14 DAY TRIAL // The GeForce GTS 450 has now received yet another set of incarnations, including a fairly powerful one at that, in the shape of the Sparkle Calibre X450G, which is both factory overclocked and equipped with a non-reference cooling solution.
Set to become the replacement for the GeForce GTS 250, the NVIDIA GeForce GTS 450 has now been officially launched by its maker.
This board will cover the bulk of the mainstream market and is expected to act as one of the main weapons in NVIDIA's campaign to reclaim graphics market supremacy.
Basically, it is centered around the GF106 graphics processing unit, which is built on the 40nm manufacturing process technology.
As one must already know, this chip uses the Fermi architecture and, thus, has full support for DirectX 11, as well as NVIDIA's range of proprietary technologies.
Sparkle created three versions of the GTS 450, but it is the Calibre-branded one that is the most worthy of note, not just through its performance, but also through its cooler.
Called Calibre X450G, the board has the GPU running at 850 MHz, while the shaders and memory are clocked at 1,701 MHz and 3,800 MHz, respectively.
The card also has the same 192 CUDA cores, 1GB of GDDR5 and interface of 128 bits like all other GTS 450 so far unveiled.
As for the cooler itself, it is made by Arctic Cooling and uses three 6mm copper heatpipes, as well as two 92mm sleeve cables.
The other two cards have less massive coolers and work at speeds of 789 MHz for the GF106, 1,579 MHz for the shaders and 3,760 MHz for the VRAM.
Finally, all of them possess dual-DVI and HDMI inputs, making them compatible with a wide range of displays. They should start selling soon, at prices revolving around the same 130 Euro/$130 mark as all the others.