AMD has long been one step further and with the AMD Radeon HD 6870 and ATI Radeon HD 6850 already the first models of its second-generation DirectX 11 sent to the start, you are running after a bit, NVIDIA, since the beginning of October one entered with NVIDIA GeForce GT 430 for the first time the lower price class. In the meantime, moved to a number of board partners and presented the small entry-level graphics card with higher clock speeds, or even other heat sink. The Gigabyte GeForce 430 GT OC, we have now taken just such a model to us. By default, content with the youngest family member of the GeForce 400-series with 700/1400/900 MHz. Gigabyte is slightly turned to the clock and sat bolt up the GPU frequency by 30 MHz.

This is accompanied by higher clock rates of the 96 scalar units. This may now with 1460 MHz. The 1024 MB of video memory, which is composed of older DDR3 chips and a 128 bit wide interface communicates brings, however, it continues on its 900 MHz. But not only the clock speeds trying to settle the NVIDIA board partners. Also, the cooling system has created Gigabyte hand and its own fan that is equipped with two 45 mm fans, strapped on.

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The NVIDIA GeForce GT 430 chip set number four of the Fermi-architecture, the GF108. Due to a different arrangement of the shader and texture units NVIDIA had in contrast to the GF100 flagship rebuild the cluster again. As with the GF104 and GF106 are summarized each 48 ALUs to a streaming multiprocessor. In addition, eight per shader cluster TMUs, which are thus a total of 16 pieces available.

In the memory you set on older and slower DDR3 chips, which are also over 128 data lines connected. When the grid power amplifiers are available to the GF108, which holds the remainder 585 million transistors, four units. Leave the default clock speeds of Californians before 700/1400/900 MHz and provide a small single slot cooler and mini-fan. Gigabyte GeForce GTX 430 OC has his but with 730/1460/900 MHz and bought his latest offshoot of a dual-slot cooler which should thanks to two small fans significantly quieter and more efficient work at the same time.