Review of ASUS GTS 450 DirectCU Silent: Gamer VGA Without Requiring Additional Power

Graphics card

With all-black color theme, either in a passive heatsink and the PCB are used, this graphics card looks quite interesting.

Only a passive heatsink used to cool the GPU.

Although the size of the PCB that used is quite short, but the size of the heatsinks are used much longer.

Two heatpipes that across the top of graphics cards, are used to cool the GPU by the method of Direct Touch.

To measure the working temperature of this graphics card, we also run the application Unigine Heaven 2.1 and get a result like this.

ASUS GTS 450 DirectCU Silent

• Full-load : 79 C
• Idle : 42 C

As already mentioned, this graphics card doesn’t require additional power, so it cannot find any additional power connector on the graphics card.

The back of the PCB of the graphics card uses a black dove color.

Because of this graphics card uses passive cooling, then ASUS graphics card put the memory of the on the back, utilizing the airflow inside the chassis.