Why is this so cheap?

El Dokteer · Post by **El Dokteer** » Sat Feb 16, 2002 1:34 am

Aopen GF2 MX400 64MB DDR $99

Keep in mind that's 99$ Canadian, so around 62$ US. WHY is this GF2 MX 400 DD FREAKIN R so cheap? What is Aopen? The Abit just above it in the shop is more expensive for an SDR version.

Jelly_Warrior · Post by **Jelly_Warrior** » Sat Feb 16, 2002 6:19 am

GF2 MX400 are pretty good cards.

The reason that it'd be cheap is because GeForce 3 is becoming more popular and GeForce 4 is out (i think) so now they're trying to sell off the GeForce 2 cards to make way for main stream GF3 cards.

Holly Hasney · Post by **Holly Hasney** » Sat Feb 16, 2002 10:18 am

The Videologic Vivid!XS is probably about $20 cheaper if you can find it. It's faster than the MX unless you have games that use T&L. It's not got brilliant specs... it just doesn't shade anything that isn't in view (according to this article) making it a lot faster than it should be

Plus it's the 2nd sequel to the Dreamcasts GFX card, so be patriotic to the DC

sixteen-bit · Post by **sixteen-bit** » Sat Feb 16, 2002 5:53 pm

I was thinking about getting a GF2 MX to replace this *cough*3dfx *coughcough* graphics card in the machine but if the Videologic cards are cheaper for a similar performance I might look into them.. I only need standard DirectX compatibility; nothing fancy.