Inside
the box you’ll find:
(driver
cd not pictured)
•
Instruction Manual
• Quick Start Guide
• Driver Disk with 43.45 Detonators and Coolbits
registry hack
• XFX Games Collection Demo Disk
• Cyberlink PowerDVD
• Ghost Recon (full)
• Comanche 4 (full)
• Racing Simulation 3 (full)
• S-Video Cable
• S-Video to RCA Adapter
• DVI to VGA converter
• USB Game Controller
XFX
has confidently included 43.45 Detonators as
well as the Coolbits registry hack on their
CD to allow the user to overclock the card to
their heart’s content. Of course, we’ll get
to that later…
They’ve
also included full versions of Tom Clancy’s
Ghost Recon, aging but still a fun game, as
well as the resource intensive sim Comanche
4 and the aptly-titled Racing Simulation 3 (RS3),
a pretty standard car racer. In terms of hardware
XFX has tossed in (besides the game controller)
a DVI to VGA converter so you can use the extra
DVI output on the back of the card, an S-Video
cable for VIVO, and an S-Video to RCA adapter.
Now
let's check out the card itself.
Here
are the card’s features, as souped-up as a Ti4200
can get:
•
8X AGP
• nfiniteFX II Engine
• Accuview Antialiasing
• Lightspeed Memory Architecture II
• 3D Textures
• Shadow Buffers
• High-Definition Video Processor (HDVP)
• Unified Driver Architecture (UDA)
• Dual Vertex Shaders
• Highest Quality and Highest Performance
Microsoft Windows XP Support
• Lossless Z-Compression
• Microsoft DirectX 8.X and OpenGL 1.3 Optimizations
and Support
• Quad Cache
• TV-Out and Video Modules
• World's Fastest DDR Memory Interface
• Z-Correct Bump Mapping
And
the card. Front:
And
back:
The
PCB is an attractive teal color, and the large
heatsink (on both sides of the card) and fan
is relatively quiet, cool, and well-placed.
The heatsink is so large in order to allow XFX
to easily clock the RAM at 620mhz and provide
further room in case the user wants to do a
little more pushing.
I
removed the heatsink to check out the chips
underneath and was pleased to find that the
GPU and RAM were all well covered with a good
amount of thermal compound, another solid sign
of a thoughtful cooling system.
To
give you a sense of the extra long PCB, here's
the XFX Platinum (top) next to a stock Ti4200:
Installation
was easy and painless. However, if you're tight
on space inside your case you may want to double-check
and make sure you've got the room to fit the
Ti4200 Platinum in there, but in most cases
it shouldn't be a problem.
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