*GeForce4 Ti4200 By The End of April*

[AGodspeed]

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For only $199 (even less online) this should make quite a nice splash.

 

[meson2000]

This is my next video card. The 4400 and 4600 are not worth the price premium
as far as I am concerned. Plus, I am sure the 4200 will be overclockable to at
least the 4400 levels. All three cards have 128 megs of ram.....

 

[AGodspeed]

Plus, I am sure the 4200 will be overclockable...

Well, according to Anand, the Ti4200 will have a 225MHz core clock with 250MHz memory. Knowing that people have been able to get their Ti4600's to overclock to 320MHz stably (T4600=300MHz core clock), then it wouldn't be completely insane to assume that the Ti4200 can be overclocked to Ti4600 levels with good enough cooling.

You might think that going from 225MHz to 300MHz would be pretty extreme, but I thought the same about Northwood at first, and now it's pretty much a certainty that 1.6A Northwoods can overclock to 2.133MHz without a single hiccup, and the vast majority can get to 2.4GHz stably. Maybe the smaller processes (.15-micron and .13-micron) are more overclocking friendly?

 

[JellyBaby]

<< then it wouldn't be completely insane to assume that the Ti4200 can be overclocked to Ti4600 levels with good enough cooling. >>

It depends on whether board makers ship it with decent DDR, allow adequate voltage to the GPU and include a decent cooler. I wonder if Leadtek will stick with that massive nsf for their 4200?

 

[Fisher999]

<< [You might think that going from 225MHz to 300MHz would be pretty extreme, but I thought the same about Northwood at first, and now it's pretty much a certainty that 1.6A Northwoods can overclock to 2.133MHz without a single hiccup, and the vast majority can get to 2.4GHz stably. Maybe the smaller processes (.15-micron and .13-micron) are more overclocking friendly? >>




Well, THAT explains why the "A" (Northwood) 1.6 GHz's are on NewEgg's top ten seller list!!!

What mobo/memory combo offers the "best chance" at a REASONABLE 1.6a overclock, and can this be done keeping the PCI, AGP and IDE buses all running at their default 33.3 MHz, 66MHz, etc....frequencies????

 

[AGodspeed]

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<< [You might think that going from 225MHz to 300MHz would be pretty extreme, but I thought the same about Northwood at first, and now it's pretty much a certainty that 1.6A Northwoods can overclock to 2.133MHz without a single hiccup, and the vast majority can get to 2.4GHz stably. Maybe the smaller processes (.15-micron and .13-micron) are more overclocking friendly? >>




Well, THAT explains why the "A" (Northwood) 1.6 GHz's are on NewEgg's top ten seller list!!!

What mobo/memory combo offers the "best chance" at a REASONABLE 1.6a overclock, and can this be done keeping the PCI, AGP and IDE buses all running at their default 33.3 MHz, 66MHz, etc....frequencies???? >>

Due to my unfortunate lack of hands on Northwood experience, you may want to post in this massive Northwood thread or do a search for "Northwood" in the General Hardware Forum or CPU Forum.

 

[AGodspeed]

Uh, BUMP!

 

[BD231]

It all depnds on what type of mem chips are on the 4200, I doubt we'll be lucky enough to get the same chips as a Ti4600, but maybe a 4400, in which case you could just flash your Ti4200 to a Ti4400 pretty easy. As far as core overclock go's, nVidia may be throwing the chips that cant make it to 4400 and 4600 speeds, so we'll just have to wait and see.