14 DAY TRIAL // With all of NVIDIA's partners eagerly unleashing their respective GeForce GT 430 cards, it is no surprise that Gigabyte would join as well, but the company did do a few things differently, at least as far as the cooler and clocks are concerned.
For those interested in a reminder, the GeForce GT 430 video card is NVIDIA's first Fermi-based low-end video board.
It ranks lowest in terms of both cost and performance amongst its siblings and is powered by the GF108 graphics processing unit.
Basically, it more or less completes NVIDIA's collection of Fermi boards, since the low-end front was the only one that the GTS 450 and above could not cater to.
Most versions of the card so far unleashed were quite similar, in the way that they had a low profile PCB, a single-slot cooler and stock clocks.
Gigabyte, however, decided to try and stand out by boosting the frequencies somewhat, while also implementing a different type of cooler.
The official announcement does not actually say what clocks its model has, but they should exceed 700 MHz for the CPU and 1,400 MHz for the shaders, at the very least.
The rest of the feature set is, more or less, the same, except for the use of ultra Durable 2 components, which improve stability and cooling.
This means 86 CUDA cores, a memory interface of 128 bits, 1 GB of DDR3 VRAM and DVI, D-Sub and HDMI outputs.
As for the cooler itself, it uses two fans instead of just one and is meant to deal with the extra heat that the tweaked frequencies generate.
All in all, this model should eventually end up inside small form factor personal computers, like HTPCs (home-theater personal computers).
The board carries the name of GV-N430OC-1GL and, unfortunately, has not been given a price tag as of yet.