Using a GeForce 4 Ti 42000 128 MB on a Microstar motherboard?

[T101]

I have the following setup;

Ahtlon XP 1800+
1 stick 256 MB Kingston DDR 2100
IBM Deskstar 80GB
IBM Deskstar 40GB
Realtek Ethernet NIC
Asus 612E DVD
Liteon CDRW
GeForce 2 GTS 32MB (Will be replaced)
P4 Ok (i think it also is AMD OK) 300W powersupply (Cant see brand at the moment).

And i was going to order a Microstar GeForce 4 Ti 4200 128 MB card to replace my GeForce 2, when i saw a notice on my suppliers page that there are big troubles with using GeForce 4 cards with Microstar motherboards. Is this true? will i not be able to use the card if i order it?

 

[AnAndAustin]

Well I know they work in the ancient MSI SktA KT133 original 6330 K7t Pro mobo, so you should be sweet on any MSI mobo. I haven't heard of any incompat, and these things are usually dependent upon chipset and NOT brand of mobo. The prob you could be referring to could be with the GF4TI4400 and 4600 which use very long card designs, any 4200 using the standard AGP card length will not give this problem (Asus 4200 Deluxe and Suma 4200 Special Edition are the only 2 4200 cards AFAIK that use the long design).

If your PSU is by Antec, Enermax, ToPower, Flower or Sparkle then 300W should be fine, if the brand is something you've never heard of it may be okay, but you'd do well to get rid of it and buy a branded 350W+ (pref 400W+) PSU ideally with dual fans. Running 4 IDE devices and a power hungry Axp1800+ isn't very good on a 300W PSU, but if you add a high power gfx card in there you are certainly likely to be pushing things too far. The $60 purchase of a decent PSU is very wise to ensure stability, peace of mind and safety of all your PC components.

 

[T101]

Is the GeForce 4 Ti 4200 128MB ram more powerhungry than the original GeForce 3 (Before the Ti series)?

 

[AnAndAustin]

I have no specific reference for this, but I would certaily imagine the original non-TI GF3 would be more power hungry than 4200, probably easily as power hungry as the 4600. 4200 are probably about as hungry as a GF4MX440 or GF2TI.