PNY Verto GeForce4 Ti 4400 from Best Buy...WTF ???

[Hookem]

After ordering a ATI Radeon 8500LE from Xtreme Gear and getting a Sapphire “powered” by ATI 8500LE, which they will be getting back. I went to Best Buy and bought a PNY Verto GeForce Ti 4400 for 209.99 dollars with a 30.00 dollar mail in rebate making the card 179.99 or let us just say 180.00. Anyway when I opened the box and pulled out the card, on the anti static bag it has a sticker that says congradulations you have been automatically upgraded to a GF4 Ti4600. On the back of the card it has PNY Assy. NO GF4TI4600AGP, below that MS-88720211153708 and below that VCGF4T146PB…the memory modules have Samsung 244 K4D26323RA-GL28 on the front side of the card it has 8872 VER:200…Really do not what to think of this…other than what I have listed below, that is about all I can find on their website, not 4X or 8X AGP…nothing…It is not the “Unique maroon-colored card” as they list on the website…But it does not say that on the box…I just do not want so crummy rebagged old piece of junk…I really do not know much about anything but ATI video cards. This is going in a box with the ASUS A7N8X Deluxe, and I was buying the 8500LE till I could research what the best card would be for me and then sell it to someone What do you guy’s think, return it ASAP or keep it? It falls into my budget with the rebate, but had kind of decided on the ATI 9500 128meg card...

Ti 4600 Features & Benefits
• 128MB DDR memory
• 10.4 GB/sec. memory bandwidth
• Unique maroon-colored card
• Lightspeed Memory Architecture™ (LMA) II
• NVIDIA nfiniteFX™II
• Enhanced Vertex and Pixel shaders
• NVIDIA nView Display Technology
• Accuview™ Antialiasing
• Dual Vertex Shaders
• Advanced Pixel Shaders
• 3D Textures
• Shadow Buffers
• Z-Correct Bump Mapping
• Lossless Z Compression
• Unified Driver Architecture (UDA)
• High-Definition Video Processor (HDVP)
• TV-Out and Video Modules
• Microsoft® DirectX®, 8.X and OpenGL Optimizations and Support

Ti 4400 Features & Benefits
• 128MB DDR memory
• 8.8GB/sec. memory bandwidth
• Unique maroon-colored card
• Lightspeed Memory Architecture™ (LMA) II
• NVIDIA nfiniteFX™ II engine
• Enhanced Vertex and Pixel shaders, with new Z-Correct Bump Mapping technology
• NVIDIA nView Display Technology
• Accuview™ Antialiasing
• Dual Vertex Shaders
• Advanced Pixel Shaders
• 3D textures
• Shadow buffers
• Z-Correct Bump Mapping
• Lossless Z Compression
• Unified Driver Architecture (UDA)
• High-Definition Video Processor (HDVP)
• TV-Out and Video Modules
• Microsoft® DirectX®, 8.X and OpenGL Optimizations

 

[mattspalace]

Keep it and be happy. The Ti4600 is a great card, and is only overtaken in performance by the 9700/9700 Pro. PNY makes very good video cards, and they overclock well.

 

[kianss]

the 9500 Pro beats the 4600 in almost all benchs with AA , and Fa on. The TI falls hard when these are boosted high compaired to the 9500.

4600 is a great card , but the 9500 easaly can take it for the money.

 

[kianss]

but hey keep it , it will be nice to get a upgrade free from what you got. Esp for free lol

 

[Luciferase]

I've read about this before. I do believe you have the real deal, so I'd just try it out and revel in the free upgrade

 

[trenchypost]

One of those really rare sunshine stories from the utterly dark world of online purchases...