Albatron GeForce4 MX440 Video Card Review

By Patrick aka. Acid-Phreak

Proper Props:

I want to start off by thanking the folks over at Albatron .  We appreciate the support!!

Introduction:

To many it might sound as if Albatron is new player to the market. While they are new to the motherboard and graphics card arena, the company has actually been producing multimedia plasma displays, projection systems, and large screen multimedia monitors since 1984.  During this time they operated under the name Chun Yun Electronics and their products were branded under the name Monivision.  Then in March of 2002 they made their first official release of motherboards supporting AMD and Intel processors to the market. That move was quickly followed by the release of a line of video cards sporting the famous NVIDIA GPUs. This new line of products are being marketed under the name Albatron.  So what is so special about Albatron??  The person at the helm, Jack Ko.  For those scratching their heads, Jack Ko was the co-founder of Gigabyte Technology.  Know who I'm talking about now?

Since March, they have been busy little beavers.  They currently offer a full line of Intel and AMD processor supported motherboards totaling thirteen and a full line (fifteen to be exact) of NVIDIA based graphic cards.

Now let me add a excerpt from the companies mission statement.  Don't worry it's short:

I know it has nothing to do with video cards (or does it??) but that is one hell of a statement to make.  Ok so you didn't come here for a history lesson right?  Lets move on...

So why a GeForce4 MX440 card? For most of us Linux users, we aren't looking for a video card with big balls. After all, Linux is not traditionally known as gaming environment (but that is slowly changing). What the GeForce4 MX series offers is a great upgrade solution for system suffering from video card woes. And it costs about 1/3 the price of the GeForce Ti series cards, and performs great under Redhat and Windows.

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