PNY Verto Geforce4 TI horror stories

[rippk]

OK. I was skeptical about buy from this manufacturer, but given the absolute glut of available TI4400's and TI4600's ... I had little choice! My PNY Verto TI4400 arrives today and I jsut wanted to hear if there were any unfavourable reviews of this card or it's manufacturer??? There is still time for me to return the card unopened and simply wait for another manufacturer that I know and trust.
Favourable reviews would be good too, if you got 'em!
And what about those 3D glasses??? the special drivers work ok ... even if hte glasses aren't on your head? lol

thanks!

 

[artemedes]

I was a little skeptical too. I have had the same card for two weeks and LOVE it. It upgraded
a Radeon LE and I am very impressed. 3d quality is just as good as my old Radeon, and better
if you consider that I can run the highest resolutions my monitor will allow, and my older games
that use older DX and 16 bit textures work much better too. 2D is excellent, and much better
than I expected. It looks as good as my matrox G450.


Have you even tried it yet? Since it arrives today, just put it in and see for yourself.

Tips: Use 64mb or 128 mb agp aperature. 256 will not work. I say this based on my own experiences
and others on nvnews.net forums.

I found 27.70 to work best for me using win98. I downloaded them from warp2search. If you really need
a link I can get you one (PM me). At nvnews.net forums, some people with win2k and XP prefer 27.52 drivers.
I was going to try them but they weren't available for win98 when I checked.

Rivatuner was the best tweaker for me.

I did a fresh install of windows and all drivers before I really used it, but it did work with my old win install after taking out
Radeon LE.

I have played Descent 3, Mechwarrior 4, Battlezone 2, Quake3, and some 2d strategy games. All worked as they were
supposed to with amazing performance and image quality. Older games that only give you the option to run at 1024X768
such as Mechwarrior 3 look much better with 4xs AA and 8X anisotropy (use rivatuner to access anisotropy in direct3d games).

Thanks for reminding me about the 3d glasses. I havn't even tried them yet.


Conclusion: You should at least try it. You should be able to return the product if your not happy and the 4400s are really
keeping up with the 4600s even if they are not as overclockable. I was very skeptical about buying it and am more than
pleased. Since I have another computer to do my 2d stuff on I was even willing to except lower 2d quality, but that didn't
turn out to be the case so I am very pleased with my purchase and my gaming experiences since I have had the card.

Hope that little mini-review helps you decide what to do.

 

[tejboy]

Go with a Gainward ti4600 the golden sample. one of the best out there. I have tried PNY ti4600 took it back. I am using a visiontek ti 4600 but then bought a gainward which i should recieve by tuesday

 

[rippk]

Well, I installed the card using hte drivers provided by PNY on the instalation disk. Everythign seems to be running OK. One thing is for sure, that darn fan is LOUD! And this is coming from someone who had a voodoo5 with 2 fans on the board!

I downloaded the latest PNY drivers off the PNY website ... but they won't install. I extracted the files to a directory, and ran the setup.exe. It showed me the user agreement and then tried to install the drivers ... but I got an error stating that it could not detect my NVIDIA card. very odd. I rebooted a couple of times after installing the card and it shows up ok (without conflict) in the device manager. I'll go hunt for the 27.50 or 27.70 drivers in a second .. but here are some preformance results. Keep in mind that this is a low end machine with an uber card, so it will not be as good as y'all. (upgrade is coming later!)

system: (DELL Dimension XPSb533r) Intel PIII533, 256MB RDRAM (pc600), win98se, TBS montego sound card, Mitsubishi Diamond pro920 monitor.

3dmark score of 4571 using the drivers from the instal disk (version 4.13.01.2742) and default settings.
not as good as I hoped.

so looking for new drivers. going to make sure my board is good for 4X AGP (otherwise I will force it to 2X in bios), then I'll try to set the AGP aparture to 128mb... but I don't know where to do this! Where is rivatuner and what does it do?

 

[rippk]

cool. just installed the detonator drivers - version 27.70 ... my 3dmark score went up to 4814 from 4571 (with 27.42 drivers)

 

[caboob]

Just placed an order from newegg!! hope with their fast shipping it can get to me by friday!!!!!!

 

[DoubleL]

Well I put a PNY Ti in a computer I built the 2nd. of Feb. and it went out last week, I know any computer part can go bad but that is the first video card that has went south on me and it wasn't being overclocked and good luck on trying to call them I am still at it

 

[Dug]

FYI- PNY cards are made by MSI. If you use Sisoft Sandra or Powerstrip to id the card it will report it being MSI. (Microstar)

Mines running 315/650 with no problems at all.
I might return it and get the Gainward though because the Gainward comes with heatsinks already attached to the memory.

 

[cmdrdredd]

The Abit comes with ramsinks too...I'll have that one tomorrow. Hope it gets good results.

 

[Bozo Galora]

if you ever send a a card back to PNY be sure you get registered return signature for delivery.
I sent a gf3 back to N.J., couldn't get ahold of them for a month, then they say they never got it.
No more PNY for me.
I bad mouth them every chance I get.
"Lifetime Warranty" hah hah
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[cmdrdredd]

My Abit Ti4600 runs stable at 310/750 and my 3dmark score is 10203

This is with an old T-Bird clocked to 1.57Ghz and a 143Mhz Bus on a Soyo Dragon+ which is NOT known for good overclocking.

funny thing is...my ATI 8500 at 640x480 16bit only got 10121. So my GF4 at 1024x768 32bit is faster than a lowest detail ATI card

 

[Boogak]

I've had my PNY Ti 4400 for 2 weeks now, not a problem here. Been playing Serious Sam 2, MOH:AA, and War3 beta mainly (War3 at 1280x960@2x FSAA and max details looks friggin awesome). Haven't tried the 3d glasses yet though.

 

[WaTaGuMp]

I have an interesting story about this card. This is my second card I have tried, and both cards on my system when I remove the drivers to try other ones I get a blank screen with a box popping up saying OUT OF SCAN, NO INPUT SIGNAL. I then have to remove the card and put my G3 back in to get it to boot to install drivers. I have decided to get rid of the card I ordered the Leadtek card from online its less then the PNY cause of no sales tax from a company in WA. I do however have the card running at 320 720 without one lock up. I did spend 20 bucks and get 2 Thermaltake memory cooling kits for it and mounted the heatsinks on the top and bottom, they do look really cool being blue heatsinks on the purple card.