Review: Gainward GF4 Ultra/650 XP Golden Sample

Moving on to the specification of the Gainward GeForce 4 PowerPack Ultra / 650 TV. Here is a complete run down of what this card offers us.

NVIDIA GeForce4 Ti 256-bit 3D GPU
64 MB high-speed DDR RAM memory
AGP 2x/4x with Fast Writes and AGP Texturing Support
NVIDIA nFiniteFX II Engine
Dual Programmable Vertex Shaders
Advanced programmable Pixel Sahders
4 dual rendering pipelines, 8 texels per clock cycle
NVIDIA Lightspeed memory Architecture (LMA) II
NVIDIA Accuview Antialiasing
NVIDIA nView
High-quality HDTV and DVD playback
Support TV-Out
DVI-I Supports LCD Monitors
DVI-I to VGA Adapter Supports dual CRT displays

Gainward state on the box the following:

"Gainwards "Golden Sample" products guarantee outstanding stability and performance even at significantly enhanced clock settings by using had selected 3D graphics processor and carefully qualified memory chips."

The translation for this is that Gainward hand pick good core and memory chips allowing for good overclocking. At the end of the review I will see how far the Ti4200 can go. It will be interesting to see if this small compact card can go as fast as any of its bigger brothers.

The pic shows us that by appearance this is your normal Ti4200 core from nVIDIA.

The ram Gainward used on the particular card they sent me is made by a manufacturer that has been used in many previous graphics cards from even the older 3DFX Banshee chipset. This particular stuff as you can see is rated at 3.5ns DDR. When I get to the overclocking we will see how will this stands up.

Like its bigger brothers the Ti4200 includes the dual CRT and DVI out as well as the S-Video out that can go to compatible TVs.