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Nvidia Corp. Nividia GeForce4 Ti4200
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Reviews
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Date of last review
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11
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5167
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09-13-2004
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Average Rating
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82% of reviewers
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$98.75
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8.5
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Description:
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AGP graphics card. With stock XF86Config, Redhat 8.0, nvidia IA32 driver I get ~7300 frames/second in glxgears. Tuxracer at 1600x1200, 24M colors on 21" screen give ~330 fps, all eye candy options enable in tuxracer.
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Keywords:
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nvidia agp mad dog multimedia
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/sbin/lspci output:
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01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV25 [GeForce4 Ti4200] (rev a3)
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11-20-2003, 03:42 PM
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#1
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Registered: Feb 2003
Distribution: Suse 9.0 Professional
Posts: 843
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Would you recommend the product? yes | Price you paid?: $75.00 | Rating: 9
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Kernel (uname -r):
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2.4.18-14
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Distribution:
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Redhat 8.0. 100% stock kernel
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For some reason, after using Tuxracer, the screensaver will not kick in. Manually workaround by 'testing' screensave and it works again. Have not investigated why, probably an easy fix out there. Usually just turn off monitor when not at desk anyway. No other problems encountered. Absolutely awesome performance.
Will update when I attempt another distro. Did not try IA64 driver, just IA32. Installed without a hitch
RolledOat
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01-06-2004, 10:19 AM
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#2
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Registered: Mar 2003
Distribution: Slackware
Posts: 21
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Would you recommend the product? yes | Price you paid?: None indicated | Rating: 10
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Kernel (uname -r):
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2.4.22
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Distribution:
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Slackware 9.1
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This card works great, using DualHead most of the time but also TV-out. No problems at all playing UT2003 or Q3.
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02-10-2004, 03:36 PM
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#3
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Registered: Sep 2003
Distribution: Gentoo
Posts: 465
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Would you recommend the product? yes | Price you paid?: $180.00 | Rating: 8
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Kernel (uname -r):
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2.6.1-gentoo
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Gentoo
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The nv driver doesn't work at all, which makes graphical installations impossible beacuse they always try to use it. I also get some dark grey spots in games sometimes.
Apart from that, a good card (and now it works with nvidia's xvidix :))
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02-28-2004, 01:29 PM
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#4
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Registered: Feb 2003
Distribution: Suse 9.0 Professional
Posts: 843
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Would you recommend the product? | Price you paid?: None indicated | Rating: 0
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Kernel (uname -r):
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2.4.21-99-default
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Distribution:
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Suse 9.0 Professional
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Flawless operation in Suse 9.0 Professional. Detect and configured correctly with the 2D drivers included. Yast to get the nvidia driver, and about 100 seconds later, 3D driver installed.
RolledOat
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03-11-2004, 12:52 PM
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#5
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Registered: Mar 2004
Distribution: Ubuntu
Posts: 68
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Would you recommend the product? yes | Price you paid?: None indicated | Rating: 9
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Kernel (uname -r):
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2.4.22-10mdk
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Mandrake 9.2
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Works great, nice in UT2K4demo.
Installation is easy once you've done it before :)
one problem: TuxRacer. when i launch the monitor goes black and comes up with a message saying "Input not supported" i think its going into too high resolution or refresh rate
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04-22-2004, 02:44 PM
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#6
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Registered: Feb 2004
Distribution: gentoo ~x86
Posts: 265
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Would you recommend the product? yes | Price you paid?: None indicated | Rating: 9
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Kernel (uname -r):
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20.4.20-20.9
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RH9
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Works great in tuxracer, easy to install drivers and all, but ut2k4 doesn't work very fast... it's more like looking at a slideshow even ln the lowest possible preferences. I have a slow processor, but it works fine in winblows XP... Anyone have a cure? PM me.
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05-06-2004, 03:06 PM
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#7
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Registered: Oct 2003
Distribution: Mandrake 9.1, 9.2, 10.1, Cooker
Posts: 145
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Would you recommend the product? yes | Price you paid?: None indicated | Rating: 9
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Kernel (uname -r):
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2.6.5-1.tmb.5mdk
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Distribution:
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Mandrake 10.0 Offical
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Very easy to install the driver (5336) and good results from all graphic-intense applications.
Only problem is, the driver would not compile/install when running the 2.6.6-0 kernel.
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05-17-2004, 09:00 AM
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#8
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Registered: Aug 2003
Distribution: Arch Linux 0.7
Posts: 82
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Would you recommend the product? yes | Price you paid?: $60.00 | Rating: 10
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Kernel (uname -r):
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2.6.6
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Distribution:
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Arch Linux 0.6
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100% Compatible, works flawlessly in games like UT / UT2003 / UT2004 and America's Army, Wolfenstein ET and offcourse good old tuxracer. One thing I do not understand is the `lspci` output though:
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation: Unknown device 0281 (rev a1)
It _IS_ a NVIDIA Geforce 4Ti4200 w/ 64MB DDR. It's the A-open one, could it be that the modded something in the cards bios or something ? Apart from that, it works very good.
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07-29-2004, 08:16 AM
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#9
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Registered: Feb 2003
Distribution: Gentoo
Posts: 7
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Would you recommend the product? no | Price you paid?: None indicated | Rating: 2
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Kernel (uname -r):
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2.6.7
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Distribution:
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Slackware 9.1
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TERRIBLE waste of time with this card. Installation of the NVIDIA driver seemed flawless, yet upon "startx", the entire system goes into a freeze. I can't CTRL-ALT-Backspace my way out of X, and the monitor loses the signal with the video card. Tried almost everything, including alternate drivers, different X configurations. No one on IRC or on the forums (including nV News) could help me, and there are a lot of us that have this exact problem. Apparently, this card hasn't been compatible for over a year now; I'm sending it back and if my next NVIDIA card gives me the same problems, NVIDIA just lost my business.
EDIT: Forgot to mention: NVIDIA won't reply to any of my emails. Talk about support.
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07-31-2004, 07:03 PM
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#10
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Registered: Jul 2004
Distribution: SuSE 9.3
Posts: 8
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Would you recommend the product? yes | Price you paid?: None indicated | Rating: 9
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Kernel (uname -r):
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2.6.3-7mdk
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Distribution:
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Mandrake 10.0 Community
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After you get the driver installation and config right (which can involve quite a lot of tweaking your XF86Config file), this card blazes on any reasonably modern system.
I can run Unreal Tournament 2004 at 1600x1200 on an AMD AthlonXP 2100+ (1733 MHz) and 512MB DDR Ram system without any hitches whatsoever.
Only issue: the driver isn't exactly the most stable piece of software I've ever seen. It will occasionally put my machine into Helen Keller Mode (no input or output, but no crash) that is impossible to get out of, but this happens VERY infrequently, and each of nVidia's upgraded drivers does this a little less often.
About the previous poster: that's an accurate description of the problem, except that a properly-configured system shouldn't do that even nearly that often. Perhaps the driver doesn't like your kernel? (2.6.7 is pretty new... dunno.)
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09-13-2004, 07:48 AM
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#11
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Registered: Jun 2004
Distribution: Slack 10.2 Mepis 3.3
Posts: 138
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Would you recommend the product? yes | Price you paid?: $80.00 | Rating: 10
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Kernel (uname -r):
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2.6.3-7mdk
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Distribution:
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Mandrake 10
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Works great with 5336 drivers, have had a lot of stability issues with newer drivers. Excellent card, even got tv-out working after some tweaking :)
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