MSI Ti4200 is a good Oc'er

[GravY]

Been messing with my new card, I added ramsinks and left the cooling stock, looks like they have a nice HSF on there already..
I have gone from stock speeds of 250/513 to 320/612 still climbing on the core speed, get alittle artifacting on ram over 612..

I am very impressed with this cards capabilities..
anyone else have a MSI Ti4200 and how does your card fair in the overclocking dept..?

http://www.msi.com.tw/images/product_img/vga_img/8870VTD.jpg

[12am]

well first you must have the 64mb version which is why your getting those nice memory speeds, however I have a 128mb ver which uses the 4n samsung ram, and the max I've gotten on mine is 335/557 it was very stable and I havn't added ramsinks yet so well see, but I feel it's fast enough at 300/513 so I just leave it there. That way in a couple more months when games are a little slower I can just bump her up and get better performance.

[T20]

300/500

didnt even try pushing it further yet (I got no ram heatsinks).

[FTC]

Hi,

As my sig. reads, 315/614 very stable.

Regards
FTC

[T20]

FTC you got the 64 or 128 version?


128 here.

[12am]

I'm betting my money on the 64mb version, very very few 128mb boards can hit 600 let alone 614.

[GravY]

yep I would say its a 64mb card, mine will hit 614 and stable now.. I didn't have the refresh rate fixed and I was seeing what I thought to be some blips in the dragon portion.. but after the refresh fix.. no more.. going to go higher tonight.. :D

Need to get my CPU up there some more.. I am getting to the tap out point I think..

[Penguin4x4]

557 is great for 4ns RAM, 12am. Usually the ceiling for Graphics Card RAM is 10% above the rated speed.

[12am]

yea I was quite pleased with it, everythings still stock, I wanna add ramsinks later to see if I can gain some more on the ram, I get snow at 560 without the ramsinks.

[Maxvla]

very nice o/c guys. my msi is great. i must say... when i bought it i had reservations about MSI but not anymore :D

[12am]

maxvla I know what you mean about reservations, I had to choose between asus and msi, and the guy at my local hardware dealer reccomended the msi to me because I wanted to overclock, damn glad he did!

[Dark Disciple]

I have the 64 meg 4200 stock (no ram sinks) and I can get 295/590 w/o any artifacts or slow downs. About 43 fps in game 4 w/ best image quality settings on mipmaps. Not bad for a stock card (only stock cause I havent had a chance to get some ram sinks :-)

[12am]

I'm thinking that you could push the core a little more most msi owners are able to get thier cores to at least 300mhz.

[ed8150]

how does the gainward 4200 128 compare to this? the 64mb w/3.3ns?

[12am]

the gainward card in my opinion is overhyped, from reviews that I've read the msi can reach higher core speeds, as for the memory a 128mb model you should be able to attain at least 520mhz and a 64mb model should net at least 585mhz, msi also has a great bundle wheras the gainward has none, also I think the gainward card looks like crap.