Introduction
Graphics cards are all the rage these days, especially since you can get so much power for so little money. For quite some time now, AMD (formally ATI) has been the most-bang-for-your-buck company to go with, while Nvidia has been mostly the cream-of-the-crop. But times change, and Nvidia has made their way into the budget segment with some new mid-range cards. Here today we have their best of the lot, the Nvidia GTS450 made by Sparkle. The GTS450 come packed with 1024MB of RAM and Sparkle has gone ahead and overclocked this card for that little extra kick. If you are looking to upgrade your machine and not break the bank, the Sparkle GTS450 might be for you.
Specifications
| Model number : | SXS4501024D5SNM |
| Graphics Processing : | Geforce GTS450 |
| Processor Cores : | 192 |
| Core Clock : | 789 MHz |
| Memory Clock : | 3760 MHz |
| Memory Type : | 1024MB GDDR5 |
| Memory Interface : | 128-Bit |
| Processor Clock : | 1579 MHz |
| Bus Type : | PCI-Express 2.0 |
Keep in mind this card is overclocked. Here are base specifications:
| Model number : | SXS4501024D5NM |
| Graphics Core : | NVIDIA GeForce GTS450 |
| Processor Cores : | 192 |
| Core Clock : | 783 MHz |
| Memory Clock : | 3608 MHz |
| Memory Type : | 1024MB GDDR5 |
| Memory Interface : | 128 Bit |
| Processor Clock : | 1566 MHz |
| Bus Type : | PCI-Express 2.0 |
The biggest overclock is the RAM, everything else is almost negligible. Luckily, RAM clock speed seems to affect the GPUs performance a lot, so this should be decent increase in performance. Keep in mind that this particular card is among the cheaper GTS450s.
Those are some pretty impressive specs! I have never tried a Sparkle video card before, but I’ve heard great things about them recently so I might consider it in a couple months.
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