Since its launch in February 2002, GeForce MX has been a fairly contentious part among the hardware enthusiast community because it is essentially still a DirectX7 part, lacking in hardware Vertex Shaders (they operate in software) and Pixel Shaders. That said, the GeForce4 MX is still a successful part for NVIDIA, with many OEM wins.
Not so long ago NVIDIA did a small refresh to the GeForce4 line, upgrading them to support the new AGP8X graphics interface bus, thus doubling the available bandwidth from the host memory and CPU to the graphics card, in comparison to AGP4X. The NV25 chip that powered GeForce4 Ti became NV28 and the NV17 chip that was GeForce4 MX moves up to become NV18.
Today we're looking at ASUS's 'V9180 Video Suite' GeForce4 MX 440-8X graphics card powered by the NV18.
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