Chaintech GeForce4 MX440 – (Golden Package)

Introduction

Chaintech has been in the PC industry for quite some time now. Of course they are mostly known for the range of mainboards they produce. Chaintech may not be the first name that crops into your mind when thinking of buying a graphics card, however I must say first impressions of this card have been very promising indeed. Lets take a close peek at the specifications of the board before we go into the nitty gritty stuff…

Interface	AGP interface 4x/2x AGP supports
Chipset	NVIDIA® GeForce4™ MX440
Memory	64MB DDR SGRAM
General features	128-bit Memory interface 256-bit Graphics Architecture 270 MHz Core Clock 400 MHz Memory Clock 350 MHz RAMDAC (Integrated dual DACs) 34 Million Triangles/ sec 1.1 Billion Texels/ sec Fill Rate 6.4 GB/sec memory bandwidth 2 dual-rendering pipelines 4 texels per clock cycle nView Display Technology Cube environment mapping NVIDIA Shading Rasterizer Integrated hardware T & L MX Memory Crossbar (dual memory controllers) 32-bit color with 32-bit Z/ stencil buffer Multibuffering (double, triple, quad) for smooth animation and video playback Lightspeed Memory Architecture™ II technology Video Processing Engine (VPE) Unified Driver Architecture (UDA) Accuview™ Antialiasing Engine
High quality video playback	Integrated dual 350 MHz DACs, drivers two independent CRT displays with crisp and clear image quality at 2048*1536 @ 75Hz Integrated dual-channel TMDS transmitter DVI-D displays at resolutions up to 1280*1024 Integrated TV encoder supporting 1024*768 resolution
Special features	15-pin D-sub VGA connector Video-Out function (S-Video connectors) TV-out Connector TV-out Cable DVI-I Connector (Optional)
Other features	Game Bundled: AquaNox (3D Shooting) MDK2 (First Person Shotting)

More Features :

• nView Multi-display Technology

Earlier this was known as the Twin-View feature, where you could hook up two monitors and have double the desktop work space from one machine. In essence Twin-View technology and nView do not differ greatly except for the fact that the new nView technology incorporates more customizable desktops and display options to increase user productivity. Sadly however Chaintech’s A-G441 does not incorporate this functionality. The card only includes a S-video TV output. So if you’re currently on the look out for a dual monitor setup, Chaintech offers this as an optional feature, or you could opt for one of their Titanium family boards, which include all GeForce 4 features.

• Windows® Integration: Seamless integration within the familiar Windows environment
  
• Setup Wizard: Enables quick and easy installation of nView multi-display
  
• Transparency Effects: Quickly view hidden applications on cluttered desktops
  
• Microsoft Internet Explorer® Extension: Enables more efficient web searches
  
• Hot keys: Bind every nView action to a keyboard hot key
  
• Advanced zoom features: Quickly enlarge portions of the screen to view information easier and to do precision editing
  
• Desktop management: Create up to 32 different Windows desktop workspaces to control information flow
  
• Window and application management: Gives users full control over repositioning dialog boxes and application windows

 

• Accuview Antialiasing

This time nVidia has made the Anti Aliasing engine much bigger than what we saw in the GeForce 3, and they call it the Accuview Anti Alaising Engine. Having a bigger anti aliasing engine means that we’re able to enjoy high-resolution anti aliasing without experiencing any drops in performance. We shall see how true this is in our tests.

Here’s a picture of the Anti Aliasing engine at work.