The MX440 card you are talking about seems to be "Winfast A180 DDR T" (4th photo, lowest of the three AGP cards). I am not convinced this is any fancy variant. Is it not being mixed up with the different looking "Winfast A180 DDR TH"? The question here is wheter the DDR memory is actually interfacing in 64-bit (value models) or 128-bit (enthousiast models).

gerwin wrote:

The MX440 card you are talking about seems to be "Winfast A180 DDR T" (4th photo, lowest of the three AGP cards). I am not convinced this is any fancy variant. Is it not being mixed up with the different looking "Winfast A180 DDR TH"? The question here is wheter the DDR memory is actually interfacing in 64-bit (value models) or 128-bit (enthousiast models).

I have a few Albatron GF 440 MX with 64-bit memory.
They are not fast cards but I guess they would be OK for a PII 350 - PIII 600 or something like that.
In any case they are definitely too slow for a fast PIII box.

For a long time I used the Asus V9180SE/T/64M (MX440-8x, 64-bit DDR, passive). Just a little step up from a Geforce 2 MX. Compatible and silent. At some point I was given an Abit Siluro (MX440, 128-bit DDR, with fan). This one benched faster, don't remember with what margin. Replaced the Fan with a big heatsink, and found my new favorite. 😀
It was around the MX440-4X/8X time that the NVidia BIOS was crippled: The Abit still supports custom DOS VBE refresh rates, the Asus remains stuck at 60Hz in DOS.