Creative Labs 3D Blaster GeForce4 Ti 4400

Today we will bring you yet another videocard review. This time it is Creative Labs who send out a GeForce4 Ti 4400 to us. The Ti 4400 is based upon the NV25 silicon and likely the most interesting 3D consumer videocard available to date. We have already reviewed the Ti 4200 and 4600, so what does the 4400 offer. Well, to be honest a product that hardware wise slaps the Radeon 8500 in face and is near near GeForce4 Ti 4600 performance which is .. the best of the best. Dual RamDAC's means excellent multiple display options, greatly improved DVD movie playback and gaming wise a product that is fully DirectX 8.1 compatible and has all the gadgets batman carries around in his tool belt.

As we always try to dig a little deeper into the hardware we'll try to demonstrate you the videocard in all it's ways. The image above  shows the GeForce4 Ti 4400. First of all, no ramsinks on the card but at least an interesting cooling fan. Creative clearly did not see a use for ramsinks or wanted to cut overall costs. The card is equipped with VGA, SVHS out and DVI connector.

Quick hint: If you have two 'normal' monitors then get a 5 dollar gender changer and connect your second monitor to that DVI connector. You'll love it. Of course both cards are equipped with TV-OUT to output al the 3D violence to the big screen. In a later section of this article we'll get deeper into that as DVD/DiVX slash movie playback over S-VHS output really has improved over previous generations and definitely deserves some extra attention.


 

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