Daytona, MSI, XFX, Innovision, Mentor, Sparkle.

Heretic · Post by **Heretic** » Wed Feb 19, 2003 11:22 am

heya....

no, that is not aload of Gobble, as the Subject of this post, they are All People, who make Ge-force 4's.

Now...

Have you guys Heard of these Makes?

Which one?

Regard, Ian.

rib? · Post by **rib?** » Wed Feb 19, 2003 11:48 am

PCGamer are giving away sparkle based boards, they have good quality memory on apparently, make of that what you will, MSI, yeh, on Scan.co.uk a lot, i was thinking about picking one up, also their motherboards look quite good, but i havent delved further than specs on that. i've heard of mentor as well, but canne remember where from.

Post by **mid_gen** » Wed Feb 19, 2003 1:44 pm

I got a sparkle Geforce 4 Ti4400 128Mb.

Card works great, overclocks to Ti4600 speeds without complaint, good card.

EXCEPT!

It isn't compatible with the Win2k/XP default nVidia driver. Which means that you can't install 2k/xp without first either a) burying an updated detonator driver in the install before running it, or b)installing Win98 then upgrading. (When I say 'isn't compatible', I mean you get a screen-full of colourful random lines as soon as windows setup tries to initialise the display)

I tried bios updates to fix it, but no luck. Maybe it's just a compatibility problem with my Epox 8KHA+ mobo, but it's still irritating. But then, it is just an annoyance, once you got windows installed no problems.

bartender · Post by **bartender** » Wed Feb 19, 2003 2:31 pm

I have had similar probelms with my MSI Ti4200 but I'm hoping a bios update solved the problem as I'm planning to reinstall XP tonight.

wish me luck.

Heretic · Post by **Heretic** » Wed Feb 19, 2003 2:48 pm

So, leave the MSI alone then? Ill be looking at Using Xp....and i dont wish to have the hassle...

Or i could just get them to bulid the system...hmmm *thinks*

Btw, Good Luck Mark.

still dont know then, which card to go for?!

ian.

rib? · Post by **rib?** » Wed Feb 19, 2003 5:14 pm

why dont you spend the money and go for a safe card ! like a gainward etc?

rib?

Chief · Post by **Chief** » Wed Feb 19, 2003 7:15 pm

Abit. Nuff said.

shrek · Post by **shrek** » Wed Feb 19, 2003 7:21 pm

I would go for a Gainward or a Leadtek card, although my gf4 ti4200 is made by PNY.

Post by **mid_gen** » Thu Feb 20, 2003 9:13 am

My Sparkle card was a *lot* cheaper than any of the more well known brands, and I knew it had good quality memory from hunting around on the net.

shrek · Post by **shrek** » Thu Feb 20, 2003 6:35 pm

Yeah sparkle are very good, my old gf3 was sparkle and it was quite a bit cheaper than anything else at the time and came with highest quality ram around and overclocked really well and was very stable when overclocked.

garlando · Post by **garlando** » Thu Feb 20, 2003 10:22 pm

I have a 128Mb MSI card (ti 4200) and it works works with much niceness.
I have had no probs with compatability so...

I recommend em