Confused about different 4600 VTD's...

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At first I was terrified when I opened the Purple Champion Edition Msi box because I thought I had received the 4600-TD. Though, the box and video card all state VTD and the card has the tv_out/video in connector. So obviously it seems as though both the 4600's now have the purple PCB's. Who else has one, just to make sure?

I was expecting to see a red and black Msi colored box with a green pcb 4600 VTD.

Is there any difference between this purple 4600 VTD and the green 4600 VTD besides the box and pcb colors?
Purple VTD
Green VTD
 
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My main question is, why would I receive a purple pcb 4600-VTD in a purple and black "Champion Edition" box while everyone else is getting a green pcb 4600-VTD version in a red and black box?

I haven't noticed any news of a "New 4600-VTD Purple PCB Edition" announcement on MSI's website. Hmm...
 
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the championship edition is made for overclocking, they build them to tolerate the strain of overclocking better, i have the green PCB and black n' red box, personally i wanted the Purple PCB edition but it's not available to my knowledge in the U.K. :( if you've got it excellent enjoy the 4800Ti performance when overclocked(fictional hardware) :D
 
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Well after overclocking the card last night I've decided that I'm going to keep it. I went from 300/662 to 336/750 stock cooling. I could easily hit 350/765 with some tweakmonster copper ramsinks and a cooljag 313 HSF.
 
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I didn't really test performance. Since I haven't finished building my Pentium 4 monster, I had to use my friend's outdated AMD athlon 900 mhz, KT133 chipset computer. I didn't really keep track of the performance increase with Oc'ing. I just tested to make sure the overclock could handle the looped demo with 4xAA. On his computer I hit around 5180. Thats 50 points more than my Geforce 2 PRO score I had over a year ago.

With my Pentium system I'll be able to hit 15,000. Heres the main specs:

Pentium 2.53
Asus P4B533-E
Msi GF4 Ti 4600-VTD
Corsair XMS DDR400 Cas 2
Windows XP Prof.
Maxtor 40GB ATA 133
 
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i can achieve about 11,000 which in my opinion is pretty sweet as pentiums will always beat AMD's in 3dMark no idea why....

anyways nice system, hope you enjoy it
 
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I personally run at stock speeds, I have noticed that with overclocking the performance increase isn't exactly great especially for the clock speed you have to run at

315/690 is the fastest i've gone, due to my fear of destroying the poor thing, i didn't benchmark it either a bit dumb really, but from just playing a few games i.e UT2003, Battlefield 1942 and so on i didn't see much improvement 2-5FPS gain i think, i was personally looking for about 15-20 FPS more

o i benchmarked myself again last night stock, i was right my score in 3dmark2001se was 10,787, i did get it upto 10,946 somehow, trying to work it out right now:P
 
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