The NVIDIA GeForce GTS 450 video card has proven to be a popular graphics card for mainstream gamers on a budget since it was released last month. When the card was released we took a quick look  at the reference card along with designs from ASUS, EVGA and MSI and found the graphics card packed a decent punch and the price wasn't that bad. We were contacted by ECS shortly after that review was posted and were told that they wanted to send out a card that they thought would be competitive with the others that we had already reviewed.