Though far far away from the release a GTS 450 board has popped up on the web. It is the ASUS ENGTS450 DirectCu and it has been listed on a Bulgarian online store.

The picture reveals a shows the graphics card in all it's glory and makes clear that it features ASUS' popular DirectCu (direct copper) GPU heatsink assemblyLooks like this card comes with a DVI, D-Sub, and HDMI connectos, you will also spot one SLI connector.

Thes little goofup shows the GPU specifications we reported earlier last week as well on a 40nm core. Reported clock frequencies seem to be nicely high at 783 MHz on the core, 1577 MHz on the shader processors and 1804 (3600 effective) MHz on the memory, the 1GB DDR5 will run a 128-bit memory bus with a bandwidth of 57.8 MB/s. ASUS claims to be 20% cooler and 35% quieter than the NVIDIA reference design.

It looks like this model will cost just under 150 EUR. Click on the thumbnail ...