• Nvidia GT 430 Review

    Nvidia GT 430 Review

    Roydon Cerejo, Oct 19, 2010 1735 hrs IST

    ZOTAC and Galaxy fight it out to the finish line

    Supports HDMI 1.4a (Blu-ray 3D), low power consumption, silent operation, CUDA and PhysX support, good for HTPC systems

    Poor gaming performance for the price, no SLI support

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Design



Both cards deviate from the puny reference design and adopt a square PCB. The heatsink covers the RAM chips but doesn't cool them, as it never really touches them. The entire block is cooled by a tiny fan; it looks like it should get the job done, since these cards don't heat up that much, at least we hope they don't.



The bottom part of the card is bare with just a couple of heatsink retention screws visible.



The ports include a DVI-I, DP and HDMI 1.4a. The DP is a nice addition but I'm not sure it's going to be of much use.


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Rahul
,Pune, on Oct 20, 2010 12:05 PM
Roydon, They don't appear to be low profile cards. I doubt they would then fit in HTPC cabinets.
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Samuel
,Goa, on Oct 20, 2010 12:22 AM
I would go for the Galaxy card as it consumes less power and will last longer since it runs cooler due to the large heat sink. If I would want to race it with the Zotac, I can easily do it using the Xtremetuner app from Galaxy and achieve better results.
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