MSI N450GTS-M2D1GD5/OC GeForce GTS 450 (Fermi) 1GB 128-bit GDDR5 PCI Express 2.0 x16 HDCP Ready SLI Support Video Card

Pros: might look nice in a red themed case

Cons: I got this card refurbished, however the testing must not of been extensive because any time I got the card over 25% usage it would disconnect and then reconnect. I then replaced it with the 450 gts cyclone also from msi and I worked perfectly.

Manufacturer Response:

Dear Valued Customer,

We apologize for the issues that you are having with this product.

If you have any questions or concerns regarding the product, suggestions for improvement for us, please do not hesitate to contact us directly at usreview@msi.com and we will be more than happy to assist you, thank you.

Best Regards,
MSI Review Team | usreview@msi.com

Pros: We used this card to run a church media system (to run lyrics, video, images) every Sunday. It worked well enough while it worked.

Cons: This card, inexplicably, after a year of use. One day it was working, the next day our motherboard was giving us a Long-Short-Short beep alert that notified us that the card was not working. I put in a different card in the same slot and it worked just fine. The card has a 3 year warranty, which is good. However... MSI's warranty service is horrible. Every time I call, I wait on hold for 15 minutes then get disconnected. I had to do a self-guided warrantee service on their website. But when I sent it in, they never found it. After an email to their RMA department, they finally "received" it. It supposed to be 5-10 days warrantee service... but they've had it 13 days and I haven't even seen an update yet on the status of my RMA. The card has been gone for 3 weeks now and I still haven't seen any progress.

Other Thoughts: This card is discontinued now... so I don't know how many people will see this. But, I'm very frustrated at MSI for being utterly inaccessible. I bought this card because I thought MSI was a reliable brand. I was wrong.

Manufacturer Response:

Dear Valued Customer,

We apologize for the issues that you are having with this product.

Please kindly visit the URL below to set up a RMA with the following information.
http://service.msicomputer.com/msi_user/rma_form_new.aspx

1. Full name (first, and last)
2. Telephone #
3. Physical address
4. Email address
5. Serial number (located on the box, or the back of VGA card, eg 602-xxxx-xxxBxxxxxxxxxx)
6. Symptoms you are having onto the Special Remark section (as detailed as possible)

Once your information and warranty coverage are verified then we can proceed with this RMA for you.
Our turn-around time is typically about one week and our system will notify you automatically at every stage of your RMA process.

If you have any questions or concerns regarding the product, received the unit back from RMA but are still having issues, please do not hesitate to contact us directly at usreview@msi.com and we will be more than happy to assist you, thank you.

Best Regards,
MSI Review Team | usreview@msi.com

Pros: powerful card runs almost all current games at high settings

Cons: fan is slightly noisy, and the vent for the fan plugs rather quickly

Other Thoughts: for anyone have issues with windows startup freezing when installing new drivers do not install hd audio driver. After RMAing one card which might have been fine . My new card was working fine till those drivers were installed in the 280.26 drivers. If that doesn't solve the problem I suggest RMA. They did an awesome job with me they were fast and courteous.

Pros: I always like NVIDIA. This is a shorter card so I had no trouble getting it into my case. Ran great for 6 months.

Cons: Video started to shut off periodically. Spent a lot of time cussing at my computer for nothing, it was my new video card. Finally it would flicker off and on, then that was that. Never overclocked it either.

Other Thoughts: I have a lot of MSI components, normally I have good luck with them. This time my luck failed.

Pros: Was ok when it worked.

Cons: First one lasted about 4 months, took weeks to get the replacement, it lasted a few days. Card runs way to hot memory errors, restarts,black screens,driver corrupt, you name it. MSI has lost me as a customer.

Other Thoughts: Never again.

Pros: runs cool...I set 2 up in SLI and runs anything I throw at them.

Cons: none so far

Other Thoughts: Buy it.

Pros: fast, affordable, it is Nvidia. Drivers are stable. Sli ready
runs Unigen heaven maxed out 1900/1280 at about 33 fps average, single card for a buck.

Cons: 128 bit, 1 Gb ram, Hdmi Mini port is very hard to access. it sits very close to the edge of the card and the cord does not fit. Rather frustrating.

Other Thoughts: Good card for the price. plan to get another one sometime.

Running full MSI setup on Mobo and Gpu.
System runs very fast and well.
Have not found a game that it cant run at max graphics yet with fair frame rates. very powerful $100 dollar card

Pros: installed like a dream.quite

Cons: none so far

Pros: Pros: It was cheap, a good upgrade from my previous computer GPU and played the games I was playing.

Cons: Sadly it just recently started getting artifacts and causing crashes whenever it was used in my SLI setup. I have isolated it to this card (My other is a 450GTS cyclone) and my system works great when this card is disabled...otherwise I crash

Other Thoughts: I wouldn't advise buying this card now purely because its fairly old. I would STRONGLY advise if this was in your price range that you buy the 450GTS Cyclone. It runs MUCH cooler and overall was much better than this one. Otherwise I would not recommend this card for gaming purely for its age.

Manufacturer Response:

Dear Valued MSI Customer,
“Please contact MSI customer service representative Jane at janegao@msi.com, or call Jane at 626-913-0828 ext 221 with your case details for rma service. Thank you.”
Best Regards,
Customer Service Team

Pros: Works like it should, when it works. It's quiet, not too bulky for a mid-tower case and seems to handle watching movies in HD just fine. I'm not a gamer so I cannot comment on that part of it, but watching action movies I cannot complain.

Cons: The driver for the card stopped responding after a month of use. Had to boot up in safe-mode to get to my desktop without it going blank or freezing. Uninstalled the driver which was put out in April 2011 and installed the one that came on the disk, which was put out in June 2010. Same thing kept happening. So I uninstalled the driver completely just using the Windows default driver and everything seemed to work just fine, without sound going through my DVI to HDMI cable anyway.

So I RMA'd it through MSI, which was simple enough but had to pay for shipping, which is standard I'm sure. Got it back in about 10 days. They replaced it with a new one, installed it and it was DOA, got on Newegg to read other reviews, seems the problem I was having with the first was very common. An MSI Technical Rep was leaving his email address for people to email him directly, I tried this. Got a response the next day with a UPS mailing label. Got the new one less than a week later, new one working.

Other Thoughts: This seems like a good card now that it's working fine again. But I cannot recommend this particular model due to the problem that I and others are having with it. If it dies again I'm going back to EVGA which has never let me down even once. If you're having a similar problems with this card, read down and find the email address of the MSI rep, they're very helpful and quick. As far as RMAs go, this was an alright experience with quick and efficient service.

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