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 [...]

What fresh madness is this? Two full-spec NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 GPUs on a single slab of silicon graphical processing goodness? Either the EVGA GeForce GTX 460 2Win is a stroke of genius in a graphics card or it’s something to do with a surplus of old graphics chips… NVIDIA’s GeForce GTX 460 is getting [...]

It looks like EVGA isn’t waiting for GeForce GTX 590, and is releasing its own dual-GPU graphics card to challenge Radeon HD 6990. Being released about 12 days ahead of GTX 590, EVGA’s new GeForce GTX 460 2WIN could be a tad bit late to the market, considering it was first shown to the world [...]

With so much fuss being made lately about the high end GPU range, many seem to have forgotten the value a sub-$200 graphics card can bring to the table. NVIDIA’s GTX 460 and AMD’s HD 6800 series have proven time and again that an ultra high end card isn’t necessarily needed to play today’s most [...]

Sometimes in this industry you see products that ooze innovation. Now by any given standard that does not always mean brilliant ideas, but yeah … innovation and differentiation is always downright interesting at the very least. One innovative product that dropped like a bomb into the market a couple of weeks ago is the KFA2/Galaxy [...]

With their headquarters in Hong Kong, AXLE is well known in the Asia Pacific region and they have distributors all across the world in many countries such as Germany and Malaysia, to name a couple. They are not very known in North America but are really trying to change that. AXLE GeForce GT 430 Here [...]

NVIDIA has recently launched the retail version of its GeForce GT 440 which was limited to OEM only. The retail version of the GT 440 comes a GF108 GPU clocked at 810MHz and packing 96 shader processors (or CUDA cores). The GT 440 is based on the same GPU than the GT 430 but with [...]

It has been a while since we have reviewed a GTX 480 video card, and with the newly released GF114 GTX 580 GPUs, NVIDIA announced that their older GTX 480 (GF100 GPUs) have been discontinued from production. Interestingly, in November 2010, GIGABYTE still announced their highly anticipated GTX 480 Super Overclock video card (also known [...]

SPARKLE Computer Co., Ltd., the professional VGA card manufacturer and supplier, today announced The SPARKLE GeForce GT 440 Graphics Cards for home theater enthusiasts and casual gamers, which have everything users need to spoil users senses. The SPARKLE GeForce GT 440 Graphics Cards adopt the Fermi architecture which accelerate your digital life. Designed with unparalleled [...]

Well-known motherboard, PC and graphics card maker MSI has today introduced its own GeForce GT 440s, two models that feature custom cooling, stock clocks, DirectX 11 support and utilize Military Class II components (Hi-c CAPs, Solid Capacitors and Super Ferrite Chokes). The N440GT-MD512D5 has a full-height PCB (printed circuit board), 96 CUDA Cores, GPU/shader clocks [...]

ZOTAC International, a leading innovator and the world’s largest channel manufacturer of graphics cards, motherboards and mini-PCs, today introduces a new graphics card for mainstream users seeking a performance kick – the new ZOTAC GeForce GT 440 series graphics cards with 512MB and 1GB DDR5 memory. Powered by the high-performance NVIDIA Fermi architecture, the ZOTAC [...]

For budget-constrained gamers in need of mo’ memory Lantic Technology has made and now launched a GeForce GT 430 graphics card that features 2GB of DDR3 VRAM. According to its maker the new added memory is useful for high resolution gaming and high color depth. Beside having double the amount of memory found on most [...]

If there is one release from NVIDIA that can be classified as ‘a little weird’ it just has to be the GeForce GTX 460 SE, out of the blue this product was injected into the retail sales stream, quietly. Positioned in-between a 768 MB and the 1024MB version of the GTX the 1024MB SE version [...]

Currently three products are rather popular within NVIDIA’s desktop graphics card line-up, the GTX 580 which is too expensive for most people, the GTX 570 which is too expensive for many people and then there’s the GTX 460, which everybody seems to get smiles upon their face … no metaphors to Coldplay intended here by [...]

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 [...]

KFA2, Galaxy Microsystems’ European unit, has today introduced two new GF104-powered cards, a single-slot GeForce GTX 460 dubbed Razor and a dual-slot GTX 460 which uses WHDI technology to wireless connect to a TV and deliver 1080p content on the big screen. Both cards feature 336 CUDA Cores, a GPU clock of 675 MHz, a [...]

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’ [...]