ABIT GF4 Ti4200 OTES Review (1)
Overclocker 23 Sept 2002

It is to my surprise that ABIT actually sent me one of their latest products the ABIT GF4 Ti4200 OTES. You probably have been wonder what the heck is O.T.E.S. O.T.E.S. (Outside Thermal Exhaust System)  is a ABIT's heat pipe technology, a particular blower of fan types, as well as a copper fin heatsink to efficiently transfer and exhaust heat away from the GPU from the back of the card.

The first thought that came to my mind is the similar technology Zalman employs in cooling VGA cards at Computex Taipei. I also wonder how much of an effect will it have on the GPU. Some other questions would be will the 7200 RPM fan generate lots of noise ? We will find that out in a short while. Below is the spec list followed by gallery and benchmarks using 3DMark2001SE B330, Q3 demo001, Comanche 4 and CodeCreatures.

• NVIDIA GeForce4™ Ti 4200 256-bit GPU
• 64/128MB 128-bit DDR memory
• AGP 2X/4X with fast writes and AGP texturing support
• NVIDIA nFiniteFX™ II Engine brings unbelievable 3D visual experience never seen
• New dual programmable Vertex Shaders
• Advanced programmable Pixel Shaders
• 4 dual rendering pipelines, 8 texels per clock cycle
• NVIDIA Lightspeed Memory Architecture™ II for outstanding 3D performance
• NVIDIA Accuview Antialiasing™ enables high resolution antialiasing game play
• NVIDIA nView™ empowers the user with maximum flexibility in display options and control
• Integrated hardware transforms engine and hardware light engine
• High-quality HDTV and DVD playback
• Complete OpenGL® and DirectX® 8.1 support
• On-board TV-Out/DVI-I
• On-board Outside Thermal Exhaust System (O. T. E. S.) cooling unit
• I/O Interface:
  - TV-Out connector
  - D-Sub 15-pin VGA connector
  - DVI-I connector for LCD monitors
• System Requirements
  - Intel/AMD/Other Compatible CPUs
  - One available AGP Slot
  - 64MB System Memory
  - CD-Rom Drive
• Operating Systems
  - Windows®XP/2000/NT/ME/98

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