New anandtech article up

[Mingon]

Sub-$200 Video Card Roundup - April 2002



<< One thing that should be made very clear is that the overclocking characteristics of the reference boards being sent out for review now are in no way representative of how final Ti 4200 boards will overclock. NVIDIA's reference boards have historically overclocked much better than shipping cards which also explains why NVIDIA usually encourages reviewers to try overclocking in their reviews. >>


Someone seems unhappy with not getting a card sooner

 

[BD231]

The GeForce4 GPU is considerably more expensive to manufacture than the GeForce4 MX so costs had to be cut as much as possible to make the Ti 4200 a profitable offering. The GPU is clocked at 250MHz, making it the highest yielding NV25 GPU coming out of TSMC. As far as memory goes the card can be offered with 222MHz DDR (effectively 444MHz) or 250MHz DDR (effectively 500MHz) SDRAM. The difference in memory clock speeds arises from the fact that the cards will be offered with TSOP packaged memory and not the new BGA packaged memory we've seen on the higher end GeForce4s. In order to offset the costs of the 128MB cards the slower memory is used while the 64MB cards get the benefit of faster memory

So much for OC'ing the Ti4200

 

[EMAN]

Anandtech's numbers are always a little off from all the other hardware web sites. I do not trust his numbers completely. Look at geforce mx460 beating out geforce 3. I know for a fact that retail radeon 8500 can wipe out a geforce 3 but his numbers again are off.

Look at this from hardocp. The newer radeon drivers even beat out the geforce 3 ti 500 most of the time.

I really wanted the ti4200 but I had to order a card today because I was getting a free upgrade. Why can't they release the 4200 already. I really didn't want this radeon 8500 128meg. argggghh

At least this radeon has 3.3ns memory. Maybe I'll be able to hit at least 625mhz.