They are excellent performers for the price. In the same league are the ATi Radeon VE and the Kyro II boards from VideoLogic and Hercules. The MX400 has the advantage of extremely solid drivers on all platforms. Windows 2000 and XP performance of any GeForce, GeForce2 or GeForce3 card is very close to it’s Windows 98 performance. I can’t say the same for ATi, although its Windows 2000 driver support is much improved from the early days when I had a Radeon 64Mb DDR. The drivers caused me to switch to a GeForce based card (god I miss that blue Hercules Ultra).