Chaintech GT20 GeForce4 Ti4200 128 DDR

     I bought this GeForce4 Ti4200 to replace my aging GeForce2 MX 400, and I would have to say that this card is a good replacement card.  It is amazingly fast (especially with 128MB DDR), has awesome anti-aliasing, and widely compatible.  Previously, I was playing Battlefield: 1942 on my computer with the GeForce2 MX 400, and I had experienced quite a bit of lag locally.  The lag was of the occasional chuggy sort, as if the hard drive was not keeping up with the game.  However, I thought this quite difficult because my HD was pretty fast, a WD 80GB special edition with an 8MB buffer.  Also, I did not think it was the processor, since it was a decent speed processor, an Athlon XP 1800+.  So with that, I knew there was only one thing longstanding in my computer:  the aging GeForce2 MX 400. 
     The games, such as Battlefield: 1942 performed exceptionally well when I replaced the GeForce4 into it.  Everything literally felt five times as fast, as the lag was absent.  In fact, at my monitor's max resolution for the game, there was no lag either.  Afterwards, I benchmarked my computer with 3DMark 2001 SE, and received a benchmark score of 8800*, average.  Every game seems to have a brand new atmosphere, as this card can handle anything that a game throws at it very well, such as Quad-Buffering, vertex shading, and environmental mapping.
     Now it is not to say this is the perfect video card, as there are many other alternatives, such as Radeons and another slightly faster GeForce4, the Ti4400 and the fastest GeForce4, the Ti4600.  However, the GeForce4 Ti4200 provides a great deal and value, being above the lower class MX line and providing the upper class graphics of the Ti line.  The GeForce4 is also pretty cheap (especially at Pricewatch.com).  There were Ti4200 64MB DDRs for $118.  The 128MB DDR version was only $137.95, $144.95 with tax.  At Fry's Electronics, a similar Ti4200 128MB DDR was $160+. 
     In conclusion, the Ti4200 is not the best card, because there are ones that are slightly faster available.  However, on a budget, or replacing an older graphics card, the GeForce Ti4200 is the best choice, because it provides upper-class performance at a great value.  -Tyrant

*-The benchmark score of 8800 was from my computer of the following specs:  Athlon XP 1800+, 512MB 2100 DDR RAM, and Western Digital Special Edition 7200RPM 80G HD w/ 8MB Buffer.
 

Specifications-

GPU: NVIDIA GeForce4 Ti4200
Interface:  AGP
AGP Speed: 4x AGP
Memory: 128MB DDR
TV-OUT: Standard (S-Video)
DVI:  Standard

- 444 MHz Memory Clock (128MB)
- 350MHz internal RAMDAC
- 113 Million Vertices/ sec
- 4.0 Billion Texels/ sec Fill Rate
- 1.03 Trillion Operations/ sec
- 8.1 GB/sec memory bandwidth (64MB)
- 7.1 GB/sec memory bandwidth (128MB)
- 4 dual-rendering pipelines
- 8 texels per clock cycle
- nView Display Technology
- Cube environment mapping
- Dual Programmable Vertex Shaders
- Advanced Programmable Pixel Shaders
- 32-bit color with 32-bit Z/ stencil buffer
- Multibuffering (double, triple, quad) for smooth animation and video playback
- Lightspeed Memory Architecture II technology
- Unified Driver Architecture (UDA)
- Accuview Antialiasing Engine
(from FTI Computer site)

• NVIDIA GeForce4 Ti4200 graphic card with 128MB DDR
• S-Video cable
• Manual
• Software: VGA driver, WinDVD, 3Deep (3D monitor calibration software)