Posted: September 26, 2000
Written by: Tuan "Solace" Nguyen

Benchmarks

Here we see Leadtek doing very well. In all but the most extreme resolutions, the WinFast kept a steady 60FPS+ score which is quite pleasing to the eyes. The WinFast slightly edged out the V7100T in half of our tests but for some reason fell slightly behind in Demo2. Now what we mean by slightly is like 0.7FPS. Folks, they are practically identical.

Here we see more of the same trends as before. The WinFast GeForce2 MX takes quite a big hit when Quake 3 is in High Quality mode. Performance goes down by 40%. Overall the performance of the card is mild, but then again you must take into consideration how much the card actually costs. For this kind of performance at the current price (MX cards generally cost around $100 to $130), you can’t beat it.

We also see some of the same trends between the WinFast and the V7100T here too. Not much difference going on here as the two cards virtually stayed neck to neck with each other. The only real factor in which one to get is the price.

Overclocking

We decided to see whether the extra HSF on the core had any positive effect on overclocking. Before we tell you the results, you must realize that the GeForce2 MX is crippled by the type and speed of memory used so bumping up the core shouldn’t really yield any significant (if any at all) improvements. Since we know this, we know that bumping up memory speed should indeed show some gain.

First of all, we’ll tell you that we got core speed stable at 225MHz from the default 175MHz which is very impressive to say the least... that’s a total of 50MHz. As for memory, we managed to maintain a stable 202MHz. Let’s take a look at the results.

The following results are definitely from improved memory speeds. This is because we tried simply using core overclocking and we came up pretty disappointed by the increase of only 2 to 3.1FPS max. Like we said, the GPU is mainly crippled by memory speeds and type (being SDR or DDR), so increasing core would really only increase overhead.

Mot bad at all. We managed to hit 70FPS at 1024x768 in HQ mode which is very respectable.

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