Card II
The heat from the GPU is channeled down to the copper fins at the back of the card by the ferocious fan on-board. Similarly, the heat emanating from the heatpipe is also channeled down. The copper fins become useful conductors.
The double-height rear, solely present due to the innovative cooling, has a thermal exit section from which the warm heat is expelled. During operation you can feel a steady, strong, and warm breeze being pushed out continuously, telling us that the cooling is doing its job. The double-height means that you have to sacrifice one PCI slot, unfortunately.
You can see the standard TV-Out, analogue, and DVI connectors have had to be repositioned due to the mass of cooling on this card.
The back of the Ti 4200 OTES is largely familiar apart from the custom brace that holds the copper base on.
The memory, provided by Hynix, is rated to 3.6ns, or 555MHz DDR. NVIDIA always seem to play the memory speed game a little on the safe side. We'll find out soon if that is the case with this enhanced version. The standard 64MB in the form of 8x8MB TSOP modules is present.
It's obvious that ABIT have gone to great lengths to keep the GPU as cool as possible. A copper base, heatpipe, super-fast 7200rpm fan, and copper fins all combine to expel the hot air as quickly as possible. The mass of copper makes this one heavy card. Weighing in at around 400 grams, it's twice the weight of a normal Ti 4200.
To give you an indication of its total size and presence, here it is sitting above a Radeon 9700.
It certainly looks like the more expensive video card.
