With so many video cards manufactured so closely to the reference design provided by the GPU makers, choosing one that is unique is hard enough, let alone one that speaks to your inner geekness. It is almost like shooting fish in a barrel, when it comes to making the seemingly important choice. Sure it’s fun to shoot the gun and get your card, but once you get it home, it smells like fish, and none of your fellow freak geeks are saying “Holy Mackerel”.
In order to tempt you to line your site towards one card or another manufactures have traveled many different roads to get you locked in on there “fish”. Some offer nothing but the card and the lowest price, other offer different software packages, some tailored to the gamer, some to the app intensive user. Some even attempt to speak to that inner geek, and promise the world with flashy heatsinks and fall short of actual performance.
No long is the need to console your inner geek, as Abit has provided the means to not only speak to that geek inside, but to yell at it like a coach pumping you up for the big game. Rather than walk the lines of conformity, Abit has stood at the top of the manufacturing mountain, butt nekkid, and proudly showed the world it’s OTES and said “HEY! Check et out meing!”…
The card that I am speaking about is Abit’s Ti4200 OTES 128MB graphics card based on the NVIDIA GeForce 4 line up. Since the inception of 4200’s from Abit, they have released an uber-geek card called the OTES. At first it was a 4200 with 64MB’s of RAM utilizing the x4 AGP (2.0) standard, then was bumped up to 128, and today we will be looking at Abit’s darling of the GF4 “low end gamers card” the x8 AGP(3.0), with 128MB of ever loving pixel pushing power.