GeForce4 Ti 4200 Preview

Mike Chambers writes "Hi All, I've completed a preview of NVIDIA's GeForce4 Ti 4200 graphics chipset. Although the preview contains your typical benchmarks, it's centered around game play and antialiasing image quality. Here's a list of the games involved - Quake 3 & Team Arena, IL-2 Sturmovik, Nascar Racing 2002 Demo, Jedi Knight 2, Serious Sam 2, Max Payne Demo, Comanche 4 Demo, Dungeon Siege and Tiger Woods PGA Tour 2002 Demo. Since antialiasing image quality, especially Quincunx and 4XS, was an important aspect of the preview, all of the screen shots were saved in high quality PNG format. For those Slashdot readers that are avid gamers, you might want to check this out."

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I don't get it...

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The reviewer's setup:

"The following is a list of the hardware and software used in this preview.

AMD Athlon XP 1800+ @ 1.53GHz
NVIDIA Reference Motherboard (nForce Chipset)
256MB Corsair PC2400 DDR RAM
21-Inch Sony Multiscan E500 Monitor
NVIDIA Reference GeForce4 Ti 4600 (300MHz/650MHz) - 128MB
NVIDIA Reference GeForce4 Ti 4200 (250MHz/500MHz) - 64MB
NVIDIA Detonator XP Driver Version 28.32
32-Bit Color / Sound Disabled * / Vsync Disabled / 75Hz Refresh Rate
Windows XP Professional / DirectX 8.1"

Ok, you're reviewing a card with 128mb of video memory, yet your main system memory is only 256mb? On WinXP? Dude, just shell out the extra $$ for at least 512. Unless using 2 DIMM's somehow cuts your performance. Who's using 256? Compaq?