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Old 05-01-2002, 01:56 PM   #230
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If you check back a couple of pages in this thread you'll find a reply of mine with the subject "Possible solution" or something like that. It contains links to a manufacturer of PCI GeForce cards.

On the 32/64 issue – it *can* matter, just not for me and (most likely) you. Also for marketing purposes. Tack on som extra RAM and sell it at a higher price 'coz more has to be better, right? . The GF2 Mx is a crippled GeForce2 GTS (the regular GeForce2) and it's done in such a way that the amount of memory isn't the bottleneck. Another marketing trick was tried by Creative who offered a GeForce2 MX card with faster "DDR SDRAM" (instead of regular SDRAM). This resulted in identical benchmarks as memory bandwidth isn't the issue with MX cards. The original GeForce (GeForce256) benefitted greatly from the upgrade to DDR and Creative hoped consumers would assume the same thing would apply to the MX cards.

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