XFX 64MB GeForce4 Ti4200 Review

Feeling a little adventurous I started off by pushing the core up from 250 MHz to 300 MHz, as was pleased to see it run perfectly through the strenuous Code Creatures Benchmark Demo. From there, I went up in 5 MHz increments up to 310 MHz with full stability, 10 MHz faster than a stock GeForce4 Ti4600. At 315 MHz I would get small flickering dots and other random artifacts while running the demo test. I tried removing the stock thermal paste in favor of some Arctic Silver 3 but still got artifacts while benchmarking. To test the RAM I reduced the core back to stock speed and started off by increasing the memory speed to 550 MHz. Piece of cake. My next step was 575 MHz, which also ran without a hitch. In the end, I was able to push the RAM to a very impressive 600 MHz, which is excellent considering that there is no passive cooling on the memory chips.