nVidia Geforce GT430 Review

The GT430 is shipped in a box immediately recognisable as a Zotac product. We have a futuristic cyborg style character emerging from an orange tinted firey background.

The Bundle includes a manual and warranty information as well as an adapter and software disc. There is also a leaflet offering deals on ‘Geforce accelerated software' such as vReveal (30% off).

The Zotac GT430 features a chunky heatsink design with a small orange fan with 11 blades. It is a tiny, single slot card which will make it even more attractive to the HTPC audience.

On the rear, we have connectivity for HDMI (1.4a compliant), Displayport and Dual Link DVI-I. All the major digital bases are covered and we are glad to see they have removed VGA from the reference design.

The card is not SLI capable. On the plus side, it does take all the power it needs from the PCI-Express slot, meaning no power connectors are required.

The graphics core clock is 700mhz and the CUDA cores run at 1400mhz. Memory speed is set at 1800mhz (DDR3). The GeForce GT430 includes one GPC with two Streaming Multiprocessors (SMs), two frame buffer partitions (FBs), and one half ROP partition (four ROP units). It also supports CUDA, PhysX and 3D Vision. nVidia recommend a 300 Watt power supply for a system built around this discrete solution. The current version of GPUz has some issues getting the default clock speeds as seen above.

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