My 2 secret weapons were new geforce4 ti4200s
I know you guys were dieing to know, well now that im back and recieved the items, I shall let you know!
1. albatron ti4200 128mb. I know its not the turbro but still should overclock good. well I got a dog! the core was a3 stepping and did 300MHz but the 4ns ram only did 525! it came at 250/500 and I tried 530 first jump and got slight artifacts in the point sprite test in 3dmark 2001. I was like that cant be right and pushed the ram to 540 and artifact galore! pushed it down to 525 and all was fine. Pfffffff 128mb cards are dogs! even the albatron :eek:
2. abit siluro 64mb ti4200. I got it cheap too so I gave that one a shot. I loaded rivatuner and the core was a2. darn this might not do 300MHz and I was right. the 4ns ram which worried me did 600MHz which is amazing for 4ns! the 128mb albatron was also 4ns but sucked! Is there some plague with 128mb? do they use crap ram for the 128mb? The core locked up at 300MHz and at 295 had mild artifacts in the lake in nature. 290/600 was my final results and my score did not go up over 300/590 that my triplex ti4200 did, but the triplex one had 3.3ns ram so I was shocked the ram maxed at 590! seems like ns rating is a moot point!
3. got another ti200 for $30 so I was like what the heck ill try. that thing(PNY) did 220/490 which is ok but not great. my chaintech overclocked like a beast at 250/525 and I am not kidding, on air, no mods!
4. my corsair pc3000 xms ram failed to work stably at any speed. wouldnt even load windows past 166fsb. guy who sold me that ram says it may not be compatable with my mobo and told me to resell it which I did and someone bought it now easily on ebay.
5. I had sold my old corsair pc2700 ram in antiprecation of the new ram so now im using pc2100 ram and running my xp2000+ stock for now, I have corsair value 256mb pc3200 ram on the way and that thing better do over 200fsb, 215 would be nice at 2-2-2-6-t1 timings.
6. I am not having a good day or much luck :( ah well im just happy to be healthy and back from the hospital. If that ram wont do it, then forget 15k marks ill just wait for the a64 to mature and drop in price. Ill enjoy other things such as computer games, my pet fish and collecting coins :) my rig is way fast enough for games even at 14600 marks :)
Re: My 2 secret weapons were new geforce4 ti4200s
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Originally posted by Thunderbird1GHz
...im just happy to be healthy and back from the hospital...
I'm glad you're feeling better, welcome back! Noticed you had stopped posting for a while.
After that most unpleasant abdominal experience, hospital, etc, do you think you'll now be choosing another trademark slogan? ;)
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