GFTi4200 - 4400 - 4600?

[MarkFahey]

What are the main differences between the GFTi4200 - 4400 - 4600? Can you OC a Ti4200 to get it close to a 4600?

 

[nick1985]

yes you can. the 4200 is by far the best bang for your buck

 

[Mingon]

Well not quite ti4600 levels, 4400 levels yes

 

[Megatomic]

I have been able to overclock my VisionTek GF4 Ti 4200 128MB card to near 4600 speeds (I have run 3DMark2001 at 300/600 successfully) but I don't leave it there long. It makes me nervous. Rather I keep my card at a default speed of 275/550 (4400 speed exactly) by having reprogrammed my card's BIOS. Now I don't even have to think about overclocking it when I fire up my games.

 

[rogue1979]

I have an Asus V8420 Deluxe 128MB (Ti4200) that came on 8 layer pcb with 3.3ns bga memory. Runs like a champ at 300/662. I have tested many Ti4200's and while mine is very expensive (I paid $99!), I found the MSI GF4 Ti4200 128MB to be an excellent overclocker for a good price. I tested two that both hit 320/585.

 

[AnAndAustin]

To keep it simple there are 3 primary differences between the three cards:

4200 = 250mhz core & 444-512mhz RAM (as a rough guide 4200_128MB use 444mhz, 4200_64MB use 500mhz, 4200-8X_128MB use 500mhz)
4400 = 275mhz core & 550mhz RAM
4600 = 300mhz core & 650mhz RAM

The 4400 & 4600 use a bigger 8 layer PCB and BGA packaged RAM which enhances the use of higher clocks. There are a number of hybrid 4200 cards which use the 8 layer design, BGA RAM and faster clocks and these often hit or exceed 4600 speeds ... yet even the cheapest 4200 tend to hit or exceed 4400 speeds which is no bad thing! You have to rem the 4400 o/c to 4600 speeds and the 4600 o/c a little bit faster too (the cards which run at faster default speeds will have faster RAM, ie lower ns so can run faster once o/c'ed), but 4200 is easily best bang and if you want more look to the Radeon9500PRO - 9700.

To complicate things further there is also the 4200-8X_64MB which is no better at all than a std 4200_64MB, and also the GF4TI4800SE and TI4800. The last 2 are simply a 4400-8X and a 4600-8X with identical clock speeds, therefore no better than the usual 4400 or 4600 cards out there!

 

[ScrewFace]

I got my MSI GeForce4-Ti4400 form 275/275 to 330/315 which beats the GeForce4-Ti4600 handily. Go for the GeForce4-Ti4400 and save a $100.