GF4 Ti 4200

[gaskie]

Folks,

I am looking at buying myself a GF4 ti4200 in the very near future and am currently scouring reviews and the like to to figure out which one I should be looking for. Based on this, I have a couple of questions.

First of all, all the reviews I have read seem to suggest that teh 64mb card is quicker than the 128mb card. Can anyone explain this to me?

Also, any suggestions as to which card I should look for? I might possibly stretch to a 4400 if its worth it but im not sure.

any help would be gratefully recieved.

James.

 

[bwass24]

The reason why the 64meg cards are faster than the 128meg cards is that the Nvidia reference designs use faster mem on the 64meg version. I don't know why this is the case, but there are some deviating designs that have different memory clocking.

The fastest Ti4200 card I know of is the Triplex Millinium Silver 64meg. It has 3.3ns memory and mine is an excellent overclocker. It sells for about $180 if you can find it in the US. The only US vendor I know of is OCsystem. :Q

I also have an MSI Ti4400 card. It's one of the cheaper Ti4400 cards (app $225), it has VIVO and all of the necessary software and it OC's to about 312/640. The thing that concerns me about it though is that the ram chips are BURNING hot to the touch. By far the hottest component in the system.

HTH

 

[hungrygoose]

get the gainward 128mb 4200 golden sample, and use the enhanced mode software setting to overclock it to almost the same clock speed as the 4400.....runs everything i throw at it flawlessly.......only paid like 190 for it from newegg about a month ago....love the card

 

[Mavrick007]

I have heard that the Abit Ti4200 cards are good overclockers and at a great deal too. Check out a few reviews on Ti4200 cards from users at Newegg and then pick one up.

 

[LeStEr]

Originally posted by: Mavrick007
I have heard that the Abit Ti4200 cards are good overclockers and at a great deal too. Check out a few reviews on Ti4200 cards from users at Newegg and then pick one up.

I have the Abit 64meg Ti4200 and got it to 300/600 no problems with stock cooling. It could probly go even higher with some additional cooling but I can be bothered as its performance is way better then i expected.