14 DAY TRIAL // There are very few low-end add-in video cards on the market today, mostly because there's not much point to them now that all Intel CPU and AMD APUs have integrated graphics that are just as good or better than them.
NVIDIA has still decided to sell a GeForce GT 730 video card though. Probably because it would have been more of a waste to just throw away the GPUs that came out faulty from the assembly line.
You may not know this, but many graphics processing units are actually the same chip but with some resources sealed off.
Not all GPUs come out perfect from a manufacturing plant. It's why, say, the GK110 powers GeForce GTX 780 Ti, while the GK104 (really a slightly crippled GK110) is used in the GTX 760.
The new GeForce GT 730 uses the same GK107 chip as in the GT 740, but lower clocks and slower DDR3 memory.
Here are the specs: 908 MHz GPU clock, 1.8 GHz DDR3 VRAM speed (1 GB or more dpeending on OEM), and three video ports (VGA, HDMI and DVI). The price will probably be of under $100 / €100.
NVIDIA's Reference GT 740 is a full-height card, but its partners have introduced low-profile ones as well. We'll be looking at them shortly.