I never knew they were in cali :\
They will work on AGP 4X. Actually they'll even work in an AGP 1X slot IF the motherboard can supply enough power to the slot (can vary a lot on a board THAT old). It would be a bit of a waste to do that though, since the fastest CPU in an AGP 1X board is probably ~533MHz
After buying two from newegg refurbs and having both arrive as pieces of crap, I went ahead and picked up one of these. I have a lot more faith in this than those at newegg, which have most likely been OC'd to death as one of the ones I recieved obviously had been. You won't find a 128MB 8x DVI/VGA/TV version at newegg for $70 anyways. They're normally at least $85.
You sound a little unfairly biased... many people report no problems from Newegg refurbs, and after all you know what the card is, so if it's "crap" it's not a surprise, it would've been crap new. Some Asus and MSI cards depart from the nVidia reference design by a lot, but for the most part all the cards are pretty much the same except for the heatsink, type of capacitors used, and the memory speed. We already know that the Asus card has an inferior heatsink (if it is as pictured) but no detail yet about the memory. The caps look ok but there are only enough of them to qualify as the low-end TI4200 part, not the larger count associated with "higher-end" 4800, 4400 or 4600 cards.
It was still a 4200 but it is AGP4X and has no DVI output. I bought this card primarily for the DVI output. Compgeeks never issued me an RMA, I called, requested via their website and e-mailed them and the only response I received was that my request was forwarded to the RMA dept. In the end, I had to complain to my credit card company and atm, they are still waiting to hear from Compgeeks! This is my first bad experience with Compgeeks, 2 years ago I had to RMA a power supply under warranty and everything went smoothly.
Yeah, biased since two cards within a week's time were both crap. I've got a motherboard and cpu from them that work fine. Newegg is known to accept things over 30 days, but I'd say 30 days is plenty time to kill a card. Without ramsinks, ram can get rather hot very quick while overclocked. One of the cards I got had obviously had this happen, as the ram chips were discolored and the card smelled. I "expect any knowledgeable user" to know what overheated chips look like
Says the man with the "air-ramp"Originally posted by: ThisIsMatt
One of the cards I got had obviously had this happen, as the ram chips were discolored and the card smelled. I "expect any knowledgeable user" to know what overheated chips look like
I guess I'd be biased too if it happened to me, but I've bought a few myself and never had anything nearly that bad... on a couple of occasions there were tiny surface-mount filter caps "missing" from the back of the card, though they worked fine even highly o'c.Originally posted by: ThisIsMatt
Yeah, biased since two cards within a week's time were both crap. I've got a motherboard and cpu from them that work fine. Newegg is known to accept things over 30 days, but I'd say 30 days is plenty time to kill a card. Without ramsinks, ram can get rather hot very quick while overclocked. One of the cards I got had obviously had this happen, as the ram chips were discolored and the card smelled. I "expect any knowledgeable user" to know what overheated chips look like
Originally posted by: Naustica
I got one of these last time Compgeeks had them. It comes clocked at 250 core 515 memory. Memory is 3.6 ns Hynix. The card comes bare. No cd, no cables. But you can easily get drivers from Nvidia.
I didn't mess with overclocking the card much but it was stable at 290 core and 560 memory. Memory overclocking seems limited. After testing briefly I ran stock 250/515. It's more than enough for all my games at 1024 x 768 at 120 hz.
But I just gave this card to my sister as she needed one for the new machine I'm putting together for her and placed ATI Radeon 9800 NP from Newegg into my rig.
Now I'm tempted to get this card again for my wife's machine which still has Geforce 2 pro. $89 with coupon plus shipping is sweet deal and I love the card I got last time.
Ti4200 are getting hard to find and for $89 for 128 meg Asus card with DVI and video out is great deal IMO.
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