Having given up waiting for stocks of the gainward card I noticed E-buyer (UK site) had the 128mb version of the ti4200 for an entirely reasonable £155. Well I ordered it saturday and its arrived woohoo. The card itself is pretty standard it has 8 x 16mb of samsung 4.0ns rated ram, it has a tv-out and a DVI for the second display (with vga adaptor). The card itself has a rather meaty heatsink which is bigger than my previous elsa ultra's but comes without ramsinks.
The package includes the tv-out cable and an extension lead and a dvi to vga adaptor. On the software side its bundled with a demo called 'ballistic' , driver cd with 28.90 dets, windvd2000, powerdirector se and the nvdia experience cd.
Before installing I ripped of the heatsink and proceeded to instal my GPU block for my koolance case just incase I o/c slightly, this was made slightly difficult by the fact that the heatsink holes around the GPU where slightly too small for my retention screws, but a quick re-tapping with a case screw allowed it them to fit.
Once booted into windows everything worked smoothly and the 2d quality from this no-name manufacturer was :Q actually quite good 😉
I downloaded rivatuner for a bit off tinkering and overclocked the card to 300 core / 500 memory (not going to push it too far) and everything remained stable with no artifacts.
The performance of the card is as good as I hoped default 3dmark2000 scores 13000 (as this is 16bit the geforce 4 doesnt use its hsr so it should be quicker still) and default 3dmark2001se showed around 9900, which is a big gain from the 5500 of my old gt2 ultra.
Overall so far very pleased, just waiting for a cdrw to appear that I have on order so I can start playing some games, although I am going to give max payne a whirl with a no-cd patch.
The package includes the tv-out cable and an extension lead and a dvi to vga adaptor. On the software side its bundled with a demo called 'ballistic' , driver cd with 28.90 dets, windvd2000, powerdirector se and the nvdia experience cd.
Before installing I ripped of the heatsink and proceeded to instal my GPU block for my koolance case just incase I o/c slightly, this was made slightly difficult by the fact that the heatsink holes around the GPU where slightly too small for my retention screws, but a quick re-tapping with a case screw allowed it them to fit.
Once booted into windows everything worked smoothly and the 2d quality from this no-name manufacturer was :Q actually quite good 😉
I downloaded rivatuner for a bit off tinkering and overclocked the card to 300 core / 500 memory (not going to push it too far) and everything remained stable with no artifacts.
The performance of the card is as good as I hoped default 3dmark2000 scores 13000 (as this is 16bit the geforce 4 doesnt use its hsr so it should be quicker still) and default 3dmark2001se showed around 9900, which is a big gain from the 5500 of my old gt2 ultra.
Overall so far very pleased, just waiting for a cdrw to appear that I have on order so I can start playing some games, although I am going to give max payne a whirl with a no-cd patch.