Alright screw it

Anybody out there whose got a G4 Ti4600 and an AMD XP board? Lemme know what board it is plz... I'm chuckin mine... I finally got the damn vid card to IRQ 11 and it still freezes. I need to know of a good *tested* board that this will work in. Thanks guys

~ bump

Here's the original thread for reference.

here.

You still haven't said whether or not you updated your BIOS. Since the GF4 is fairly new, it's very possible you need the latest BIOS to work right with it.

Some PCI slots share IRQ's regardless of how Windows assigns them. Check your motherboard manual for IRQ assignments for each of your PCI slots and see which ones share. Just to rule out the possibility, you might try removing all of them except your video card just to see if you can run stable.

If you decide to go with a new motherboard, try something with the VIA KT266a or 333 chipset. Abit, Asus, and Epox are all good brands. Avoid the KT266a Epox board though. Some GF4 cards won't fit right due to an oversized capacitor near the AGP slot.

Here is a review of the GF4 Ti4600 that used an AMD for its benchmark tests, however I believe it used a duel cpu. here is a link:

http://www.dutchgeforce.nl/reviews.p...English&page=1

I will cut and paste the system specs here:

Processor: 2 x AMD Athlon MP 1800+
Motherbord: MSI K7D Master
Memory: 256Mb DDR Mushkin CAS2
Videocard: MSI Starforce GeForce 4 Ti 4600
Detonator: NVIDIA Detonator 23.11
Operating System: Windows XP

I was surprised that they used the 23.11 drivers seeing that the 27.32, 27.42 and 28.32 drivers have already been released.

This isnt exactly on this topic, but have any sites done a comparison of all the brands of the same type of GF4 cards, like say the GF4 Ti 4400 cards?

If not, I hope tomshardware or another big site does it soon, I will be anxious to see how my PNY brand card does

I have updated my BIOS, no good. I don't have any PCI cards in. VisonTek says get in touch with the board manufacturer. The board manufacturer says they don't offer end user support. The vendor says it isn't their problem. Time for a new board. I'm considering the Epox 8kha+, any comments on that one?

I have a Shuttle Ak31a board that I used for about 3 months before going to my msi with raid... let me know if your interested... i need to clear some closet space.

tomshardware has an article comparing the features of

ASUS AGP-V8460 Ultra/TD/128M
Creative 3D Blaster 4 Titanium 4600
Leadtek WinFast A250 Ultra TD of the GF4s Ti4600

with benchmarks.

http://www6.tomshardware.com/graphic...304/index.html

Originally posted by SKYHN
This isnt exactly on this topic, but have any sites done a comparison of all the brands of the same type of GF4 cards, like say the GF4 Ti 4400 cards?

If not, I hope tomshardware or another big site does it soon, I will be anxious to see how my PNY brand card does

Check this out http://www.gamepc.com/reviews/hardwa...1&mscssid=&tp=

Originally posted by JJ55x
I have updated my BIOS, no good. I don't have any PCI cards in. VisonTek says get in touch with the board manufacturer. The board manufacturer says they don't offer end user support. The vendor says it isn't their problem. Time for a new board. I'm considering the Epox 8kha+, any comments on that one?

Well, that's been a very popular board due to its stability and overclockability. There is one issue with it where one brand of GF4 cards won't fit in them though because of an oversized capacitor that gets in the way.

Other than that, i'm a big fan of Epox. I use the 8K7A and it's been the best motherboard I've ever dealt with.

check gamepc.com

http://www.gamepc.com/includes/layout/frontcontent.asp

the article: 3/28 - nVidia GeForce4 Ti 7-Way Shootout

it compares 6 GF4 Ti4600 boards and one GF4 Ti 4400 board

14 pages and a good read