PNY Video cards

rickindy · Post #1by **rickindy** » 27.02.2003, 16:14

I've been looking around at video cards at newegg.com and have found a PNY card that seems to have everything I need (GeForce4, 64meg, ti4200).
It's reasonably priced ($127) and they have it in stock.
Does anybody have experience with these cards?

Redfish · Post #2by **Redfish** » 27.02.2003, 16:41

Brand doesn't matter anything, since every manufacturer simply uses the reference design from nvidia. So if it's cheapest, and you don't want to overclock you can buy it.

Don. Edwards · Post #3by **Don. Edwards** » 27.02.2003, 17:50

NOT TRUE!!!!!
Some manufactures use the NVidia specification but alot of them are putting there own coolers on the boards and some of them are just plain junk. MSI is a grand examle. I bought one there TI 4200 and its cooler was not very good at all. The PNY Ti4200 at least uses NVidia's reference cooler as does eVGA. So saying all the NVidia cards are the same is just plain wrong. If a card has a cheap cooler on it even if you don't overclock the thing you can still fry it out due to bad system air circulation nd other factors.
rickindy,
Your instinks are a go on this brand card as its the brand AlienWare uses in its computers. They are well built and the cooling system isn't going to be a problem. As a mater of fact that PNY Ti4200 has something my Ti4600 from PNY doesn't have. Its got heatsinks on the VRAM to help keep it cooler. Just another point in its advantage.