CPU Magazine Reviews the ABIT Siluro GF4 Ti4200 OTES VGA Card

Overclocked Out of the Box

"Many power users stretch their PC gaming dollar by buying and overclocking midlevel video cards. The Siluro GF4 Ti 4200 OTES is clearly designed with overclockers in mind. OTES stands for Outside Thermal Exhaust System, which refers to the card's unusual heatsink. It uses a heat pipe and exhaust fin to keep the GPU cool when you crank up the megahertz. This setup draws heat away, from the GPU and blows hot air out of the back of your PC."
　

Smokin' Benchmark Scores

I didn't need to overclock this card to drum up good test scores. The Siluro GF4 Ti 4200 OTES's 3Dmark2001 score of 9,372 is hot for a Ti 4200. The card also shredded Quake III. The frame rate at 800 x 600 was 240.1 fps, and it dropped a hair at 1,024 x 768, to 233fps. The big nosedive came at 1,600 x 1,200, in which the card's frame rate was 130.8. The Serious Sam test results were also impressive. I measured the frame rate at 82.6fps in the Karnak demo and 91 fps in Metropolis. I decided to see how far we could overclock the card before it became unstable. Computer Power User's trusty lab technician Sean Humphrey broke out the Raytek MT4 laser temp testing gun and measured the card's temps. We ran the card for an hour at each setting and then noted the hottest part of the heatsink. At the card's default clock setting of 275MHz, the temperature was a cool 106 degrees. We overclocked the card to 300MHz and measured the temp at 112 degrees. At 305MMHz the temp was 113 and at 310MHz the temp was 114. (I sense a pattern here.) The 310MHz clock speed was the highest we could maintain before the card became unstable.
The Siluro GF4 Ti 4200 OTES is a pretty impressive card even before overclocking it. The fact that you can crank it up to Ti 4600-like speeds is a bonus.

Check in out in the February issue CPU Magazine at your local news stand.

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