gf 4 ti 4200 overclocking

[Maki]

Hi,

I'm running a GeForce 4 ti 4200 with the regular nvidia drivers under win xp. I want to over clock this thing. Is there a particular app I should run or registry settings I need to tweak?

Thanks for any help!

 

[Maki]

Never mind. I found winfox on leadtek's site.

280 core/ 560 memory seems to be the sweet spot.

 

[AnAndAustin]

How are you finding it compared to the 8500 you had before? Have you tried o/c'ing that XP1600+, they tend to do so well. Other methods of o/c'ing are coolbits (the standard reg hack) and RivaTuner although there are others and they all do pretty much the same thing.

 

[Maki]

Doh! I also swapped out the rest of the machine. (Here is a little tip - drives can do real funny things when they go bad. I swapped everything out item by item before I found out that my old wd drive would lose its mind and completely hose my system.) I need to update my rig.

Currently I have the 4200, a amd 1800, a abit nforce based board with highpoint raid, two maxtor drives on that raid and 512mb of ddr.

The 8500 did Return to Castle Wolfenstein at around 60 fps. (At my settings. 1280x1024x32) The 4200 does it (with the 1800 vs the 1600) around 75. Over clocked I get in the 80s.

The 4200 has a lot of visual artifacts compared to the 8500. In general everything runs on the 4200. The 8500 could be an adventure to get things to run. Everything looked better on the 8500 tho.

I need nvidia to come out with their nv30 so the price on the 9700 will drop to something I'm willing to pay.

 

[Maki]

Oh, wow. I'd changed just about everything I could in that machine. My damned Viewsonic died 1 month out of warranty. The seagate baracuda iii I had in it died after 3 months. (Very fast warranty service from them.) My other drive died in short order which caused the rest of the system to look like it was wigging. (The person I sold the soyo, 1600 and all that to is very happy with it. He should be. He got it cheap enough. Bastard.)

As to overclocking the processor I've been trying to reduce the noise of this machine for ages. I currently have an arctic cooling hsf on the processor that keeps it (at normal speeds) just below "melt." But the machine is pretty quiet.

Edit: I also went to an antec true power power supply and nothing has been frying since then.

 

[AnAndAustin]

Cool. Seems a bit strange tho that your 4200 seems to have more visual artifacts compared to the 8500, are you sure those artifacts aren't due to the card being o/c'ed slightly too far? Do you still get them if you run it stock? Otherwise I'd imagine it would be down to drivers or forcing AA/AF in games which weren't designed with them in mind (although that usually is unproblematic).

 

[Maki]

It happens with things clocked normally. Flickering textures and things like that.