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On 7/1/2013 8:05 AM, Xocyll wrote:
> Tanzen <waldby...@yahoo.com> looked up from reading the entrails of
> the porn spammer to utter  "The Augury is good, the signs say:
>
>> Whoever said that is extremely prone to exaggeration.
>
> I said it, quoting hardware reviews I read online.
>
> It's 2.5 months away from being 3 years old (introduced Sept 13, 2010)
> and it was aimed at the midrange market.
>
> See for instance
> http://www.neoseeker.com/Articles/Hardware/Reviews/NVIDIA_GTS_450/
>
> You don't get high performance cards for less than $200, that's the
> midrange/budget area.  High end is going to run probably $400 and up
> (can get a GTX 670 locally around $400 up to the GTX Titan at $1079.)
>
> You can get a lot of performance out of a modern midrange card, but
> you'll never be able to max out all the graphic settings in a new game
> (unless that game has graphics that aren't modern.)
>
> My current card is a generation newer than yours (GTX 550 Ti,)
> outperforms your card in every way, and was a midrange card when I
> bought it a couple years back.   It was designed as a midrange card,
> just as yours was.
>
> Mine is still enough for me in most games simply because I don't use
> FSAA and AF and if need be I can turn down/off shadows and not really
> miss them, and I don't need more than 30FPS ever, giving me enough
> performance for my needs.  In games that let you do it, reducing
> particle count for physics stuff can also give a relatively huge
> performance boost without changing the visuals much.)
>
> You might find this chart handy for comparisons when your shopping for
> your next card.   (Not a substitute for reading reviews about the
> specific card(s) you're considering, but will give you a broad overview
> of relative power.)
>
> Xocyll
>

I wouldn't be so quick to think you know what my card does.  I've seen 
pictures of the 450 on nVidia and they show a fairly usual looking card 
with a fan.  Mine is a European model, and most of the card consists of 
heat sinks.  There is no fan.  It's a GTS 450 Zone Edition Silent 
Passive video card. Maybe the specs are similar to the one with a fan, 
but I doubt they are identical.

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