"Strontium" wrote in message
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~misfit~ stood up at show-n-tell, in
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"Daniel Yates" wrote in message
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"Nick Hogg" wrote in message
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if your main use for the card is gaming, then the ti4200 will offer
a big leap in performance, smoothness, responsiveness etc. if not,
then not.
"Daniel Yates" wrote in message
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I have found a inno3D AGP8X Tornado GeForce 4 Ti4200 128MB @
£72.00. I am just wanting to know if this card is worth purchasing
as an upgrade to the Ti200. I really cannot push th ebudget any
further so "spending that little extra and getting ....." is a no
go.
Any advice offered is greatly appreciated.
Thanks in advance
Daniel Yates
Yup, gaming is my main objective so I guess I will be going for it
today - WOOT!!
I'm running a GF4 ti4200/128MB RAM and play a lot of games and am
very happy with it. There will always be people who will tell you
that you need this card or that card (usually in the 2-300 pound
bracket) but, in reality, you don't. The ti4200 is an excellent card
for the price.
I had no need to upgrade my GF3 Ti200, until I upped my box (from a Duron
950 to a P4 2.4C). At that point, the card became the bottleneck 
Until
the day I finally got my 9700np, that old Ti200 ran everything I threw at
it, nicely. Only slowed, when I upped all of details and during heavy
shading (all at 1024x768). Of course, I was overclocking @ 250/500 for
most
of the 1.5yrs I had it hehe.
I, honestly, think OP would be better off just waiting until they can
remove
the CPU/memory bottleneck to upgrade. And, then, get a DX9 card. An
extra
5000 3DMarks really isn't worth the upgrade. I wanted, for a while to do
the Ti4200 thing. I'm glad that I didn't. Woulda been wasted money,
after
upping my system and seeing the DX9 cards roll out.
--
Strontium
"It's no surprise, to me. I am my own worst enemy. `Cause every
now, and then, I kick the livin' **** `outta me." - Lit
I cant help feeling that when I purchased this system the card was
"insufficient" for it. I have often found my 3dmark01 SE scores to be below
the avergae standard for this kind of rig. I am currently saving anything I
can to put towards a building my new setup which is chewing all the spare
cash. i am reckoning at least 6-12 months before I can build it and even
then the graphics card will not be included as I expect to go all out with
the card when it comes to the new system. I am finding certain games like
Battlefield 1942 and Morrowind have always struggled a little but managed
overall but this is with all eye candy turned off, no AA or AF at all,
overclocked to 220/434 and this is with getting a couple of artifacts. It is
supposed to be 4ns memory on the card but I am sure it is 3.6 as the default
clocks were 175/366 so mayhaps that is why this ti200 underperforms compared
to many others. Cheap ass Tiny Computers, thank god they went bust lmao.
A 5000 point increase at the moment I feel will be more than enough for me
to stick a bit of eye candy on some of the games. The Ti4200 I am thinking
of buying today is the Inno3D Tornado, the fastest of the range - 8X AGP
128Mb RAM and the memory is running higher than standard 4200's. The tornado
range runs the memory at 513Mhz which sounded rather funky to me. The card
comes with a reasonable fan and ramsinks on it so it should be all go for a
little overclocking. After trawling through reviews I have seen a repeating
comment that this card can easily overclock to Ti4600 standards so I reckon
that might be my aim, in which case I will have saved a fortune in
comparison I reckon, but time will tell.
Anyhow - gotta go and buy the bugger now! After I have had a fiddle with it
I will post again letting you know how it OC's and what not. Probably
tommorow or the day after as I have a helluva day tommorow, gotta fix my
cousins tower and I just know he will want his monthly format doing lmfao!!!
He really does not have any idea about internet security :-S
Peace
Daniel Yates