Nvidia GeForce GT 440 introduced

AMD recently announced 25 million graphics chips shipped with DirectX 11 support, now includes Nvidia quietly on in the lower price segments, which were previously only supplied with the old chips. As of now there are Nvidia Fermi for the masses, in the form of the GT 440, which is currently only intended for OEMs.

At first glance falls on the very short PCB, which hardly longer than the PCI Express port itself. Nevertheless, the card comes with a DVI, VGA and an HDMI connection, therefore, to be advertised later, "multimedia capable" computers in pre-the-shelf as. Similar to the slow built-in sound lurid 1.5 or 3 GB of DDR3 memory, in which the Fermichip available and are clocked at 1600 MHz 1800 MHz respectively.

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The GPU has to accept the buyer much more cuts. Sun are only the GPU 144 of the maximum possible core of a 192 Cuda GF106 chips to services, the memory interface has been compared to the normal GTS 450, however, expanded to 192 bits. generated with a clock of 594 MHz, the small Fermi a not to be underestimated by around 56 watts heat. This is to remove the role of the built-in single slot cooler, which said striking position to contribute to the well better fresh air supply should - whether it is also quiet time will tell. What looks in an SLI connector to such a low cost alternative is to continue a mystery.