Albatron has done a great job in their box design, it's sure to attract
buyers without a doubt. The box is based on the Medusa theme and boy
it looks very cool. Albatron seems to adopt this same theme for all
their Graphics products. "Looks that Kill" :)
The card itself has a killer look to it. The Albatron GeForce4 Ti
4200P Turbo is built on a blue colored PCB and the most striking feature
of the card is it's overly large copper heatsink that sits on the
GPU. The card is as large as any GF4 Ti 4600. Albatron has also included
silver memory sinks for more stability. However from what I know,
these memory heatsinks are used just to attract consumers as in reality
they don't heat up to points that require cooling. Nevertheless Albatron
has achieved one thing from all of this; the card is one of the nicest
looking ones you could get your hands on. It has a very professional
look to it, and you cannot differentiate it from any other Ti 4600
card.
The card has support for both VGA monitors and DVI flat panel monitors.
Moreover, it includes an s-video out allowing users to get the output
onto a TV, giving a richer experience when playing games. It would
have been a wiser choice to include two DVI connectors instead of
this design and merely provide an adapter for users to use with normal
VGA monitors. This is something Albatron should think of in their
next release.
Albatron GeForce4 Ti 4200P Turbo comes in two flavors, one which
has 128MB memory and the other with 64MB. The card we'll be looking
at today is Albatron's 128MB version. There's much debate over the
fact that whether this memory increase really affects performance.
A while back this didn't prove to be true. However with the introduction
of Anti Aliasing and its wide use, the more memory you have the better
it is. As you go into higher resolutions in games, we can clearly
distinguish this difference since 128MB cards are capable of storing
more data for Anti Aliasing than its other counterparts. For hardcore
gaming fans, the 128MB model would be a wiser choice than the 64MB
version.
