Albatron Ti4200 Turbo Video Card

[nigelgrant]

I am going after the Albatron Ti4200 Turbo, it has a very good write up at 3DGuru. Anyone have any experience with it? Good? Bad?
My second choice will be a LeadTek

Nigel
Vancouver

My System:

AMD Athlon XP 2100+ (30.82drv)
Gigabyte GA 7VRX mobo
VisionTek Xtasy GEForce 2Ti 64MB video card
512MB DDR RAM
IBM 40GB 7200rpm hard drive
Maxtor 20GB 7200rpm hard drive
SB128 sound card
CHProducts PCI yoke and pedals
Windows 98FE updated
Two case fans – one suck, one blow
3DMark2001 result - 5050

[jasonb482]

I have heard good things and bad things about the albatron. It has a good ratings as far as fps, and clocking. However, people have experienced quality issues with some of the Albatrons.

I have the Gainward 650XP, which is also a Ti4200 with 128mb. It has overclocking software, and rated #2 video card by Pcmagazine. And the card is about $20 more than the one you are thinking about. I havent heard many quality issues with the Gainward, and I am very happy with mine. These are my specs.
PIV 2.0
256 RAM
40 GB 7200rpm HD
Xp with SP1
40.72 Beta Drivers.
With this card I can still get 30fps at full res, with only 256 Ram. The downsize to this is that ground textures are sometimes blurry. However, 30fps is beyond what the eye can perceive and I am very happy with that.

Not to say that the Albatron is a bad card, it is in fact very good, but the Gainward is a good deal for a well rated card. Hope this helps.

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JASON

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Nigel:

Excellent results on my end with the Medusa:

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Case: Mod. Addtronics 7896A
PS: Enermax 431w
Mobo: Abit KT7A-Raid BIOS 4A
CPU: AMD T-Bird 1.4GHz@1600MHz (11X145)
HS/F: MC462A w/Sanyo-Denki, ASII
RAM: 512Mb Mushkin HP Rev2 PC133 Ram (2-2-2)
HD: 2xIBM 60GXP ATA-100 20Gb, Raid 0, IDE 3/4 Master
HD: 1xIBM 75GXP ATA-100 30Gb, IDE 4 Slave
CD: Kenwood 72X, IDE 1 Master
Zip: Internal 250, IDE 1 Slave
CD-RW: Plextor 12x10x32, IDE 2 Master
Sound: SB Live X Gamer, PCI 3
NIC: 3Com 10/100, PCI 6
Video: Albatron GF4 Ti 4200 Turbo 128Mb
Monitor: Sony CPD-G400 19"
Modem: Cable
OS: Windows XP Pro