Daytona GeForce3 Ti200

[Egrimm]

As I've done some searches on the Forum and haven't found any comments on this card and I know that cheap-but-good cards interest people I've made a "mini-review" of my new card, that just arrived:
I have been wanting to upgrade my MSI GF2 Pro card for a whilke, but I couldn't find the right card. Then I saw the Pallit Daytona GF3 Ti200 very cheap (only 2/3 of the price of other GF3 Ti200) so I bought it just to see how suh a cheap card performed, until now I've been a firm believer in "high prices=good cards" so I was a bit worried abbout the card being so cheap. Guess what, I got a pleasant surprise:

3d-Mark 2001 scores:
6636 (defualt speed, 175/400)
7070 (200/450, the first oc I've tried with the card, this was a breeze so I expect to get more out of it).

Those scores is with a XP1600+ @ 1533 (146x10.5), with an out-of spec agp-bus also, but it works fine.
The card is the cheapest GF3-based card I could get, a Palit Daytona GF3Ti200, 33% cheaper than then next-cheapest card here in Denmark.

I was worried about the 2d being bad, as I figured they must be using really bad filters to keep the price so low, but it is actually a little better than my old MSI GF2 Pro, I know that MSI cards have average 2d but I certainly didn't expect to get better 2d from this card.
3d is well, great (it's a GF3 after all), nice, sharp, nothing negative to say about it.
As I haven't tried how much further it'll oc I can't say for sure how great the card really is at that, but nothing beats it at it's price!

 

[Egrimm]

Played a little more with oc'ing it, and now it's at 220/500:
3d-Mark 2001: 7275

And there still isn't any sign of artifacts so I'll probably be able to get it further, I'm very glad I bought this card, it oc's like it was made for it and it was very cheap.

 

[Egrimm]

Even further, 230/530:
3d-Mark 2001: 7448

I'm amazed at this card, definitely recommended. Will stop for today, will crank it up even higher tomorrow.

 

[pillage2001]

HOly crap. How much did you buy it for!? Does it come with tv out or any other features?

 

[Xtasy]

Wow amazing for 5 NS mem! I found out it was 5ns etrontech mem so i went for a gainward instead $190 total! cause of $15 tax!

 

[Egrimm]

It has tv-out, the site and the box said it also had dvi, but the version I got didn't have it. Doesn't bother me as I use a normal crt-screen.

As I live in Denmark I paid in danish kroner (DK is one of the few countries in Europe that haven't changed to the Euro) so the prizes can't be compared to those in the US, but I'll list the prizes of a couple of Ti200 cards so that you can compare, all the prizes are the lowest in Denmark:

Daytona GeForce3 Ti200 - 1559 dkr (the one I got)
3D Blaster GeForce3 Titanium 200 TV-Out Retail - 1985 dkr (the second cheapest Ti200)
Hercules 3D Prophet III-T200 TV-Out - 2075 dkr
Gainward GeForce3 TI450 TV-Out - 2395 dkr

The Daytona is quite a bit cheaper as you can see.

I know the memory is supposed to be 5ns, I can hardly believe it though as it runs very fast, will see just how far it can go now.
I don't use any kind of special cooling, all my results are with stock fan and heatsinks, the only thing that helps my oc'ing is that I have a slot-fan directly beneath it in pci-slot 1.

 

[Egrimm]

230/530 seem to be the most stable speed so I'll stick to that. I'm still very impressed with the card and the core might run faster still, especially if I get better cooling, but the memory won't do more then 530Mhz, but that's still very impressive for 5ns ram.