There are both full-height and low-profile video boards in the collection

Jun 18, 2014 14:02 GMT  ·  By

The low-end segment of the video card market has very few representatives now, especially contemporary ones, but NVIDIA has decided to release the GeForce GT 730.

This was in spite of the fact that most CPUs and APUs have equal or better integrated graphics. We suppose that NVIDIA was thinking about all those HTPCs and nettops powered by low-end Intel SoCs or the like.

Anyway, the company's OEMs were quick to introduce their respective custom models as soon as NVIDIA made the main announcement.

All cards have 908 MHz GPU clock, 1.8 GHz DDR3 VRAM memory speed, multiple video outputs (usually DVI, HDMI and VGA), and either a full-height of low-profile cooler and PCB.

The memory capacity is really odd though. While most cards have 1 GB DDR3, MSI went for the full weirdness quotient and launched a whole collection of cards, the best featuring 4 GB DDR3.

It's an obvious ploy to digest inventories of DRAM memory chips, but as long as the price stays below $100 / €100, it shouldn't be a problem. Unlikely for the 4GB MSI cards, but still doable. We'll have to wait and see what retailers have to say about it.

As usual, when it comes to low-end add-in video cards, HTPCs are the main targets (home-theater personal computers).

LFA2, Zotac and MSI GT 730 (3 Images)

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