ok heres the dealin my other comp i had a mx440, could play halo on the basic settings with 60fps, had a 9200se given 2 me and the gfx have improved but i only get like 20fps using the same settings? is this normal or is it drivers? im using the 4.7 cat drivers while the mx was usin 61.77.
for starters a 9200(non-se) is comparable with a mx440, so a 9200SE is crap compared to your old card. Could be drivers but tbh it sounds like the card is just crap
The GF4MX are slightly enhanced GF2 so are DX7 and well behind modern entry level cards, and even the old GF3 (DX8). The Rad9200 is at least DX8 but is still a much slower version of the old Rad8500 which used to do battle with the GF3. The Rad9200SE much like the GF4MX420 add insult to injury by using really cheap, naff RAM so throttling the normal MX440 & 9200 respectively. Basically these are all woefully slow cards, even the GF-FX5200 is a big step up from all of these but I'd suggest aiming for at least FX5600 or Rad9550. 9200SE 200/166 64bitDDR 2.6GB/s 9200 250/200 128bitDDR 6.4GB/s 9200Pro 300/300 128bitDDR 9.6GB/s 9550 250/200 128bitDDR 6.4GB/s (faster than the above because of far more modern archy) http://www6.tomshardware.com/graphic/20031229/index.html (NOTE: '9200 64' is 9200 64MB not the 64bitDDR 9200SE)
I have both the 9200Se and gf4 440MX SE and the gf4 440 is faster in most if not all benchmarks and games but I only use them in my pvr where I don't need anything other than the vrm 7 acceleration and hardware interlacing. But as others have said these are not really much use in newer games other than 640x480/800x600 with mid detail settings.
