX line is their "Value" chipset and that problems have been known to occur with these.

 

JM2C

[Rick Damiani]

The MX line of boards is somewhat lower in performance than the other GeForce boards. FWIW, the GeForce 2 MX boards in my office training lab have worked well with everything we have thrown at them.

[Charles Davis]

Thanks, Rick, I really appreciate your feedback.

 

Since these are training computers and this is the card the Dell ships with, I'd prefer to keep them, as 8X any replacement card is a lot of $$$.

[Rekd™]

I've got a GEForce 2 MX400 also, and although it is nice and fast, it does display *ghosts* on the MC screen.

 

'Rekd

[Rick Damiani]

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Since these are training computers and this is the card the Dell ships with, I'd prefer to keep them, as 8X any replacement card is a lot of $$$.

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Boy and how. My company has a 16-station training lab in our office with its own server, plus a 19-staton 'mobile' lab of Wi-Fi enalbed notebook computers. The expenses mount very damn fast.

 

What I do with the Nvidia boards is make sure that they are using reference drivers from Nvidias web site. As the most grapicly demanding applicaiton we use is Inventor, followed closely by 3D Studio MAX, I use the reference driver version specified by Autodesk for Inventor. I find that if a card works for Inventor, it generally will work well for everything else.

 

The current certificaiton list for Inventor is here:

Autodesk Inventor Graphics

 

That site has links to the as-tested driver versions. I highly reccomend using them if at all possible.

[Greg McKay]

Charles,

 

I have been having issues with the new ATI -TV out that dell is shipping with. I run an mmx2 at home on a 2000 BOX. I have not had a problem.

 

Let us know how you make out with the new systems.

[billystein]

Everytime I try to pick an entity and miss it My computer locks up for about 20 seconds. Then I do ctrl alt delete and t for task manager. then I press alt F4 and it seems fine. I am using 32mb nvidia geforce2 mx w tvout.

Does this sound familiar?

Please help.

[Charles Davis]

Bad news and good news. Everyone was right, the MX card is not a good choice, and I've not been happy with the performance. So, I need to replace all 8 video cards.

 

I recently saw Mastercam running on a Nvidia TI card and was blown away by the performace.

 

The good news is I explained this to Dell and they agreed to let me return all 8 MX video cards for a full refund; absolutely no hassles. You just can't beat that -I was afraid I'd have to eat those MX cards! Thanks to Dell for the great service.

 

I'm getting Gainward brand TI4200 with 64MB DDR at a decent price from a local distributor.

 

[ 01-15-2003, 11:48 PM: Message edited by: Charles Davis ]

[Chris Rizzo]

I'm running the ti 4200 with 128meg of DDR, and have absolutly no complaints. I'm not sure what else I could ask for, especially for around $200!

[David Colin]

I have the same issue with ATI 9700 PRO (ghost) an I think it can't be classified as a "value" card. I'll try a Geforce TI4800 soon.

[cadcam]

Charles you will be very happy with this new video card.

I have a few different ones of the G4TI cards and my first one I bought was the Gainward G4TI 4200 64meg and use that in one of my programming boxes.

 

Have had great performance from this card.

I have suggested this card to allot of people you can not beat the price or performance for this card.

 

My2cents

[Bullines]

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I have the same issue with ATI 9700 PRO (ghost) an I think it can't be classified as a "value" card. I'll try a Geforce TI4800 soon

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No, it's true. You cannot classify the Radeon 9700 as a "value" card. Performance-wise, it blows the GeForce4 Ti 4600 out of the water in DirectX apps. However, Mastercam is an OpenGL app and ATI is notorius for horrible OpenGL implementations in their drivers. nVidia's OpenGL implementation, on the other hand, is one of the best in the business. Just be sure to avoid MX versions of the GeForce line.

[David Colin]

I'll should have a video card based on GF4 TI4800 on monday in order to replace ATI9700 card. I hope i'll get it, training is starting on tuesday...

[mold100]

I am using a ti 4000 series with 128,Some times

if I cut surfaces I dont want I will go back turn them off and re-gen the only thing wrong is the surfs look like they are still there even after I

turn off the visibility of there level.I cant touch them analyze them or anything they just dont go away until I close and re-open the file.Not to often but it does happen.I was using an ati card but I had alot of problems with that.

[Ryeker]

I am running an ATI Radeon 9700 Pro with no problems at all... It runs sweet in both of the CADCAM softwares titles that I use.

If you are having an issue with your Radeon turn down the hardware acceleration in the trouble shooting tab of the video settings... that worked for me...!

Hmmm.. Maybe this cards just 2 fast...???