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The Eagle brand is new to me , sorry but I didnt take note of the price , the card is made in China , and has a Core speed of 270mhz and a memory speed of 400mhz , 64meg DDR ram and TV-out, speaking of memory its Samsung . ( ? on speed ) . There is no active cooling on this graphics card , only a heatsink on the GPU , and no ram sinks . With no active cooling on this card I was very surprised when it did so well when overclocked , this card could be a real sleeper , and with some well thought out active cooling , this card could possibly do more than 7000 3Dmarks ( 3Dmark2001 ) . Enough of what it could do , lets see what it actually did do :

System Specs :

Epox 8K3A , XP1600 @ 10.5 x 166FSB = 1743mhz , Maxtor 40gig ATA133 7200rpm , Samsung 256mb PC2700 , C-media sound card , 50x CD-rom , 32x8x4 CD-RW , Win98se , direct X 8.1 .Nvidia 28.32 Det drivers.

3Dmark2001 

Overclocking :

I wasnt expecting too much here due to the lack of active cooling , but as you will see this particular card is a reasonably good overclocker . So with the stock clock settings being 270mhz for the Core and 400mhz for the memory , Im going to start of with

Overclocking : Core to 290mhz   Mem to 440mhz

6381 3Dmarks

Core to 310mhz  Mem to 460mhz

6520 3Dmarks

Core 320mhz  Mem 500mhz ( stopped test due to artifacts )

Core 320mhz  Mem 490mhz

6735 3Dmarks

Core 330mhz  Mem 490mhz

6824 3Dmarks

Core 340mhz   Mem 490mhz

Stopped test due to artifacts .

Wow folks , thats a 20% + overclock from this Eagle GF4mx440 card with no active cooling what so ever , I could see this card going over 7000 3Dmarks2001 , with some well thought out cooling mods .

Conclusion :

This card has been a rather surprising performer , I dont know what this card costs , but it certainly has impressed  me , its right up there with other GF4mx440 cards , and it certainly shows potential for even better overclocking possibilities than the 330 Core / 490 MEM reached , if the owner adds some active cooling to this card . Again I have no Idea what the retail price on this card is , but if you find a EAGLE GF4mx440 on the store shelf for a good price , go ahead and buy it as I have nothing negative to say about this card , well except for the lack of active cooling .

I would like to thank IT-Warehouse in Clayton for making this review possible .

Matt Korhonen