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ASUS has an interesting card in their version of the reference GT430 card. While the card is clocked at the standard reference clock frequencies, there’s headroom on the design as the card was able to hit over 100MHz clock speed increase over the reference clocks. ASUS has decided to include a 2-slot heatsink/fan cooling solution, which allows for the higher clocks on this card. It should be interesting as AMD is set to launch a new set of video cards on the market this week to see how pricing should emerge. The lowest end NVIDIA card based upon the Fermi architecture does keep its praise as a HTPC video card and has the power to outshine the integrated solutions from AMD and Intel. The quoted power draw of 49W TDP means that this card does not need external power to run. The card length is 6 inches, which means it barely is longer than a PCI Express x16 slot.
