ZOTAC launches GTS 450 ZONE Edition for the silent types

ZOTAC has updated its product portfolio with the GeForce GTS 450 ZONE Edition. This is a complete silent edition with just a large heatsink without any fans for those looking for a quiet, but powerful HTPC card. ZOTAC has priced the card at Rs.6,600. Silencio! The GTS 450 packs in 192 high-performance shaders and passively cools it using their exclusive dual-slot fan-less cooling system that features copper heat-pipes and aluminium fins to keep the graphics processor cool, while operating silently. It's geared for home theatre PCs with its 1080p ready HDMI output capable of bit-streaming the lossless Dolby Digital TrueHD and DTS-HD Master Audio codecs when paired with compatible audio equipment and software. Hardware-accelerated high-definition video decoding enables the ZOTAC GeForce GTS 450 ZONE Edition to playback cinematic Blu-ray 3D movies smoothly. Some of the main specs include: Engine clock: 600 MHz 192 unified shaders Shader clock: 1200 MHz 1GB DDR3 memory Memory clock: 1333 MHz 128-bit memory interface DVI, HDMI & DisplayPort outputs DirectX 11 technology & Shader Model 5.0 OpenGL 4.2 compatible NVIDIA CUDA technology Full HD video playback Blu-ray 3D ready Lossless audio bitstream capable