How's Chaintech's Geforce 4 Ti4200 video cards?

[j@cko]

How's the quality of their cards? ANy one has any experience with them? How's the overclockability?

 

[tarambuka3500]

yeah, HQ, works like a charm, no problem at all.
mine is w/ 64MB DDR, clocked 250GPU / 513mem; goes stably upto 275 / 550.
memory i s 4ns Hynix, seen also w/ samsung
tv-out is S-video only, encoder chip is Phillips SAA7102.

p.s.
and it's not chINAtech, but chAINtech
chinatech does not manifacture videocards ...

 

[AnAndAustin]

LOL, don't be too sure tarambuka3500 there's a lot of obscure co's stepping up to manu GF4 cards.

Anyway 64MB 4200 is still a great card BUT 99% come with 3.6ns RAM and that should get you to 600mhz+! 4.0ns is what almost every 4200-128MB card uses and usually get about 520-560mhz, but that extra RAM is well worth it.

Anyway, manu matters very little for GF4TI cards, all have excellent image quality, perf and nearly all come with the same standard RAM so all tend to o/c VERY similar. IIRC AOpen use cheaper RAM and this hurts the o/c, and from what tarambuka3500 says I'd avoid Chaintech's 4200-64MB card as 4.0ns is a big shame. Of course 275/550 still gives great perf, but most 4200 cards do better.

 

[BlvdKing]

A friend of mine has the Chaintech Ti 4200. It runs at 300/600 no problems. It's a good card - cheap too.