A few questions about the GT 440

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I have been looking for a decent graphics card that will run most modern games, however I am on an extreme budget. I was browsing on new egg and found this: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814134134 It is a Nvidia GT 440 for $60 after mail-in rebate and looks like a fairly good card. Also my mobo is Sli capable, so I could by another one later on and use them side by side. I do however have a few questions concerning this card.

My First question is can I hook up two independent displays to this single card? I very much like to continue to have my desktop extend across two monitors. I'm assuming the limit would be two monitors? Also if I get a second card for Sli, can I hook up four monitors at once?

One of my other questions is of the stated memory clock on New Egg. They state that the memory clock is 3200Mhz? I find it rather incredulous that a card this cheap could have such a high memory clock. Can someone confirm that this is indeed the true memory clock?

One final question, is this going to be much better than my current HD4830? The specs appear to be better, plus I'm rather fed up with CCC and ATIs drivers. When I put two of them in Sli will it be twice as fast as just one? And will I have twice the video memory? (yeah i know, that was actually two more questions)

I'd like to have these questions resolved before I seriously consider making the purchase. Thanks in advance :)
 
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That does look like quite the card for price. Does it support multiple monitors? My current card has 2 DVI ports, so when I see only one I get a little confused. One thing though, is it's ATI. That means I cant put in a second card later on and Sli it. To upgrade I'd have to buy a better and much more expensive card. I will certainly take that card into consideration though, as it looks to be a very good deal. It would certainly give me bang for buck for right now. Thank you for the input jtt283.
 
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There are other versions of that card, with two DVI connectors, although they may not all be as cheap. Don't get one with DDR3 memory though; you definitely want DDR5. And yes, you can run two monitors on it, or three if one of them uses a DisplayPort connector.
A single HD5670 is three tiers higher than the GT440. That means it is probably just a little bit better than a pair of them in SLI (plus it won't have any potential multi-card driver issues).
 
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Well I'm not sure what a tier is, but I was look in at some benchmarking here: http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/ASUS/GeForce_GT_440/1.html
It looks as though the 5670 gets maybe 4-15 fps more on average at the higher resolutions I'd be gaming at. So if I were to Sli two 440's they wouldn't get 15fps higher than just the one card? I guess I was a bit over optimistic in my presumptions on the efficiency of Sli.
Also the 5670 has 512mb of memory, while the 440 has 1gb, however the 5670's is DDR5 but it's at a lower clock speed. I have no idea which one would be the more advantageous to have.
So I can hook up three displays to either one of these cards and have them act as separate displays (no cloning)? Would I be able to do 1920x1080 on all three? And before you say something, yes I am aware that I wouldn't be able to run most modern games at 1920x1080 on all three screens with either one of these cards.
Thank you all for the help you have provided so far, particulary jtt283. :)
 
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Be careful of what your looking at. There are two models of the GeForce GT 440. You linked to the OEM model which is only available from vendors like Dell, HP, etc..

GeForce GT 440
GPU Engine Specs:
CUDA Cores : 96
Graphics Clock (MHz) : 810 MHz
Texture Fill Rate (billion/sec) : 13.0
Memory Specs:
Memory Clock (MHz) : 1600 (GDDR5) or 900 (DDR3)
Standard Memory Config : 512MB (GDDR5) or 1GB (DDR3)
Memory Interface Width : 128-bit
Memory Bandwidth (GB/sec) : 28.8 (DDR3) – 51.2 (GDDR5)
Maximum Memory Amount : 1GB GDDR5 or 2GB DDR3
Maximum Graphics Card Power (W) : 65 W


GeForce GT 440 - OEM
GPU Engine Specs:
CUDA Cores : 144
Graphics Clock (MHz) : 594 MHz
Texture Fill Rate (billion/sec) : 14.3
Memory Specs:
Memory Clock (MHz) : 800 or 900
Standard Memory Config : 1.5 GB or 3.0 GB GDDR3
Memory Interface Width : 192-bit
Memory Bandwidth (GB/sec) : 43.2
Feature Support:
NVIDIA SLI Ready : 2-way
Maximum Graphics Card Power (W) : 56 W
 
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How about the Tech Power-Up article? I don't believe that is the OEM version... Either way, I shant no longer question the wisdom of the veteran, and I do believe jtt283 has convinced me of the 5670.
 
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In that article they said that ASUS used their own custom designed printed circuit board. It is not the reference design.

The ECS one you initially linked to adheres to the reference design that doesn't support SLI.

Yes the Radeon HD 5670 is a better performing card.
 
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Thank you for your very informative responses ko888, I apologize for my rather persistent questioning. I'm sure you saved me from future disappointment regarding the cards lack of Sli.
And much thanks to jtt283 for bringing up the 5670 as a better candidate for a budget card, and especially for answering the majority of my questions with directness.
 
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