von Lucke Posted February 1, 2003 Share Posted February 1, 2003 Having burned out (not overclocked either!) my second GeForce card in 3 months (both manufactured by Leadtek, by the way, so take that as a warning), I've been searching around for a new 3D accelerator. But the only cards on the market right now seem to be crappy MX jobs or Ti4200's. Ti4400's are rare as SturmTigers right now (and priced to match), and Ti4600's are next to non-existant. What's going on? Manufacturers not resupplying retailers in anticipation of the new nVidia chip poised to come out? Or just afraid of Radeon? Whatever it is, I'm getting eye-strain at 640x480 and 16 colors. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jiggles Posted February 1, 2003 Share Posted February 1, 2003 I thought the 4400's were discontinued many many months ago? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
easytarget Posted February 2, 2003 Share Posted February 2, 2003 you can still find 4400's - although i'm not sure you'll like the price i did a quick search at newegg.com and found a gainward gold sample 4400 for 195 i just picked up a ti200 gold sample gainward card at newegg for 100 bucks and it works just fine so if this is for CM you certainly don't need to get a 4400 unless you're dead set on it the nice thing about gold sample gainward cards is that they take the best yield chips for the board and put on some heavy duty fans and vid memory heat sinks because they come from the mfg overlocked - with the software that comes with the card you can then take them back down to default speed settings and basically have a very conservative set up that won't burn up go to newegg and do a search under vid card mfg and you'll see the listing for the gainward cards and what they are offering imho the ti200 is more than enough card and relatively cheap that way down the road you can pick up the next gen nvidia card once the prices have come down at least that's what i plan on doing 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
offtaskagain Posted February 2, 2003 Share Posted February 2, 2003 The 4200 is still a really good card. Gainward 4200s overclock to near 4600 levels very easily. Stay away from any of the MX series. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jack Carr Posted February 3, 2003 Share Posted February 3, 2003 I just purchased a EVGA TI4600 at Googlegear.com. They seemd to have plenty of TI4200 cards from various manufacturers. Give em a look. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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