Final thoughts and rating
NVIDIA's partners are obliged to release produces around the majority of GPUs released by the graphics card company. A partner's life is made easier when the underlying GPU and value metric is better than the competition: the GeForce GTX 460 768MB currently fulfills both of these criterion.A partner needs to work harder if the GPU is considered equivalent to the competition, to prize customers away, and this is how we view the GeForce GTS 450 1,024MB. KFA2's LTD OC card is a fine example of a partner looking at the market and providing decent performance and a keen retail price.
Clocked in at 888MHz core and 4,000MHz memory, significantly higher than bone-stock GTS 450s, the card ships with a retail price of a sniff over £100. This is far more in-line with other partners' stock-clocked models, we note. We also like the fact that KFA2 has spent its card budget well, leaving some more core wiggle room while providing faster-than-normal GDDR5 memory.
Granted, the form factor and power-draw figures may put off a few potential purchasers, but we'd be impressed if you could buy more out-of-the-box graphics performance for £100 any time soon.
The Good
Best out-of-the-box performance
for £100; decent overclock
Exceptionally quiet when idling
Quality memory used
The Bad
Power-draw characteristics
higher than AMD's
£200 purchases excellent single-board GPUs
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