14 DAY TRIAL // Like many others of NVIDIA's partners, ASUS has brought forth its customized versions of the GeForce GTS 450 graphics card, the newest video board that the Santa Clara, California-based GPU maker just released.
As many consumers will have no doubt at least heard by know, NVIDIA only a short while ago launched the GeForce GTS 450 graphics adapter.
This card is meant to take on AMD's HD 5700 series and will replace the GeForce GTS 250, thus becoming the new, DirectX 11-capable option available for the masses.
Nevertheless, even though aimed at the mainstream, the card supposedly has a high overclocking headroom.
Essentially, the GPU should be possible to safely drive all the way to 900 MHz or more without issues arising in regards to stability.
This is what allowed Gainward to actually push the GF106 well beyond even the 900 MHz threshold, all the way to 930 MHz.
Now, ASUS more or less achieved something quite similar with the ENGTS 450 DirectCU video controllers.
The two newcomers that ASUS has prepared are known as ENGTS 450 DirectCU/DI/1GD5 and ENGTS 450 DirectCU TOP/DI/1GD5.
Both boast 192 CUDA cores, 1GB of GDDR5 VRAM and D-sub, DVI and HDMI video outputs, for compatibility with a variety of monitors.
The ENGTS 450 DirectCU/DI/1GD5 is the more conservative of the duo, with clock speeds of 783 MHz for the GPU, 1,566 MHz for the shaders and 3,608 MHz for the memory.
As for the ENGTS 450 DirectCU TOP/DI/1GD5, it operates at 925 MHz, 1,850 MHz and 4,000 MHz for the GPU, shaders and memory, respectively.
Finally, the duo are equipped with the DirectCU dual-slot cooler, which drives temperatures 20% lower than the reference solution, even as the noise produced is 30% less.
The stock-clocked ENGTS 450 DirectCU/DI/1GD5 sells for 130 Euro, while the ENGTS 450 DirectCU TOP/DI/1GD5 is priced at 140 Euro.