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Aopen GF4 Ti4200 Review

Videocards/VGA Reviews by Einstein @ 2002-06-18

Aopen latest Geforce 4 reviewed by our very own Shrimper: Einstein. A nice performance and feature overview of this powerbeast!

Testing / Benching

Testing / Benching:

Ok, let"s torture this card!
The testbed :
- ABIT KR7A-RAID / VIA KT266A
- AMD Athlon XP 1700+
- Apacer DDRAM 256 MB PC2100
- 2x40GB maxtor D740X RAID
- DirectX 8.1 / VIA 4in1 437v(a)

As the reviewer is a lazy bastard, he decided to do only one benchmark... guess!
Madshrimps (c)

3D Mark 2001 SE
250 / 500 \| 1024x768 \| NoAA	8882
285 / 540 \| 1024x768 \| NoAA	9361
250 / 500 \| 1024x768 \| 2xAA	5300
285 / 540 \| 1024x768 \| 2xAA	5753
250 / 500 \| 1280x960 \| NoAA	7484
285 / 540 \| 1280x960 \| NoAA	7966
250 / 500 \| 1280x960 \| 2xAA	3671
285 / 540 \| 1280x960 \| 2xAA	4075
250 / 500 \| 1600x1200 \| NoAA	5859
285 / 540 \| 1600x1200 \| NoAA	6326
285 / 540 \| 1600x1200 \| 2xAA	2223
250 / 500 \| 1600x1200 \| 2xAA	2488

A few notes: I chose for 3Dmark because it"s widely spread, so most of you should be able to draw your own conclusions out of the graph. Less work for me, he he.
I didn"t just take all possible settings, but just the most used. I chose to use Aniso with the AA, because the two belong together, in my very humble opinion. It gives more "useable" results because many people that use anti-aliasing don"t only want a smooth image, they want it clear too. And right they are! For the phreaks, a small comparison:

Game 1 Car Chase - High Detail
1024*768 \| 2x AA	48.1 FPS
1024*768 \| 2x AA + 8 tap Aniso	41.9 FPS

And then another small one : here you can clearly see CPU power has a much higher impact as a vidcard overclock.

3DMark 2001 SE
250 / 500 \| 1024x768 \| NoAA	8882
250 / 500 \| 1024x768 \| NoAA \| 11*150MHZ	9618
285 / 540 \| 1024x768 \| NoAA \| 11*150MHZ	10129

And a last one, as you can see, opening a few browser windows, playing mp3 with winamp, etc don"t really matter that much if you have a card like this. A measly 400 points, heh. Hooray for TI!

3DMark 2001 SE
250 / 500 \| 1024x768 \| NoAA	8882
250 / 500 \| 1024x768 \| NoAA [+ side programs]	8472

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