Being concentrated on DIY market, ABIT tries to fulfil the demand from enthusiasts and overclockers. The company is very famous for its overclocking friendly mainboards and now they are going to introduce their brand new cooling system for graphics processors, making it easier and more safe to rise the clock-speeds of their graphics cards.

In September this year ABIT is going to announce another GeForce4 Ti4200 graphics card with OTES cooling systems, as stated by this web-site. OTES stands for Outside Thermal Exhaust System and its main peculiarity is ability to blow the hot air outside the computer case. According to ABIT, such kind of cooling systems cools the GPU about 15% better compared to the rivals.

Although such systems may be more efficient than an ordinary one, it likely has a number of very serious disadvantages.

• Firstly, OTES cools down only the graphics chip, but cannot cool down memory that heats pretty well on the GeForce3 and GeForce4 cards;
• Secondly, the fan is spinning at 7200rpm, what is not going to be silent at all;
• Thirdly, since VGA connector is maintained on an additional board, it is unlikely that the 2D quality will be excellent in high resolutions;
• Lastly, the graphics card will not allow to install a PCI board in the nearest slot to AGP.

We have no information regarding pricing, but it should not be too high. The product will be launched in a couple of weeks. You can enjoy the views of this solution at this site.