Advantages: one of the best from GeForce 4 series, great card for older PCs Disadvantages: cooling fan might break down
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QUICK TECHNICAL SPECS
GeForce4 Ti 4200
Year: Apr 2002
Bus Interface: AGP 4x / 8x
Memory Clock Max (MHz) 500/ 444
Memory 128
Memory Bus Type: DDR
Support DirectX 8.1 - OpenGL 1.4
Feature also: Shaders (v1.1 vertex, v1.3 pixel) +1 Vertex unit
On-board TV-Out
MY EXPERIENCE
I've owned this video card for many years and I have to say it can still play loads of modern games. The series 4 titanium was widely recognizes as one of the most successiful amid the Nvidia GeForce series and this card perfectly reflects it.
The large box in which it comes contains video cables, VGA/DVI converter plug for the newest monitors, installation CD with drivers and some programs and utilities that honestly I've never even ...
Advantages: Relatively cheap, on board sound, on board VGA, reliable and fast Disadvantages: Not many over-clocking option, no firewire
Features & Specifications of Abit VA-10:
Supports AMD Athlon XP / Sempron Socket-A processors (333/266MHz Front Side Bus).
VIA VT8378 (KM400) / VT8235 Chipset which supports Hi-Speed Universal Serial Bus (USB 2.0). Besides, provides on board built in S3 UniChrome 2D/3D Graphics with motion compensation, or ext. Accelerated Graphics Port connector supports AGP 8X /4X (0.8V /1.5V).
Two 184-pin DIMM sockets (Un-buffered Non-ECC DIMM). Supports 2 DIMM DDR 333/266/200 (Max. 2GB).
Integrated UniChrome Graphics. Accelerated Graphics Port connector supports AGP 8X/4X (0.8V/1.5V).
On board VIA VT1616 6-Channel AC 97 CODEC. Professional digital audio interface supports Optical S/PDIF Out.
System BIOS Supports Plug-and-Play (PNP).
Supports Advanced Configuration Power Interface (ACPI).
Supports Desktop Management ...
Advantages: Fairly cheap, Good for older games Disadvantages: Not very good for todays games or even some of yesterdays
and the ti 600) were not only matching its speed and quality, but bettering it by far, in fact on almost every benchmark the fx5600 scores below the ti 4200 even on games that started to become direct x9 related.
Now for a background check.
Nvidias FX series was hailed as their biggest mistake of all time, whereas the ti 4200 and 4600 dominated their era the FX series floundered with prublems, bugs, and general poor performance.
The main problem with the xfx 5600 is that its so slow. The clock core speed and the memory clock speed was lower than that of the earlier models. The xfx 5600 is clocked at the following speeds.
CLOCK CORE RATE-235
MEMORY CLOCK-340
If this means nothing to you, then I will compare it to the earlier ti 4200 whos clock core is 250 and memory clock 350-380, basicly the higher the speed the better ...
The NVIDIA GeForce FX 5600 GPU takes your graphics experiences to a new level. GeForce FX 5600 delivers not only unprecedented 3D graphics performance, its revolutionary new NVIDIA CinelFX engine introduces cinematic-quality special effects and studio-quality color to the PC. When combined with NVIDIA's rock-solid drivers, wide developer support and unique software features, you have a GPU that has redefined the limits of graphics engineering, performance, and visual quality.
