oc'ing my Ti4200! :P

[a.Bird]

regarding my GeForce4 Ti 4200 64mb with StarStorm 44.67q driver.

I have a quick question regarding GPU overclocking. I've been benchmarking with 3DMark2001 and these are some results (all stable)...

250/513 (stock) - 12268
281/513 - 12470
320/559 - 13315

This was the highest I could clock the core so I decided to bump it down 10 Mhz and play with the memory.

310/578 - 12898
310/601 - 13398
310/620 - 13275
update: 310/640 - 13299

So.... is this normal? From 601 Mhz to 620 Mhz the memory was stable but the score dropped over 100 points. What does this mean?

[progbuddy]

regarding my GeForce4 Ti 4200 64mb with StarStorm 44.67q driver.

I have a quick question regarding GPU overclocking. I've been benchmarking with 3DMark2001 and these are some results (all stable)...

250/513 (stock) - 12268
281/513 - 12470
320/559 - 13315

This was the highest I could clock the core so I decided to bump it down 10 Mhz and play with the memory.

310/578 - 12898
310/601 - 13398
310/620 - 13275
update: 310/640 - 13299

So.... is this normal? From 601 Mhz to 620 Mhz the memory was stable but the score dropped over 100 points. What does this mean?

It happened to me. Don't really know why.

[a.Bird]

It doesn't even matter actually. I hadn't benchmarked my card with any of my games so I loaded NFS Underground and immediately things were a bit funny. Like normally in the menu screen when you see a car in the background, it was just a flickering emptiness... muahahahaha. Right, so now I'm at 310/590 stable and can run NFS just fine with no artifacts. I'm not trying to go overboard here just wanted a bit of a boost from the old girl now that I've got a new heatsink/fan/arctic silver 5 for it. Sorry for the useless thread you can lock/delete it or whatever.

[bartvandenberg]

i honestly wouldnt even be concerned about what synthetic benchmarks tell you. If its stable, and you arent getting any artifacts or "tearing", enjoy.

I loved my old Ti4200. i remember paying a touch over 300 bucks for it too.

BTW, thats a pretty decent overclock. good luck with it.

[a.Bird]

Yeah I completely agree. After all the benchmarking with 3DMark I just sort of giggled and closed the thing down. Quite an unnecessary use of time on my part.

I absolutely love this card. I've had it for about 2 or 3 years since the time I bought it from my buddy for about $70. Only has VGA out but it's served its purpose very well. I also love using things until they are completely dry. I keep searching newegg to put together a wishlist of a nice budget computer always ending up questioning what is so wrong with the one I already have and I realize that there is really nothing wrong with it at all. I may still be moving files across disks at a mere 133 MB/s and playing modern games at medium or less quality but it all *works*. No reason to junk it quite yet.