Chaintech GT61 "Golden Sample"
GeForce4™ Ti4600 128MB DDR
World Exclusive
April 05, 2002
Manufactured by: Chaintech
Supplied by: PCGear
Introduction
The 4th generation of GeForce cards, the GeForce 4 is here. Well its been for a while now. With new features delivering new levels of performance and display capabilities to desktop and mobile PCs, it is sure to be another big hit from nVidia. A lot of companies has already released their video cards based on the GeForce 4 GPUs and today we'll be looking at one of them.
Chaintech has been producing top quality video cards for quite some time now and we have already tested a few of them. The first was their GF4 MX 440 offering and the second was their GeForce 3 Ti200 128Mb. We were amazed with the performance of both cards when compared to the top players in their corresponding category considering the prices of the competition's graphics cards are more expensive. We were very happy with what it offered the consumers at a relatively cheaper price. Now we'll be taking a world exclusive look at their GeForce 4 Ti4600 offering, the Chaintech GT61 "Golden Sample" 128Mb DDR.
The GeForce 4 Family
The GeForce 4 family consist of 3 different categories: PERFORMANCE, MAINSTREAM and MOBILE, making it the most complete family of graphics solution. The GeForce 4 Performance card is the GF4 Ti series, the Mainstream is the GF4 MX series and the Mobile card is the GF4 Go series. The GF4 Ti gives the user ferocious graphics power that is ideal for advanced 3D applications, extreme gaming and HDTV/DVD playback. The GF4 MX on the other hand is ideal for multiple display and desktop flexibility, 2D office applications and web surfing. The GF4 Go series is,like what the name suggest, ideal for mobile business presentations, gaming on the go and multiple display flexibility.
Below is a comparison table of the features each series have....
| GeForce 4 Ti (NV25) | GeForce 4 MX (NV17) | GeForce 4 Go |
nfiniteFX II | x |
|
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LMA II | x | x | x |
Accuview AA | x | x | x |
nView | x | x | x |
VPE |
| x | x |
PowerMizer |
|
| x |
For the desktop user, our card of interest here is the GF4 Ti and GF4 MX series. We have already seem what the MX flavor can offer so for today were gonna review one of the the GF4 Ti series cards and see the performance this new card can bring to the extreme/hardcore user