NVIDIA GeForce GTS 450 - The Super-Affordable Fermi

Rob Williams · 09-29-2010, 03:55 AM

Been itching to buy a piece of NVIDIA's Fermi architecture, but were looking for a total sweet spot? At $130, the GeForce GTS 450 might be it. In all of our tests, it competed nicely with AMD's Radeon HD 5750, but most impressive might be the card's scaling ability in SLI, which can be summed up in one word... awesome.

Read our full review of NVIDIA's latest offering and discuss it here!

Optix · 09-29-2010, 06:16 AM

I'm so tempted to try and find a low end SLI board if we trip over some cash. Even x8x8 would scream with two of these. Kudos to Nvidia for coming out with the first piece of hardware that actually caught my interest since the 8800's.

Rob Williams · 09-29-2010, 05:07 PM

I haven't seen proof that x8 x8 is a problem for even the highest-end of cards, so for these, it's a joke. I'm tempted to toss both of these cards into this rig to replace the GTX 285. Not a major upgrade, but at least +33% in some cases. Some DirectX action would be nice.

Optix · 09-29-2010, 10:26 PM

+1 to e-peen too!

09-29-2010, 03:55 AM	#1
Rob Williams Editor-in-Chief Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Atlantic Canada Posts: 13,231	NVIDIA GeForce GTS 450 - The Super-Affordable Fermi Been itching to buy a piece of NVIDIA's Fermi architecture, but were looking for a total sweet spot? At $130, the GeForce GTS 450 might be it. In all of our tests, it competed nicely with AMD's Radeon HD 5750, but most impressive might be the card's scaling ability in SLI, which can be summed up in one word... awesome. Read our full review of NVIDIA's latest offering and discuss it here! __________________ Intel Core i7-990X EE @ 3.43GHz, GIGABYTE X58A-UD5, Kingston 12GB DDR3-1333, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 2GB Kingston HyperX 3K 240GB SSD, WD VR 1TB, WD 2TB, Seagate 2TB, LG BD-ROM, ASUS DVD-RW, Corsair 1000HX, Corsair H60 Cooler Corsair 800D, Dell 2408WFP 24", ASUS Xonar Essence STX, Gentoo (KDE 4.10, 3.7 Kernel) "Take care to get what you like, or you will be forced to like what you get!" - H.P. Baxxter <Toad772> I don't always drink alcohol, but when I do, I take it too far.

09-29-2010, 05:07 PM	#3
Rob Williams Editor-in-Chief Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Atlantic Canada Posts: 13,231	I haven't seen proof that x8 x8 is a problem for even the highest-end of cards, so for these, it's a joke. I'm tempted to toss both of these cards into this rig to replace the GTX 285. Not a major upgrade, but at least +33% in some cases. Some DirectX action would be nice. __________________ Intel Core i7-990X EE @ 3.43GHz, GIGABYTE X58A-UD5, Kingston 12GB DDR3-1333, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 2GB Kingston HyperX 3K 240GB SSD, WD VR 1TB, WD 2TB, Seagate 2TB, LG BD-ROM, ASUS DVD-RW, Corsair 1000HX, Corsair H60 Cooler Corsair 800D, Dell 2408WFP 24", ASUS Xonar Essence STX, Gentoo (KDE 4.10, 3.7 Kernel) "Take care to get what you like, or you will be forced to like what you get!" - H.P. Baxxter <Toad772> I don't always drink alcohol, but when I do, I take it too far.

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