The Card II
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The GPU cooler seems to have been carried over from ABIT's Geforce3 series of cards, no bad thing in my opinion as it's very quiet in operation. With a 250MHz GPU on the Ti 4200, you don't necessarily need the larger cooler that is outfitted on the faster Ti 4400/4600s' cores. My only concern is that the cooler is held on to the core by the sole use of two push-pins. I could move it about on the GPU with just a little force. Removing the push-pins was a 2-minute affair. Underneath, I was greeted by this:
You can clearly see the 4200 representing the model number. I was hoping not to see this as the paste should have been covering the whole GPU and not just the upper section. Still, some thermal paste is better than no paste at all, it all helps in producing a better contact between GPU and cooler for heat transferring purposes.
The left-hand-side of the Siluro Ti 4200 houses the ubiquitous Silicon Image Sil 164CT64 TMDS chip that serves as a DVI transmitter. The chip on the left is the Philips SAA7108E encoder / decoder chip that supports both video in and out.
The back of the Siluro Ti 4200 is standard fare. We see the HD15 connector on the left, the VIVO connector in the middle, and the now common DVI connector on the right. It seem as if manufacturers are waking up to the fact that a DVI-VGA converter is a necessary addition to the package as it allows you to hook-up two VGA displays concurrently with NVIDIA's nVIEW program. |
