oc'ing my Ti4200! :P

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? :neutral:

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Originally Posted by 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? :neutral:

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

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.

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. :D

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

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.