Albatron GeForce4 MX485 (AGP8X) - 64mb

Manufacturer: Albatron
Supplied by: Albatron
Street Price: ~$75

by Dean Barker  (4/17/2003)

Introduction

Over the past couple of months, prices on the GeForce4 line of cards have been steadily dropping.  This in part, because of ATi wrenching the speed crown from nVidia as well as the GeForceFX beginning to hit the shelves.  These low prices make for some very attractive budget upgrade options to Joe Gamer.  Several GeForce4 Ti4200 cards we have looked at are employing the AGP8X standard over the old 4X.  Albatron has made a go at breathing new life into the GeForce4 MX line by making a line that is AGP8X compatible.  The Albatron GeForce4 MX485 got sent over for a run around the block by the Albatron folks so we wouldn't want to disappoint.

As many of you know, the MX line of nVidia products are the "budget" cards.  The Albatron card is the first MX card we have looked at in a while so let's review with some specs.

Specifications

• Controller: NVIDIA GeForce4 MX440-8X
• Bus Type AGP
• Memory: 64MB DDR
• Core Clock 275MHz
• Memory Clock 460MHz DDR memory
• RAMDAC 350MHz
• Connectors: VGA, DVI, TV-Out
• 1.1 billion operations/sec.
• 38 million vertices/sec setup
• 8.8GB/second memory bandwidth

Features at a Glance

• AGP 8x compatible
• Video Processing Engine (VPE)
• Accuview ™ Antialiasing Engine
• Lightspeed Memory Architecture™ II technology
• Unified Driver Architecture (UDA)
• DVI Out
• TV Out
• nView Display Technology 

What you get

Included along with the Albatron MX485 you find a driver and utility disk, Software DVD player, manual and video out cables.  The utility disk has five sets of nVidia Detonator Drivers with the most recent being the v41.09s.  An overclocking tool called nvtweak is also on the utility disk.

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