14 DAY TRIAL // Even though one would expect hardware makers to be more focused on the video cards that are coming out now, Gigabyte decided to look to the past a bit by taking the more or less old GeForce 210 and making a passively-cooled version of it.
Even though end-users might not necessarily think that releasing an older card again makes much sense, Gigabyte disagrees.
Apparently, the company decided to pay a little homage to a certain video card that was more or less noteworthy when it was in its prime, one belonging to the GeForce 200 series to be more specific.
The card in question is the NVIDIA GeForce 210 and has now come to be refashioned in the 1.1 version.
Dubbed GV-N210TC-1GI, it is a sort of sibling to the 1.0 version, which was launched some time ago and had a low profile PCB.
The newcomer has a full-height PCB instead and boasts a passive cooler, so as to use less power and to be completely silent.
The card has a GPU clock of 590 MHz and a shader frequency of 1,405 MHz, while the 512 MB of on-board DDR3 VRAM work at 1,600 MHz.
There is also support for DirectX 10.1 and the high amount of memory (double the one usually possible on a GeForce 210) was achieved thanks to the TurboCache technology.
Other specifications include D-Sub, DVI and HDMI outputs, RoHS compliance, OpenGL 3.1 support, GigaThred Technology, NVIDIA CUDA, PhysX and HDCP support.
Those at all interested in this flash to the past need only stop by the official product page that Gigabyte has already added to its official website.
As for actually buying it, retailers should soon have it up for the price of roughly 35 Euro, since that was what the first version sold for, more or less.