Customer Reviews Of MSI N8400GS-TD512 GeForce 8400 GS 512MB 64-bit GDDR2 PCI Express 2.0 x16 Video Card

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Customer Reviews for MSI N8400GS-TD512 GeForce 8400 GS 512MB 64-bit GDDR2 PCI Express 2.0 x16 Video Card - Retail
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N/A Tech Level: average Ownership: 1 month to 1 year This user purchased this item from Newegg	1/26/2010 7:16:01 PM great working video card Pros: Great working card,, couple minute install,, drivers were recognized,,,, subscores on vista premium went quite a way up ,, to 4.7 on gaming to 3.5 on graphics,,, i had already added 4 total gigs memory from its stock 1 gig Cons: none yet ,, very quiet 1 out of 1 people found this review helpful. Did you? Thanks for the valuable feedback you provided!
Stan Tech Level: high Ownership: 1 week to 1 month This user purchased this item from Newegg	1/20/2010 12:00:50 PM Works great! Pros: Free shipping, great price, low profile, works with my 220W PSU with no issues! Cons: After installing, smelt like it was overheating, but smell went away after a few days. Also, programs on CD didn't work with Windows 7 64-bit, but that was solved with a visit to the website. Other Thoughts: Used to work in an HP Slimline with a 220W PSU. Tried a different brand card with no success, but this definately worked like a charm! Plays WoW on "good" settings with no lag. Can support "high" settings, but lags in Dalaran and in instances. Great buy! 1 out of 1 people found this review helpful. Did you? Thanks for the valuable feedback you provided!
N/A Tech Level: average Ownership: 1 month to 1 year This user purchased this item from Newegg	1/17/2010 2:40:30 PM Pros: I was having problems play WOW upgraded to this card and it works great. Cons: none 1 out of 1 people found this review helpful. Did you? Thanks for the valuable feedback you provided!
Baskin Tech Level: high Ownership: 1 day to 1 week This user purchased this item from Newegg	12/17/2009 4:16:07 PM low form factor card w/ decent graphics Pros: just acquired this card to support two other monitors I had on this recently built system. the card has low profile and installation is a breeze on PCI 2.0 x16 slot. Windows 7 automatically recognized, all i had to do was to shuffle my monitors. i think it's a great value. well done! Cons: not observed. Other Thoughts: makes a great second card to support multiple monitors. 1 out of 1 people found this review helpful. Did you? Thanks for the valuable feedback you provided!
dprusino Tech Level: somewhat high Ownership: 1 week to 1 month This user purchased this item from Newegg	11/10/2009 11:18:36 AM Works well with no problems Pros: Has both digital and analog connectors with SVGA. Includes a fan. No glitches after the proper drivers were installed. Cons: Nothing significant. Did not include an analog-to-digital converter connector or cable. The included drivers were a little buggy with my motherboard and resulted in some blue screens - I updated them on the Nvidia website. Other Thoughts: I am using two LCD monitors connected with analog cables, one with a converter - it is working well so far. I have not tried running the digital output as digital and have not tried the SVGA output. 1 out of 2 people found this review helpful. Did you? Thanks for the valuable feedback you provided!
Luc Tech Level: high Ownership: 1 day to 1 week This user purchased this item from Newegg	10/14/2009 10:36:43 PM perfect, inexpensive HTPC / HDCP solution Pros: Half-height, low-profile ... quiet enough & fast enough (for my purposes) ... inexpensive, trouble-free, stereoscopic 3D capable (for anaglyphic or shutter glasses, not included) ... HDMI capable (has 2-pin connector onboard for SPDIF audio feed, although a DVI-D to HDMI adapter is not included), HDCP supported. I choose not to use the included CD-ROM, instead downloaded and installed the latest driver & control panel from NVIDIAcom, which worked perfectly with my Vista Home Premium (32-bit) Shuttle SG31G2 system. Cons:* Not the GeForce GTX 200 series, i.e., not for overly-demanding 3D gaming graphics. Other Thoughts: I purchased this because I became fed-up with my onboard graphics, Intel GMA3100 (X3100), limitations (e.g., trying to watch Tarsem's feature 'The Fall' on Blu-Ray) ... this inexpensive graphics card solved all my headaches for under $40 ... and totally worth it! I can now use any HD player I want, trouble-free ... e.g., WinDVD 9, PowerDVD 9, TotalMedia Theatre 3 ... all HD players working flawlessly even with the most demanding Blu-Ray discs. Thank you, NewEgg!! 2 out of 3 people found this review helpful. Did you? Thanks for the valuable feedback you provided!
N/A Tech Level: average Ownership: 1 week to 1 month This user purchased this item from Newegg	10/3/2009 7:45:53 AM Does The Job! Pros: Upgrades from MB video. Excellent price. Not the card for the hardcore gamer, but for the rest of us this is all you will ever need Cons: None 3 out of 3 people found this review helpful. Did you? Thanks for the valuable feedback you provided!
CAM Tech Level: high Ownership: 1 day to 1 week This user purchased this item from Newegg	9/24/2009 12:01:46 PM Solved my issues with Hulu and Netflix studdering Pros: Great price for what you're getting. I like that NVidia-based card makers seem to understand that some of us need half-height cards. The ATI half-height card selection seems limited. It's also very nice that MSI includes the half-height brackets. I've always had to buy those separately in the past. Cons: None. Other Thoughts: Immediately resolved the minor but annoying stuttering issues I was having using Hulu Desktop and Netflix streaming. 2 out of 2 people found this review helpful. Did you? Thanks for the valuable feedback you provided!
apunkrocka Tech Level: average Ownership: 1 month to 1 year	9/14/2009 9:09:31 PM Pros: good price if your on a budget not bad for a cheap card can play most games at decent settings Cons: none for the price Other Thoughts: will probley buy another one for a back up 4 out of 4 people found this review helpful. Did you? Thanks for the valuable feedback you provided!
deronde Tech Level: somewhat high Ownership: 1 week to 1 month This user purchased this item from Newegg	9/11/2009 5:47:27 AM Simple, Cheap, Works Pros: Cheap, easy install, doesn't seem to heat up like other cheap ones do (running in Dell GX755 & 620s w poor aircondition & lots of dust) Cons: Driver on CD didn't work, had to download Other Thoughts: Installed 5 of these to get dual screen capability for office people. Works great, running 2x 20" (1600x900) screens without problems under XP (2D apps only). The NVIDIA drivers make setting up dual screen very simple even for computer-haters like most of my office people are. Replacing the plates to get to small form factor was a breeze and the cable is the perfect length to put the 2 plates below eachother. 3 out of 3 people found this review helpful. Did you? Thanks for the valuable feedback you provided!
aar0on Tech Level: somewhat high Ownership: 1 month to 1 year	8/27/2009 4:03:04 AM Decent for the price Pros: Cheap, quiet, works, runs dual 17" LCDs just fine Cons: Does a lousy job of running a 24" + 19" dual monitor set-up. Got one for my wife's PC, and runs her dual 17s without issue, but my 24" + 19" set-up causes the graphics to slow down so much that I had to ditch the 19" for now. I don't game, so this is just basic thumbnail rendering, video, etc that runs slow. Also, just on the 24" LCD, if I have Hulu Desktop or VLC playing in the background, with Firefox on top, I can see artifacts coming through when viewing images in the browser. Other Thoughts: Great card if you're running just one monitor and just need something cheap and basic. 3 out of 4 people found this review helpful. Did you? Thanks for the valuable feedback you provided!
Reisod Tech Level: high Ownership: less than 1 day	8/7/2009 6:05:50 PM no bad for the price Pros: Way better than my onboard graphics. My vista index rating went from a 1.0 to a 3.6... so more than 3x better Cons: Slows down some what when alot of things are happening on the screen in heros of newerth. But otherwise pretty good. Other Thoughts: If your on a tight budget, you can't really beat this card. It was really small when I pulled it out of the box and I was suprised. Before I couldn't run HoN with everything low or off on my geforce 6800 GS, which was a horrible card. 4 out of 4 people found this review helpful. Did you? Thanks for the valuable feedback you provided!
N/A Tech Level: high Ownership: less than 1 day	8/3/2009 2:49:47 PM disable onboard video might be necessary.... Pros: So far, so good. For the price, the card exceeds my expectations. The computer runs faster. I had some trouble at first with the installation, on this Dell Dimension 4700 with onboard video. What I did: in XP, unplug my USB second monitor controller, and uninstall the onboard video and USB video. Plug in the new card, connect via analog cable to my monitor. Start, install software driver for the card. Turn off, plug in digital cable, leaving analog cable connected. Start. Remove analog display from the Display properties settings box. Restart, plug in the USB second monitor controller, set it up. Restart, and things finally work. Until I uninstalled the onboard video, all I got was a blank screen. Cons: none so far Other Thoughts: Newegg customer service is fantastic, as they facilitated the return of the first card I bought with no trouble, even though in retrospect, obviously, the problem was I didn't uninstall the onboard video rather than a dud card. Go Newegg!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 4 out of 4 people found this review helpful. Did you? Thanks for the valuable feedback you provided!
Cranialsurge Tech Level: high Ownership: more than 1 year This user purchased this item from Newegg	6/10/2009 9:57:06 AM Works great Pros: Really good value for money, no defects found whatsoever. Has been in use for over a month now without any problems. Cons: None at all, especially at that price 3 out of 3 people found this review helpful. Did you? Thanks for the valuable feedback you provided!
bellh Tech Level: average Ownership: 1 month to 1 year This user purchased this item from Newegg	5/28/2009 9:20:01 PM Good for the money! Pros: Easy to install and has worked well for 11 months Cons: none 3 out of 3 people found this review helpful. Did you? Thanks for the valuable feedback you provided!
N/A Tech Level: somewhat high Ownership: 1 week to 1 month This user purchased this item from Newegg	4/25/2009 10:27:15 AM Great Video card Pros: This is the first PCI-e video card I've owned. I put this into a Dell optiplex small form factor computer with a Pentium4 processor. My sons' played Dawn of War II on this computer and were very impressed with the graphics quality, best they have ever seen. Cons: None Other Thoughts: If your putting any low profile video card into a small form factor PC. I would suggest purchasing the HIS Hightech Low Profile Bracket Kit 5 out of 5 people found this review helpful. Did you? Thanks for the valuable feedback you provided!
bullguy87 Tech Level: average Ownership: 1 day to 1 week This user purchased this item from Newegg	3/19/2009 6:33:01 PM Good for everygay computing Pros: i was impressed with the performance. for this price, superb card. Cons: sufficient but original fan 4 out of 4 people found this review helpful. Did you? Thanks for the valuable feedback you provided!
Thomas Tech Level: average Ownership: 1 day to 1 week This user purchased this item from Newegg	3/13/2009 9:40:22 PM What more could you ask? Pros: Easy hardware and driver install. Great picture with no glitching of any kind in the video. Very tweakable. Usable with either analog or digital monitors. Cons: None so far. Other Thoughts: A steal in this price class. I recommend it highly. 4 out of 4 people found this review helpful. Did you? Thanks for the valuable feedback you provided!
symster Tech Level: average Ownership: 1 month to 1 year This user purchased this item from Newegg	12/29/2008 5:33:28 AM Great Pros: This works great. No problems nice picture Cons: None yet. 3 out of 5 people found this review helpful. Did you? Thanks for the valuable feedback you provided!
j_doe Tech Level: somewhat high Ownership: 1 day to 1 week This user purchased this item from Newegg	12/26/2008 12:09:09 PM A reasonable upgrade Pros: Easy to install. It increased the frame rate on the games my son plays from 10 fps to over 40 fps. A big improvement from the on board graphics. Low cost. Cons: Nothing yet. 3 out of 5 people found this review helpful. Did you? Thanks for the valuable feedback you provided!