Fast 3D graphics cards group test - page 10
fast 3D graphics card
01 May, 2003 by IT Reviews Staff
The first thing you notice about the Medusa Ti4800SE from Albatron is the amount of cooling that has been added to the board. Not only does the GPU have a huge copper heat sink on top of it, but there are heat sinks on both sides of the board for the BGA memory too.
It's good to see that Albatron hasn't used the thermal pads so often used by other graphics card manufacturers on the contact points of the cooler and memory heat sinks, but instead has used a good layer of thermal paste.
The Medusa Ti4800SE card is based on the Nvidia GeForce 4 Ti4800SE and built on a blue GeForce 4 Ti4600 PCB. The Ti4800SE GPU is nothing more than Nvidia's GeForce 4 Ti4400 core with 8X AGP support, running at the same clock speeds as a standard Ti4400. So the core memory is clocked at 275MHz and the 128MB of 3.3ns BGA DDR memory is clocked at 550MHz.
But the Albatron Medusa Ti4800SE has a trick up its sleeve. The combination of loads of cooling and the Ti4600 PCB allows for some serious overclocking. In our tests it ran stably with a core speed of 335MHz and a memory speed of an amazing 650MHz.
There are three output ports; standard 15-pin VGA for CRT monitors, DVI digital output for LCD displays and S-Video for connection to a TV or similar device.
Bundled with the card are an S-Video-to-RCA converter, RCA and S-Video cables, an informative manual, driver CD and a DVI connector. The software bundle comprises the WinDVD movie player and full versions of two games, Motocross Mania and Serious Sam.
Company: Gigabyte
Contact: 01908 362 700
Company: Gigabyte
Contact: 01908 362 700
Company: Albatron
Contact: 01908 305 163
Company: MSI
Contact: 020 8813 6688
Company: Sapphire
Contact: 020 8944 7096
Company: Asus
Contact: 01908 217 135
