Posted this already in the GC forum'but i find you get a quicker and bigger response in this forum.
 
So forgive me for posting here.
 
Just wanting some general advice.
 
winxp or win98
900mhz athlon t-bird(moving up to 1.2 or 1.4ghz shortly)
Asus 27m266 mobo
512 ram
 
Currently have a geforce2 mx400.
It does the job great and i play a sheetload of games'and have been more than happy with it.
However i play quite a few Naval Warfare games and some of them involve embm graphics to make the water look more realistic etc etc.
 
So i am gonna upgrade either to a geforce 3 or a cheaper geforce4 mx.
 
Now i know that the gf4mx will be less a card as it's an mx'but my current gf2mx has done me proud and cost is an issue here.The more money i save on a GC'the more i can put towards upgrading my cpu.
 
I am in the uk and will now post the different cards i have the option of buying.I am afraid i am on the tightest of budgets'maybe £170 max.So my questions are.
 
How would the cheap g42mx compare against my current gf2mx?
If you all think the gf4mx would be a bad option'then what do you think of the gf3's i have posted?
Lastly would the gf4 give me embm?
 
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Jetway Geforce 3 Ti 200 64MB
Chipset: GeForce3 Ti 200  
BUS Type: AGP 4X/2X  
 
Memory Size: 64MB DDR  
 
Driver Support:
 
Windoes XP,WindowsME, Windows9X, Windows2K,  
 
TV-OUT  
 
DVI (optional)  
 
 
Price: £145.00  
 
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Geforce 3 Ti 200 128MB
128-bit memory interface,256-bit graphics architecture,175 MHz core clock,400 MHz memory clock,350 MHz RAMDAC,57 million transistors,700 billion operations per second,3.2 billion samples per second HRAA fill rate, 76 GFLOPS,6.4 GB/sec memory bandwidth,Breakthrough nFinite-FX engine,Programmable pixel shader. Fully programmable for Jaw-dropping realism First to offer high resolution, high frame rate, full-scene anti-aliasing (HRAA), Xbox architecture, Creates an infinite number of special effects that bring 3D characters and environments to life, Lightspeed memory architecture, Generates the power behind the GeForce3™ GPU, delivering earthshaking performance at all resolutions. High quality video playback - DVD and HDTV ready motion compensation for MPEG-2 decoding up to 1920x1080 NTSC format- Supports for VIP 2.0 interface  
Full software support - Windows® 95 / 98 and Windows® ME display drivers
 
Windows® 2000 and XP display drivers, OpenGL ICD support for Windows® 95 / 98 / 2000  
 
Special features - 15-pin D-sub VGA connector, Video-Out function (S-Video connectors), DVI-I connector (Optional)  
 
Other feature Game Bundled:
 
Price: £149.99  
 
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Jetway Geforce 4 MX 440 DDR tv/o
JETWAY GeForce 4 MX440 64MB WITH COMPOSITE OUT, GRAPHICS CORE : 256-BIT, FILL RATE (AA SAMPLES/SEC) 1.1 BILLION, TRIANGLES/SEC : 34 MILLION, MEMORY BANDWIDTH : 6.4 GB/SEC, nVIEW DISPLAY TECHNOLOGY, LIGHTSPEED MEMORY ARCHITECTURE (LMA) II TECHNOLOGY, MX MEMORY CROSSBAR, INTEGRATED DUAL 350MHz DACs, INTEGRATED TV ENCODER SUPPORTING 1024x768 RESOLUTION, ACCUVIEW ANTIALIASING, VIDEO PROCESSING ENGINE, SUPPLIED WITH CD DRIVER DISK, ACCELERATOR MANUAL AND COMPOSITE VIDEO LEAD
 
 
 
Price: £95.00  
 
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I could also go for
 
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JETWAY FANTASY RADEON 64MB DDR AGP
Powered by the ATI RADEON graphics processing unit (GPU)
32MB/64MB of powerful double data rate (DDR) memory
Featuring ATI's CHARISMA ENGINE and PIXEL TAPESTRY technologies
The most robust integrated Transformation and Lighting (T&L)
Accelerates all of today's top 3D games
Industry best DVD playback
Supports 3D resolutions (32-bit color) up to 2048x1536
AGP Universal bus (for AGP 2X/4X systems)
High quality performance
 
RADEON comes powered by 64MB of DDR memory to accelerate all of today's hottest 3D games
With DDR memory you get twice the memory bandwidth for the highest data transfer rates through the pipeline
Delivers impressive, realistic 32-bit true color 3D graphics at the fastest possible frame rates
Features ATI's HyperZ technology that improves memory bandwidth without the added cost of proprietary memory
Jetway
 
Price: £80.00  
 
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How does this compare against the others?
And does it support embm?
 
Thanx