Q: I picked one of these to use in a system I was building a buddy of mine (but I very much), but its lousy memory. The default 175MHz core and 143MHz memory (it is planned to 166). There are huge artifacts on the screen and I have to turn to 130MHz all artifacts to remove the card and avoid getting bogged down. This cut off 250 Mtexels / sec fill rate from the GF 2 MXs.
So Anyway, I take it back and figure I have a faulty mapping of new home . Same problem. This made it a blistering 133MHz memory, though.
I highly doubt that I am the only one who found two cards that only had 7.5ns (maybe even 8ns) memory to get. Anyway, I got my money back and took a total brand-name GF 2 MX and it works beautifully on 190MHz memory.
Stay away from PowerColor.
edit: and these were boxed retail cards.
Re:I have a similar problem.
I got a PowerColor Geforce 2 MX 64 MB the other day and I have big problems!!!
The rig is:
PIII700E@933 (rock stable)
128MB RAM
P3V4X Mobo (soltek converter) 4.29 drivers (4.05 AGP-drivers).
WinME
DX 8.0
4xAGP
PowerColor Geforce 2 MX 64 MB (drivers tested 6.31 6.50 6.67 10.80 7.5X and a lot of others)
The system hangs very often or "bumps" out to Windows in 3DMark2000, no o/c on the card. The best score I've had is 4600-something score in 3DMark2k and I think that really sucks, doesn't it??
The system hangs in the game I love: DF3:Land Warrior
Have tried WinME, Win98SE clean installations
What can I do?
How can I tell the speed of the memory on the card? (7.5ns or whatever it can be)
Should I send it back?
It was given to me as a gift…
Help me…!!!…!!!…
/guy
Re:I cant seem to find bios there, just drivers…
Re:guy, umm no it's not an AMD system. it's a P3-800 on a Asus CUSL2-C.
User problem? Sorry bud, but I know what I'm doing and that card was f*cked up. They tested it at the store with the same results. He said they've had numerous returns on this card and they're going to stop carrying it. Maybe it was a bad batch, but that's no excuse. No company should be run with quality control like that. Pathetic.
The bottom line is: the two cards I received shipped with RAM only capable of 133MHz (7.5ns), and it could have been much worse since even 7.5ns RAM can usually clock higher than that.
Oh yeah, I tried the drivers that shipped with the card, and also the 6.31 and 6.50 nVidia drivers.
Re:GET THEM HERE (http://www.powercolor.com.tw/driver.htm)
Re:Where can I get latest bios for my Powercolor Geforce 2 mx card?
Re:I bought a Powercolor GFMX for my brother. It runs ok except for a faint scrolling diagonal line that comes up every few minutes. I will return it and get a new one…
Re:guy,
I hope you are wrong!
I had just ordered the same card w/tv out. It got great reviews!
Some of the AMD chipsets have problems with this type of card. You need to tell us what your buddies system specs are before you go and flame this card.
There are patches for this problem on the way!
It may even be a just a user problem!
click here for card review (http://www.onepc.net/reviews/0010/)
Re:guy, I tried setting the memory to 150Mhz and the system locked up. I dont think the BIOS should affect how high the RAM can go. yes, it can affect the default setting, but I should still be able to put the RAM at 166Mhz.
guy, yes I remember seeing TwinView options.
Re:thanks for the info Kami.. I was always wondering about those.. I wanted to pick one up with my system before, cause of the dual monitor support on the MX.. does the powercolor even have that?
Re:A friend of mine pick up a CardEx MX (suppose to be the fastest MX on the market) from CompUSA.
At the glance, it has 5.5ns RAM, but it also has default speed of 175/143.
After updating the Nvidia BIOS version Nv116100.ROM, it happily running at 190/180 at default. (he also OC it to 210/210 w/out any problem w/ powerstripe)
These company already upgrade their RAM, but seems to forget to update their BIOS. Check their RAM spec….maybe it get more than what you expect.
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