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However, NVIDIA is being entirely upfront about its clock speed recommendations to card makers, unlike some of its competitors have been in the past. Now generally, we don’t take kindly to manufacturers offering cards whose names are potentially misleading. In some cases, the 64MB cards will be faster. Whatever the case, the Ti 4200 cards with 128MB of RAM will have less memory bandwidth available. NVIDIA’s reasons for this arrangement aren’t entirely clear to me, but I expect the decision has to do with balancing the cost of RAM against the desire to keep these cards priced substantially lower than the Ti 4400. You’ll notice that NVIDIA has done something kind of odd with the Ti 4200: cards with 64MB of RAM have the memory clocked at 500MHz, while 128MB cards run the memory at 444MHz. Let’s pull out the ol’ chip chart once again to see how the Ti 4200 fits into the picture.
NVIDIA GEFORCE4 TI 4200 128MB WINDOWS
I was even able to run multiple, independent desktop resolutions in Windows XP.
Dual monitors worked fine with a DVI-to-VGA converter plugged into the reference card’s DVI out port. One area where NVIDIA hasn’t skimped is nView. And I’d wager these smaller cards are cheaper to make. The GF4 Ti 4200 64MB reference card is dwarfed by VisionTek’s Ti 4600 card These cards ought to fit easily into motherboards like the Epox EP-8KHA+ and the ECS K7S5A that haven’t followed the rules for the AGP spec and have trouble accommodating longer cards like the GF4 Ti 4600 reference cards. NVIDIA’s GeForce4 Ti 4200 64MB reference card The 64MB Ti 4200 looks pretty much like a GeForce2 or GeForce3 cardmuch, much smaller than a GF4 Ti 4600. Our review unit is the 64MB version, and the most surprising thing about it is how normal it looks. GF4 Ti 4200 cards will come with either 64MB or 128MB of memory, and they’ll be priced at about $179 and $199, respectively. Read on to see how it matches up against the competition.
NVIDIA GEFORCE4 TI 4200 128MB FULL
We’ve got the 64MB variety of the Ti 4200 here in Damage Labs, and we’ve run a full set of benchmarks to compare it against nine of its closest competitors, including ATI’s Radeon 8500LE. For those not looking to drop over 300 bucks on a video card, the Ti 4200 may be just the ticket. The GeForce4 Ti 4200 is, as the name suggests, a GeForce4 Titanium card with lower clock speeds for the GPU and memory. The GeForce4 MX 460 is AWOL, and the GeForce4 Ti 4200 is stepping in to take its place. Thank goodness for competition, because now NVIDIA appears to be changing course. For that price, we have been inclined to recommend the 8500LE as the best graphics value for the money. Third-party card makers have introduced cards, like Hercules’ 8500LE, that sell for as little as 140 bucks online. With real pixel and vertex shaders, the Radeon 8500LE is a steal. Our previous favorite card, the GeForce3 Ti 200, was apparently being replaced by inferior technology.ĪTI saw the GF4 MX 460 coming and took the opportunity introduce the Radeon 8500LE 128MB in the same price range.
The GF4 MX is just a pumped-up GeForce2, and it simply doesn’t belong in the same price range as GeForce3 and Radeon 8500 cards. B ACK WHEN THE GeForce4 was first announced, we nicked NVIDIA pretty hard for introducing the GeForce4 MX 460 aimed at a price range between $149 and $199.
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