Nyghtfall Posted March 28, 2002 Share Posted March 28, 2002 I woke up this morning to find an email from Micro-Pro informing me that, for reasons beyond logical comprehension, my order a VisionTek GeForce 4 Ti4600 was canceled because my card didn't go through. Strange, considering there's $529 in my personal bank account. I can only surmise that I entered the account number incorrectly when I placed my order on 3/18. In any event, I immediately concluded there wasn't a chance in hell of getting that card before Jedi Outcast arrives this week, so I enlisted the help of a friend of mine who drove me down to Best Buy to pick one up there. Notta. Sold out (damn popular cards!). He volunteered, then, to drive down to Comp-USA while I'm at work and try and pick one up there. I phoned home at around 3:00 this afternoon to check on the status. My wife, being the loving woman she is, who puts up with so much of my child-like **** (impatience being foremost among that list - amazingly enough, she loves me anyway - grin), answered the phone. Her woman's intuition kicked in and she instantly greeted me with, "It's installed, there's a picture on the screen, but you'll get to customize it all you want when you get home." hehehehe This has, indeed, been the second longest week of my life - the first being the week of our wedding (If we had to do it all over again, we would elope in a heartbeat). I'd like to share (:: caugh :: brag :: caugh :, then, the specs on this little monster: Specifications • Controller: NVIDIA GeForce4 Ti 4600 • Bus Type AGP • Memory 128MB DDR • Core Clock 300MHz • Memory Clock 650MHz DDR memory • Dual RAMDACs 350MHz (each) • API Support Direct-X®, Open GL ICD® for Windows • Connectors VGA, DVI, TV In/Out • 1.23 trillion operations/sec. • 136 Million vertices/sec setup • 10.4GB/second memory bandwidth Features at a Glance • AGP 4x compatible with fast writes • 256-bit 3D and 2D graphics accelerator • NVIDIA nView™ display technologies • Lightspeed Memory Architecture™ II • Accuview Antialiasing™ • High Definition Video Processing Engine • TV In/Out connectors • DVI connector And, finally, the marketing hype as written on VisiionTek's product site: --- FEEL FREE TO IGNORE --- Live to ride...the top of the line Xtasy graphics accelerator from VisionTek Featuring Nvidia’s GeForce4 Ti 4600™ GPU is an explosive freeride of effects and speed. This is the big burly of the gaming world. With more than 63 million transistors, 128MB of RAM, mind-blowing 650MHz DDR memory speeds and the fastest ever GeForce GPU pumping 300MHz of graphics, you better be prepared to ride like a professional. SLIDE ON! Nvidia nfiniteFX™ II Engine Two words: Hardcore Effects. Dual programmable Vertex Shaders, faster Pixel Shaders and 3D textures give developers the freedom to program a virtually infinite number of custom special effects never seen before and gives you the power to play true-to-life characters in hyper-realistic environments. At twice the performance of GeForce3,™ Xtasy Ti 4600 delivers the most realistic game play available. Lightspeed Memory Architecture™ II Get ready to slam your deck at uncharted speeds. With 128-bit DDR Lightspeed Memory Architecture II provides nearly double the memory bandwidth of GeForce3. Ouch! Now that’s what we call bowel-loosening frame-rates. Accuview Antialiasing Engine Jaggies gone forever! This is balls to the walls high-resolution, high-performance visual quality at ferocious frame rates. Take a deep breath and grab some air, it doesn’t get any clearer than this. TV In and Out Jack Put up or shut up. Test your excellent gaming skills on your big screen TV so the whole world can see you shine. TV In/Out connector allow you to play on any size TV in your house with an s-video connector. Then record your victories on a VCR and port them back onto your computer to edit and send out to the masses. Now you can always prove you are the king of gaming. --- END OF HYPE --- Ah.... life is good.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wacky_Baccy Posted March 28, 2002 Share Posted March 28, 2002 LOL, looks like we're opposites - I got the game at 10am this morning (~14 hours ago), but I'm still waiting for the rest of my new PC to arrive so I can build it - and a GF4 Ti4600 is a key missing feature I've been playing it on an 800MHz T-Bird, 128MB PC133, and a TNT2 (32MB) - it runs okay at 1024*768 (most things set to high) but not nearly as well as Elite Force did at the same settings... thank God I'm upgrading soon Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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