|  NVIDIA's GeForce4 Ti 4200 is what you'll see a lot of people recommending. A combination of solid drivers and an impressive hardware spec gives the GeForce4 Ti 4200 solid, predictable performance in a wide variety of games, and the price tag won't be too hard on your wallet. Prices should be heading south in the near future as NVIDIA and its partners feel additional heat from ATI's fearsome lineup of upcoming graphics cards.
Don't think that choosing the GeForce4 Ti 4200 means that you've completed your purchasing decision, though. The card comes in 64MB and 128MB flavors, and there are advantages and disadvantages to each. Furthermore, there are a number of different manufacturers building cards, so there's another choice you have to make. Not all GeForce4 Ti 4200s are created equal, and today we've rounded up eight of them to find which ones perform the best, overclock the highest, and offer the best overall value for your budget gaming dollar. Along the way we'll also take a look at the performance advantages of 64MB and 128MB cards in general. There's a lot to cover, so let's get started. The Albatron GeForce4 Ti 4200P Turbo is built on a blue colored PCB and the most striking feature of the card is it's overly large copper heatsink that sits on the GPU. The card is as large as any GF4 Ti 4600. Albatron has also included silver memory sinks for more stability. However from what I know, these memory heatsinks are used just to attract consumers as in reality they don't heat up to points that require cooling. Nevertheless Albatron has achieved one thing from all of this; the card is one of the nicest looking ones you could get your hands on. It has a very professional look to it, and you cannot differentiate it from any other Ti 4600 card. Features - Performing up to Ti 4600 specifications but remaining at Ti 4200 prices, providing the end user with the best performance
- Used an 8-layer PCB that is also used in the Ti 4600 chipset, which helps to improve voltage stability
- 3.3ns BGA DDR RAM is used to allow VRAM clock cycles to exceed 550MHz.
- 128 MB DDR Memory
- nVIDIA GeForce4 Ti4200 GPU
- Accuview Antialiasing
- Lightspeed Memory ArchitectureT II
- nVIDIA nifinteFX II Engine enable a virtually infinite number of special effects that deliver the next leap in realism to 3D graphics
- Dual programmable Vertex Shaders
- Advanced programmable Pixel Shaders
- 3D Textures
- Shadow Buffers
- 4 dual-rendering pipelines
- 8 texels per clock cycle
- Dual cube environment mapping
- High-Definition Video Processor (HDVP)
- AGP 4X/2X Support
- High-quality HDTV/DVD playback
- 32-bit color with 32-bit Z/stencil buffer
- Z-correct true, reflective bump mapping
- High performance 2D rendering engine
- Hardware accelerated real-time shadows
- True color hardware cursor
- Integrated hardware transform engine and lighting engine
- Nvidia Unified Driver Architecture (UDA)
- MicrosoftR DirectXR 8.X and OpenGLR 1.3 Optimizations and Support
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