Chaintech TI 4200

[h0tai]

i am thinkin of buying a chaintech ti4200 128mb GeF4.
anyone have any problems with it? hurry, so i can stop taking this in and out of my shopping cart at newegg.com!

 

[John]

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[Dreadogg]

I just ordered it today looks to me as if it is built just like the gainward except the chaintech has the ram sinks and looks way better, the gainward 4400 has the ram sinks go figure, also you can pick up the chaintech for 184 shipped at newegg! I say go for it!

 

[whiteboyatcal]

Don't listen to people who dog the Chaintech Ti4200. None of these people actually own this card or have tested one. I have owned a Chaintech G4 Mx440, G3Ti200, and now I have a G4Ti4200 "GT21" 128Mb Special Edition. All three of these significantly exceeded my expectations in performance, and all exceeded the average 3dMark scores with these cards at stock speeds.
All three were also able to achieve quite significant overclocks, thanks to the good cooling Chaintech provides. I never had any problems with these cards, and my only complaint against this manufacturer at all is that the software bundle is not that great. Read other customers reviews of this product at Newegg, they pretty much tell the story.

That being said, I paid $173 for my Chaintech Ti4200 "GT21" SE 128MB and could not be happier.
With stock cooling and no physical modifications, these are my results:

Overclock: 325/615 MHZ (from 250/444 stock) completely stable and completed burn-in, not a single pixel misplaced

3DMarks: 11,820 at 1024x768x32 everything default

Benchmark Results

After some tweaking (AGP bus oc'ing, driver update, etc.) I should be able to break 12k.

My system: P4 1.6A @ 2464MHZ, Asus P4B533-E, (2) 256MB Samsung DDR333

- Dreadogg, please post results when you get your card benchmarked

 

[Dreadogg]

I will I promise! Hopefully it will come soon so I can replace my MSI gforce 2 pro that has brought me lots of joy! Anyways where did you get yours for 172.00?

 

[whiteboyatcal]

I bought mine from a local computer show from a vendor who only sells Chaintech and Soyo (Taiwanese stuff basically). He's cool because his prices kill everyone else if that kind of stuff is what you are looking for. I buy so much stuff from him every show (I build systems on the side) that he doesn't charge me tax and validates my parking too.

He had about 6 of them left when I got there, and everybody was grabbing them so I grabbed one before they were all gone just so I could see what it was. The last time that happened I missed out on grabbing a Chaintech G3 Ti200 for $95 :| (this was a few months ago when they were like $135). So I was like "hmmm a Ti4200 with 128MB and VIVO?" Cool, gimme one of those too. Otherwise I probably would have gotten the Gainward but I'm glad I didn't. Besides, who wants to be like everyone else?