Over the US Thanksgiving holiday, NVIDIA quietly released their entry level GPU call the GeForce 310. The graphics card is the first in their 300 series, is said to replace the earlier GeForce 210 model and has been designed for users with basic video requirements who are perhaps still working with an integrated video card.
The card will adequately provide for hardware accelerated 1080p high definition video and general computing but this card will not offer any high level gaming experience as it only has a 64 bit memory processor and 16 CUDA cores. Additionally, the processor is rated at 589MHz which is coupled with 512MB of DDR2 VRAM. The board also comes with DVI, DisplayPort and VGA ports with the DVI and DisplayPorts easily convertible to HDMI by means of a simple adapter.
At this time, pricing and availability for the GeForce 310 video card are unavailable.
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In January of 2010, I went to purchase a video card for a cheap Dell computer so I didn’t want to spend alot of money. I purchased a Nvidia Geforce 210 and took the box home. Later that evening, when opened the box inside was the Geforce 310 labeled as a Geforce 210. I put it in the computer and it worked perfectly, well …. at least that is for about a week. The new fan used on the video card began to squeal very loudly. It was so loud that it even made my dog howl. I know this sometimes happens when fans get old, but c’mon, one week! How cheap can Nvidia get? I replaced the video card with a 260 series card. If I get the same problem with this card I will switch to ATI.