Author Topic: Gf4 Ti4200: Cheap and powerfull (Read 742 times)

Staga · « **on:** July 09, 2002, 05:49:13 PM »

BANG / Bucks ratio is quite good in this one.
Much cheaper than Ti4400 cards and with little OC'ing it's almost as fast as stock Ti4600. Core speed in benchmark was 300MHz and memory 600MHz.

bloom25 · « **Reply #1 on:** July 09, 2002, 07:50:39 PM »

That's what I'm using. They are a great deal at under $180 for the 64MB version. I believe all the GF 4 Ti series support nView (dual-head) for two monitors as well. Most also have TV out.

My only complaint would be the very large amount of power they consume and that their 2d image quality is not quite as good as some other cards out there. Their 3d performance is great though.

Edit: What are your system specs Staga?

Staga · « **Reply #2 on:** July 10, 2002, 02:17:48 AM »

AMD TB 1,4GHz w/fancy copper HS +80mm fan.
A7M266 (Bios 1007 from 4/2002)
768 mb DDR (Mushkin)
MSI GF4Ti4200 64mb with Hynix 3,6ns mem-chips + Nvidia reference drivers 29.42 + RivaTuner
SB-Live (only drivers)
Accton Cheetah 10/100 LAN-card
Sony 48x + Samsung 24*10*40 CD/RW
Enermax 350w PS
Win XP Pro

bigUC · « **Reply #3 on:** July 10, 2002, 09:36:57 AM »

Agreed - i get 75 fps steady in 1280xsomething with quin-etc. fsaa and antisotropic filtering - absolutely stunning

(Abit gef 4200)

bloom25 · « **Reply #4 on:** July 13, 2002, 05:58:50 PM »

I'm using that same MSI card Staga.

Any troubles with the 29.42 drivers? I'm using 28.90s right now and they seem fine.

BTW: On the 2d image quality if you can find the digital vibrance settings and put them to "medium" it really helps a lot IMO. It's under the nView tab and click the device settings button. Color correction settings.

Staga · « **Reply #5 on:** July 13, 2002, 06:53:51 PM »

heh already beta 30.30 drivers in use. So far everything is good

SKurj · « **Reply #6 on:** July 13, 2002, 10:44:47 PM »

Some said i was silly to buy a g4mx cuz the 4200 was going to be just a tiny bit more money...
I honestly would have preferred the 4200.. when I bought the mx the 4200 wasn't available here yet.

I paid 166$ for the g4mx the 4200 now available here... $350... damn gougin sons o...!!!
no regrets at that price(canuck bux)

SKurj

Lephturn · « **Reply #7 on:** July 15, 2002, 12:32:03 PM »

I got my MSI GeForce 4 4200 128 Meg for CAN$ 302.00. You can get a 64 meg for $250.00 Canuck from http://www.ncix.com.

Check out ncix for those Cunucks out there... cheap stuff. I'll be ordering a bunch of stuff to complete my system this week, I'll let ya know how it goes.

Torque · « **Reply #8 on:** July 21, 2002, 09:06:44 AM »

Just got my MSI Ti4200 yesterday, paid $260 Cdn and i managed to O/C it from 250/465 to 311/595 stable. I can't seem to enable AGP settings tho. 3D Mark score was 5456.

P1.4 gh
Intel Mobo
256 Ram SDram
80 G HD

Hey for the first time i can actually read the gauges in the cocpit now.

L8tr...

Pongo · « **Reply #9 on:** July 21, 2002, 09:58:26 AM »

I get all my stuff from NCIX. pretty good net retailer.

Zigrat · « **Reply #10 on:** July 21, 2002, 11:14:02 AM »

jesus is torque playing again? where you at old buddy would be fun to shoot you down a bit

Staga · « **Reply #11 on:** August 01, 2002, 07:09:06 PM »

That card really is worth of buying:
http://service.madonion.com/compare?2k1=4096541

AMD TB 1,4GHz / A7M266 768DDR / MSI GF4Ti4200 64Mb w/NVidia reference drv. 29.42 / SB-Audigy.

Only tweak was overclocking to core300/mem600 with coolbits register tweak which enables OC'ing when using NVidia reference drivers.

Staga · « **Reply #12 on:** August 02, 2002, 08:47:50 PM »

Gf4Ti4200 cards in test: http://www.viahardware.com/ti4200_1.shtm

hardcase · « **Reply #13 on:** August 02, 2002, 09:34:56 PM »

Do a google search for COOLBITS..lets you OC the 4200 to the 4600 specs and also lets you turn off vyscing..etc.

hardcase

Staga · « **Reply #14 on:** August 03, 2002, 05:04:53 AM »

No need to search. Been using it now and then since TNT2...

Copy text between lines to notepad and save as nvidia.reg. To install just double click it.
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REGEDIT4

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\NVIDIA Corporation\Global\NvTweak]
"CoolBits"=dword:00000003
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