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 a decent punch and the price wasn’t that bad. We were contacted by ECS shortly after that review was posted and were told that they wanted to send out a card that they thought would be competitive with the others that we had already reviewed.

Since you have gone back and read our original launch article you should know that the GeForce GTS 450 is based off a brand a ‘Fermi’ core that goes by the name of GF106. The GF106 is manufactured at TSMC using their advanced 40nm process and the GPU core features 1.17 billion transistors. The reference NVIDIA GeForce GTS 450 PCI Express 2.0 video card ships with a 783MHz Core GPU clock, 1566MHz shaders and 1GB of GDDR5 memory running at 900MHz (3600MHz effective) on a 128-bit interface. The card that ECS sent out was their high-end GeForce GTS 450 Black series card with part number NBGTS450-1GPI-F. This card features a nice factory overclock that puts the clock speeds at 850MHz Core clock, 1700MHz shaders and a memory clock running at 100MHz (4000MHz effective). ECS didn’t stop there, though, as they added the Arctic Cooling Accelero Twin Turbo Pro GPU cooler to help keep the card nice and cool.
NVIDIA GeForce GTS 450 1GB Video Card Front

The ECS GeForce GTS 450 Black Series 1GB video card measures 8.5 inches in length and the card stands at 5.5 inches tall due to the large HSF that is on the card. What makes this card so unique is that it features an Arctic Cooling Accelero Twin Turbo Pro dual-slot GPU cooler for maximum cooling performance.
NVIDIA GeForce GTS 450 1GB Video Card Back

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