Review of ASUS GTS 450 DirectCU Silent: Gamer VGA Without Requiring Additional Power

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Graphics Card

October 13, 2011

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Conclusion

Although GTS 450 graphics card has been released a year more by NVIDIA, still seems reliable enough to serve as the “engine power” Mainstream gaming for PC. Although we recommend to use limited to 720p HD resolution 1360 * 768 or, if you still want to play favorite games with a resolution of Full HD then some little setting-effect must be sacrificed to obtain the optimal frame rate and is quite comfortable to play.

Compared with standard GTS 450, ASUS GTS 450 is indeed lagging about 25% -30% in the performance. Of course this is an impact on reducing both the GPU clock and memory used. In addition, ASUS uses GDDR3 memory type which theoretically has a number of lower bandwidth than GDDR5 as the standard GTS 450. Although quite behind in terms of performance, this graphics card can show the excess on his view of power used, in a state of full load graphics card shows the power consumption of about 40-50 watts lower than the standard GTS 450.

If you plan to use this graphics card, make sure the airflow inside your case fairly well preserved because of the use of passive cooling method used is highly dependent on the flow of air that flows. Temperature that we noted at 27 C ambient, this graphics card shows the temperature to 79 C at full load condition. Although the graphics card is not noisy (0 dB), even not produce the slightest noise, we recommend the addition of a nearby fan to extend the life of the graphics card and in order to avoid overheating.

The product of this graphics card is perfect for you who want to build a HTPC Silent but still powerful enough to “carry” play the game though. Of course, our own loved the graphics card like this because it supports power saving, for gamers though. GO GREEN!