ECS Elitegroup NBGTS450-1GPI-F Pro Reviews

The ECS GeForce GTS 450 Black Series 1GB video card is a very impressive graphics card since it uses the Arctic Cooling Accelero Twin Turbo Pro heatsink. The Accelero Twin Turbo Pro GPU cooler retails for $50 itself, so to get it pre-installed on the ECS GeForce GTS 450 is a nice touch. This cooler features two 92mm PWM fans and 4-heatpipes that connect to 35 cooling fins achieve up to 120 Watts cooling capacity. The GeForce GTS 450 has a TDP rating of 106 Watts, so this cooler can easily handle an overclocked card like this and the temperature testing results show that. The ECS GeForce GTS 450 Black series card was the quietest of the bunch and also cooler than the five GeForce GTS 450 cards that we have benchmarked. If noise and temperatures are a big deal to your purchase decision then you'd be hard pressed to find a better solution on the market for an NVIDIA GeForce GTS 450 video card.

ECS is using a simple, but very effective formula. Grab a well-priced card, slap a giant cooler on it and give it a boost in clock speeds. Of course, if you’re going to spend more to buy a version with such a great cooler, it seems silly not to take full advantage of it and try boost the clocks even more.