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- Manufacturer Limited Warranty period (parts): 3 years
- Manufacturer Limited Warranty period (labor): 2 years
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Thermal paste
- Pros: $$ and 512 megs ram.
- Cons: Overheater due to silent design, but more importantly, due to the cheap dried up thermal tape used at the factory.
- Other Thoughts: Once smeared with arctic silver, wow. Big improvement over my 256 meg 7600GT. Will probably avoid silent designs in the future though.
Rewriting my other review
- Pros: had this card for almost 3 months now and have had one problem and that will go into cons. it can run counter strike source on ALL detials maxed including edge smoothing or whatever. ever had it overheat. have 2 fans on it. a small one from another computer i rigged thats a cpu fan. and a small bathroom fan sitting outside the case blowing on it to make sure it wont overheat. maxed it out to 125 f. highest i got it and thats with 2 wow windows open with MAX settings on with my tv tuner going taking up more of its gpu. only problem posted in cons.
- Cons: only con was i thought the card was bad but i was inserting the ram i had ordered with it wrong and it wasnt set right. the ram was workin just the cables running next the ram were pushing on it and it wouldnt start up cus of it for some reason. after i got that working tho it was no problem.
one last con. it says you need a bigger psu then what i have but it runs fine. only have a 400 i believe but it says 450 on the box then only 400 in the manual. musta been a different box or something.
- Other Thoughts: using a 3.01 ghz 2 core cpu
2 gigs of ram
250 gig harddrive
terrible mobo forgot the name tho.
best price for a great card you can get for a few more months till another one drops.
Pretty good
- Pros: Fanless, relatively low-power, typical nvidia support (thats good), stable, no major problems, decent gaming framerates if you put some attention into it and try not to ask too much of it.
- Cons: Picky: To get Consistent frame rates (FPS) in games, I had to make sure no icons in the system tray were animated or updating, because a systray display update seemed to result in a dropped frame, every time, when gaming...
Once when playing a game I discovered that frame dropping was also being caused by another program (besides the game) simply reading the harddisk, once every second or two. Using filemon and procexp I was able to identify which program it was, and suspend it, and make the fps smooth again.
- Other Thoughts: I recommend using omega drivers vs. the official drivers (just google: download omega video drivers)
Couple example games and what you'd expect:
Grid: 800x600 is playable, anything higher is too slow to be called playable. Don't change any 3D driver-settings for this game, just "let the application [grid] decide" or it's likely to hurt the fps, even if you're trying to adjust for better fps.
WoW: I was happy to be able to play in 1280x1024 24/24 4xAA/Multisampling, if I turned down the "Texture Filtering" setting in the game, it got a good frame rate. The fps at this res and LOD are probably not great in raiding or in PvP, IF you are picky about your WoW fps, but if you lower it to 1024x768 (or maybe just lower the AA/multisample instead) I think it's great all around.
I think the guy who had artifacts just got a bad one by chance.
It seems there are similar cards from MSI for cheaper, now, so im not sure if this one is still the best choice, economically speaking.
| Model |
| Brand |
MSI |
| Model |
NX8500GT-TD512EH |
| Interface |
| Interface |
PCI Express x16 |
| Chipset |
| Chipset Manufacturer |
NVIDIA |
| GPU |
GeForce 8500 GT |
| Core Clock |
460MHz |
| Stream Processors |
16 |
| Memory |
| Effective Memory Clock |
800MHz |
| Memory Size |
512MB |
| Memory Interface |
128-bit |
| Memory Type |
GDDR2 |
| 3D API |
| DirectX |
DirectX 10 |
| OpenGL |
OpenGL 2.0 |
| Ports |
| D-SUB |
1 x D-SUB |
| DVI |
1 x DVI |
| TV-Out |
HDTV / S-Video Out |
| General |
| RAMDAC |
400 MHz |
| Max Resolution |
2560 x 1600 |
| Cooler |
Fanless |
| Dual-Link DVI Supported |
Yes |
| Windows Vista |
Certified for Windows Vista |
| Features |
| Features |
NVIDIA CineFX 5.0 Shading Architecture
NVIDIA PureVideo Technology |
| Packaging |
| Package Contents |
NX8500GT-TD512EH
HDTV Cable
S-Video Cable
DVI to VGA/D-sub Adapter |
| Manufacturer Warranty |
| Parts |
3 years limited |
| Labor |
2 years limited |
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Reviewed By: Alhazarad on 10/6/2008
Tech Level: somewhat high - Ownership: 1 week to 1 month
