ti 4200 overclock?

[asphix20]

Hello,<BR><BR>My friend wants to upgrade his video card so I'm helping him out. He got a ti4200 which i recommended because i have heard that they are very easy to overclock to the speed of a ti4600. THe card he got was the OEM ti4200, not a second party manufactuerer board such as a visiontek or anything. Now he also ordered the thermaltake geforce 4 chipset cooler and we are going to be installing that on the card. Will this be enough to overclock the card to ti4600 specs? im also getting arctic silver 3 for him to put inbetween the heatsync and the GPU. Oh, btw its the 64 meg version of the ti4200.. the one with the slightly faster ram.<BR><BR>Thanks in advance to any comments/suggestions!<BR><BR>Asphix

[Iceman]

I think you are going a bit overboard with the cooling aspect of things. If you get a utility like 'PowerStrip' this will let you overclock the GPU and the RAM and I doubt it very much that you will need additional cooling to what you already have on the card.

[GNXtreme]

Just give us updates on how well it does.&nbsp; I am planning on ocing mine soon and want to know what to expect.

[GNXtreme]

Well I did it....I overclocked my 4200 to 300/540 with +.1v....I got a score of 9295 on 3DMark2001.&nbsp; I did go a little higher but it was unstable.&nbsp; I may try to do some more tweaking and go higher.&nbsp;

[Iceman]

Well done!

[EZDuzit]

Forgive my ignorance GNX, but did you increase the voltage to the vid card by .1v? If so, how does one do that? I have a Visiontech Ti 500 that I am going to try OC'ing since it's not worth to much anymore. I was going to put a better fan (ChromeOrb) on it and use NVMax to squezze a little more out of it, but I never new that it was possible to increase the AGP voltage.

[GNXtreme]

The voltage adjustment is an optioin on my mobo BIOS.&nbsp; I used powerstrip to overclock.

[EZDuzit]

So you have a bios option to increase the agp voltage. I never realized that option exisited. Live and learn!! <img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-smile.gif" border="0">

[GNXtreme]

I have thought about bumping it up a little more and trying to go faster....we'll see<BR>

[KinkyAfro]

The 128MB cards have the memory clocked slower by default, 444MHz as opposed to 513MHz of the 64MB. <BR>The 128s don't seem to overclock as far at the 64s either, the cores are the same so you can probably get a little more outta that. My Leadtek ti4200 64MB had clocked to 333/640 so far, with no artifacts.