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Today we shall review as many as five low and mid-end graphics cards: four based on NVIDIA GPUs and one on an AMD Radeon GPU. All five have custom design and coolers, so let’s see if this provides any benefits. All five cards differ from the reference counterparts. Although GeForce GTS 450 and GeForce GTX [...]

ZOTAC International, a leading innovator and channel manufacturer, today debuts the silently quick GeForce GTS 450 ZONE Edition for users that demand stunning Microsoft DirectX 11 visuals and noise-less cooling. The ZOTAC GeForce GTS 450 ZONE Edition takes the award-winning GeForce GTS 450 graphics processor with 192 high-performance shaders and passively cools it using a [...]

Nearly all modern GPUs are designed for use with active cooling systems, in order to allow for desirable levels of performance within a reasonable form factor. To take a GPU intended for active cooling and cool it passively would entail a compromise in performance, size, or both. The passive graphics card we’re looking at today [...]

ZOTAC International, a leading innovator and the world’s largest channel manufacturer of graphics cards, motherboards and mini-PCs, today debuts the new GeForce GTS 450 ECO Edition with enhanced energy-efficiency. The new ZOTAC GeForce GTS 450 ECO Edition delivers best-in-class energy efficiency with a 33-perecent reduction in energy consumption. “ZOTAC understands the importance of energy-efficient graphics [...]

SPARKLE Computer Co., Ltd., the professional VGA card manufacturer and supplier, today unveils SPARKLE GeForce GTS 450 Low Profile Graphics Card, an ideal product for home theater enthusiasts and gamers. Exclusively on the SPARKLE GeForce GTS 450 Low Profile Graphics Card, users get the best cooling performance with Axial Fan design. This design features dual [...]

While HIS decided to double the on-board memory of a Radeon HD 5450, Gigabyte is going towards the other extreme by slashing half the VRAM of the GeForce GTS 450 to release a card with 512MB. True enough, the GTS 450 is not a high performance card but in this day and age, it ‘deserves’ [...]

ASUS is designing a new GeForce GTS 450 graphics card that is factory overclocked, and makes use of some innovative new features. To begin with, the card is clocked at 810 MHz for the core, 1620 MHz CUDA cores, and 902 MHz (3608 GDDR5 effective) for memory. It makes use of a 4-phase VRM with [...]

Sparkle has updated its GTS 450 lineup with yet another card that features a custom dual slot cooler to keep the temps and noise at lower levels compared to the reference card. The card is based on NVIDIA’s 40nm GF106 GPU and works at 783MHz for the GPU, 1566MHz for those 192 CUDA Cores and [...]

Colorful, the brains behind the iGame series of fully-loaded performance-thru-mainstream graphics cards is continuing to let its creativity fly. This time around, the company is working on a new GeForce GTS 450 graphics card that’s “slim” in more ways than one. To begin with, the card will feature a single-slot cooling solution, next, the designers [...]

NVIDIA landed an astounding blow to AMD last July pulling the GeForce GTX 460 out of nowhere and quickly taking the lead as the best mid-range graphics card on the market. It’s only been a few weeks since and the 768MB version of this card can now be had for as little as $170, crushing [...]

Sparkle has officially announced its latest card based on NVIDIA’s GF106 GPU, the GeForce GTS 450 ONE. Sparkle managed to squeeze in the single-slot cooling solution without going below the reference clocks on this one. The new single-slot GTS 450 still features 192 CUDA Cores and works at 789MHz for the GPU, 1579MHz for Shaders [...]

Galaxy debuted a premium custom-design GeForce GTS 450 graphics card belonging to the company’s new bleeding-edge factory-OC identifier, the HOF (hall of fame). The GTS 450 HOF from Galaxy uses a core clocked at no less than 1000 MHz, blazing past factory-OC levels set by the likes of Point of View (TGT-Breast @ 920 MHz); [...]

Lantic Technology has now announced its second card based on NVIDIA’s GF106 40nm GPU, the GeForce GTS 450 Thunder Edition which features a custom dual-slot cooler equipped with an 80mm fan, and has its GPU, shaders and memory overclocked to 880 MHz, 1760 MHz and 3800 MHz, respectively. Lantic’s GTX 450 has 192 CUDA Cores, [...]

With the launch of AMD’s next generation of graphics cards looming, most everyone’s eyes are on the upcoming HD 6000 series. Today, however, we turn our attention to the NVIDIA camp. While it’s still unclear what NVIDIA is preparing in response to this new generation, it’s worth pointing out the GTS 450 is just barely [...]

Colorful made global headlines when it unveiled the iGame GTX 460 graphics card to markets outside its niche of China and other East Asian markets. With the more affordable GeForce GTS 450, we thought it went softer with its non-reference GTS 450 graphics card that is designed appropriately for the market-segment. Now it looks like [...]

Point of View the leading European manufacturer of an exclusive range NVIDIA based 3D processor boards, advanced netbooks as well as fancy touchpad computers and additional enthusiast PC products, announces an addition to a complete product range of advanced 3D processor graphics cards based on NVIDIA’s latest GeForce GTS 450 GPU the POV/TGT GeForce GTS [...]

Despite its budget status, NVIDIA GeForce GTS 450 supports SLI technology fully. Once we got our hands on the second GF106 based graphics card, we decided to check out its performance in a tandem with another GeForce GTS 450. Read the details in our new review! With the recent announcement of its new GF106 graphics [...]

The NVIDIA GeForce GTS 450 video card has proven to be a popular graphics card for mainstream gamers on a budget since it was released last month. When the card was released we took a quick look at the reference card along with designs from ASUS, EVGA and MSI and found the graphics card packed [...]

NVIDIA continues the counter attack in the DirectX11-compatible segment. Following the mainstream but pretty high-performance GeForce GTX 460, the company released their budget GeForce GTS 450, which will be the main hero of our today’s review. Moreover, we will also talk about the features, functionality and performance of one of the first products built on [...]

I have recently gotten an overwhelming amount of e-mail from readers since I posted my launch day review on the NVIDIA GeForce GTS 450 video cards asking why I didn’t compare a pair of GeForce GTS 450 video cards in SLI to a couple of ATI Radeon HD 5770 video cards running in CrossFire. The [...]