When I fired up SiSoft's Sandra I started to check some videocard device settings and noticed, as stated in other reviews and confirmed by Creative, the board is based upon a MSI fabrication. There is absolutely nothing unusual about this and you'd be surprised to see how many selling parties do this. Interesting to see is that the chipset core still was based on the A2 revision/stepping. NVIDIA has moved the stepping to A3 recently, so it's likely that newer boards will overclock a tad better then this one.

Furthermore the Ti 4400 has quite an amount of memory bandwidth to play around with which we will explain now.

Let's take a look at memory bandwidth.

The Ti4400 makes use of 3.6ns DDR memory chips. Let's get a little geekie as you don't always believe what the package is saying right ? There's a rather easy way to calculate everything you need to know, you just need to look at the memory chips and note the last numbers on the chip as it will state how fast they are. You notice that GC36 at the chip above ? That's equal to 3.6ns:

Let's calculate the nominal speed for this memory and compare it with the box info:
1000:3.6ns x 2 (DDR) = ~550 MHz

What-do-ya-know, thats 100% correct. Now that we have calculated nominal memory bandwidth and can see that the ram modules deliver the frequency that NVIDIA states we can raise the bar a step and calculate memory bandwidth:

(2x128bit) x (2:550MHz) : 8bit = 8800 MB/sec

Now I don't know about you but that is a rather sufficient level bandwidth ;)