Originally posted by: orangel
dang...this thread is getting bigger and bigger every day.
Originally posted by: Pothead
Originally posted by: yodayoda
Originally posted by: Rally1
Originally posted by: Aztech
Ok, see if yall think I should bother with this. My system is:
Dell
Pentium 4 1.6GHz
384 MB of PC133
GeForce2 MX 32MB
I mean it sounds like this is a great card, but can my system take advantage? I wanna play UT 2003 and BF 1942. What you think?
I think yes, for $80 or $50 you can get alot better performance. Your system is fine.
edit: unclebud he has a 1.6Ghz cpu, by no means a "slow" cpu.
eck, PC133 ram? are you using an Intel 815 chipset? that is your biggest problem--you need a DDR system more than anything. yikes, you would have better performance with a Pentium 3 chip in that system.
Sounds like he's running a Dell GX240
Originally posted by: Eddie33081
This thing is a great upgrade for any gf2/3 card. I went from a gf2 pro gts at 4550 3dmark 2001 score to 11000 just by upgrading to this ti4200 and overclocking it a bit =) . Best 90$ I ever spent.
SOMETHING FISHY
**BTW everyone. I was reading around and am questioning the existance of a true 128mb Card. A friend of mine bought one of these that ended up being a 128mb card according to his computer but the thing looks exactly the same as mine. His default clock is 513 just like mine was which is a 64mb card. If you read around all the reviews show that in fact the 128mb cards memory is clocked slower at 444. To me this sounds like pny may have accidentally/purposely put the 128mb cards bios on a few of the 64mb cards which would fool your system into believing that it was a 128mb card. The only way to truly tell would be if someone took off the heatsinks on memory of the card and actually saw them labeled as 16mb each which would be 128mb. If anyone with the know how could take off the hs to find out whats really up with these cards it would be appreciated. It doesnt seem likely to me that pny or any other big company would mistakenly give out 128mb cards in 64mb boxes. And now best buy sells them for 79 bucks? Seems fishy. Anyway let me know what you guys think. THANKS***
Originally posted by: Aztech
Huh? No, It's a Dimension 4300. BTW will DeLL's cases accept other motherboards? I've heard complaints about them being proprietary in various ways.
Originally posted by: Eddie33081
Originally posted by: Eddie33081
This thing is a great upgrade for any gf2/3 card. I went from a gf2 pro gts at 4550 3dmark 2001 score to 11000 just by upgrading to this ti4200 and overclocking it a bit =) . Best 90$ I ever spent.
SOMETHING FISHY
**BTW everyone. I was reading around and am questioning the existance of a true 128mb Card. A friend of mine bought one of these that ended up being a 128mb card according to his computer but the thing looks exactly the same as mine. His default clock is 513 just like mine was which is a 64mb card. If you read around all the reviews show that in fact the 128mb cards memory is clocked slower at 444. To me this sounds like pny may have accidentally/purposely put the 128mb cards bios on a few of the 64mb cards which would fool your system into believing that it was a 128mb card. The only way to truly tell would be if someone took off the heatsinks on memory of the card and actually saw them labeled as 16mb each which would be 128mb. If anyone with the know how could take off the hs to find out whats really up with these cards it would be appreciated. It doesnt seem likely to me that pny or any other big company would mistakenly give out 128mb cards in 64mb boxes. And now best buy sells them for 79 bucks? Seems fishy. Anyway let me know what you guys think. THANKS***
I dont know guys about those 128mb cards. Just because it boots up as a 128mb card doesnt necessarily mean its 128mb. Your computer just reads off the cards bios. The cards seem to be exactly the same. The only way to really tell would be for someone to pull of the heatsinks and see 16mb chips on their 128mb card. When my computer boots it claims gf4ti4200 64mb agp 8x. In my adapter properties I get
Bus: AGP 4x
Memory: 64 mb
Bios: 4.28.40.21
Processor: Geforce 4 ti4200 with agp 8x
Sandras shows something slightly weird as well under video information with my card highlighted
SiSoftware Sandra
Video Adapter
Model : NVIDIA GeForce4 Ti 4200 with AGP8X
Total Memory : 63MB (63MB Video) (128MB AGP)
Texture Memory : 191MB
Supports DIME Texturing : Yes
Video Chipset : GeForce4 Ti 4200 with AGP8X
RAMDAC Chipset : Integrated RAMDAC
Video BIOS : Version 4.28.4021
Notice the Total memory.
Not trying to discourage a 128mb card but just saying there might be a reason to question it. Anyone with the correct knowledge of video cards willing to add??
Originally posted by: Eddie33081
...Hopefully for us they are 128mb cards and we can all flash them to the 128mb bios to make them fully effective.
Originally posted by: Eddie33081
Someone over at the hard forums just pulled of the Heatsink on there card and it reads:
Samsung 247
K4D28163HD-TC40
Originally posted by: stopNshop
Just found that memory clock of the card can only be clocked at multiplier of 27 Mhz because it uses a 27 Mhz PLL generator. If that is true, the card can be clocked either 594 or 621 Mhz, and it cannot be clocked at 600 Mhz.
Originally posted by: stopNshop
Just found that memory clock of the card can only be clocked at multiplier of 27 Mhz because it uses a 27 Mhz PLL generator. If that is true, the card can be clocked either 594 or 621 Mhz, and it cannot be clocked at 600 Mhz.