Zotac GTS450 AMP! Review
The AMP! Up Close
Published: 12th September 2010 | Source: Zotac | Price: £107.70 |
Up Close
The GTS450 comes in the standard Zotac packaging which we like especially because it's not so damn big. If, like me, you keep your packaging in great nick then having plenty of huge boxes around can become a bit of a storage nightmare, not to mention the environmental cost of producing something bigger than necessary.
The colouring is also pleasant with the Zotac yellow/gold being a glorious change from the blues and reds we see on a daily basis.
The contents are the fairly standard driver CD + adaptors gubbins. The card itself has elements that make it seem more pricey than we expect it to be, and some that definitely nod towards it's value price-point.
The cooler is a decent sized hunk of aluminium with a smoked perspex cover. The Zotac logo is embossed and well painted and the whole thing really looks very nice indeed. The big fan in the centre matches perfectly and will help to direct the maximum airflow in exactly the place we want it.
Up the business end we have plenty of connectivity with dual DVI, HDMI and, surprisingly, a DisplayPort adaptor. Little touches like the use of two yellow DVIs really help too. Sure it's a 5p bit of plastic in a place no-one will see. But we all know how important those little touches can be.
The rear of the card is a little chip-heavy thanks to the short nature of the GTS450 AMP!. However if you keep in mind that the GTS450 AMP definitely isn't aimed at those with immense tower-cases then this makes perfect sense and is once again a nice feature. A value card that's a foot long wouldn't be much help to anyone.
If the Zotac logo end of the card is quality, then the 'AMP! Edition' end definitely shows up the value nature. We don't mind corner cutting but a sticker? Really? Hmmm.
Despite it not being quite a full sized shroud, there is enough of the smoked-grey plastic to ensure more of the heat gets exhausted out the rear than doesn't.
Most Recent Comments
I'm sticking to my 5770
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Originally Posted by thestepster
great review nice folding@home numbers tho! |
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Originally Posted by SnW
Exactly what i am thinking wonder what the price will be in Holland... |
value ocuk gtx460 ftw £117 each i got mines for and they are still about £127.99
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Originally Posted by tinytomlogan
Doesnt overclock for toffee tbh. For F@H you are much better off with a 460 as this is a cut too far imho. |
shame these overclock like poo...
BTW i love this what you wrote,
"Folding is hugely popular (join our Redline @ OC3D Folding team, plug plug)
and the GTS250 has a good showing here being just under a stock 460, and when overclocked getting up near 9000 PPD."
If not then I don't know why Nvidia even bothered with this tbh. I'm sure PC World will sell a few, but any one who can use a web browser is soon going to realise that they're better off with a 460.
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Originally Posted by SnW
shame these overclock like poo... |
I do really like the cooler though.
its good to see that nvidia actually has something to compete with in the lower end, altough its kinda a whole year late. Those gtx460s id say are nvidias shining achievement for the 4xx line, and ati can take the crown for the high end, and intel for the low.
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Originally Posted by silenthill
buy one get one free |
What a bloody pointless product.
Aren't the 450 designed to operate at 1024x768 and 1280x1024, due to the results of the Steam screen resolution survey where 31% of users have that resolution. Which is why it isn't all that powerful, since you don't need all that much memory and shader cores.
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Originally Posted by Zeals
Sorry to sorta revive a 'dead' thread. Aren't the 450 designed to operate at 1024x768 and 1280x1024, due to the results of the Steam screen resolution survey where 31% of users have that resolution. Which is why it isn't all that powerful, since you don't need all that much memory and shader cores. |
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