Inno3D GeForce 210 512 MB Review 19

Inno3D GeForce 210 512 MB Review

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The Card

Graphics Card Front
Graphics Card Back

The most prominent feature of Inno3D's GeForce 210 is that it is a low-profile card, which makes it an excellent choice for small form factor systems and Media PCs.

Graphics Card Height

The card is exactly one slot tall.

Monitor Outputs, Display Connectors

The card has one analog VGA port, one DVI port and and an HDMI port. For a low-end graphics card, this is a very reasonable output configuration since many low-end PC users still use CRTs. For media PC users, the HDMI output enables an easy way to hook up their graphics cards to the big screens without any adapter cables or converters. Please note that you can remove the slot cover metal and the VGA port to get a truly low-profile graphics card.

As mentioned before, NVIDIA has slightly changed how their HDMI Audio works. Instead of connecting an SPDIF output from your sound card to the graphics card, the driver will route the audio signal from the sound device over the PCI-Express bus into the graphics card. According to NVIDIA "fully uncompressed 7.1 LPCM" is supported, as far as I know the sound card will take care of decoding the audio from other formats into LPCM. Please note that you will still need an onboard sound device or sound card. Unlike ATI graphics cards there is no complete sound device embedded inside the GPU.


While there are no SLI connectors, it is possible to put two of these cards in SLI mode for better performance and data will be transferred via the PCI-Express bus.

Graphics Card Teardown PCB Front
Graphics Card Teardown PCB Back

Here are the front and the back of the card, high-res versions are also available (front, back). If you choose to use these images for voltmods etc, please include a link back to this site or let us post your article.
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