First post, by ElementalChaos
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So two weekends ago at a vintage computer convention I bought an Nvidia GeForce MX440 (Geforce 4 MX) that I had intended to use for my Dell Dimension 4100, the specs of which are in my signature. Unfortunately when I came home with it, not only did I notice the card was in fact a GeForce FX 5200, but the capacitors were busted and it was useless. Thankfully it was only $10 and it would cost about the same to buy a new card as it would to replace the capacitors. Everywhere I've read I've been told the FX 5200 is inferior to the MX440, so I'm looking to get one of those.
There are lots of MX440s from many different manufacturers on eBay. Which one was considered the best, if any? Also, I feel like an MX440 would be a good fit for this machine, but is there anything out there better at a similar price point? I'm probably not looking into paying more than $30 or so for a GPU for this machine. I was thinking I would probably prefer to get a GeForce but I am also open to ATI card suggestions. I'm just not really familiar with how well the Radeons competed with Nvidia's offerings during the 2001-2003 period.
Pluto, the maxed out Dell Dimension 4100: Pentium III 1400S | 256MB | GeForce4 Ti4200 + Voodoo4 4500 | SB Live! 5.1
Charon, the DOS and early Windows time machine: K6-III+ 600 | 256MB | TNT2 Ultra + Voodoo3 2000 | Audician 32 Plus