It's been along time since I've been on the green side of things, or the Nvidia side, I've been with the red team, ATI, for a while now so it was nice to get this Nvidia GeForce GTS250 to play with. Video cards play a big role in our computers now, not just for video games, but for physics rendering, folding and even video processing or encoding with compatible programs, so they've become much more than something that puts the video on our screens. With all of the tings they can do now, it's a wonder why budget cards, or cards with low memory are even on the market, then again, not everyone takes advantage of these features and some people just want to play games or watch videos.

A little bit ago I took a look at the Diamond ATI Radeon 4870 1gig video card, a higher end card for sure, today though I've got the other side of things, an Nvidia GTS 250 from ECS Elitegroup. It's totally the other side of things, it costs about half as much and it's from a different company, still though I was curious as to how it would perform against my current 4870. So read on to see how they compare, you might be a bit surprised as I was...

Product Name: ECS Elitegroup Nvidia GeForce GTS 250 PCIE 1024MB DDR3 Video Card NGTS250-1GMU-F

Author: Kristofer Brozio

Sponsor: ECS Elitegroup

Tech Specs,Features or the Basic Info:

ECS Elitegroup Nvidia GeForce GTS 250 PCIE 1024MB DDR3 Video Card NGTS250-1GMU-F

ECS Elitegroup GeForce GTS250

ECS NGTS250

NGTS250-1GMU-F

Brilliant Performance for Hardcore Gamers

-NVIDIA GeForce GTS250 GPU：Delivers world-class HD graphics performance plus GPU-accelerated NVIDIA PhysX gaming effects, lightning fast video

and image processing, and full NVIDIA 3D Vision support allowing you to game in true stereoscopic 3D

-1024MB DDR3 SDRAM with 256-bit data bus

-Full Micrsoft DirectX 10 Shader Model 4.0 Support

-Built for Microsoft Windows Vista

-NVIDIA PhysX-Ready

-NVIDIA CUDA Technology

-NVIDIA SLI Technology

-NVIDIA 3-Way SLI Technology

-NVIDIA Hybrid Power Technology

-NVIDIA PureVideo HD Technology

-2X Dual-Link DVI Outputs

-HDTV/HDCP Support

-PCI Express 2.0 Support

-OpenGL 2.1 Optimizations and Support

GPU (Graphics Processing Unit)

Powered by NVIDIA GeForce GTS250 GPU

-Fully supports Microsoft Direct X10.0

-Fully supports OpenGL 2.1

-Core Clock: 740Mhz

PCI EXPRESS Interface

-Supports PCI Express 2.0 interface

Memory

-Clock: 2200Mhz

-1024 MB DDR3 SDRAM with 256-bit data bus

-Memory type:16Mx32

Output

-Dual DVI-I output(With HDCP Support)

-HDTV