News Abit OTES Ti4200 (w/ ducting 'n heatpipes!) :: Hexus.net

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"It's plain to see that ABIT have taken a look at the current cooling techniques employed on high-end video cards and decided that they could do with a helping hand. The very fact that this GeForce4 Ti 4200 is hard-coded for 275/554 clocks (for the GPU and memory respectively) tells us that ABIT feel their enhanced cooling really can make a difference."

Linkie.

 

It's obvious it works - I'm just wondering how long it'll be before after market replacement VGA coolers start immitating this.

 

Yep would be nice to see

r.

 

I think they are going to patent this design making it difficult to copy

 

I'm not sure they could, seeing as it's
a.Heatpipe, a technology in the public domain (I think)
b.Exhaust, again a method widely in use

 

cars have exhausts, as do most fords and rovers

 

my car does not have an exhaust is it meant to

 

You think people would buy this type of cooling solution for existing cards, then?

 

Why not? If it works as well as it's supposed to, I think a lot of people would be interested. Let's face it - it'd be easier (and cheaper) than H20 cooling.

The fact that it looks cool doesn't hurt it either.

A bolt on HSF with an extra PCI backplane for the exhaust would work. Sure, you'd lose a PCI slot, but just how many slots does anybody actually use? I only use 2, one for the Audigey and another for my NIC.

I think it's a winner.

 

My m8 just purchased one of these. They are huge being 2 pci slots in height. The copper shine on the backplate and the heatpipes is fantastic. He loves the performance of the card, but is more used to gf2 performance. V nice card