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Just picked up the new PNY Verto GeForce4 Ti4600

I wanted to get the Visiontec version but BestBuy sold out all their cards(4) within 1 hour of opening today. I then went over to CompUSA which only carried the PNY. I bought the PNY, as I have never had any problems with any other product from them.

The installation went without a hitch. Gerard pointed out that there may be a problem with the hardware installation. Because of the size of the new GeForce card and other components on the motherboard.
I did not find this a problem and as you can see from my picture below, eveything fits fine.

Here you can see the difference in size between the two cards.



From this picture you can see the new card installed into my case



I'm using a ASUS P4T-E motherboard with the Intel 850 chipset.

I did a complete uninstall, of the old drivers. Then rebooted with the new card and installed the same drivers (V27.20)
Upon rebooting I was prompted by the wizard to install the drivers. I did a manual install. pointing the wizard to my folder on my desktop.

With the drivers installed, I rebooted the computer one more time.

Upon restart I started MOH:AA. I double checked all my settings to see if they had changed.
Below are my settings and specs for MOH
MOH:AA v1.1
Blood Mod
1024x768
32bit
Texture detail High
Texture color depth 32bit
Texture filter Trilliner
Wall decals checked
weather effects checked
Texture compression checked
View Model Full
Shadows Complex (don't usually run this on at all)
Terrain detail Higher
Model Detail Higher
effects Higher
Curve Detail Medium

all checked off
console
static decals
real dynamic lighting
full entity lighting
volumetric smoke
weapons bar
crosshair

MOH:AA did not give me any problems with the new card and all my settings above stayed the same ( from GeForce3 64 meg)
I went to the console and typed "maplist".
I selected map m3|1a.bsp ( Omaha Beach )
I seen an improvement of about 7-11 FPS.
GeForce3 64meg 29 to 61
GeForce4 Ti4600 36 to 72
If I disable shadows( I usually do )
GeForce3 64meg 36 -70
GeForce4 Ti4600 42 - 87

System specs:
My current desktop is 1280x1024 32bit @75hz
Running WindowsXP Pro with all the latest updates
PC
Intel P4 2Gz 478pin
ASUS P4T-E board with 850 chipset
1 Gig Rambus ram

I did not buy this card just for MOH:AA. I do graphics with Photoshop 6 and video with Premiere 6. Personally I needed to upgrade my old Geforce2 in my video box. I am putting my GeForce3 in the video box and the new GeForce4 in my main box.

I just downloaded the latest detonator drivers V27.70 and will see if this increases my FPS in MOH:AA.

On a side note. when dragging a large box around my screen I get ~34% CPU usage. Now with the new card. I see under 9%

For the average gamer. I would not upgrade until more games take full advantage of the hardware for this card. This should drive the prices down for a ATI 8500 or GeForce3.