AOpen & Albatron cards?

[TheSpoon]

I'm thinking of getting either an AOpen TI4200 128MB board, or the equivalent Albatron one. Judging by a few reviews they're not bad...Anyone own one/have an opinion of them?

 

[SpeedyGonzales]

I have the Aopen 128Mbyte card, concerning price/features it is nice. However it seems to be a bad overclocker, mine only allows 285//475 before displaying visual artifarcts. Another forum member, Doctorweir, has the same card and comparable problems. Do not buy the Aopen card, if you want to do heavy overclocking, that is my recommendation.

Cheers
Speedy

 

[Doctorweir]

As Speedy said...however my limit is 320/510 (nice core), but the memory seems to be really overclocker-unfriendly, in spite of being Samsung 4ns, which overclocks well over 500 MHz on other cards...
Also I had to equip my card with AS3 for the core and extra heatsinks for the ram to achieve this results.

 

[AnAndAustin]

I'd def go Albatron. They are apparently a well established and large company who have simply changed their name to attempt to be cool etc etc. So in the light of the standard AOpen 4200 short coming perhaps Albatron is VERY wise, it can't do any worse in o/c'ing anyway! Not that I'm knocking the perf at 285/475, it's still way better than Rad8500 or GF3-TI500 cards, just a bit of a shame bearing in mind what most 4200 cards do.

 

[SpeedyGonzales]

Yeah,

I decided not to sell my Aopen in order to get a better overclocker. Increasing the memory speed to 520-540, will get me only a small additional boost, not really worth the hassle.

I will wait until R9700 and NV30 are well established and buy one of them at around 300 Euro (I would like playing Mafia with 4*AA and 8*AF now, but 450Euro for a R9700pro is just ridiculous).

Speedy

Forgot to say: consider also the MSI vidcards, they are priced as aggressively as the Albatrons and people say that they overclock nicely.

 

[TheSpoon]

sorry for late reply.

didn't expect to hear it was a bad overclocker, because the review @ guru3d says they were able to take the mem to 567mhz.

overclocking's not my #1 concern, but i guess i will opt for the albatron card, it's only $10 more. the MSI ones are $30 more around here

i appreciate your input, thanks