MSI ti4200 cooling

[Nolo31]

Well, I just ordered myself a new ti4200 from MSI. The stock cooling looks pretty decent actually, see it here

Should I leave the stock cooling on, or replace it with a crystal orb from thermaltake? see it here

 

[12am]

I would leave the stock cooler on, I find my stock MSI cooler for my ti4200 does an adequate job, allowing my core to reach 300mhz with great stability.

 

[Nolo31]

with 300 core, how high can you get your mem clock?

 

[Cube]

with 300 core, how high can you get your mem clock?

Read his signature

 

[Puer Aeternus]

That card O/C's well(see my sig too). I left on the stock cooler but added ramsinks and cut a hole in my side panel and put a 80mm smart fan to keep my vid card extra cool.
One day i will post pics.

 

[Nolo31]

That should of been the first thing I looked for, thanks a ton. My new card should be here on Tuesday or so. I have an 80mm fan about 1.5cm below my vid card on the side panel at the moment. I'll let you know how OC's go. By the way, I've only overclocked a gainward card before, so I used expertool. With an MSI card, what OC'ing program should I use?

 

[Puer Aeternus]

Use coolbits...

coolbits info and link
The MSI O/C'ing utility is ok..but coolbits is better! It is just a registry hack.

 

[911medic]

With an MSI card, what OC'ing program should I use?

Coolbits or Rivatuner.

 

[Nolo31]

Thanks a ton for the link

 

[Nolo31]

coolbits is nice

 

[asw7576]

Nolo... I think MSI VGA card is very good quality, and the card should get 300/600 easy. My previous MSI GF3 Ti200 is running 240/540 with voltage mod on SC1175 IC.

If you are not sure about the cooling system, you can always open it and put plenty of thermal paste and re-attach the HSF again. ( Why I said plenty of thermal paste? because the surface of GF4 GPU is more concave than Pentium 4 ).

My current GF4 Ti4200 is running 300/600 at default voltage. The cooling system is identical to your MSI Ti4200.

 

[Nolo31]

Got my card yesterday. At 300/600 It runs well. I get very little artifacts, but I do notice some. Maybe a BIOS update will help that out. I'll let you know more later, but so far I'm impressed with it.

 

[Puer Aeternus]

I updated my Bios and found fewer artifacts at 300/600.
I would like to try a higher o/c to see how that works but for now I am content w/ my speed/stability and performance.

 

[Nolo31]

Got everything except my Ram today, still using kingston pc2100 ram.

Anyway, coolbits is acting up on me, it is showing me no #'s when i go into properties > settings > advanced > clock frequencies. When i tried raising the numbers, it preformed horribly. Anyone have any suggestions?

 

[Cube]

Got everything except my Ram today, still using kingston pc2100 ram.

Anyway, coolbits is acting up on me, it is showing me no #'s when i go into properties > settings > advanced > clock frequencies. When i tried raising the numbers, it preformed horribly. Anyone have any suggestions?

Try RivaTuner.