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By Lars Weinand - Editor In Chief RIVA Station / Editor Tomīs Hardware Guide Leadtek
The Taiwanese company is out for blood and is mounting a frontal attack on the competition. In this vein, Leadtek claims to have been the first to ship GeForce4 MX boards in reasonable quantities. Once again, Leadtek is striving to set itself apart from the competition, both visually and technologically. The boards come with a wealth of features, such as hardware monitoring and an extravagant cooling solution. Here's a quick overview of the company's planned product line as of the time of publication: GeForce4 Ti:
GeForce4 MX:
Key: V = TV-In, T = TV-Out, D = DVI, H = HW Monitoring The cards' software bundles will consist of the following: the WinFox II suite; two DirectX 8 games (Gunlok, DroneZ); WinFast DVD; Cult3D; and, the tool suites Colorific/3Deep/True Internet Color. Leadtek WinFast A250 Ultra TD
Massive Presence: Leadtek A250 TD Leadtek's A250 Ultra series features a most impressive cooling solution. The top of the card is covered almost completely by an enormous heatsink, which is cooled by two fans, each of which has its own dust filter. The heatsink thus cools not only the GPU, but the memory, as well. The bottom of the card also sports a heatsink, this one passive, however. A thermal pad below the GPU ensures the contact between the PCB and the heatsink. Thankfully, this massive cooling solution isn't overly noisy, although it is far from quiet. Still, it makes a lot less noise than Creative's 'blow-drier.' |
Copyright: 11.03.2002 - RIVA Station 2002 - Lars Weinand URL of this Article: www.rivastation.com/gf4-prev_e.htm - If you want to link to it, please use this URL! :-) |
