september 13 2010 review by hardwarecanucks
Gigabyte GV-N450-1G NVIDIA GeForce GTS 450
Conclusion:
This video card isn't a perfectly good performer, it needs a slight speed increase to differentiate itself from the ATi Radeon HD 5750. This card won't 'feel' faster than a reference version but you are getting a slight speed increase without paying a penny more.
The GF106 is a relatively cool running GPU, which is custom cooled, it has a Respectable performance, is very quiet, is not more expensive than the standard card and is Highly overclockable.
Overclocking:
Without raising the default voltage the GPU was OCed @ 951Mhz and the GDDR5 RAM @ 1045Mhz.
Benchmarks:
- Acoustics
- Aliens Versus Predator
- Battlefield: Bad Company 2
- Core Temperature
- DiRT 2
- Far Cry 2
- Just Cause 2
- Metro 2033
- Power Consumption
- Starcraft 2
- Unigine: Heaven
Compared To:
- ATI Radeon HD5770 1012MB
- ATI Radeon HD5850 1024MB
- EVGA GTS 250 1024MB
- EVGA GTS 450 1024MB FTW
- NVIDIA GTX 460 768MB
- NVIDIA GTX 470
- NVIDIA XFX HD 5750 1024MB
Test Setup:
- Computer Case : CoolIT Boreas mTEC
- CPU : Core i7 920
- Display : Samsung 305T 30 inch
- HDD : WD Caviar Black 640GB
- Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-EX58-UD5
- Optical Drive : Pioneer DVD Writer
- OS: Windows 7 Ultimate x64
- Power Supply: Corsair HX1000W
- RAM : Corsair 3x2GB Dominator DDR3 1600Mhz
