Introducing Galaxy’s GTS 450 SuperOverclock
The GeForce GTS 450
– Power Usage
This is important for many people as a very hot running GPU is not only not “green”, it throws warm air into your room that your air conditioner must work extra hard to compensate for. Of course, for those of us like this editor who lives where it is cooler than warmer, a small space-heater in ones PC is a plus. We have seen the GTS 450’s TDP specification, that it is a modest 106W and the GTS 450 only requires one 6-pin PCIe connector as shown below as does its chief rival the HD 5750 sitting next to it.
The GTS 450’s performance does come at a very low power cost; compare the system total power draw at the wall with the PC at bootup and idling in 2D.
Now the total system power draw from the wall with the same PC at the start of FurMark. Bear in mind that FurMark is absolute worst case power draw on a video card and it will exceed anything that you will find in a game.
Now we are going to torture our GTS 450 GF104 GPU with FurMark. A couple of minutes is enough to find near the peak power draw:
Here is the peak power we observed during the FurMark run:
Considering that we started the test at around 200W and mostly stressed our GPU, we can safely say we are using about 100W and perhaps spiking to 130W; well within Nvidia’s real-world TDP measurements which are an average.
Amazingly, even during Furmark, temperatures run in the cool 70s C as “worst case” as even the reference cooling solution appears up to the task. On the other hand, the Galaxy GTS 450 SOC runs even cooler and quieter while at a higher core and memory clock! Both videocards are totally silent even at full normal spinup inside my case. Only when they are in SLI does one of the cards run very hot as they are pressed so close to each other and still you can barely hear it.
It’s a phenomenal review!! I loved how you compared it with a 5750 and my old 8800GTX, plus how you did 450’s in SLI versus 5870 and GTX 480. And the fully-rounded arsenal of games is icing on the cake!
Awesome review, very cool that you added 8800GTX. I was considering swapping mine out for the 450 originally.
i used the mother board MSI 880GM-E43 and A video card GTS 450 my question is what power supply should we used the 600W or 800W pls help me coz got problem in my video card the fan run slowly i just buy it now i used 600w power supply but my game got black screen everytime i play after 2minuts
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However, either PSU is probably sufficient if they are of reasonable quality and not defective. The card’s fan speed is variable, depending on the temperatures. Use Galaxy’s Xtreme HD Tuner or EVGA precision tool to monitor temperatures.
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