[mythtv-users] Worlds most craptacular GF card (Hardware Warning)

[Rob Snow]

So I was building a new Linux box and decided to use a cheap MX type card on it as 
it will probably do everything I want...just some videos, light 3d just to see it work, etc. 
 
I purchased a Apollo MX440SE 64MB SDRAM card from newegg for $46, just the 
bill...cheap and reasonable performance.... 
 
What a piece of shit, the card has a improper PCI ID (0x171, should be 0x173) and 
runs HORRIBLE.  Quake2 runs at ~30fps maximum, glxgears runs around 650fps, 
MythTV gets pissed and hangs after a few seconds or a minute if I put it in window 
mode. 
 
Just for grins I put my 4200 in the same box while trying to debug: glxgears = 
5500fps, Quake2 = 175fps and MythTV works (mostly). 
 
I had seen people getting ~2Kfps in glxgears with MX cards and figured that was 
enough horsepower for puttering around....this ain't that card....  The worst part is that 
I must have thrown the original box out over the last couple of days and now I'm 
guessing I'm stuck with it.  I'll try newegg support out, but it would be a miracle if they 
took it back. 
 
Product Link: 
http://www.newegg.com/app/viewproduct.asp?DEPA=&submit=Go&description=apollo+440+SDR+1.3 
 
Be warned, 
Rob