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Overclocking
Being
touted as the "Golden Sample" and being
the top dog of Gainward's GeForce4 Ti 4200 line,
the card would carry along with it some high expectations.
The Golden Sample series have been known to be
very good overclockers in the various reviews
seen around and even users would testify to that.
Gainward's own overclocking could be used for
overclocking but it only limited the core up to
290MHz while the memory was only limited to 550MHz.
Due to this, NVIDIA's coolbits overclocking utility
had to be used since it offered higher settings
for both the memory and the core. The Gainward
GeForce4 Ti 4200 "Golden Sample" overclocked
nicely and stably at 315/560 which was already
the maximum of the coolbits overclocking utility.
The card could probably do more than that since
the card was tested at fully-overclocked settings
in all benchmarks and not a single visual artifact
nor visual tearing started to appear. But for
this test, the maximum overclock was only limited
to 315/560 since all other Ti 4200's used were
overclocked using the same utility and environment.
A second look might be necessary for the Gainward
GeForce4 Ti 4200.
Test
System
AMD
Athlon XP 1600+ (1.4GHz)
EPoX 8K3A VIA KT333
256MB KingMax CL2.5 PC2700 DDR SDRAM
Gainward GeForce4 PowerPack! Ultra650/XP "Golden
Sample" 128MB 260/520 and 315/560 (core/memory)
Palit Daytona GeForce4 Ti 4200 128MB 250/446 (core/memory)
Inno3D Tornado GeForce4 Ti 4200 64MB 250/513 (core/memory)
Seagate Barracuda ATA IV 20GB 7200RPM ATA100 HDD
Acer 52X Max IDE CD-ROM
Windows
2000 Professional, Service Pack 2
VIA 4in1 4.38v
DirectX 8.1
NVIDIA Detonator XP 28.32
Benchmarks
Quake
III Arena 1.17, demo001
High Quality 32-bit 640X480, 800X600, 1024X768
Serious Sam The Second Encounter Demo, Cooperative
Demo
Quality 32-bit 640X480, 800X600, 1024X768
Commanche 4
Default 32-bit 640X480, 800X600, 1024X768
3DMark2001 SE
Default 32-bit 640X480, 800X600, 1024X768
Notes
As
experienced and proven it various reviews, cards
running the same chip at the same clock speed
settings will perform within one another. In this
case, the Gainward GeForce4 Ti 4200 was no longer
tested running the default 128MB Ti 4200 speeds
since it would perform just the same. For this
review, the Palit Daytona Ti 4200 was treated
as the representative of a default-clocked 128MB
Ti 4200 while the Inno3D was treated as the default-clocked
64MB Ti 4200. The Gainward Ti 4200 was only tested
at its "enhanced" clock settings and
maximum overclocked settings. Performance gains
from overclocking should be very interesting.
Benchmarks
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