GeForce4 Ti4600 vs 4800 cont.

[myusername1]

Im back! Okay I finally got my GeForce4 Ti4600 card today, and when I installed it I was upset at the fact that Windows XP was detecting it as a GeForce4 Ti4800. After some research I come to find out that the Ti4800 is not even a card sold in the Americas, but instead is a Eurpean phrase that describes a Ti4600 card at 8X. WOW. That would explain the reason why Pricewatch have the Ti4800 priced below the 4600 at equal prices of the 4200. I believe Pricewatch is selling the Ti4800SE cards that are actually 8X Ti4400s, confusing right. There are two types of Ti4600 the 4X original and the Ti4600-8X model that is equivilant to the European GeForce4 named the Ti4800. I installed the Coolbits registry and was assured from the core/memory clock speed that my card is indeed a Ti4600-8X. So there you have it, I discovered that my Ti4600 was actually a Ti4600-8X, that's why my PC calls it a Ti4800 (European name). Here is the link to the site that clarifys the whole Ti4600/4800 name confusion. Neo Seeker - GF4 Ti4600 8X Review

[Jeordiewhite]

The SE's are the stripped down cards, you will lose a lot of the extra features, so it would be smarter to go with the non SE cards.
MSI was selling an MSI geforce 4 ti 4600, and the Geforce 4 Ti 4800 here, however I purchased mine when it was 4x, then later on they released the 8x card which didn't out perform the older 4x cards, however they are both still nice cards even by todays standards.
It still powers my system.

[myusername1]

Im not even looking at the Ti4800 SE direction, that's for computer novices. What bums me is that I just found that none of the GeForce4 Ti series, or GeForce3 have iDCT support, the MPEG-2 hardware decoding acceleration. It's only on the MX series of GeForce4, and FX series. Not that I'm completely hopeless without it, im sure my PC can still run well without it, its just one of the reasons I've wanted to upgrade is because I thought after GeForce2 that nVidia installed hardware accelerators onto their cards, but I guess that was just ATI, DAMN. Oh well it does makes up for it with the extra 3D hardware instructions that the MX series lack and make it a low end consumer card.

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Remember GeForce4 Ti4600-8X is the highest of the GeForce4's