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Read more.But it's slower than a GeForce 9500 GT, strangely.
id like to see them appearing in PCE-E x1 if they are going to make them for SFF machines
yeah, and if it's so low powered, they should be able to manage a passive cooler, as well. Those tiny little fans are like razor blades to the ears. :\
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Actually, i put a 8500GT in my dads PC a while ago and that had a little fan. It barely makes a sound when your just doing basic stuff, its only when you have something intensive that it spins up. I was quite surprised!
It depends on the quality of the fan, as well. It just tends to be a common theme where quality is proportional with fan size, particularly on super cheap devices.
The last card with a fan on like this had one speed and sounded like a little mosquito!
asus have made a passive cooled one
Nvidia seem to be gimping their low end cards on purpose it seems! The 9800GT and GT240 are faster than all the bus powered Nvidia cards which have replaced them and yet are cheaper too. Even the OEM GT440 was far superior to the one released to retail.
I'm not too bothered by that really. Nobody is seriously expecting to play crysis on a 520, since it's practically useless for all but trivial gaming, it's better to focus on power conservation. As long as it can decode and play back HD video, all is fair, I think.
Agreed
Well as a Fermi based gpu it's unlikely to win any efficiency awards either.
IIRC, 25W is the max power draw of PCI-e x1 slot without exceeding spec. Not that they seem to mind doing that too much.
29W aint far off though! Im sure they could get it down further without too much impact on performance.
as much as it is "new" it does take talent to release a card that is worse than older generation products.
at this rate both ATI/AMDs and Intels onboard will kill any low end NV cards off as being a joke.
It should be pointed out the 9500GT was a 50W TDP card, around $100 at launch, and really intended at a slightly higher market segment than this new card, which really is basic for discrete cards.
It's not "worse" than previous generations, it has more features, lower TDP etc without sacrificing performance. I doubt it's possible for Nvidia to make a much cheaper Fermi card without it selling at a loss, there is a minimum cost to manufacture and distribute a board, regardless if how much you gimp the actual GPU.
Want something cheaper? Buy an older gen card, won't have great performance per watt though.
Doesn't help older PCs though does it, which just need a little upgrade to play HD video etc, the cheap graphics card market has always been an upgraders one.
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