Tuesday, November 22nd 2011
ZOTAC Announces GeForce GTS 450 ZONE Edition Silent Graphics Card
ZOTAC International, a leading innovator and channel manufacturer, today debuts the silently quick GeForce GTS 450 ZONE Edition for users that demand stunning Microsoft DirectX 11 visuals and noise-less cooling.
The ZOTAC GeForce GTS 450 ZONE Edition takes the award-winning GeForce GTS 450 graphics processor with 192 high-performance shaders and passively cools it using a ZOTAC-exclusive dual-slot fan-less cooling system that features copper heat-pipes and aluminum fins to keep the graphics processor cool while operating silently.
"ZOTAC listens to the demands of silent computing users and their needs for more graphics power, which is why we created the GeForce GTS 450 ZONE Edition," said Carsten Berger, marketing director, ZOTAC International. "With the ZOTAC GeForce GTS 450 ZONE Edition we struck the perfect balance of 3D performance and energy-efficiency to eliminate the cooling fan, as well as the external power connector."
The ZOTAC GeForce GTS 450 ZONE Edition is the ultimate graphics card for home theater PCs with it's 1080p ready HDMI output capable of bitstreaming the loss-less Dolby Digital TrueHD and DTS-HD Master Audio codecs when paired with compatible audio equipment and software. Hardware-accelerated high-definition video decoding enables the ZOTAC GeForce GTS 450 ZONE Edition to playback cinematic Blu-ray 3D movies smoothly and beautifully.
It's time to play with the ZOTAC GeForce GTS 450 ZONE Edition.
The ZOTAC GeForce GTS 450 ZONE Edition takes the award-winning GeForce GTS 450 graphics processor with 192 high-performance shaders and passively cools it using a ZOTAC-exclusive dual-slot fan-less cooling system that features copper heat-pipes and aluminum fins to keep the graphics processor cool while operating silently.
The ZOTAC GeForce GTS 450 ZONE Edition is the ultimate graphics card for home theater PCs with it's 1080p ready HDMI output capable of bitstreaming the loss-less Dolby Digital TrueHD and DTS-HD Master Audio codecs when paired with compatible audio equipment and software. Hardware-accelerated high-definition video decoding enables the ZOTAC GeForce GTS 450 ZONE Edition to playback cinematic Blu-ray 3D movies smoothly and beautifully.
It's time to play with the ZOTAC GeForce GTS 450 ZONE Edition.
17 Comments on ZOTAC Announces GeForce GTS 450 ZONE Edition Silent Graphics Card
It, you know, replaced the GTS450......
And if anyone has any doubts about this being the intention, just look at the top down shot where you can see through the heatsink. There are 2 solder pads with RAM missing, so the PCB was designed with a 192-bit bus in mind, if they truly were making the custom PCB for a GTS450, they wouldn't have put two extra solder pads for RAM modules on it, that is a waste.
Wow, nice way to use up old stuff just make it a "gelding" and hope no one notices! While not using the power of say silent 6770's from Asus or Gigabyte that’s a good thing (no 6-pin). Although cutting back the Core Clock by 183Mhz, and memory to 1333Mhz of DDR3, it's probably well below the 6670's in performance... let hope in price also. :cool:
To me it would have been better to stick with more of a GT440!
As a silent PC is very important to stop any noise interference and reduce the chances of electrical noise coming through the recording.