ZOTAC GeForce GT 430 (Fermi) Zone Edition ZT-40601-20L Video Card

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This card does specifically what it is supposed to. I have only tested a dvd in wmc but it did pass digital audio. Next test is finding Bluray software program and testing the uncompressed sound. It's also fanless huge plus for htpc. To totally appreciate this card you need a bluray drive, very good bluray software program, an av reciever with dts-hd and dolby digital master audio. If you don't have and are not going to have all this stuff the you ought to go with a gamers card in the identical value. I wis the web globe would comprehend what this card is for. When you read critiques it has benchmarks for gaming. Not what this card is for it's only objective is to do bluray with uncompressed digital audio by way of hdmi. I am a excellent souce for this information simply because I build pcs normally highend gaming pcs. I also produced a residing installing custom home theaters. So I know how all this stuff works with each other.

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Fanless, Lowheat, no added energy plug expected. nvidia cuda saves CPU load keeping heat down. Excellent for watching motion pictures on an HTPC setup. Does not play games! Does not Play Audio! The card will Crash randomly about ever 5min. DTS-HD, and Master Audio tracks DO NOT pass although to the receiver and it only comes throught as two channel PCM. If you just want to watch movies in two channel audio with low heat and power, it is a great card. Just dont expect any thing much more out of it.

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silent. and delivers decent efficiency. my graphic and gaming functionality indicator in win7 hopped up to six.6. the games are a lot faster and smoother than my good old GeForce 8600 GT. did not operate with my nForce 4 SLI (ABIT KN8 SLI mobo) with SATA RAID beneath Windows Vista. technique started BSoD a handful of minutes after i added the card. did a swift kernel debug and the crash was usually in nvstor32.sys, timeout assert. looked like had hardware resource conflictions and the nForce four SATA RAID just stopped to respond particular commands.then i attempted my HP Pc (dx5150) with the exact same CPU but different chipset (ATI Radeon Xpress 200M, i believe) in Windows 7. every thing worked. but still the initial time boot up for some explanation my USB keyboard and mouse was not recognized any much more. i had no way to logon and install drivers ! thankfully the ACPI element was still ok so i could shutdown the Computer gracefully and reboot into the Safe Mode and installed my keyboard and mouse drivers. the boot back in typical to get every thing else done. it is rather exciting that nVidia card didnt function properly with the chipset from the same vendor (or was it just me ?). rather ATI chipset plays nicer with it. with all the unfortunate encounters i just cant help questioning how a normal user could tame this beast.

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1 GB of ram 96 stream processors runs cool in three fan method QUIET. DDR3 as an alternative of DDR5 ... NO SLI simply because the heat sink wraps around the card I built a new method and got a GT 230 as an alternative of the sparkle 9500 fanless that I was running in my old rig. I was pleased with the sparkle and have had at least three other people purchase that card and place it in their program. I will almost certainly recommend this 1 to pals as effectively nonetheless, for my gamer pals Ill be telling them to get the Sparkle GTS 250 .. it has DDR5 is SLI compatible and has more stream processors. For now it does me ideal. Been going fanless for 6 years and failures. Tired of fans dying on me will be fanless on GPU for life.

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Has lossless HD audio passthru, plays 3D BluRay movies, fanless. Supported on Win7 x64 Media Center. Decent value. Not the fastest GPU in the planet (rates as 6.7 in Windows 7 practical experience index). If you're hunting for a good price on a silent video card in a HTPC, this card is best. If you're seeking for the hottest gaming video card, you may well require to appear elsewhere. Make sure to download the most recent drivers for the GT 430 straight from nVidia to get lossless HD audio passthru and 3D assistance.

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-Passive Heat Sink Card-Silence-no fan to at some point buzz-Low power usage Max 50 wattsǜ watt idle-6.6 gamingǜ.6 windows WEI-HDMI audio via bitsream- Amazing DTS-MA and Dolby HD-Stays cool at 35c whilst watching Blu Rays- -Takes two slots-Card is a little tall with the heat sinks but fits my Silverstone LC10B-E just fine-A little spendy for graphics overall performance level I was upgrading my nvidia Sparkle 9500gt that has been great the past 2 yrs mainly because I wanted HDMI DTS-MA and Dolby HD with out receiving a committed sound card. I tried a passive ATI 5450񴆲񴈖 with marginal achievement. All the ATI cards had scaling issues no matter what drivers I loaded (has been resolved for some otherboards)...scaling 5450 image excellent was not as fantastic as the 9500gt. The 5570񴈖 had excellent gaming overall performance but the HD DVR/Blu Ray image quality didn't appear as excellent as the 9500gt...truly odd. Even my non-vital eye wife notice the good quality distinction. But the ATI 5570񴈖 did play video games really effectively with great fps but this was for my HTPC and not gaming desktop. So bottom line this is a Perfect HTPC card and low energy consumption to boot which is crucial as it's operating all the time when the Pannasonic 1080p Plasma alot.Wish I wasn't so blinded by ATI performance numbers from the get go for HTPC.

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Call for's no fan, no power connector, backword compatible with x16 1. with no hiccups, runs 31c idle and runs 38c on average of playing blue ray films and dvd's and streaming for my load. None unless you dont know what your finding into with a passive card. emachine el1210-09, altered it to a amd 5050e a while back, so due to the fact of size of case, lately by means of the entire board in an atec tower case with a 430 watt 80+ power provide which I had both laying about collecting dust. I wanted ample cooling with the capacity for a full size card. Simply because the mobo runs in sli mode when adding a card in xpress 16 slot I located I had to go to dos and set to xpress and have nvidia system not commence up in dos, let it turn on then turn off the pc, disconnect power add the gt430 card, plug power in, turn on computer then run the disc that came with it, then go into device manager and disable the on board graphics card, go to nvidia manage panel set native resolution to 1080p then go to adjust screen resolution to match card settings (to get it to remain at 1080p right after a restart. for some odd reason the mobo does not like when I attempt to uninstall the on board drivers. To anybody who has this computer, also know no I/O plate to fit. but who is gonna look in back.

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- Runs completely super cool below normal use circumstances. (haven't gamed with it and don't plan to) I do have great airflow in my case but not certain it would ever be an issue even with virtually none.- No fan to ever fail- Runs so cool I don't think it would ever want a fan. None that I can see. Bought this card to initially to just be an upgrade from the integrated video I had on a server and by accident located it fixed my HD camcorder video playback stuttering as properly as the concerns I had with DVD playback in Media Center. It's an issue I've fought testing several 939, AM2, AM2+ boards, memory speeds, diverse video cards, 32bitኜbit OSs, everything and this card has really cleared it up. I pretty substantially had to run a 64bit OS on the HTPCs to get smooth DVD playback but this card is even better on a 32bit OS... amazing! What also attracted me to the card initially was that it didn't have a fan that would fail years down the line from 24ǝ use in a server (as I've seen occur prior to) and I really can't think how cool it stays. This is truly the perfect HTPC card. I just bought a second and if it passes my HTPC test, I'll be replacing all my HTPC ASUS 9500 GT cards with this. I merely really like this card!

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Quiet No fans Large heat sink I went from an 8400 to this card.Went from three.9 windows experience to 6.6

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Fanless heatsink - silent cooling, fermi-class GPU, HDMI output on card (no adapter needed), all the numerous nVidia acceleration technologies Overly tall heatsink, image overscan, odd incompatibilities I bought this card to replace a Radeon HD 2600 XT in my HTPC. On the plus side, the screen image is noticeably improved, video usually plays superior and the computer software bundle has some exciting items included. On the minus side, I had to get rid of a cooling fan from the case due to the height of the heatsink, I had to uninstall and physically eliminate my tuner card just before re-installing it (installing this video card knocked it out for some cause), the Windows desktop overscans off the edges of my HDTV and I can't appropriate it, and finally, my Avatar blu-ray (which played fine on the Radeon) hangs in the course of load-up. All other blu-rays I've loaded play fine, although.All in all, a definite improvement over the Radeon.The problems may well clear up when I upgrade from Windows XP MCE to Windows 7 Residence Premium 64-bit.I just could choose up a couple a lot more of these for other Pc projects (such as a portable light gaming machine).

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It does send video to the screen YAY!!! Given that it does half the job I gave it 3 eggs. I have the newest driver pack 266.58 that has the 1.1.13.1 HD Audio driver. It is supposed to enable you to pass DTS-HD audio formats to an AV Receiver when utilised with the driver. It won't and I can't figure out if it's this card or the driver from nvidia due to the fact. Nvidia nor Zotac WILL GET BACK TO ME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I shouted the last part mainly because I noticed at times they do respond to these reviews. It's kinda sad this is what it takes.

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Really powerful for a fanless style. If your case has decent Airflow and doesn't burn it up.Wont get 6.9 million frames with Crysis two at max settings. No SLI clip. Would have been nice to use it as a PhysX chip with a solid bridge.Wont get 6.9 million frames with Crysis 2 at max settings. @ 1 Egg reviewer - Measure, twice cut as soon as bud.@ two Egg reviewer - Thats a situation we call "Defective". Replace it. Either that or the load is overheating it if you dont have excellent airflow.

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SilentRemains comparatively cool when playingHW decode for 3D blu rays The heatsink adds heights As I mentioned in Cons, the heatsink adds enough height so it does not fit in my HTPC case (hence 1 star off from the rating). Since this is advertised as a HTPC, manufacturer ought to try to keep a low profile on this card whenever probable (and certainly not make a bulky heatsink that goes more than the card).Now that we got the bad component off, the excellent portion...Works superb. To install it, I had to take off the heatsink, hack off the top of it and re-attached it on the card. Even with a hacked heatsink, this card does not heat. My HTPC has two x 12 inch low speed 񡹨RPM) fans and the card does not go over 50C when playing 3D blu ray... very happy with it. Nvidia could not recognize my Tv given that I have an AV Receiver in between, but a manual configuration solved this. I use CyberPower Ultra to play my 3D blu ray and I have no difficulties.I have not gamed with this card (not I intend to).

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the gt430 card is well built. fanless w/o noise is extremely nice. my Window 7 performance index rated it at 6.6. It is very good sufficient for my four years old HP. the manual is useless. the installation CD does not work at all with my Window 7 ࿀bit version). I have to locate the driver from nvidia internet web page. Overall the card is performing as expected and worth the money