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First post, by Tetrium

Posted on 2021-02-15, 20:16

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Not much else to add. I've been searching for a couple days now (not continuously, obviously) and this card was supposed to be an even more severely bottlenecked GF2 MX200 (32-bit memory bus SDR afaict).
Now apart from the, shall we say, somewhat more severely limited usability of such a card, I'm wondering if such a card even existed at all.
Interest in GF2 MX200 has never been very high anyway, so there doesn't seem to be much to go on regarding any information about this hypothetical card.

Personally I assume it doesn't exist (in that it was simply never made, just specified as a possibility by either NVidia or a card maker), but I'd like to know for sure of course 😜

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Reply 1 of 7, by imi

Posted on 2021-02-15, 20:50

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it is mentioned on nvidia's website and in several spec lists, though I have yet to find a picture of one x3
so you might be right that it may have never seen the light of day.

Reply 2 of 7, by mwdmeyer

Posted on 2021-02-15, 20:53

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I'm pretty sure I've seen one back in the day.

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Reply 3 of 7, by Ydee

Posted on 2021-02-16, 14:57

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On CEBIT 2001 was presented https://pctuning.tyden.cz/hardware/graficke-k … -nvidia?start=5, here was listed (but sticker say GF2 MX 32MB?) https://www.amazon.co.uk/Graphics-Adapter-nVi … 0/dp/B009SFGQSI

Reply 4 of 7, by darry

Posted on 2021-02-16, 16:06

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See also this thread : Re: Which Video Card for this Old Pentium 2

I might have had one at some point (promptly returned) and candle_86 mentioned one too .

Reply 5 of 7, by Putas

Posted on 2021-02-16, 17:01

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Ydee wrote on 2021-02-16, 14:57:

On CEBIT 2001 was presented https://pctuning.tyden.cz/hardware/graficke-k … -nvidia?start=5, here was listed (but sticker say GF2 MX 32MB?) https://www.amazon.co.uk/Graphics-Adapter-nVi … 0/dp/B009SFGQSI

Quite sure the card pictured on amazon is 128 bit, perhaps a typo. Even the pic from pctuning looks like a full configuration.

Reply 6 of 7, by imi

Posted on 2021-02-16, 17:11

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that amazon listing is probably a dud and refers to the regular GF2 MX, if you go to m-ware's site directly it is listed as such there... 32MB != 32bit memory interface
the cebit image might show one, but maybe it was never released?

edit: the article actually says that, google translate:

GeForce MX-100 (120 / 143MHz 32bit DDR), which was seen only at the Cebit 2001 exhibition, but never got on the counters - apparently none of the manufacturers had enough courage 😀

the other posts are just assumptions, so there has yet to be one actually sighted x3

Reply 7 of 7, by Tetrium

Posted on 2021-02-18, 04:33

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It could be that the Cebit 2001 GF2 MX100 was just a mockup?

My guess is that perhaps no card manufacturer wanted to build these cards and at the very best produced a GF2 MX200 with MX100 performance, in a similar fashion to how not all MX400 and MX440 cards were created equal. Better to build a MX100 and name it MX200 then to try and sell it as a MX100.
So there might be some out there, but perhaps not using their originally designated MX100 name but as a 'fake' MX200. Or at least that would be my guess if this card exists at all.

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