Conclusion
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I think its safe to say that Gainward have pulled out the stops with this card and produced something special with a excellent chip from nVIDIA. This card retails at around £160 - £130 depending on where you look. The Ti4600 comes in at a hefty £300 mark again varying depending on where from and which version you buy. Now for a card that can easily overclock to almost the same speed (and faster for the core) than the Ti4600 at default speeds you are saving over £150 in most cases. The bundle that comes with the Gainward Ti4200 64mb card is spartan but this only helps to keep the price down. I personally have never been attracted by the bundle that comes with any retail card and more interested in how it performs. This card also visibly looks cool in its red PCB, a trademark from Gainward. It comes with DVI out as standard for use with compatible TFT monitors. The build feels solid and is a compact size for the people that have limited space inside their PC cases. The space around the core is the GF4 standard and so people may meet the same trouble when attempting to attach various water block designs as you would with any GF4 Ti card. The only small let down possibly with this card is as I mentioned before, the ram chips. Having lower quality chips obviously keeps the price down but depending on how much the price would go up it may have been worth it to be able to overclock the card to speeds similar to the Ti4600. Pros
Cons
Because of the pure stunning performance offered by this card both at default speeds and overclocked, Hexus.net give it a VERY rare editors choice award. If Gainward would allow it we hope to use this for future reviews when testing various hardware. I personally would like to see it in a case with a window and neon lighting.
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