Asus has just announced a new graphics card, the Bravo 220. Dedicated to fans living room PC, the card is based on a chip GeForce GT 220, an entry-level model has 48 stream processors. The Asus card is fanless, which forced the company has significantly reduced the frequencies: 525 / 1 360 MHz (GPU / shader), against 626 / 1 360 MHz on the reference cards. Similarly, DDR2 memory is clocked at only 400MHz (DDR2-800) against 500 MHz on the reference version and 790 MHz DDR3 version. As shown, card is perfect for home cinema but is not suitable for games.

The card is half-height format and comes with a bracket compatible. Attention, with the latter only two of the three outputs are available, the DVI and HDMI, VGA requiring the classical square. The card is priced at € 87 and Asus sells it with an infrared remote control and a light sensor to adjust the screen brightness to ambient lighting.