Best ?maker? of TI 4200

[jlr20]

Hay guys I have been going though all these threads about what?s the best 100 dollar video card. Every one says it?s the TI 4200, my question is who makes the best board. I have seen (watch my spelling) albertron, PNY, Chinatech, MSI ?. I?m on googlegear.com and I see a Chinatech TI 4200 64mb card for like 85 dollars. What do you think?

[L=If I did this right, this is the link to the Google Gear Video Card page]http://www.googlegear.com/jsp/ThirdCategoryList.jsp?SecondCategoryCode=0122

 

[modedepe]

That's chaintech, not chinatech
Most of the ti4200's are about the same. Asus makes one that's a bit better, but it's a ways over the $100 mark. IMO, just get the cheapest you can find. None of them really seem to be bad, except gainward was having all those problems with bad caps.

 

[Corporate Thug]

asus or gainward

 

[novice]

" I?m on googlegear.com and I see a Chinatech TI 4200 64mb card for like 85 dollars. What do you think?"

There is probably a reason why the Chaintech card is priced lower than the other cards. It might be just fine, but that is up to you whether or not to take a chance. I have two of the Asus cards from compgeeks (128mb "new pulls" oem, no driver disk, plain package for $90 after coupon + shipping see thread in hot deals) and they work great. One came with Hynix 3.6 ram and the new one that I received yesterday came with Samsung 4.0 ram. I also have an MSI 128 mb card that I got from newegg a year or so ago that also has worked flawlessly and overclocked to 290/580. I still think the Ti4200 cards are the best bang for the buck right now. I am amazed their prices have stayed as high as they have for as long as they have.

 

[Jeff7181]

Asus V8420S... almost every one of them is guaranteed to overclock to the speed of a Ti4600, and many of them can go higher. Such as mine, at 325/650. (Ti4600's run at 300/650)
But th en again... the V8420S isn't $100, it's almost $150... but $150 still isn't bad for a Ti4600 =)

 

[optimistic]

Get a card with 128MB video memory. All brands are pretty good, except I've had bad experiences with these brands: eVGA, Powercolor, & Chaintech. So avoid those. Asus & Gainward are suppose to be the best.

 

[deadseasquirrel]

Originally posted by: optimistic
Asus & Gainward are suppose to be the best.

Gainward has some big problems with their 128mb Golden Sample ti4200s. Many of them have been failing and crashing. I know every piece of hardware has failures, but this particular one has a pretty high failure rate. I would avoid the Gainward ti4200. I have 2. Both are still going. One of them has crashed 3x with the "checkerboard" crash that is indicative of a failing card.

deadseasquirrel

 

[optimistic]

Oh nevermind. I've been out of the video loop since I bought my 9500 in the beginning of this year :\

 

[Mem]

Yep Gainward had a batch of really bad 4200 cards,I would go with Leadtek,Albatron,XFX,MSI.

Look at price and features(software included) and decide what`s best for you.

 

[Robor]

Gainward 4200 Golden Sample here - absolutely flawless.