Creative 3D Blaster GF4Ti4200 Review (2)
TimB 9 Dec 2002

Benchmarking

We conducted a number of tests on the setup with the following configuration :

Test System:

• AMD Athlon TBird 1.333Ghz
• ECS K7S5A DDR266 Async mode CAS 2, 2-2-6
• Corsair 256MB XMS3200 DDR400 module
• Kingston 256MB PC2100 DDR266 module
• Creative 3D Blaster GF4 Ti4200 64MB with Detonator 40.72 WHQL
• Western Digital 40GB Caviar ATA100 7200RPM
• Philips 32x4x4x CDRW
• VIP 550W PSU.

Madonion 3Dmark2001SE Build 330 and Overclocking

It was interesting to see that the default clocks were 250/515, a slight overclock; 15mhz higher than the usual 500mhz. With Hynix 3.6ns RAM on board it should be able to reach 277.8(555DDR)mhz with no problems. At first we increased the core and memory speeds to 300/300(600DDR) which is approximately 20% increase in clock speeds and can pretty much be expected with today's graphics cards. We used the coolbits registry edit to enable overclocking through the drivers and proceeded to 310/310(620DDR), at this point we started to get artefacts with memory clock speeds above 310(620DDR). As we pushed up the core speed I was surprised to see it continue up to 340/310(620DDR), however beyond this gave more artefacts. For some of the later tests, it appeared that the card was maxing out the CPU. Therefore, just for fun I upped the system FSB to 147(294DDR). This was to see what performance increase could be gained through better memory bandwidth - which 3DMark2001 loves and hence the higher score.

Looking at the results the performance is impressive, a 36% rise in core clock speeds and 20% increase in memory speed using the onboard cooling. At the standard FSB of 133(266DDR) this gave an impressive 6.1% increase in benchmarks. With the combined FSB and Card overclock this increased to 14.5%.

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