Help choosing video card please

[darkman]

My system specs:
motherboard ECS K75SA
sound SIS 7012
memory 256 SD RAM
AMD DURON 1.2
video card sis 300/305
moniter IBM G70T
OS WINDOWS XP PROFESSIONAL


I am trying to choose between these two video cards I plan to buy for newegg they are both 60 dollars can someone give me some advice on which to get any and all advice would be accepted. The sis I have now is terrible at 2d and 3d games well not terrible but bearly get me thru. these are the cards

LEADTEK WINFAST A170 GEFORCE4 MX420 64MB VGA & TV-OUT. RETAIL BOX Leadtek WinFast A170 offer the best price/performance rate among other high performance graphics card.
Specifications:
GPU:Nvidia Geforce4 MX 420
MEM:64MB SDR
Memory Bandwidth: 2.7 GB/Sec
Max Res: 2048x1536 32 bits 75/75/60
support for DirectX 8.1 and OpenGl 1.2. This feature rich graphics card also has onboard hardware monitoring functions and build-in self-diagnostic LEDs. .
Ports:VGA DB15+ Svideo Out
Retail box, Comes with 2 Full Version Retail Games, Winfast DVD, Cult3D, Colorific,3Deep True Internet Color Svideo and RCA cables for TV-out See pic



GAINWARD/CARDEXPERT GeForce2 MX 400 64MB SDRAM AGP, With TV-Out.
Specifications:
GPU: NVIDIA GeForce 2 MX 400
MEM:64MB SDRAM
Memory bandwidth: 2.8 GB/second 256-bit 3D and 2D graphic accelerator. NVIDIA Shading Rasterizer. Integrated Second Generation Transform and Lighting Engines. 4 texels per clock. 32-bit color with 32-bit z/stencil. Cube environment mapping. DirectX and S3TC texture compression. 700M texel fill rate. 20M triangles/sec setup.
PortsB-15 VGA + Svideo out + RCA tv/out Retail box. (comes with Driver and Manual) Please see images. Mfr's P/N:

thanks in advance

 

[mightyrocket]

The geforce 4 mx 420 is the best. But it's not recommended to buy a mx-card. A geforce 2 pro is maybe a bit more expensive, but it's better. If you really want one of these 2 cards, the geforce 4 mx is the best.

 

[cooliscool]

The geforce 4 mx 420 is the best. But it's not recommended to buy a mx-card. A geforce 2 pro is maybe a bit more expensive, but it's better. If you really want one of these 2 cards, the geforce 4 mx is the best.

Actually, a GeForce2 Pro is not better. The GF4 MX keeps alot of features present in the GF4 Ti line, such as LMA II (Light speed memory Architecture. Helps memory bandwidth with Hyper Z Clears). Accuview Anti-Aliasing (Speedy AA, fastest available of any card, exluding the Radeon 9700, which is on par).

Though the GF4 MX 420 may have only 2.7GB/s of on paper bandwidth, with LMA II you can expect real world bandwidth performance to rocket up to about 4.7GB/s, maybe more.

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[james.miller]

yeah even the gf2 ultra cant keep up with the gf4 mx 440.

id advise you to stay away from the sd-ram gf4 mx cards, they are very limited by the sd-ram. try to get an mx440 with ddr at least