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NVIDIA GeForce GTS 450 1GB GDDR5 PCIe

Based on 10 reviews

Excellent:

1
Good:

4
Average:

2
Bad:

3

Pros

Lower overall temperature, Great for 1680 x 1050 gaming, High Overclocking potential, SLI ready for a Multi-Display setup
Priced to compete wth ATI 5750, 1.0GB GDDR5 Memory, Advanced Tessellation with Raster and PolyMorph Engines, PhysX, CUDA, 3D Vision.
Tremendous overclocking potential!, Cool operating temperatures at idle and load, Consumes only 16 watts of power at idle, Good value at $130 easily beats Radeon 5750, Excellent pricetoperformance cost ratio, Fermi Introduces Error Correcting Code (E
Excellent performance at medium and low resolutions; runs extremely quiet; very good video playback; inexpensive

Cons

TripleSLI not supported
Blocks an adjacent slot; gaming performance lags on 24-inch and larger monitors

By TechRadar on August 30, 2011

The Nvidia GeForce GTS 450 is in serious gamers' graphics card territory, without hitting the big prices. Nvidia doesn't have a great lineup in the budget segment of cards, and anything lower than this here GeForce GTS 450 isn't really worth...

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By DigitalVersus on December 23, 2010

This is a good mid-range NVIDIA graphics card. It does a decent job in all fields: games, energy consumption, noise and functions. But with a new generation of AMD cards just around the corner, the GTS 450 could prove to be too little too...

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By Missing Remote on November 16, 2010

Offering low idle power consumption, impressively quiet operation, full hardware acceleration - available commercially and to the FOSS community - for video playback alongside an unmatched feature set at a reasonable price ($100-$150 street) the...

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By Techgage on September 29, 2010

It might have taken NVIDIA a while to catch up to AMD in terms of a completed GPU line-up, but with the GTS 450, it's happened, and fans of the green side will be pleased with the $130 performance seen here. NVIDIA's card didn't out-perform...

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By Hardware Secrets on September 24, 2010

The GeForce GTS 450 is the first DirectX 11 mid-range graphics chip released by NVIDIA, and today we are publishing the review of the NVIDIA reference model. Let’s see if video cards based on this new chip are worthwhile buying.The new GTS 450...

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By PC Pro on September 17, 2010

Nvidia's cheapest Fermi card yet, but still pales in comparison to ATI's faster rivals...

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By HEXUS.net on September 16, 2010

efficient SLI scaling for the NVIDIA GeForce GTS 450 GPU means that users adding a second board can expect to see a performance increase to the tune of 70 per cent, along with entry into the 3D Vision and three-monitor clubs. Worth putting on the...

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By VR-Zone on September 15, 2010

The NVIDIA GeForce GTS 450 was launched on 13 September 2010. It also marks the end of an incredibly long wait for NVIDIA to release a mainstream DirectX 11 graphics card. Priced exactly the same as the ATI Radeon HD 5750, NVIDIA claims that the...

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By HardOCP on September 14, 2010

Our GeForce GTS 450 SLI versus Radeon HD 5770 CrossFireX and Radeon HD 5750 CrossFireX comparisons today have revealed that GeForce GTS 450 SLI is on the bottom end of performance in this price range. Two standard GeForce GTS 450 video cards will cost...

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By Guru of 3D on September 14, 2010

Final Words & Conclusion Very little negative can be said about two GeForce GTS 450 cards setup in SLI. In previous articles we have shown you guys already that the performance scaling of two GPUs is something the GTX 400 series is really good at....

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