i was reading through the geforce 4 ti4200 128mb 8x turbo review and what i found from the manafacturer XFX suprised me....

they have taken the ti4200 gpu slapped it on an 8 layer pcb board (ti4600) overlclocked the memory to 620mhz with room for more overclocking thanks to the biggest heatsink and fan i have seen on a graphics card in a long time. ah hell they even stuck a heatsink on the bottom aswell.

i have seen benchmark results for this particualr card right up to 13000

as i was saying about the overclocking capabilities it comes as 620 mhz clocked and can be clocked up to 675mhz safely with stock cooling (725 with a far more efficient cooler) and god knows what with a water coolig system.....also the core clock can be clocked from 250 to 290

anyone looking to buy a ti4400 or even a ti4600 or an fx5200 or fx5600 should consider this card. its beast im considering taking my fx5600 back and getting this card.

The GeForce4 TI 4200 is almost identical to the TI 4600. All they did was lower the clock speeds. Put decent cooling on it, and voila, you have a TI 4800.

Beware of the FX 5200. It is actually quite different than the FX 5600. The FX 5600 uses a smaller die, whereas the 5200 uses a larger one. I have also seen a number of 5200s with very cheap RAM, 4ns crap that can't do anything well. I have a very decent FX 5200 with insane RAM on it. It does 506 mhz with RAM sinks (passive). I might volt mod it later and see how much higher I can get it.

As for the TI 4200, go for it. As long as you don't get any artifacts, you should be perfectly fine.

Using Liquid Nitrogen, it would be possible to get the clock to an insane number, probably around 800 mhz. I have seen Barton 2500+ on LN that have been overclocked to 4.7 ghz (stock is 1.86 ghz). LN is insane stuff.

Hmm, I smell the burning plastic from here!!!!   

A fine point, overclocking is a very good way of gaining increased performance..... Its an even better way of frying that damn expensive GPU chip so be very careful!!!

However, my Asus FX5600 has overclocking allowed via its smart monitoring, so,if the mood takes me, I can still better a ti4200, but, with the added benefit of anti-alaising and plenty of anisotropic filtering and not forgetting its direct X 9 support.

Suddenly, the ti4200 starts to show its age when you want to use anti-alaising & anisotropic filtering (which I do!) I'd certainly not reccomend a ti4200 or 4600 if high display quality i.e. using anti alaising etc is your thing.

FPS (First person shooter) fans beware, Doom3 won't look too great on a non direct X 9 card......

One final point of warning, you will only get good benchmark scores with a well balanced system, i.e. a Geforce ti4600 will hit 15000 3D marks with a 3.2ghz 800fsb p4 with RAMBus etc etc etc however, try the same card in a pIII 550 and I'd be surprised if you got much more than 5000...