Geforce Ti4200 128 question

[CCCHeel]

OK, pardon my noobness when it comes to video cards. I am looking at buying a new video card and have decided to get a Geforce4 Ti4200 128 meg card. I found one at Newegg for $119 shipped. What do you think of this?


XFX GF4 Ti4200 8X AGP 128MB 256 bit DVI, VIVO RETAIL Parts # PV-T28A-NC
Specifications:
GPU: NVIDIA® Geforce4 Ti 4200 256 bit graphics accelerator
MEM: 128MB DDR
BUS: AGP 8X
GPU Frequency(MHz): 250
Graphics Core: 256-bit
Memory Bandwidth (GB/sec): 8
Fill Rate (texels/sec.): 4 billion
Effective Memory Clock Rate (MHz): 500
RAMDACs (MHz) (each have 2 RAMDAC): 350
OS: Windows 9x, 2000,ME,NT 4, XP, Linux
Ports: VGA + DVI + VIVO Video in/Video out,


Any comments are appreciated. Thanks a lot.

 

[beserkfury15]

You should also read the buyer's comments in newegg, they should help alot. From those comments, it seems like this card runs well, but might not be too good of an overclocker. If you want to overclock, you might want to spend an extra $10 to get the MSI vivo version of the gf4 ti4200, as more people have bought it and has pretty much all have given it a good report.

 

[Jeff7181]

Want a Ti4600 for $146? Asus V8420S at newegg. A Ti4200 that uses the Ti4600's 8 layer PCB and the Ti4400's 3.3ns RAM... easily overclocks to 300/650, which is the speed of a Ti4600. I have mine running at 325/650. Has TV-Out, but not VIVO.

 

[Pete]

Alternatively, you could buy an Albatron 4200-8x 128MB for ~$105 from GameVE.com--no DVI or VIVO, though. IIRC, BuyXtremeGear.com also sells another version of the Albatron for about the same price. I've never dealt with either company, but they're reasonably well-rated on ResellerRatings.