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Sparkle SFPX94GT1024U2 Desktop Graphics / Video Cards
Customer Reviews for SPARKLE SFPX94GT1024U2 GeForce 9400 GT 1GB 128-bit DDR2 PCI Express 2.0 x16 HDCP Ready Video Card - Retail
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N/A
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 week to 1 month
This user purchased this item from Newegg
2/2/2010 10:39:47 AM

Rating + 4


Pros: Has no fan or need for external power connection.

Cons: Does run slightly warmer than my older on with fan.

Other Thoughts: All and all I'm happy with this video card.

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computek272
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 month to 1 year
This user purchased this item from Newegg
1/30/2010 9:28:53 PM

Rating + 5 Does a nice job for a budget build...


Pros: Decent videocard, gets the job done for my parents.

...and the price was right.

Cons: Wait a while before working in your case, the heatsink gets VERY hot.

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marmoset
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 month to 1 year
This user purchased this item from Newegg
1/30/2010 5:46:25 PM

Rating + 2 No S-VIDEO, otherwise fine


Pros: Cheap, small, fanless. Does the job, supports vdpao under linux.

Cons: Does *not* have the s-video out that is shown in the graphics. Didn't notice this until I went to use it a couple months after I ordered, otherwise I would have returned them.

It does come with an s-video cable, which doesn't really make sense.

Other Thoughts: Other than that it wouldn't work for what I bought it for, it's a decent card.

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JaneGael
Tech Level: average
Ownership: 1 week to 1 month
This user purchased this item from Newegg
1/30/2010 6:11:49 AM

Rating + 5 Works Great


Pros: I bought it for my decidedly non-tech sister's birthday. She was able to install it with ease. She downloaded new drivers for it (the ones that shipped were out-dated) and had it up and running in minutes.

Cons: None that we've found.

Other Thoughts: It's a good card for the price. It went into a 3 year old under-powered computer and is providing a lot of power for gaming.

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N/A
Tech Level: somewhat high
Ownership: 1 week to 1 month
This user purchased this item from Newegg
1/17/2010 7:57:14 PM

Rating + 5 Nice Card


Pros: Decent card for the price. You probably can't play the most demanding games with it. I'm running windows 7 with aero turned on just fine. I've been playing Bioshock just fine in 1920x1400 at top speed and it works like a charm.

Cons: None

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Joe
Tech Level: somewhat high
Ownership: 1 month to 1 year
This user purchased this item from Newegg
1/13/2010 2:35:56 PM

Rating + 3 Cooked after 5 months


Pros: Fine video, for a non gamer seemed powerful enough, lower power consumption than some other cards

Cons: Cooked after 5 months. I should have had greater airflow through case, but if your case is so loud that sort of defeats the point of a fanless card.

Other Thoughts: Works great if you have good airflow, I suppose my case could be better in that respect, and I could run more fans on it. Now I would likely go for a gt 240, which has more processing power and similar power consumption (also comes in fanless, though right now limited options).

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N/A
Tech Level: somewhat high
Ownership: 1 week to 1 month
This user purchased this item from Newegg
1/13/2010 12:54:55 PM

Rating + 2 DOA


Pros: Good price

Cons: DOA
No output from this card

Other Thoughts: at $50 per card it is not worth RMA process.
spent half hour verifying this card is DOA.
Fails in once working PC's.
Known good cards work in the system that this card fails in.

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N/A
Tech Level: somewhat high
Ownership: 1 month to 1 year
This user purchased this item from Newegg
1/12/2010 6:20:08 PM

Rating + 4 Works as promised


Pros: Works well with windows 7. Plays Borderlands reasonable well on medium settings.

Cons: none yet

Other Thoughts: Installed on an older Athlon64 x2 2.0ghz with 2gb of ram.

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Kamilche
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 week to 1 month
This user purchased this item from Newegg
1/8/2010 9:55:05 AM

Rating + 4 Works OK


Pros: It works without overheating in my AMD Athlon X4 rig.

Cons: It's not as fast as I'd hoped. Benchmarks show it runs at the same speed as a video card I bought 3 years ago, an NVidia GeForce 8600GT. I would have thought it would have beat the pants off of it, but no dice.

Other Thoughts: Even though it's no faster than an 8600GT, it's 10x faster than onboard video! Plus - it's a cheap price for a video card, and well worth considering if you're on a tight budget.

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Jim
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 week to 1 month
This user purchased this item from Newegg
1/8/2010 7:12:37 AM

Rating + 5 Nice upgrade for Windows Vista / 7


Pros: Fanless, doesn't require additional power connectors. Took my Vista Experience score from 3.9 to 5.2, replacing a 7600GS that, although adequate when purchased, is no longer good enough for any kind of serious 3D. The 7600GS struggled with the dual-head Aero display, with some weird glitching on the VGA port, and problems pulling EDID information from the dual-head KVM it's hooked up to.

This card had no such problem. Everything worked out of the box, and the VGA port is as clear as the DVI. The standard Nvidia drivers work with it - I didn't even have to update the driver after replacing the card!

Cons: Didn't have a DVI-VGA adapter. Came with a S-Video cable, but there was no S-Video port on the card!

Has CUDA Compute Capability 1.1, so some of the later CUDA-enabled applications can't use it.

Other Thoughts: Not a speed demon, but more than enough for dual-head with all the desktop pretties turned on. Stable, quiet, and inexpensive.

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N/A
Tech Level: somewhat low
Ownership: 1 day to 1 week
This user purchased this item from Newegg
1/7/2010 12:43:54 PM

Rating + 4


Pros: easy to install and cheap no problems so far.

Cons: runs on the hot side

Other Thoughts: got this card when my 8600 died. runs wow and spore fine but not much better then the 8600. the lack of a fan and the way my cases air flow is setup worries me will get a fan to help cool the card. I used the nvida drivers not the ones from sparkle.

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Stan
Tech Level: somewhat high
Ownership: 1 week to 1 month
This user purchased this item from Newegg
12/23/2009 9:04:07 AM

Rating + 4 DVI good; VGA not


Pros: Nice price, no fan, runs cool enough, easy setup, crisp video with DVI.

Cons: VGA quality poor. Fonts were noticeably fuzzy when compared with the VGA signal from my old on-board GPU. Using the DVI-d port, looks fine.

Other Thoughts: Perhaps the VGA problem is just my card (haven't seen any similar problems reported here). The card works great with Linux (Ubuntu 9.10).

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t0ast
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 week to 1 month
This user purchased this item from Newegg
12/15/2009 9:12:58 AM

Rating + 5 Performing as expected.


Pros: Purchased because the motherboard I have didn't include integrated video. Recognized without a hitch in Ubuntu and meets my performance needs. Fanless. Inexpensive.

Cons: None so far.

Other Thoughts: Used for my low-energy low-noise home file server running Ubuntu.

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N/A
Tech Level: somewhat high
Ownership: 1 day to 1 week
This user purchased this item from Newegg
12/11/2009 4:43:36 PM

Rating + 4 driver issues


Pros: best card around for the $....super-fast, free shipping!

Cons: had issues when installing the drivers from the CD supplied by Sparkle. Downloaded the drivers from nvidia which fixed the problems

Other Thoughts: i gave it 4 eggs instead of 5 simply because of the driver issues...nothing to do with the card itself, just the drivers supplied by sparkle CD. other than that, i love the card

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RoshonChicka
Tech Level: somewhat high
Ownership: less than 1 day
This user purchased this item from Newegg
12/4/2009 7:03:53 AM

Rating + 5 Good Deal


Pros: Cheap, cheap, cheap. I bought in with a 400W power supply combo deal with a super Black Friday deal.

Driver install had no issues...had been running NVidia drivers anyway.

Quiet(no fan) which is nice cuz the new power supply fan is much more noisy than my old 300W

Cons: Sparkle Quick Install Guide (not so quick) Step 6: Plug in card power...came with no cable or place to plug-in except maybe a j8 jumper to which I have no cable from my power supply to do that. Works fine without being "plugged in" so maybe that was for a different card or HD or something. Let's just say it made me feel stupid for a few seconds.

Other Thoughts: Specs:
Dimension E521 Dual Core
now with 400w power supply and this card.
3 gigs of RAM
Windows XP

Played wii emulator with much better FPS ie. paper mario, animal crossing. Older games like Spore and Sim games could be run at med/full graphics with little to no lag. This card is good for the average person, but not if you are a super gamer of which I am not.

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troubada
Tech Level: average
Ownership: 1 day to 1 week
This user purchased this item from Newegg
11/29/2009 6:59:04 AM

Rating + 4 It's quite good, but also just OK.


Pros: I got this card to run Win 7 aero better and have some more output options, and it seems to handle aero quite well. I have an ATI Radeon 3850 512mb (Sapphire silent) that kept having display crashes under Win 7, but this one works good for it and I have not had a display crash yet. Performance rating under Win 7 did go from 5.9 down to 4.5, but who really cares when it works. Cheap.

Cons: Although I wasn't going to be using this card for any gaming or 3D applications, I did expect it to have a little better performance in Photoshop and general photo-editing than it does. It has serious lag when doing semi-intensive photo editing, whereas the ATI 3850 has smooth action without lag. I know these cards are different entities, I just didn't expect the performance difference in such applications to be so dramatically different. So I cannot recommend this card for photo editing and the like.

Other Thoughts: For the price it is definitely a good buy, and it will serve many a PC being used for video and general computing. Since I would like to have better photo editing performance and also an NVIDIA, I think I'll look into getting a 220 or something like it. For now ATI has kind of burned me since I've experience display crashes on 2 PC's with ATI's on them (3650 and 3850). The PC this Sparkle card runs on has a Biostar TF8200 mobo A2+, 4gb of gskill ddr800 ram, amd dual core 6400 cpu, Antec SonataIII with 500w psu.

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Marshall Nelson
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 week to 1 month
This user purchased this item from Newegg
11/27/2009 1:39:16 AM

Rating + 2 bad idea on a no fan design


Pros: Easy to open the box and install it.

Cons: Runs way too hot. I installed a 120mm fan to blow through the heat sink fins and it still runs to hot. When not in game mode and just complete idle. It runs at 117 Fahrenheit. In game mode its between 130-140. Save 15$ More and go buy a decent card. Atleast avoid fan-less designs. Also its clocked so ridiculously low. I over clocked it from 550 to 580 safely but any higher and it pixelates. Dont mess to much its a el-cheapo. Snatch a EVGA.

Other Thoughts: I'm going to melt this card just for the fun.

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Bobboau
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 week to 1 month
This user purchased this item from Newegg
11/20/2009 1:21:45 PM

Rating + 4 good for the price


Pros: has an extremely good bang to buck ratio, not a very powerful card but dirt cheap
also no fans == silent, the loudest thing in my system is the hard drive

Cons: it is a cheap card so it's not a heavyweight, but if you don't demand the absolute best this isn't a problem

Other Thoughts: I had very low expectations for this card, I was planning on replacing it in a month or two, as I just needed something to get me by, but I might stick with this card for a while longer than I expected.

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N/A
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 day to 1 week
This user purchased this item from Newegg
11/19/2009 10:00:29 AM

Rating + 5 Well worth the money


Pros: Incrediable video card. For 50 dollars, getting a
1 gb card, with dual monitors and a tv out it's
well worth the money.

Cons: Didn't come with a DVI to VGA adapter
but I had one laying around

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SteveO
Tech Level: somewhat high
Ownership: 1 month to 1 year
This user purchased this item from Newegg
11/9/2009 10:42:05 AM

Rating + 5 Nice card


Pros: Works perfectly....and nice and quiet

Cons: none

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N/A
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 month to 1 year
This user purchased this item from Newegg
10/29/2009 6:50:05 AM

Rating + 5


Pros: no noise... price....

Cons: none

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Mouth
Tech Level: average
Ownership: 1 month to 1 year
This user purchased this item from Newegg
10/27/2009 8:44:53 PM

Rating + 5 Runs Steady


Pros: Price, no noise

Cons: None yet

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Mike Klein
Tech Level: somewhat high
Ownership: 1 day to 1 week
This user purchased this item from Newegg
10/25/2009 6:07:39 AM

Rating + 5 Sparkling Value


Pros: I had brought this card as a replacement for my girlfriends daughter PC. It took the place of a e-GeForce 7600 GT (also a NewEgg purchase) which blew about 6 caps. I installed the video card a few days back with no problems what so ever. Turned the PC on, the card was recognize and it was all good. Updated the nVidia drivers and adjusted the resolution and its been good since. For what the card is and such, I couldn't be more pleased. Good prcie for a PC that does moderate gaming and Internet browsing. Mind you this is for a teenage girl. A diffident recommended buy for a low to medium preforming PC that doesn't require use intense of high demanding graphics.

Cons: None

Other Thoughts: Asus A8AE-LE (AmberineM)-HP motherboard
2 GB DDR Memory
Vista Ultimate 32-bit OS
180 GB Hard Drive

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kyoYNC
Tech Level: average
Ownership: 1 day to 1 week
This user purchased this item from Newegg
10/21/2009 12:01:45 PM

Rating + 3 HOT VERY HOT!!!


Pros: 8-10x faster than the on-board graphics 6150se.

Maxes out EVE at 1080p

Ez to install

Warranty.

Cons: HOT!!!!

59c at idle

atleast 74+c at load and this is only like 15 minutes of gaming.

Other Thoughts: It's more of my fault than Sparkles that the card is so hot, since I have bad airflow in my HP case and it has no fans.

Going to spend $20 on two case fans,hopefully brings the temp down by 10+c

Could of bought a 9500gt with a fan.

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Spaced
Tech Level: somewhat high
Ownership: 1 day to 1 week
This user purchased this item from Newegg
10/21/2009 9:37:26 AM

Rating + 5 Great Price


Pros: Brought my Win7 x64 to a 5.2 rating for aero; 5.9 rating for gaming with slight OC and new driver DL'd from NVIDIA. Better than 3.3 and 3.0 for a 7200GS. Passive cooling. Works fine with CHEAP 385 watt PS.

Cons: NONE except FIND OPTIMAL button not available in Win 7, but thats a software issue.

Other Thoughts: Used Nvidia performance in XP to find optimal clock speeds- had a FIND OPTIMAL button to self check. Then applied them in 7. This button isn't available in Win7 x64. Never gets above 52C in my case. My board is only 1.0 compliant :(

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JoshT
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 month to 1 year
This user purchased this item from Newegg
10/12/2009 9:16:59 AM

Rating + 3 Dead after 8 months


Pros: Very silent.. no fan. Worked fine w/o problems for 8 months and then just died. Called support for replacement. Have VGA and DVI and S Video.. good stuf.

Cons: Driver had to loaded from a very slow web site. Hot when high graphics is consumed. Had to installed a fan near the slot. Not amazing graphic performance but good for more then normal use.

Other Thoughts: Not much other option at this price for value... good to have it as tester or backup card.

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N/A
Tech Level: somewhat high
Ownership: 1 week to 1 month
This user purchased this item from Newegg
10/8/2009 11:56:21 AM

Rating + 5


Pros: good card, card actually reads as a 1.7Gb GPU

Cons: none

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velvetjones
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 week to 1 month
This user purchased this item from Newegg
10/7/2009 1:44:56 PM

Rating + 5 Works well in Ubuntu


Pros: Silent operation, doesn't seem to run to hot. Works great in my Ubuntu 8.10 box with the latest nvidia drivers. Now running Compiz with all the bells and whistles turned on.

Cons: none.

Other Thoughts: I am using this through a IO Gear KVM switch (DVI)

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N/A
Tech Level: somewhat high
Ownership: 1 week to 1 month
This user purchased this item from Newegg
10/7/2009 10:51:38 AM

Rating + 5 works great


Pros: I bought this primarily for the DVI output on my Presario. I'm not a gamer, but it renders the photo-realistic 3D GoogleEarth buildings without any lag. Win 7 recognized it right away and I was GTG. The price was also quite nice.

Cons: none

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BDA
Tech Level: average
Ownership: 1 day to 1 week
This user purchased this item from Newegg
9/29/2009 1:52:37 PM

Rating + 5


Pros: Great card for the money!!!!!! Upgraded from a GeForce 256MB LE 7300. I use it my PC mostly to play IL2 1946 BIG changes from old card.

Cons: None

Other Thoughts: Buy it!

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Huey
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 day to 1 week
9/24/2009 7:35:51 PM

Rating + 2 Sad card


Pros: Cheap

Cons: Cheap

Other Thoughts: I built a computer for a friend and he wanted these cards, SLI do to the price.On a quad 775 with 8 gig of ram, these cards would not run the newest GTA.

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K+L+R+ELITE
Tech Level: somewhat high
Ownership: 1 week to 1 month
This user purchased this item from Newegg
9/22/2009 11:32:24 AM

Rating + 5


Pros: Quiet. Easy install. Did not need additional power cord.Stunning Video. Raised Vista Graphics to 5.1.
Runs COD 4 MW with Ease & unbelievable Clarity.
Runs COD 5 WAW smooth, I think my Proccessor is what slows the game down.

Cons: Runs a little hot..After 3 hours on COD 4 i get a little glitching...Not anything to worry about.

Other Thoughts: I had a geforce 8500 that burned out.
I bought a little fan from Target and put in back to keep my computer cool and seems to help.

Compaq Presario
Pent D dual core, 3.3 ghz
Vista basic
4 Gig mem
160 Gig HDD
550 W power Supply.

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LC from RM
Tech Level: somewhat high
Ownership: 1 week to 1 month
This user purchased this item from Newegg
9/21/2009 9:41:30 AM

Rating + 5 Works as advertised


Pros: A step up from the stock card that came with a refurbished system. Great value for the money. Just hoping Even if I run into failure problems like those mentioned below, sounds like the company is easy to work with.

Cons: None.

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thereggaetonboy7
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 day to 1 week
This user purchased this item from Newegg
9/19/2009 10:55:44 PM

Rating + 5 THIS IS GREAT


Pros: I LIKE ALOT THIS VIDEO CARD IS NICE N FAST ON ALL MOST ANY GAMES IN THIS YEAR

Cons: N IS EASY TO INTALL ON PC

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Iron Will
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 month to 1 year
This user purchased this item from Newegg
9/11/2009 7:12:33 PM

Rating + 4 cool card for cool price


Pros: fast card for moderate gaming. runs supreme commander well and even runs the expansion on highest settings.
i couldn't be pleased any more with the three cards that i own.

Cons: The driver CD was somewhat flimsy and unstable compared to the catalyst control divers on the ATI brand cards.
But all in all its worth the trouble.

Other Thoughts: these work great for light games that require little of the video cards capability. taxing it to much will jitter and slow the game to a crawl. still, its much better that the 2400, 3400 and 4850 ATI cards i owned before. But, if your MB supports SLI, then i recommend the 9400s that Gigabyte has. get two for 100$ and they dont need that pesky power plug on the back of the card.
Despite what others say, this card is worth every cent.

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N/A
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 month to 1 year
This user purchased this item from Newegg
9/4/2009 8:30:11 PM

Rating + 5 Above Average Card


Pros: Easy to install and runs at a pretty low temperature. Very inexpensive for a card of this caliber. Runs Crysis and other benchmark games very well on medium-to-high settings.

Cons: None, except that VGA port is in sandwiched between DVI and HDMI, usually at either end. Not a big deal AT ALL.

Other Thoughts: For a non-SLI card, it runs quite smoothly. NewEgg shipped it fast and arrived on time!

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Trea
Tech Level: somewhat high
Ownership: 1 month to 1 year
This user purchased this item from Newegg
9/1/2009 2:58:14 PM

Rating + 2 Ok.. but doesn't last


Pros: This card has alot of onboard memory and can run most graphics heavy games. It is a great upgrade for lower end cards and doesn't have any software compatibility issues.

Cons: I have received two of these cards, the 1st one was defective from newegg.com after several months. I sent back the 1st one and the company was very good about sending a brand new 2nd card. I was told by the company that the 1st card had a manufacturer defect. The 2nd card has been running for a few months now, started giving me the same problem just yesterday. The company has send me another defective card which is also new in the box. This tells me that this company's craftmanship is NOT up to par if they are replacing a new defective card with a new defective card. The company is willing to replace it a third time and willing to possibly do a free upgrade upon an inspection of the 2nd card but I am not willing to wait for all of that so I will probably buy a more well known brand name and never use this company again. I expect alot more out of a company that is providing brand new computer parts but at the same time, if you buy cheap, it must be cheaply made!!

Other Thoughts: In this rare case, I cannot complain about the customer service at Sparkle because they have been very helpful, but do yourself a favor and spend $100 on a better card from a more well known company because if you want it to last more than a few months. This card is only good for that amount of time, unless you WANT little fine horizontal lines on your screen that bring down your overall resolution. Sparkle has lost a customer with me because of poor craftsmanship!

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bromah
Tech Level: somewhat low
Ownership: 1 month to 1 year
This user purchased this item from Newegg
8/27/2009 11:57:09 AM

Rating + 3 descent


Pros: runs old games great. I have no problem with CS, WoW.....

Cons: runs like a horse in knee deep mud. pulling 5fps in FALLEN EARTH....warlord2 is laggie as heck

Other Thoughts: descent for it's price if you are running old standard games, i honestly had no problem with it till I started purchasing more rescent games.

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N/A
Tech Level: average
Ownership: 1 week to 1 month
This user purchased this item from Newegg
8/26/2009 9:42:44 AM

Rating + 5


Pros: Moving up from a 256Mhz to this, was like a whole new world. Crystal clear pictures. Huge move. Easy to set up. No confusing steps to setup.

Cons: None

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scenemissing
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 week to 1 month
This user purchased this item from Newegg
8/25/2009 4:37:06 PM

Rating + 5 Way nicer than it should be for the price


Pros: Super super cheap. No fan. Works well. has DVI and VGA

Cons: Never heard of brand

Other Thoughts: Running windows 7 Pro 64 bit RTM, this card gives a 5.0 graphics score and a 5.9 Gaming Graphics score - significantly nicer than I thought it would. Running my 1600x1200 dell flat panel over DVI - it looks great. World of Warcraft plays very well - but it scales well anyway....

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kremo5le
Tech Level: average
Ownership: 1 month to 1 year
This user purchased this item from Newegg
8/20/2009 9:34:48 AM

Rating + 5 Excellent for the money!


Pros: This baby has what I need and more. I'm not into games, but I installed one of the popular, sci-fi, '09 games (forgot the name) and it ran without any problems. It is really reliable and works like a charm. Installation on XP: no problem!

Cons: None so far.

Other Thoughts: Great price.

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element114401
Tech Level: somewhat high
Ownership: 1 month to 1 year
This user purchased this item from Newegg
8/16/2009 2:37:30 PM

Rating + 5 Great.


Pros: Runs great. Absolutely no problems. I can play all my games (COD4, Rainbow 6, Oblivion, ect.) great with no lag.

Cons: Runs kinda hot without a fan. I jimmied a fan onto the side of my case to give it a little bit of ventilation.

Other Thoughts: Would definitely recommend. I wouldn't trust the passive cooler though. If you don't have a fan pointed at it be sure to monitor the temperature with speedfan or a similar program.

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Kenn
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 month to 1 year
This user purchased this item from Newegg
8/1/2009 10:46:45 PM

Rating + 5 Works great, no problem so far


Pros: Upgraded from a 256MB video card to this 1GB card for $50. Never have problems, graphics is decent. This card boosted my 3d rendering times compared to the 256mb card.

Cons: None so far

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kramthegram
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 month to 1 year
This user purchased this item from Newegg
7/10/2009 8:27:01 AM

Rating + 4 Decent card for the price


Pros: Extremely cheap, especially with the large amount of ram on board. Last gen titles like TF2 run fantastically at high texture.

Cons: Old architecture means DX 10 games kinda suffer, but for the price it's acceptable.

Other Thoughts: If you want a discrete card for a cheap box the buck stops here. I wouldn't buy anything else sub at this price point.

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oriontech
Tech Level: somewhat high
Ownership: 1 week to 1 month
This user purchased this item from Newegg
7/7/2009 9:31:37 PM

Rating + 4 Good enough


Pros: runs everything(see below), passive cooling, good card for the price

Cons: a bit hot(see below), takes up two PCI slots but so does the higher dollar ones, passive cooling, Photoshop CS4 doesn't like something about it(can't remember right now what) but Photoshop still works, S-Video doesn't work very well with TVs

Other Thoughts: It can run Crysis and Crysis Warhead, Crysis on Low and Warhead on Medium, Fallout 3 on Medium but I run it on low for slightly better performance, Portal maxed out, Halo maxed out, Assassin's Creed Medium(I think, can't recall). It runs about 150 F, but I do live in a desert. I rigged a fan to keep it cooler, now it runs about 130ish F. But it's a lousy fan so a better fan would cool it better. S-Video on TVs is not that good looking, it takes a bit of tweaking in the NVIDIA Control Panel. Oh and get the latest drivers too.

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N/A
Tech Level: somewhat high
Ownership: 1 month to 1 year
This user purchased this item from Newegg
7/3/2009 7:38:51 AM

Rating + 4


Pros: It is a low end Video Card, but it was an upgrade from an Nvidia 7300. The difference is very noticeable. At least a 2 generation upgrade lets you know what you have been missing.

Cons: None has a heatsink only no fan but I don't miss the noise and it runs plenty cool.

Other Thoughts: Thanks Newegg, fast shipping and great prices make you my No.1 bookmark for eshopping.

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RS
Tech Level: somewhat high
Ownership: 1 month to 1 year
This user purchased this item from Newegg
6/27/2009 11:13:52 AM

Rating + 5 Sweet deal


Pros: Great price. Major upgrade from onboard video (although that might not be saying much haha)

Overall I feel as though I got a great deal for the amount of money spent. I'm not a crazy gamer so I haven't even pushed this card to its limits but so far I have had 0 problems using this with XP pro. No complaints whatsoever.

Cons: No fan, only a giant heatsink.

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Webkennection
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 month to 1 year
This user purchased this item from Newegg
6/25/2009 5:47:46 AM

Rating + 5 Good Deal


Pros: Bought this during Shell Shocker for under $35. Works well with Vista Business. Good performance for my use which is editing videos.

Cons: Some minor issues when installing. I would say it is more of Vista issue since a coworker also bought one and had no problems with install on xp pro. I had to reboot and update the driver from the web site.

Other Thoughts: Got this during Shell Shocker deal for under $35. A 1gb 9400 for under $40 -- can't beat it. I don't game, but I do video editing and it fixed problems with performance. Old card would switch Vista to basic mode and playback during editing was slow and jerky.

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JoeBasile
Tech Level: somewhat high
Ownership: 1 month to 1 year
This user purchased this item from Newegg
6/21/2009 4:34:44 AM

Rating + 4 Very Good Card


Pros: For the price I paid, this is a very good card. It runs UT3 at 1440x900 at fairly high settings without much problems. Evey time I load up a level the textures are blurry for about 3 seconds, then the hi res textures load and its fine, with nice smooth video even when theres alot happening in the game.

Cons: I get funny wavies every now and then. Almost like I can see the refresh on my monitor (19" AOC LCD Wide). I don't think I got this on my old card but I'm not sure. I haven't completely ruled out other possibilities but I do feel its 95% likely the card. It's not too intrusive.

Other Thoughts: For $20 or $30 more you could get a card with two or four times more power. Just something to consider before hitting the buy button.

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Larry
Tech Level: average
Ownership: 1 day to 1 week
6/13/2009 2:00:20 PM

Rating + 1 A weird experience


Pros: Video seems OK

Cons: A videocard that destroys your audio

Other Thoughts: I bought one of these puppies, and it was a major disaster... but in the weirdest way. Video was fine. But every time something moved on the screen, it would make squeeks, squawks and bleeps in the audio. Move the mouse pointer? Screeeee! Progress bar? Chchchhhhh! I never dared watch a movie or play a game. It probably would have blown my speakers. RMA, please!!!

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Pete
Tech Level: somewhat high
Ownership: 1 month to 1 year
This user purchased this item from Newegg
6/13/2009 5:22:38 AM

Rating + 5 Love this Card


Pros: This card was easy to install, plug-n-play. I downloaded the drivers...no idea if the disk is good because I ALWAYS download drivers to get the latest. The card runs super quiet and I have never had it overheat. I play 3D games such as City of Heroes, and I have to tell you, I've never seen it look this good!

Cons: Does prevent use of the slot directly below it, but that's common with good video cards (most video cards actually)

Other Thoughts: This card is a total steal. For the price I paid and the quality I got, I feel like I should face prison time. I was hesitant because I've seen Sparkle get some bad reviews here and there...but being on a budget I risked it, and am glad I did.

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mandark
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 week to 1 month
This user purchased this item from Newegg
6/9/2009 6:51:31 AM

Rating + 5 Good Card for the money


Pros: Low cost. Good HTPC Performance in Vista. Silent in operation.

Cons: None to speak of

Other Thoughts: I paid $49 for this (cheapest videocard I ever bought) to replace a Radeon X300SE in a Dell E510-based HTPC setup. I was wary about its capabilities because of its cheap price but knew I could rely on Newegg's return policy in case I ran into problems. So far, I've been quite pleased with the card's performance. It's no gaming machine, for sure, but it fills its intended HTPC role quite nicely and I have no complaints about the picture quality. I am considering purchasing another one to replace the ATI Radeon HD4870 I have in my other HTPC because that one is hella loud compared to the sparkle (even with it's fanspeed set to only 30%)

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Meante' Hytek
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 week to 1 month
This user purchased this item from Newegg
6/7/2009 12:58:58 AM

Rating + 5 Excellent Graphics Card For The Low Price


Pros: Great Graphics Card for the money!!! 1 Gb of video memory and both DVI and VGA adapters. My PC's LCD monitor is connected to the DVI port of this card, and the digital video is wonderful. I am extremely satisfied with the Product.

Cons: I have none.

Other Thoughts: There may be better graphics cards out there, but this is a bargain for the price, not to mention the one Gigabyte of Video memory.

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Towhaul
Tech Level: high
Ownership: less than 1 day
This user purchased this item from Newegg
6/4/2009 1:28:50 PM

Rating + 5 THIS IS GREAT!!!


Pros: fast!!! I'm using Ubuntu 9.04, WINE and I'm playing command and conquer. I have never seen this game run this fast not even on a Microsoft computer!! I recommend this card for anyone using Linux. Perfect driver support no disk needed.

Cons: I'm shaking from the game speed. I actually had to SLOW the game down!!

Other Thoughts: Cheap card GREAT gaming excitement. I will use this card from now on when I build new computers.

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N/A
Tech Level: somewhat high
Ownership: 1 month to 1 year
This user purchased this item from Newegg
6/1/2009 3:52:00 PM

Rating + 5 Great card


Pros: This was a great card for the price. Its not a gaming card, but good for playing movies, video editing, etc. You can play older games on it and maybe even new games but on low settings. Card doesn't make a sound, which is good for media center PCs. The driver cd actually had recent drivers, they are old by now though.

Cons: It is a full size card, but Sparkle also makes a low profile version that is ideal for slim media PCs. 1 GB of memory really isn't necessary on this card, seems like a gimmick.

Other Thoughts: Would buy again for the price I paid, get it when its on sale.

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N/A
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 day to 1 week
This user purchased this item from Newegg
6/1/2009 7:04:09 AM

Rating + 5 happy purchase 2


Pros: see other review

Cons: correction, I didn't use HDMI ..-- I used DVI cable. Don't type and hit submit when your kids are talking to you.

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N/A
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 day to 1 week
This user purchased this item from Newegg
6/1/2009 6:55:00 AM

Rating + 5 Happy Purchase


Pros: Quick install. Plug and Play. No fan. came with a S-video cable. runs with a 300W power supply.

Cons: does cover a PCI slot. I installed the drivers from the website instead of the provided disk. bought a HDMI cable separately

Other Thoughts: Vista 64 Bit. 4 Gigs of ram. Raised windows score from 3.0 to 4.9 (slowest thing now is processor).
Can play WOW - WOTLK with no problems.
Older ASUS board with a dual core. updraded a stock HP computer from Circuit City.

As usual NewEgg Delivery was awesome. received in 24 hours. Thank you.

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Yingpoe
Tech Level: somewhat high
Ownership: 1 day to 1 week
This user purchased this item from Newegg
5/30/2009 8:33:32 AM

Rating + 3 Thump... Thump..


Pros: Great value, 5.2 index score.

Cons: Do not use with a DVI to HDMI adapter. Prior to using card I was using on-board video w/ adapter and no problems. I believe this card has some sort of audio plug (to channel sound into DVI to HDMI connection) which (if not used) creates interference through your not used TV speakers, and random speaker thumping is a result. It is annoying, and not sure if it is harmful to the speakers.

Other Thoughts: Company should supply two prong needed cable so that you can use that feature, and knock out interference from idle use. (two prong connection can be found at top of card and is white in photo)

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N/A
Tech Level: somewhat high
Ownership: 1 day to 1 week
This user purchased this item from Newegg
5/28/2009 1:32:35 PM

Rating + 5 Oh, I forgot to add....


Pros: Brought the Vista windows experience from 3.0 to 4.9, because the Acer quad core had and onboard 7600 before. Not to shabby!

Cons: n/a

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N/A
Tech Level: somewhat high
Ownership: 1 day to 1 week
This user purchased this item from Newegg
5/28/2009 1:29:43 PM

Rating + 5 Nice


Pros: Nice card, drivers seemed to load just fine on vista 64 right from the CD. Fanless is good as long as you have good airflow.

Cons: None really, except the box came a bit dented and crimped up. Probably UPS's fault. Don't use UPS for really sensitive packages (like a mobo, for example). Pay the extra for FedEx, they care for their packages more.

Other Thoughts: I pulled out the useless fax-modem taking up a PCI slot and put in an Evercool Fox-1 to pull some of the heat off the video card. Haven't tried a whole lot but this card runs Oblivion at ultra high settings. I remember when that was the holygrail about 3 years ago. Awesome deal for the price.

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D1Ringer
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 day to 1 week
This user purchased this item from Newegg
5/18/2009 10:06:22 AM

Rating + 4 Nice Card


Pros: Works very well out of the box. Picture and response is more than adequate for any tasks.

Cons: Doesn't load x64 drivers. Have to do it manually from Nvidea site.

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talon1812
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 month to 1 year
This user purchased this item from Newegg
5/16/2009 12:51:15 AM

Rating + 5 Great Card


Pros: Great Card. Beautiful graphics at cheap price.

Cons: No fan-Maybe that's good, because I just had another video card fry because the fan went out!!
Had an Nvidia 6200 card and Vista Experience was 5.6.
After installing this 1 GB card, I thought the number would go higher, but they actually went DOWN to 5.0.
Go figure.

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e8baller
Tech Level: somewhat high
Ownership: 1 day to 1 week
This user purchased this item from Newegg
5/8/2009 5:16:41 PM

Rating + 5 awesome


Pros: Fanless, low-price, 1gb memory, easy install

Cons: none

Other Thoughts: I'm not a gamer, I use my computer for vector graphics programs Illustrator and Flash, some light Photoshop. My onboard Intel G31 chipset was fine for these programs, but I wanted to try out Left 4 Dead (which my onboard couldn't handle). Left 4 Dead runs perfectly at high settings with this card.

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bigstan
Tech Level: somewhat high
Ownership: 1 month to 1 year
This user purchased this item from Newegg
5/5/2009 9:18:29 PM

Rating + 5 Sparkle 9400GT 1GB PCI Exp Card


Pros: Got it right on schedule from Newegg. Installed drivers and went right to work. Beats the heck out of my on-board video. Improved my Vista score from 3.2 to 4.7 all by itself. Am very happy with it. Doesn't have a cooling fan, so no extra noise. Runs cooler than most fan-cooled cards I've used. Two DVI outputs, both work great.

Cons: Takes up an additional PCI slot on my Intel mobo. Other than that, no negatives.

Other Thoughts: Exceptional value if you're needing to improve a 2 year old mobo.

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bchoor
Tech Level: somewhat high
Ownership: 1 day to 1 week
This user purchased this item from Newegg
5/4/2009 11:14:13 PM

Rating + 5 Good value card


Pros: Works great, runs cool. Needed it for a computer in the desk in my bedroom, so it ran quiet. I have passive cooling power supply, and this complements the system; to an inaudible hum. It fit right in Small form factor (shuttle), runs @ 52-53'C - which is fine (for me I thought this is cool, given that I was expecting 65-70 at idle for a passive cooled gpu, and limited airflow).

Cons: None

Other Thoughts: This is not the best in its class, anyone looking at gaming or high graphics, should consider a 9600+ and one which has an actual fan.

At 1920x1080, with Windows 7 (beta) Aero - it works like a charm. I downloaded some videos from the Windows HD showcase - no problem in rendering the 720p and 1080p samples, CPU (Q6600) could be compensating a little (it hovers at 20% @ 720, and 35% @1080) - definitely acceptable.

I have not tried with Linux yet, I'm guessing

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Pete
Tech Level: somewhat high
Ownership: 1 week to 1 month
This user purchased this item from Newegg
5/4/2009 10:54:43 AM

Rating + 5 I love it!


Pros: Easy...very easy to install. I downloaded the drivers from the website, just to have the latest.

For the gamers, I have tested this in several, especially City of Heroes. It made things look so good I almost cried tears of joy...just to see how the card rendered them! In CoH it actually reduced a ton of lag...and I played on the highest setting possible. I could do this with my old 256mb card.

It also worked great for Universe at War and several first person shooters, Champions Online (I'm in beta and the game sucks)...pretty much everything.

Cons: The only con I can think of it nVidia website detected my old cards drivers and assumed I didn't need new ones, so I had to navigate to the drivers to download them...but that's not the cards fault at all.

Other Thoughts: I almost got a lesser car until I found out the 2.0 cards would work in 1.0 slots...I'm a very happy man!

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Jeff
Tech Level: average
Ownership: 1 day to 1 week
5/1/2009 9:49:31 PM

Rating + 5 Pretty good!


Pros: It's cheap! Cheap is always good.
It gave me a massive improvement on my old card, which was a Geforce 6150SE. My Vista graphics score went from a 3.2 to a 4.9 and my gaming graphics score went from a 3.0 to a 5.3.
I've tried it with Oblivion and the Sims 2 so far, on normal settings, and both play pretty well.
It's fanless, so it doesn't make any noise while you're using it.

Cons: So far, I haven't encountered many problems with it. But I am worried about it when it starts getting hotter during the Summer. So I'll probably have to go get another fan for it.

One other thing, it's not really a big deal, but it came with an S-video cable that's only about three and a half feet long. I don't know about most other people, but I don't keep my desktop computer that close to the TV. So I had to get another cable to go with it. But that wasn't nearly enough to bump it down a point.

Other Thoughts: If you're on a tight budget and your computer came with an awful graphics card, this one is definitely worth the money.

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LarryLaser
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 month to 1 year
This user purchased this item from Newegg
4/29/2009 7:37:33 PM

Rating + 4 GeForce 9400 GT


Pros: They work just fine for me, Design work (Engineering).
I don't play Games.

Cons: n/a

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szilagyic
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 month to 1 year
This user purchased this item from Newegg
4/15/2009 5:44:07 AM

Rating + 5 Outstanding value


Pros: A great performing card for an affordable price.

Cons: None that I know of.

Other Thoughts: I bought this card due to the good reviews here on Newegg. And after I received it and used it, I can see why. It's a very affordable card and with 1 GB of onboard memory, you really can't go wrong. Plus, it has a large heatsink without a fan. Hopefully this doesn't cause any overheating issues. I doubt it as the heatsink is pretty big to disperse the heat. So, this is a definite bonus not having to deal with a cheap fan that just gets clogged up with dust over time.

I am using this card on a Dell Inspiron 530 running Fedora 10 Linux. The support for nVidia chipsets in Linux is outstanding. Fedora nVidia drivers are in the "kmod-nvidia" package from rpmfusion.org. I had experienced problems in the past running many games in Wine (in Linux) with non nVidia cards, and with this card every game I've thrown at it so far runs flawlessly in full 3D. The graphics are perfect and the performance is just as good. A++++

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Mneph
Tech Level: average
Ownership: 1 week to 1 month
This user purchased this item from Newegg
4/8/2009 3:44:31 AM

Rating + 5 for the price, C'mon it's a no brainer


Pros: I bought this to replace my ancient ATI PCI card from late nineteen ninety something. Before my pages would jump when I surfed, now they roll like a marble across glass, flawless. Also, I can play newer games, Yeah! I'm not a big gamer but the games I have played, the visual has not only blown me away but they've impressed my 11 year old son, and that's not an easy thing to do sometimes.

I bought this on a shell shocker deal for 35 buck and free shipping. Now that I have it, I would have easily payed double, but don't tell newegg that.

Although it didn't come with a fan, it ran between 65 and 72 deg C. I then jerry-rigged a fan to blow across it and now my range it 43-50, even on the intense games.

If your looking for a really really good graphics card, I would recommend this one, really.

Oh yeah, and dual booting with Ubuntu, the sphere never moved so graceful. My 3D desktop looks lilke something from a really good scifi movie.

Cons: i think I would have to put a DUH, about here. I mean, a solid card with great performance. Nope, no cons from this fella.

Other Thoughts: i ordered on a Friday morning and had it installed Tuesday evening. Great shipping and a great deal. If you are concerned with the heat from the stock product, you can do like I did and string up a $2 case fan with fishing line from the side and your heat will drop 20 deg C easy

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Moon
Tech Level: average
Ownership: 1 day to 1 week
This user purchased this item from Newegg
4/6/2009 8:44:30 AM

Rating + 5 Great for the price


Pros: Price...Easy to Install

Cons: None

Other Thoughts: I purchased this to replaced a failed 512mb video card on my desktop. I was just looking for something to get me thru until I could spend the money and really upgrade. This card has really surprised me. The graphics are great and while its not top of the line, it handling WOW and Second Life like a champ. Just make sure you update your drivers or you will have issues.

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Buckerou
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 week to 1 month
This user purchased this item from Newegg
4/4/2009 8:54:58 AM

Rating + 5 Great video - Cheap


Pros: Exceptional video for a affordable price. I installed this in a budget PC with on board 8200 running Vista 64. My Windows ratings went from 3.5 graphics and 4.0 gaming graphics to a nice boost of 5.0 and 5.3.

Cons: This card is not necessarily designed for the avid gamer but I would not hesitate to use it for occasional gaming. Not DDR3!

Other Thoughts: I installed one in a Windows XP system replacing a age old 6800GT and it nearly doubled the 3D Mark 06 score. It didn't do anything for the PC Mark score. I got it on a Shell Shocker sale so I can't compare it for the price. I did not try the driver but downloaded the latest from Nvidia. If you are looking for something to improve your on board video or need to replace an old video card. This will do the job.

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ERM
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 week to 1 month
This user purchased this item from Newegg
4/3/2009 2:03:29 AM

Rating + 5 Vista


Pros: good little card for os gui, internet browsing, and running microsoft office.

Cons: not a gaming card but that is really ok because that is not what it is designed for anyway.

Other Thoughts: most general computer users will be perfectly pleased with this card

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Britt H
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 day to 1 week
This user purchased this item from Newegg
4/1/2009 5:24:15 AM

Rating + 4 Worth the price!


Pros: Good performance, 1 GB, Geforce 9 GPU.

Fanless is a pro for me... I have a Shuttle with 250W PS.

Price was awesome from Newegg! Got it on shellshock!

Cons: ONLY DDR, not GDDR. check their site. Can't OC due to fanless.

Heatsink is not low profile. Actually touches my case because it is a little thicker than those with the tiny fans.

Other Thoughts: Fanless is a pro for some, con for others. This item works great. I have 2GB DDR2 in my system, now dedicating 100% of that to running the computer, not the graphics. 3dmark 2001 score is like 24000 with dual core 6000+. This price was great but there are better cards out there. I have always loved geforce products for their price per performance. ATIs are great products too, I just prefer nvidia chips due to their flexibility and such. (and I have an nforce mobo)

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N/A
Tech Level: average
Ownership: 1 day to 1 week
This user purchased this item from Newegg
3/30/2009 11:49:43 AM

Rating + 5


Pros: Nice sturdy feeling video card for really cheap what else could you want?

Cons: No fan?

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Papa
Tech Level: high
Ownership: less than 1 day
3/27/2009 7:54:36 AM

Rating + 5 In Response to dirtycoolie


Pros: Good base level pcie card. Embarasses on board audio..... yes, even ati's built in 3200HD 780G chipset. So go ahead.... enjoy yourself. For the price, it's the best. Should be on par with my 8500GT 512MB. Same ratings in vista... so... I'm figuring.

Cons: This is not a mid-range card. ATI 4850 is a mid-range card and it will pee on this card all day singing p!$$ on you remix!!!

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BEN
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 day to 1 week
This user purchased this item from Newegg
3/25/2009 1:10:42 PM

Rating + 5 Very Pleased


Pros: For the cost I just can't complain about having to read directions. The CMOS is very clear if you understand settings. Added a AMD Quad core 2+ CPU and fan, 1066 RAM, Graphics card and the necessities and she booted right up under defaults. I immediately set the clocks, but found out there's a pretty handy "KISS" overclocking program that works surprisingly well. The board has more bells and whistles that we'll ever need in practice.

Cons: I'll have to upgrade to Vista 64 to appreciate the real features.

Other Thoughts: I look forward to tweaking it with a 64 bit systems, I may have to use Linux until my 64 bit MS OS gets here

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Ditto
Tech Level: average
Ownership: 1 week to 1 month
This user purchased this item from Newegg
3/16/2009 11:35:30 AM

Rating + 5 Good for the money.


Pros: Arrived quick, ty Newegg. Runs WoW at about 60 fps on average, great buy for the money. Good cheap upgrade for a box system. Would buy another if it ever fails.

Cons: No manual, but easy to install. Box flimsy.

Other Thoughts: Update the drivers, that's a given.

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Matt
Tech Level: average
Ownership: less than 1 day
This user purchased this item from Newegg
3/11/2009 5:55:36 PM

Rating + 5 great card


Pros: Quiet
Can run games such as Call of Duty 4 and Left 4 Dead on high settings near perfectly.
High framerate on graphic intensive games
Fast shipping

Cons: Didn't come with a user's manual (No big deal, it's easy to figure out)
No fan

Other Thoughts: This is an AWESOME card for the price. If you're on a budget definitely get this card.

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JohnnyD
Tech Level: somewhat high
Ownership: 1 month to 1 year
This user purchased this item from Newegg
3/5/2009 5:52:17 PM

Rating + 5 good deal


Pros: * Excellent Price
* Excellent Card
1GB of Memory

Cons: None

Other Thoughts: Always fast shipping!

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N/A
Tech Level: somewhat high
Ownership: 1 week to 1 month
This user purchased this item from Newegg
3/1/2009 6:24:03 PM

Rating + 5 Very nice


Pros: Wasnt sure what to think with such a low price but, I am Very Happy with the performance if this card. Installed and runs great. Have been playin FEAR2 and others with high settings with no problems. And with 1gb memory it is fast and smooth. Shiping is as always fast. But have come to expect that from Egg. So for someone with a tight budget this card is a value and performs great.

Cons: None actually. wasnt sure bout not having a fan but it seems to run quite cool enuff.

Other Thoughts: Always happy with service and speed of egg. My home for upgrades etc. Will definately continue to shop here.

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N/A
Tech Level: somewhat low
Ownership: 1 week to 1 month
This user purchased this item from Newegg
2/26/2009 4:15:49 PM

Rating + 5 works great


Pros: Works excellent raised my vista rating up to 4.6 I am still trying to figure out to raise it higher but a great card

Cons: none

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rkbuzz
Tech Level: somewhat high
Ownership: 1 week to 1 month
This user purchased this item from Newegg
2/25/2009 2:05:46 PM

Rating + 5 Excellent!!


Pros: This is one rocking card for the money! Works with Ubuntu with no problems. Brought my Vista score up to 5.2. It was 3.0 before the card. Very happy with this card.

Cons: None

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aaron k
Tech Level: somewhat high
Ownership: 1 day to 1 week
This user purchased this item from Newegg
2/20/2009 10:54:35 PM

Rating + 5 great! good for price


Pros: made it able to play recent games on high graphics levels. regular pc view didn't change, but my monitor is old so i don't blame it. easily fit into computer, just stuck it in, plugged monitor in, and installed.

Cons: none. i mean, it wasn't free, but whatcha gonna do?

Other Thoughts: my dell dimension 5150 pent 4, 3 ghz had integrated graphics and it couldn't even low settings without freezing every 4 seconds. it works great now

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N/A
Tech Level: high
Ownership: less than 1 day
This user purchased this item from Newegg
2/19/2009 1:19:12 AM

Rating + 4 Nice Card


Pros: very nice card for the money. small passive cooler. 1gib ram. a nice upgrage from a 7300gt. runs my asus vh222 at full res (1920x1080) and all the games i have thrown at it (also at full res)

Cons: small passive cooler which makes it run at 45c. at idle and 57 under load.

Other Thoughts: very happy with this purchace and would recommend this to all (as long as you don't mind the heat or do like i did and change out the cooler with a bigger one (running at 35c. idle and 41 under load)

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Todd
Tech Level: somewhat high
Ownership: 1 day to 1 week
This user purchased this item from Newegg
2/18/2009 12:47:02 PM

Rating + 5 Way to go Sparkle!


Pros: For the $$ this is really a good deal. Works great for video applications!

Cons: Dont expect to play Crysis or any other high res games for that matter.

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fulluvit
Tech Level: somewhat high
Ownership: less than 1 day
This user purchased this item from Newegg
2/13/2009 1:05:45 PM

Rating + 5 I'm Pleased


Pros: Where else are you going to find a video card with a full gig of memory on it at this price? Easy installation.

Cons: None yet.

Other Thoughts: I had recently reviewed my Vista systems Performance Info after upgrading my memory to 4gb. My overall rating was 3.3, with the graphics being the big bogdown. This card popped up in the Newegg ad for $45 with free shipping, so I figured it was worth a shot. My desktop graphics rating went from 3.5 to 5.2 and the gaming graphics went from 3.3 to 5.3. My overall rating is held down to 4.3 by my Pentium 4 641 processor. That seems like pretty good performance for a simple e-machines el-cheapo computer. I'm not a gamer, but I work with pictures a lot and it will be nice to have the additional gig of dedicated memory for this task.

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Spike
Tech Level: somewhat high
Ownership: 1 week to 1 month
2/10/2009 8:57:50 AM

Rating + 5 Nice for the Price


Pros: I bought this card because I am in a budget crunch and my ATI x850xt PE video card finally burned out after three years. My onboard intel was horrible and I needed something for juice to actually run games and such. I put this thing in knowing it wouldn't have any power at all right? I mean its a card for HCTP anyhow, but when I put this in for World of Warcraft I was actually very suprised. Plays WOTLK at 40fps on medium settings (depending on your processor I imagine you can get a lot more out of this card for WoW). This isn't a gamers card by all means but I was impressed at the power this tiny thing put out and I would reccomend it for light/med gaming if you have budget issues like me. If not you can spend and extra 50-100 bucks and be a baller. After reviews on the web I hear this card does very well for basic video rendering and writing if you are into that kind of thing also.

Cons: None as of now

Other Thoughts: Intel Core 2 Duo E6300 1.86Ghz (not overclocked) ---- a better processor and more ram will give you better results for this card

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dirtycoolie
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 week to 1 month
This user purchased this item from Newegg
2/6/2009 5:15:30 PM

Rating + 4 Better than i thought


Pros: i im very surprised at this card since it was cheap and the reviews were very mixed im currently running farcry 2 at high graphics and for the price its a great mid range card for someone on a budget

Cons: a fan would help with cooling but its cool enough

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