Benchmark Reviews take a look at the ASUS EN9400GT GeForce 9400GT HDMI Video Card. Here's a taster:

Every business knows how important effective marketing is for selling their products and with ASUS they know how to package it just right and make it appealing to the buyer. The retail box does a good job emphasizing the fact that this card is for an HTPC and that it features an HDCP HDMI port. However, I'm not so sure that having any sort of gaming graphics on the box is the best thing to do when it's clear that the EN9400GT is not intended to be a gamer's video card.

Even though this is a low end video card, everything about it seems to be of high quality from it's capacitors all lined up neatly to it's highly polished heatsink securely affixed to the PCB which itself is pleasing to look at with it's bright blue color. I'm not so sure why ASUS decided to add a full 1GB of memory, it had no effect on it's overall performance when compared to my 8600GT with only 256MB. I would've liked to see the number of shaders bumped up from it's 16 to something a little higher that can make games a little better to play but then again that would probably negatively affect it's temperature.

The EN9400GT is an excellent choice if your building a new or replacing a video card in an HTPC. Since this card runs exceptionally cool, it makes it a perfect candidate for a small cramped HTPC case. It's low power usage is also very important in small HTPC cases since their power supplies tend to be on the skimpy side. Of course, the best feature of all is it's native HDMI port that is also HDCP compliant. I'm a Blu-Ray movie fanatic so perfect picture quality is very important to me and HDMI is the only way to go. The HDMI port also passes through true 7.1 channel audio but only if you use the supplied S/PDIF cable, unlike ATI cards with HDMI ports that don't need that extra cable. Just make sure your motherboard or soundcard has the necessary S/PDIF header to connect to. It's low profile and standard sized brackets ensure this video card will fit in just about any style of case.

At idle, the ASUS EN9400GT drew only 13 watts of power while drawing 33 watts at full load. Talk about saving some green, literally and figuratively. No need to worry about what your next electric bill will look like, that is assuming you don't have another PC in the house with a triple SLI GTX 285 setup.