Due to NVIDIA’s strict specifications and production criteria, the boards all look fairly similar at first glance. A closer look reveals major differences in feature set and overclockability, however. For this comparison I have done my best to test as broad a selection of MX cards as possible, if just to show the overwhelming multitude of options available in the MX segment. Those cards would be:

Karte
Manufacturer	ASUS	Gainward	Gainward	Inno3D	MSI	Sparkle	Sparkle
Card name	V7100 PRO/T	CARDEXpert 32MB ViVo	CARDEXpert Hollywood/MX	Tornado MX 400	StarForce 826	SP6800 TC+TV 32MB	SP6800 M4+TV 64MB
Chip	GeForce 2 MX 400	GeForce 2 MX 400	GeForce 2 MX 400	GeForce 2 MX 400	GeForce 2 MX 400	GeForce 2 MX 400	GeForce 2 MX 400
Clockspeed	200 / 200 MHz	200 / 166 MHz	175 / 166 MHz	200 / 166 MHz	175 / 166 MHz	200 / 183 MHz	200 / 166 MHz
Memory	64MB	32MB	32MB	32MB	64MB	32MB	64MB
Memory Type	128Bit SDRAM	128Bit SDRAM	128Bit SDRAM	128Bit SDRAM	128Bit SDRAM	128Bit SDRAM	128Bit SDRAM
Access Time	4.5 ns	4 ns	4.8 ns	5 ns	6 ns	5 ns	6 ns
TV-Out	Conexant CX 25871-13	Philips SAA 7108E	Philips SAA 7108E	-	Conexant Bt869KRF	Conexant Bt869KRF Daughterboard	Conexant Bt869KRF
TV-IN	-			-	-	-	-
DualMonitor	-	2x VGA Stecker	-	-	-	DVI & VGA Adaptor	-
Misc	HW Monitoring W83781D	-	TV-Tuner
Kühlung	Fan	Fan	Fan	Fan	Heatsink Only	Heatsink Only	Heatsink Only

The MX400’s main competitors are the Kyro II and the RADEON VE. Yet due to recent price drops, even the GeForce 2 GTS and the RADEON DDR can be found for a price close to that of a fairly feature-complete MX400. Besides, an MX board with 64MB RAM is a bit of a contradiction in itself, considering that the memory bus is the bottleneck in the first place – as the our test results prove. But first, let’s take a more detailed look at each of the cards:

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