eVGA ti4200 (128mb) OC'in

[Cydewayz]

So i just bought this eVGA Geforce 4 ti-4200, installed the 29.42 drivers (xp), and everything is looking good--that is until i overclock the mofo. Every thing published about the Ti-4200 chipset, goes on and on about it's great overclocking potential, So, using coolbits, I set the gpu's core clock to a very modest 285mhz, and than set the memory clock to a very modest 500mhz. At this overclocked setting I then executed 3DMark 2001, and the benchmarking failed after the car chase test, and my computer rebooted.

After trying to achieve a 3dmark score--it kept crashing--by the way i scored a 8717 at the normal clock (which is [-peep-] horrible)--i decided to give Morrowind a run. Everything was running great until my system crashed 20 minutes in. I'm very angry that this keeps happening, especially since the card is supposed to run stable at (307/612). I cant even maintain a steady (285/500). What's the deal!?!?

AMD XP1600
256mb DDR 2100
VIA KT266A Chipset (MSI KT7266 Pro2)

 

[Jeff7]

307/612??? Geez, that's a good card then. I currently can't get past 567mem, but I also put heatsinks on the RAM, and I have a 120mm fan blowing over the expansion cards. It depends on overall case cooling too. Or it could just be a disagreeable RAM chip - it only takes one of the RAM chips to limit the overclocking potential.

 

[Actaeon]

Originally posted by: Jeff7
307/612??? Geez, that's a good card then. I currently can't get past 567mem, but I also put heatsinks on the RAM, and I have a 120mm fan blowing over the expansion cards. It depends on overall case cooling too. Or it could just be a disagreeable RAM chip - it only takes one of the RAM chips to limit the overclocking potential.

Jeff7, sorry to correct you, but he said he cannot maintain a steady overclock past 285/500...

Cydewayz, Welcome to Anandtech, sorry to hear about your "bad" overclock, but as many others would suggest here, if you wanted a higher memory and core, you should have invested in a Ti4400 or a Ti4600.

Anything beyond stockspeeds of a videocard/cpu is pure luck.

Unfortunatly, yours wasn't as good.

Jonathan