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MSI NX8500GT-TD256E OC Desktop Graphics / Video Cards
Customer Reviews for MSI NX8500GT-TD256E OC GeForce 8500 GT 256MB 128-bit GDDR3 PCI Express x16 SLI Support Video Card - Retail
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Bryan G.
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 month to 1 year
This user purchased this item from Newegg
9/28/2008 3:06:32 AM

Rating + 5 Does what it should


Pros: For a cheap card it does great. I don't do much gaming but I do a lot of work on images and videos, it does the job well.

Cons: None

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N/A
Tech Level: somewhat high
Ownership: 1 day to 1 week
This user purchased this item from Newegg
9/9/2008 5:43:55 PM

Rating + 4 Good Card


Pros: I am impressed with this card. TV -out is great ....Mail in rebate ?

Cons: Loud fan. Gets hot...Bought this card 08.28.08 didn't see that the rebate good between 09.01.08-09.30.08. Newegg shouldn't advertise MIR with wrong dates.

Other Thoughts: Would buy again....I hate MIR's....

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Reaper
Tech Level: high
Ownership: more than 1 year
This user purchased this item from Newegg
8/15/2008 12:15:48 PM

Rating + 5 GOOD BANG FOR THE BUCK


Pros: Good low end card for a childs computer. I built my son a new SFF system a year or so ago and needed something just powerful enough to run COD2. We play a lot of older FPS's together and I wanted him to have something that would definitely push anything not current to its fullest potential. He can play COD2 maxed out on his 19" LCD with no problem. As long as he's happy so am I.

Cons: Can't think of any right now.

Other Thoughts: MSI makes a pretty good video card, but I would never buy one of their motherboards.

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N/A
Tech Level: average
Ownership: 1 month to 1 year
This user purchased this item from Newegg
8/13/2008 11:05:57 AM

Rating + 5 Nice Budget Video Card


Pros: Great for light gaming. Never had any problems with it. Runs well under Linux and Windows.

Cons: Well, it's certainly not going to play Crysis on max settings, but what do you expect?

Other Thoughts: Played BF2, Oblivion, and several open source games at rather high framerates. Replaced with a 9600 GT for more demanding gaming.

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SliTechGuy
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 month to 1 year
This user purchased this item from Newegg
8/10/2008 6:38:17 AM

Rating + 5 MSI For The Win!


Pros: In my opinion, MSI does graphics cards better than anyone else... They are always clocked a little higher and priced a little lower! Constructed of high quality components with a cool picture to boot! The MSI OC GeForce 8500 GT is no exception... The best budget card for your buck! Great for DVD movies, photoshop & light to moderate gaming.

Cons: none.

Other Thoughts: If your building a budget rig and looking for a video card with good graphics performance, this is your card!

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Bryan
Tech Level: somewhat high
Ownership: less than 1 day
This user purchased this item from Newegg
7/24/2008 6:01:56 PM

Rating + 5 Great Card!


Pros: Great card for the price, worked better than I hoped it would. Plays CS:S perfectly, not one problem, and I have yet to try Battlefield 2 but I have no doubt it will work good. Great budget gamer card!

Cons: None yet!

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C0J0D0
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 month to 1 year
This user purchased this item from Newegg
6/30/2008 10:47:23 AM

Rating + 4 Forget the Rebate


Pros: nice card but rebate is impossible to collect.

Cons: After several inquiries, the rebate was rejected because MSI would not accept Newegg's invoice information as proof of purchase.

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Viper32581
Tech Level: somewhat high
Ownership: 1 month to 1 year
This user purchased this item from Newegg
6/21/2008 2:54:34 PM

Rating + 5 add a zalman


Pros: this is a great card for beginners and buget gamers. personally i use it in sli with its twin sister, just to kick up my ps cs3 image proccessing time. anyways.. read below.

Cons: The Card is great the hs/fan on the other hand is useless!!!.. buy a zalman vf900 for a cheap thirty bucks and stick on the included memsink's and then feel free to use the included thermpast, or grab yourself some AS ceramic. and use that.. either way.. i went from and gpu temp of about 51c w/ 72f ambient. to 40c w/ the same abient. now i'm overclocking both gru's to 700core / 700mem.. and my temps stay the same at idel and reach a mere 49c when running assassin's creed on max for a few hours straight.. lol

Other Thoughts: case is simple 4u rack case. front 120, twin rear 80's and a 550w rosewill psu. amd x2 5000 blackedition. 4gb of wintec 800ddr2. triple raptor 10k 36gb in raid 5 off my biostar tforce590sli. and whole list of other things i've all bought from newegg!!

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PDENTON!!!!!!11
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 day to 1 week
6/10/2008 5:18:10 PM

Rating + 2 UBER TRASH


Pros: None, uber garbage

Cons: Uber garb. Dont buy this trash, it costs that price for a reason. Runs world of warcraft on medium settings at 800x600, LOL MY 7900gs DID BETTER!!! Wow, way to suck nvidia.

Other Thoughts: Buy a 8800gts g92, i upgraded to that instead and it runs crysis on high easy

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bendodge
Tech Level: somewhat high
Ownership: 1 month to 1 year
This user purchased this item from Newegg
6/3/2008 3:11:56 PM

Rating + 4 Decent Budget Card


Pros: SLI support, DirectX10. It does not take external power; it uses the slow power. Small size works fine in mini-ATX. I haven't had any heat problems.

Cons: I would have expected it to have considerably more power than my GeForce 6600, but it's not that much better. It's a lot cheaper though.

Other Thoughts: It runs CNC3 at medium-high settings. Not bad at all for the price.

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EB13
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 month to 1 year
This user purchased this item from Newegg
5/30/2008 11:29:01 AM

Rating + 4 Good Card, Right Price


Pros: Definitely a good card for the price. It can run pretty much any game at medium-high to high settings. Temps run pretty average, not as high as a standard 8500GT and the fan is really quiet.

Cons: It is nearly impossible to overclock it anymore then it already is. Every attempt I've made at OC'ing it has resulted in my entire machine freezing up or a BSOD. Going on 3 months waiting for rebate from MSI.

Other Thoughts: Biostar GF7025-M2
AMD Athlon 64x2 4000+
2Gb G-skill DDR2 667
WD Caviar 160Gb
MSI NX8500GT-TD256E OC

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N/A
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 month to 1 year
This user purchased this item from Newegg
5/30/2008 10:36:05 AM

Rating + 4 Don't expect rebate


Pros: Excellent product

Cons: Don't expect to receive a rebate from MSI. Complete all forms correctly and it never arrived.

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N/A
Tech Level: somewhat high
Ownership: 1 month to 1 year
This user purchased this item from Newegg
5/22/2008 1:20:10 AM

Rating + 4 good bang for your buck


Pros: great for price. can run battlefield 2142 all the way up with no lag. can run crysis w. most settings on high.

Cons: can't run crysis or hellgate all the way up.

Other Thoughts: I do not see why so many people have so much trouble out of the temp. Mine runs at 115 .F at idle and 129 when under a loan but will not reach 130 degres.

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Computerbuilder93
Tech Level: somewhat high
Ownership: 1 day to 1 week
This user purchased this item from Newegg
5/19/2008 9:50:40 PM

Rating + 4 Great for the Price


Pros: Nice... I thought this card would just be another cheapy card... BUT I WAS WRONG! I have: AMD Athlon 3600+, 2 GB DDR2, 450W PSU, Gigabyte S3 series MB, and accouse the MSI video card. what can I say, I can run BioShock at the highest with some lag (25-30fps). also runs NFS Underground 2 with no problem. I bought this card to replace the on board video (Nvidia 6200). This computer is just a spiar for parties. Nice I would say. noticable overclocking in it.

Cons: non that I can think of right now. Overclocking makes the card run really hot. -!BEWARE MAY FREEZE!- recomend getting a PCI cooling fan.

Other Thoughts: over all. NICE CARD FOR THE MONEY $.$

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nordan87
Tech Level: somewhat high
Ownership: 1 month to 1 year
This user purchased this item from Newegg
5/14/2008 10:24:51 PM

Rating + 4 Expected Less


Pros: The card performed much better than I thought it would, I purchased this just trying to get a budget-level card to replace my onboard video (which can't even play Warcraft 3) and was pleasantly surprised. The last budget card I got with an nVidia chipset (the FX5200) was a nightmare. Very quiet and runs pretty cool. Captures FRAPS just fine and dual-display works like a charm.

Cons: Really haven't had any problems with it thus far, although I never did get my rebate money.

Other Thoughts: At this point you may as well buy a 8800 GTS, which I believe they're selling for around $140, which is only a little more than I paid for this card several months ago.

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N/A
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 month to 1 year
This user purchased this item from Newegg
5/14/2008 9:45:27 PM

Rating + 5 Bang for the Buck


Pros: Great performance for the price.

Cons: Runs hot.

Other Thoughts: Manage the airflow and you will be fine

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N/A
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 month to 1 year
This user purchased this item from Newegg
5/14/2008 9:43:39 PM

Rating + 4 Nice budget board


Pros: Low price, works fine. Easy kindergarten overclocking.

Cons: Kindergarten overclocking options only.

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N/A
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 day to 1 week
This user purchased this item from Newegg
5/10/2008 10:53:03 AM

Rating + 5 nice card


Pros: Very good card, runs source and BF on high settings with no problem, easy to overclock.

Cons: Runs high temps

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Storm2343
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 month to 1 year
This user purchased this item from Newegg
5/4/2008 1:12:32 PM

Rating + 4 good card


Pros: Runs crysis at medium settings. i am satisfied with this card. usually 48-52 on idle and 68-69 on full load.

Cons: It is usually 48-52 on idle and 68-69 on full load. which makes some games run bad when its hot. so get a VGA cooler if you plan to OC.

Other Thoughts: If i could choose again, i would invest about 20 more $$$$ to get a 8600 but this card makes due

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N/A
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 week to 1 month
This user purchased this item from Newegg
5/1/2008 10:51:49 AM

Rating + 5 SLI - Install Experience


Pros: I ordered an second card when the price dropped so I could run SLI. I was unsure how well this would work. I installed the card, put on the jumper, changed a jumper on my motherboard. It booted right up, found new hardware, installed the driver. rebooted. Then I just had to enable SLI in the nvidia software, and worked like a champ!

Cons: I dislike mail in rebates.

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Diablomaster
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 week to 1 month
This user purchased this item from Newegg
4/25/2008 10:53:50 AM

Rating + 5 Great graphics card


Pros: Works well, cheep to buy, overclocks well( get a vga cooler if you overclock it gets a bit warm).

Cons: none

Other Thoughts: Worth every penny!

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Meat
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 week to 1 month
4/19/2008 4:11:08 PM

Rating + 5 Great Card for the Price


Pros: Great Price, overclocked right out of the box and GDDR3 memory. Runs better than most 8500GT 512MB GDDR2 standard cards out there. Plays Bioshock, Oblivion, etc at modest settings. Basically, for the money it doesn't disappoint.

Cons: Runs hot. I had to remove my side case and add a fan just to keep the temp at around 70C during full load.

Other Thoughts: I haven't gone SLI yet with this card but I just ordered another from Newegg for 39.99. If you want to take the risk buy open box, my last card (open box) didn't work after 2 days, I sent it to MSI and they replaced it with a new card for free. An SLI setup for 90 bucks isn't a bad deal in my opinion.

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Dadman 5
Tech Level: somewhat high
Ownership: 1 month to 1 year
This user purchased this item from Newegg
4/19/2008 4:11:08 PM

Rating + 5 Overclocked


Pros: I have been running this card in my system for almost two months now. I have been very happy with the overall performance on everything I do, including gaming. Just for fun I recently pushed the gpu speed to 700mhz and found that it runs stably with improved performance.

Cons: None

Other Thoughts: You'll have to go to the nVidia website and download nTune to make the adjustment.

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kawasaki
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 month to 1 year
This user purchased this item from Newegg
4/12/2008 10:56:50 AM

Rating + 5 checking in


Pros: read below

Cons: none

Other Thoughts: HI everyone. just wanted to say that after having this card for 4 months its still working great.bioshock/farcry/crysis/gears of war/and a lot of other games play great.will be buying anthoer one to run in sli soon.

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Mjr Malfunction
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 week to 1 month
This user purchased this item from Newegg
4/11/2008 11:53:46 AM

Rating + 5 Great Video Card


Pros: Man are my games loving this card. I can set the game settings on ultimate and have no probs running this. I have had no issues running anything that i throw at it. In fact...it chews it up, spits it out and screams for more..."...Feed me, I'm Hungry!!". Really looking forward to getting some of my older games out that wouldnt run on my other cards. all in all...an excellent card for the price. Vista Ultimate 64bit gives it a 5.9...and the graphics are unbelieveable. LOVE THIS CARD!!!

Cons: NONE

Other Thoughts: Gigabyte ga-m57sli-s4 mainboard, Athlon 3000+, 256mb gforce 8500OC, 2gb PC6400, 500gb SATA II HDD.

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Slinky
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 day to 1 week
This user purchased this item from Newegg
4/11/2008 8:17:36 AM

Rating + 5 Great for the price


Pros: Girlfriend and I play Everquest II, she had an older 7300GS that got a terrible 2.7 on Vista performance index for gaming graphics. She had to play in almost the lowest settings. Installed this card, Vista performance index went to 5.3 for gaming graphics, and this is on an older motherboard, nothing cutting edge. She can now play in 1680x1050 in "Extreme quality" mode. She believes this is the best money we have ever spent on her computer :-)

Cons: Not a one... I wish she had an SLI motherboard.

Other Thoughts: Included software is pretty sweet. It lets you "tune" the OC of the card from gaming to "cool" to suit your performance whim. This was the highest performing card we could find that doesn't require a dedicated power connection. It also does not take up 2 slots (as does my 8600GTS), nor is it loud. Very good "bang for the buck", DX10, current technology, games and Vista love it. Can't ask for much more.

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Bnutz
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 month to 1 year
This user purchased this item from Newegg
4/11/2008 6:46:16 AM

Rating + 3 No rebate


Pros: The card is great for basic se not recommended for anyone thinking of gaming. It works good for viewing HD movies although it's not HDCP, I use the VGA hooked up to a 40" LCD TV and it looks great.

Cons: It has been months and no rebate. This was suppose to be a good card for the money with the rebate, but since it did not get here it's not worth it when you can get a 8600gt for 10 bucks more. I aslo got the EVGA 8600gt and I received my rebate in less than a month. Now I know which brand to get from now, and this is the one for 10 bucks more.

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DJ Tech
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 month to 1 year
This user purchased this item from Newegg
4/10/2008 11:16:49 AM

Rating + 5 Great board for the money


Pros: I wasn't looking for the best video but wanted something I could use that took care of most video demands in today's environment. This SLI board works well and Vista took to it well. Future upgrade is possible since I'm using an ASUS SLI board.

Cons: None so far

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jckenno
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 month to 1 year
This user purchased this item from Newegg
4/4/2008 7:09:30 PM

Rating + 5 sli


Pros: This card is great for the price. I have two of them in sli mode wich makes for a powerful combo, if you know what I mean!

Cons: None!

Other Thoughts: Pentium D 3.0GHZ, 4gigs (533) ddr2 mem., (2)160 gig W.D. harddrives, Antec 550ps, Arctic cooling for cpu, 2 of these 8500gt cards in sli mode on an asus 650i motherboard. All in a cheap case with alot of fans.

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wiskybent
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 week to 1 month
This user purchased this item from Newegg
4/3/2008 1:12:50 PM

Rating + 5 more bang for your buck


Pros: Great price. DX10 support. plays CnC3 and Kane's wrath on ultra high settings (1024 res). Also Company of Heroes on highest settings

Cons: none. i just wish my board supported SLI so I could have 2

Other Thoughts: For mid level games this card rocks. Even using only one card plays just about anything you throw at it. DX 10 makes all your games look awesome. I don't know about high end games like Crisis, but the games I play look fantastic. Haven't experienced any glitches except in 8-10 player multiplayer skirmish maps, but that's alot of factors besides video card.

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N/A
Tech Level: high
Ownership: less than 1 day
4/3/2008 12:25:05 PM

Rating + 5 Good Card For DX9


Pros: This Card is Very good for DX9 Games like Fear and such. I've seen reviews for the GDDR2 Version and when they oc'ed the GDDR2 card they got 74fps on Fear with everything maxed out at 1024x768, Soft Shadows Off. This Card is perfect if ur not gonna game on a resolution higher than that. Now the fact that this is GDDR3 memory, This card will OC MUCH HIGH.

Cons: Don't own the card but will order soon =)
Won't do wonders With Crysis lol

Other Thoughts: A good card for DX9 Gaming, Runs great with Fear, Quake 4, Doom 3, Halo, Halo 2 Etc, Saw a Vid on youtube of a guy getting 58~70 fps on Lost Planet in DX9 at 1024x768 Max Settings

System Specs:
Athlon X2 5000+ BE @ 3.2Ghz
Mushkin 4GB DDR2 800 Mhz
MSI 8500GT *Ordering Soon*

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BuckyKashdin
Tech Level: somewhat high
Ownership: 1 day to 1 week
This user purchased this item from Newegg
4/2/2008 6:43:47 AM

Rating + 4 get 2 - don't even think about it


Pros: Price.

Cons: NewEgg didn't make a package of 2 of these for low cost good quality SLI.

Other Thoughts: I read through all of these comments before buying. There's a reason everyone says 'should have bought 2'. They should have. By the time I realized I should have done so, they were out of stock. Just got my 'New Instock' email and came rushing back for #2

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PcBegginer
Tech Level: average
Ownership: 1 week to 1 month
This user purchased this item from Newegg
4/1/2008 8:56:29 PM

Rating + 5 Great


Pros: Well the graphics to this graphic card is the amount you bought it for, so I guess u get what you buy. Other than that, I installed this graphic card in to the living room PC, which I usually experiment with on installing new components. Overrall plays my games smooth no complaints.

Cons: None, like I said you get what you pay for

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Dirtysouth257
Tech Level: average
Ownership: 1 week to 1 month
This user purchased this item from Newegg
4/1/2008 4:04:13 PM

Rating + 4 Good graphics...


Pros: I have two of these running in SLI mode. They are very good cards for the money. I am able to run COD4 at max settings and I have had no issues.Comes bundled with some pretty good utilities.

Cons: Had issues once or twice playing Flight Simulator were the screen would blink rapidly during the game.Would stop once I pressed the esc key and then resume the game.( Not sure if it has some thing to do with the graphic card or the game itself, no issues with any other game.)

Other Thoughts: Oh..had issues with E-color utility. Just couldn't get it to work. It made the screen cloudy and no mattter how I adjusted the settings, it jsut would not work. Ended up removing that particular utility and things work just fine.

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UnDeeFeeTed
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 week to 1 month
This user purchased this item from Newegg
3/27/2008 5:39:33 PM

Rating + 5 nice clean quiet card


Pros: works with dim e520 on xp, no compatibility problems, runs cool and quiet, sli ready

Cons: should have bought another

Other Thoughts: strong enough to play cod4 on high settings, another card is on its way in the mail

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N/A
Tech Level: average
Ownership: 1 week to 1 month
This user purchased this item from Newegg
3/27/2008 11:03:02 AM

Rating + 5 Great Card


Pros: Fast delivery, easy setup, awesome performance. i put this in my PC and now i get a 5.9 graphics rating from vista...works great runs everything i['ve thrown at it...

Cons: had a few probs with the driver, but as soon as i got vista sp1 installed everything was great...

Other Thoughts: i've played games now with the card for 10+ hours straight to see what it can handle and it worked great...never got the slightest bit of overheating..

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N/A
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 week to 1 month
This user purchased this item from Newegg
3/23/2008 11:51:52 PM

Rating + 4 Great for the price


Pros: Great board when comparing the the high demand prices of the 7600 and 8600 gt's. May not be as fast or as good for gaming, but perfect for those who aren't planning on doing heavy gaming.

Cons: Definitely runs hot. I Have never seen it dip under 43c, but it usually hovers between 46-50c and thats not on heavy load either. All this with an aftermarket GPU cooler (Zerotherm 710) along with Arctic Silver 5.

Other Thoughts: If newegg sold groceries and hygiene products, I wouldn't leave the house.

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BigJim
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 day to 1 week
This user purchased this item from Newegg
3/20/2008 4:05:40 PM

Rating + 5


Pros: great card for the money, tested it with FEAR and Halo2 and it runs them smooth butn not all setting on high. It is running on Vista Ultimate with a Celeron 420 1.6 Conroe-L cpu and 2 gigs of ram. Has a WEI of 3.8 due to the Celeron, that will change with a faster core2duo. I am going to run Crysis once I upgrade the cpu. It comes with a overclocking utility from MSI. Cards like this are selling in retail stores for 149 dollars, newegg 68.99 with 20 dollar rebate, you can't beat it. As always great shipping with newegg.

Cons: None

Other Thoughts: I do believe that the system will run even better with a
upgrade to a better cpu. The installation and setup were so simple "even a caveman could do it". Overclocking the card is a no brainer. Now I know it is not an 8800 series but what do you want for 68.99.

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N/A
Tech Level: average
Ownership: 1 week to 1 month
This user purchased this item from Newegg
3/20/2008 11:29:59 AM

Rating + 5


Pros: Works great, very happy. I'm using it with Vista Business 64-bit. Vista likes it so the OS graphics are great.

Cons: None

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N/A
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 week to 1 month
This user purchased this item from Newegg
3/18/2008 9:37:40 PM

Rating + 5 Nice Card!


Pros: I bought this card for my wife's computer. She doesn't do gaming per se, but does like the occasional RTS and other strategy games. It was an inexpensive way to future proof her new computer for DX10 stuff etc. I decided to give the card a workout with some of my games to see what it could do. I was actually impressed with it's abilities. You won't be playing graphic intense games at high settings but it will play them with respectable settings. If you are looking for a budget card this is a good one. It is also OC'ed from the factory a bonus.

Cons: None so far.

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FranktheSlurpeeTank
Tech Level: somewhat high
Ownership: 1 month to 1 year
This user purchased this item from Newegg
3/18/2008 1:30:43 PM

Rating + 5 Great Card


Pros: Plays Crysis decently on med settings (gotta use a low res, but thats cool if you got a big monitor). It does play on XP-64bit, gotta get the 64 bit drivers from nvidia. Plays WoW flawlessly, and UT3 extremely well for the price.

Cons: Not really a con, but the red color really doesn't work with my glowing blue machine (see through panels).

Other Thoughts: Haven't run in SLI, but I may upgrade to something better to run in SLI mode with. This card is really a great low budget gaming card.

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SAF203
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 day to 1 week
This user purchased this item from Newegg
3/17/2008 11:19:57 AM

Rating + 5 Lovin' it


Pros: Outstanding card!! Quite an upgrade...plays all games extremely well

Cons: none

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DragonAsh
Tech Level: average
Ownership: 1 day to 1 week
This user purchased this item from Newegg
3/17/2008 8:59:06 AM

Rating + 5 Nice buy!


Pros: Runs TF2 quite smoothly! Silent fan, nice heatsink and no issues as of yet. Cheap price with the rebate as well. Great upgrade.

Cons: for some reason, the gamma slider is grayed out on the video settings... could be something I'm doing. Not a big deal at all.

Other Thoughts: This is an upgrade from my 6800 which died on me suddenly. VERY big difference.

Also, my computer is showing that the card has 512 memory! I know it doesn't, but one can dream ^_^

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DJ Ballistix
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 day to 1 week
This user purchased this item from Newegg
3/16/2008 5:27:55 PM

Rating + 4 Good Performance, Price and Fast Service


Pros: Great Budget Mid-Level Graphics Card. Plug it in and there she went. Color, resolution, brightness were pleasing in games with decent framerates. It is not as fast and nice as the 8800GT, but comparable for the price. Bonus for some: No needed PCI-Express power toggle required!

Cons: It was a little glitchie with some of the software I used until I updated the Drivers from NVidia.com. No problems now.

Other Thoughts: I ordered this card one evening, and received it the next day! I was blown away with the service speed. I gave this product a 4 rating, because it is simply not Top of the line. (Which costs more like $500)

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linuxnut
Tech Level: somewhat high
Ownership: 1 week to 1 month
This user purchased this item from Newegg
3/14/2008 5:59:55 PM

Rating + 5 Great card for linux machine


Pros: Can run Compiz Fusion in linux with no problem (have used
it in about 8 different distros). Fan is pretty quiet.

Cons: none

Other Thoughts: Some distros need to install with vesa drivers first
(Simply Mepis), then install nvidia driver once your up and running.

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ajb62787
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 day to 1 week
This user purchased this item from Newegg
3/12/2008 9:29:45 PM

Rating + 5 Great Video Card!!


Pros: Great card to run high graphic-detailed games on without any problems. Great price also $49 after MIR.

Cons: The software included does more harm than help. The drivers wouldn't even work well with my card at all. I had no video displays until I ended up tricking the computer to show me video so I can delete all the nonsense software and install the correct software.

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N/A
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 week to 1 month
This user purchased this item from Newegg
3/11/2008 9:27:56 PM

Rating + 5 Great Budget Card


Pros: This card is great. It is only 256 so high resolution would be an issue but I only use 1440X900 and I get 50-80 FPS on most games.With two of these in sli it would probably be capable of any game at decent settings. There is also room to overclock more on the card.

Cons: i dont have two of them

Other Thoughts: EVGA 131-K8-NF44 939 Athlon X2 4200 oc at 2.51 Ghz 1Gb value ram MSI NX8500 GT 256MB

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N/A
Tech Level: somewhat high
Ownership: 1 week to 1 month
This user purchased this item from Newegg
3/10/2008 8:33:58 PM

Rating + 5


Pros: Smoking hot running battlefield 2 and the graphics or great. My friend helped me pick this card out and you can't beat it. Great price and great on the graphics

Cons: None

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dadman5
Tech Level: somewhat high
Ownership: 1 week to 1 month
This user purchased this item from Newegg
3/10/2008 11:03:17 AM

Rating + 4 Works great!


Pros: Running an AMD Phenom 9600 on a MSI Platinum K9A2 board. Great price, easy to install. The drivers that came with the card worked well. Good performance on all of the games I've tried so far (Rise of Nations, Starcraft, Warcraft...not too challenging).

Cons: I bought two to run SLI configuration and it doesn't seem to be supported by the board. When I plug both boards in and connect them I get no video display. I'm still looking for work arounds...any ideas?

Other Thoughts: Probably would have been better off buying one 8600 for roughly the same price as two 8500s. If I can't get the SLI to work I will probably end up upgrading.

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N/A
Tech Level: somewhat high
Ownership: 1 day to 1 week
This user purchased this item from Newegg
3/8/2008 5:43:23 PM

Rating + 5 MDB


Pros: Good card for the money especially with the rebate(if I get it) Use the current drivers from Nvidia. Runs about 50C. Fan is quiet. Graphics are much better than the onboard video. I also like the DVI connection.

Cons: Some of the utilities are a bit buggy. The dual core center had some issues.

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kawasakizx6modded
Tech Level: somewhat high
Ownership: less than 1 day
This user purchased this item from Newegg
3/7/2008 7:07:25 PM

Rating + 5 nx8500gt


Pros: what can i say 8500gt.plays every game i want it to

Cons: none

Other Thoughts: none i can think of

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Reuel
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 day to 1 week
This user purchased this item from Newegg
3/5/2008 7:48:37 AM

Rating + 5 So far so good


Pros: Great price/value factor. Has fan, some cool utilities to monitor the core temp and such if you are into that. Easy driver update utility if you desire.

Cons: none so far

Other Thoughts: I bought this to replace my XFX 7600GT which mysteriously stopped working 1 year after purchase. So far this card is $100 less than the other card (of course bought a year ago) and works just as well. My use is mainly playing WoW and some word processor stuff. Everything looks smooth and great so far. Standing in Shatt at a busy time I get mid 30's FPS.

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tentaro
Tech Level: somewhat high
Ownership: 1 month to 1 year
This user purchased this item from Newegg
3/5/2008 6:57:13 AM

Rating + 5 Hmmm...


Pros: Great card. Right out of the box no overclocking gould play Crysis, be it on low settings but still played with good frame rate. Very low noise and stays at a fairly decent temp.

Cons: Bought a second one and didn't notice any performance boost at all in SLI mode. But runs good as a single card.

Other Thoughts: It doesn't need the six pin PCIe connector which is a plus. Just wish I wouldn't have spent the money on the second one.

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N/A
Tech Level: somewhat low
Ownership: 1 week to 1 month
This user purchased this item from Newegg
3/3/2008 3:29:35 PM

Rating + 5


Pros: Does just what I need it to...I don't know a whole lot about video cards but it works great...

Cons: none

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Slomo
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 week to 1 month
This user purchased this item from Newegg
3/3/2008 9:51:13 AM

Rating + 5 Works good


Pros: Does what it needs to do. Works great on the first try. Plays COD4 just fine and all the other fun games.

Cons: None Yet.

Other Thoughts: Abit Fatality SLI board, core2duo E6550, 6GB ram,2x 250 WD RE IN RAID 0, Vista Ultimate 64, Oh yeah the single 8500GT.

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DMA
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 day to 1 week
This user purchased this item from Newegg
3/3/2008 8:30:31 AM

Rating + 5 Great card for the money


Pros: Price, ease of install, MSI brand, performance

Cons: Runs a little hot

Other Thoughts: I am very pleased with this card - it's an upgrade from the onboard 6100 of my Foxconn mATX board, which did not run video very smoothly. Along with my preference for MSI motherboards, I have always like nVidia chipsets, and this one is no exception. While seemingly not as beefy as the $400 BFG 6800GT-OC in my last machine, this one is less than 50 bucks after rebate! I don't game, so this is definitely a bargain for me.

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RADEON
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 day to 1 week
This user purchased this item from Newegg
3/2/2008 10:16:14 PM

Rating + 5 Good, cheap upgrade for budget gamers


Pros: -256MB DDR3 memory (not DDR2!)
-Comes pre-overclocked.
-Overclocks even more.
-Improvement was immediately apparent upgrading from a overclocked 128MB 6600GT PCI-E.
-Runs pretty cool, even with the relatively small stock aluminum cooler.
-Seems to work more efficiently with some of the newer games due to the unified shader arcitecture.
-It's very quiet
-It's red.
-It's surprisingly good in the UT3 demo with max detail, plays Bioshock fairly well at max detail, and is usable in Crysis at med/some high settings. It's hard to say just how fast it could be in the new games, as my rig is an old Pentium D 820 oc'd to 3.06 GHz on a VIA PT880, which doesn't help. It should do much better in a C2D rig.

Cons: -I can't figure out how to disable the memory sharing in the nVidia driver. I don't see any option that remotely looks like it would change it, so it uses 256 more MB of system memory. It's not that big a deal, especially with texture intensive games that need the space, but it would be nice to be able to change it.
-The cooler blocks the memory chips from any open air flow, which also prevents adding ramsinks without upgrading the gpu cooler as well. Not a big deal, since they seem to run pretty cool anyway, even at 1333 MHz.

Other Thoughts: This MSI card single-handedly justifies the existence of the 8500GT GPU. Fast DDR3 memory combined with factory overclocking makes this card pretty fast right out of the box. If you're looking to game on the cheap, do not pass this card up just because it's a 8500, as it will run circles around a "standard" 8500. Surprisingly, it overclocked effortlessly to 666/1333 even though it already comes clocked 150 MHz faster than a reference 8500GT. I have not tried pushing it further yet, but I have a feeling more lies in store. Not only that, but it responds really well to clock scaling, showing a noticable improvement in UT3.
This card plays previous generation games (FEAR, Doom3, Far Cry) very well at max detail, 1280x1024 resolution, and even 2x FSAA for some less demanding titles. For current games, don't expect it to handle anything higher than 1024x768, but it can crank out usable framerates on max detail for some titles. I can't comment on DX10 performance, as I don't have Vista.

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dbp
Tech Level: somewhat high
Ownership: 1 day to 1 week
This user purchased this item from Newegg
3/2/2008 11:29:22 AM

Rating + 4 Good enough for now


Pros: Installed easily into PCI-Express slot. Works great with Windows XP, movies played from DVD look MUCH better than they did with my old card (GeForce 4400) and so do games.

Cons: Will NOT work with Windows XP 64-bit, which I uninstalled anyway for this and other reasons and went back to regular old Windows XP Pro (32-bit). Trust me, don't bother with this card if you for some reason are running Windows XP 64-bit. Drivers were a bit of a pain to install, but otherwise work will with Windows XP Pro (32-bit).

Other Thoughts: Wish I had spent a little more money on a better card, but this one will do for now, until I can afford to upgrade. Compared to my old card, this one is awesome, but I'd like something that I know will make it through my next OS upgrade (to either Vista or Linux).

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jckenno
Tech Level: somewhat high
Ownership: 1 month to 1 year
This user purchased this item from Newegg
2/29/2008 6:10:24 PM

Rating + 5 great cars


Pros: The price, Direct x 10, ddr3, Works great in sli mode, so get two of them if you want the most out of a 8500gt!

Cons: They do get hot so make sure you have alot of fans and good case circulation!

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Viper32581
Tech Level: somewhat high
Ownership: 1 day to 1 week
This user purchased this item from Newegg
2/28/2008 6:08:19 PM

Rating + 5 awsome


Pros: great card, priced just right for a buget pc.

Cons: none

Other Thoughts: amd x2 3600 @ 2.6mhz, 2gb ddr2 800 wintec, twin wd 80gb in raid0, and a biostar 7025/630a, this card, antec 450w psu, liteon sata dvd-rw,

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Nighwalker
Tech Level: average
Ownership: 1 day to 1 week
This user purchased this item from Newegg
2/27/2008 6:37:28 PM

Rating + 5 Work in Vista


Pros: Works as designed

Cons: 3D wouldn't work after installing MSI drivers. MSI update didn't help and actually made things worse. System restored back to install event. I let Vista do it's thing. Run a Windows update and all is well. After two weeks I actually really like Vista!

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Andreat1
Tech Level: average
Ownership: 1 week to 1 month
This user purchased this item from Newegg
2/20/2008 9:51:49 AM

Rating + 5


Pros: Easy install, nice upgrade from GeForce 6200, nice price. Fast shipment. All working well.

Cons: Runs a little hot--average of 56-58C and I am not a gamer so that is just normal internet usage. Installed VGA cooler/additional fan dropped to 49C.

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106chipmunk
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 day to 1 week
This user purchased this item from Newegg
2/19/2008 6:20:53 PM

Rating + 5 Great Card


Pros: 70 dollars with shipping and 20 dollars back you can't beat that. Runs AOE3 1680x1050 no aa everything on high 30fps constant dosn't drop during battles runs call of duty 4 at 1024x768 cranked 2x aa 60x70fps down to 45 in heavy gun fights still playable awsome card for 50 bucks about 45C idel 55C under load stock settings droped it down to 50C speeding up the fan with RIVA

Cons: its red....... thats about it

Other Thoughts: Got this for my wifes comptuer so I can play some games on it when friends come over so we can lan best investment I could have made 2 day shipping thanks new egg

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SliP
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 month to 1 year
This user purchased this item from Newegg
2/18/2008 3:11:10 PM

Rating + 5 yeah


Pros: it plays all the new games not all on high setting some on low

Cons: it tends to get hot sometimes its under load for like an hour for me

Other Thoughts: i like it its worth under 50 with MIR so then u can get 2 and SLI them and crank thos setting up a little

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Scrappy
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 week to 1 month
This user purchased this item from Newegg
2/17/2008 7:46:21 PM

Rating + 5 Good -n- cheap


Pros: Great card. And at under fifty dollars (after rebate) you can get two! I did, along with an SLI board, and with the GDDR3 this configuration does very well for gaming, light or heavy. I have no problems with high detail on any game I play. Haven't tried COD4 yet, though.

Cons: It won't make me breakfast

Other Thoughts: It WILL display a plate of bacon and eggs that looks real enough to eat!

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Rogerman
Tech Level: somewhat high
Ownership: 1 week to 1 month
This user purchased this item from Newegg
2/16/2008 7:56:42 PM

Rating + 5 Oh yeah!


Pros: This thing rocks for the price! This is not a high end card...but for ~$45 bucks after rebate. Installed without a hitch; load the driver and you are up and running. Easy to understand instructions and UI. I ordered one for my brothers machine cause he had weak on-board graphics. He is getting 61 fps consistantly in WoW.

Cons: None so far...wait and see how the rebate processes.

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Alex
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 week to 1 month
This user purchased this item from Newegg
2/16/2008 6:20:18 AM

Rating + 5 Great Card


Pros: Comes OC'd which is a plus because then you dont have to waste your time doing it yourself. Runs COD4 at 800x600 res for optimum preformance, Runs EQ2 at High Quality settings at 1024x760 with virtually no lag (it can handle extreme quality but then it starts to get a little choppy), runs WoW with everything maxed out at 1024x760 rocking a solid 60 Fps rating. Overall great card no issues with it so far.

Cons: Doesnt come with a driver disk so you need to go to Ndivia's website to download them, not a big issue but just a minor inconvience.

Other Thoughts: Should get a 19" LCD monitor with DVI ports so i can get higher resolutions and higher frequency refresh rates.

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N/A
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 week to 1 month
This user purchased this item from Newegg
2/15/2008 6:16:37 PM

Rating + 5


Pros: for the $$ you cant go wrong

Cons: diddnt buy 2

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william
Tech Level: somewhat high
Ownership: 1 week to 1 month
This user purchased this item from Newegg
2/15/2008 11:01:01 AM

Rating + 5


Pros: seems to be a good card have not any problems with it. works great with vista graphics getting a 5.9 and gaming graphics a 5.4.

Cons: none so far. wish it was 512 MB

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Sev
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 month to 1 year
This user purchased this item from Newegg
2/8/2008 11:53:39 AM

Rating + 5 Good card


Pros: This is just a good video card. It runs Aero (5.9)extremely smooth in Vista Ultimate. MSI always makes an overclocked version of every GPU.

Cons: None. Does it's job very well.

Other Thoughts: This GPU is good for watching HD movies, Windows Vista, and light gaming. I use it in my second rig.

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Odds and Ends
Tech Level: somewhat low
Ownership: 1 day to 1 week
This user purchased this item from Newegg
2/7/2008 9:08:37 AM

Rating + 5 MSI NX8500GT


Pros: I installed this on a MSI P6NGM MB (a small 2nd computer for my daughter) with Vista Ultimate installed - originally the it had a Windows Experience Index base score of 3.0 - this was the Gaming graphics subscore (OK for an onboard video) - after installing the video card it brought up the Gaming graphics (Windows aero) subscore to 5.4 and the Graphics (3D) subscore from 3.4 to 5.9 - the system has 4GB of 4-4-4-12 memory which is now the lowest subscore (4.7) - for a user like me I don't know if this is a big deal, however the graphics are a lot crisper and brighter

Cons: None so far, the system has been running for over 24 hours (I believe in "burning in period")

Other Thoughts: Utilities software to adjust the video card settings - I think the price is very reasonable -

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N/A
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 week to 1 month
This user purchased this item from Newegg
2/6/2008 12:24:22 PM

Rating + 5 Excellent Card!


Pros: Fantastic card for the money. Took my system which was on a 6200 LE from a Windows Vista score of 3.4 for gaming to 5.4 - and 5.9 for using Aero! Can now run Flight Simulator X at high settings while receiving smooth framerates.

Cons: Runs hot at approx 138 degrees but haven't used many video cards that don't run hot.....

Other Thoughts: Solid card for the money which greatly improved system performance. Some other reviewers have concerns of the fan noise but I haven't found that to be an issue at all.

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ElitaOne
Tech Level: somewhat low
Ownership: 1 day to 1 week
This user purchased this item from Newegg
2/2/2008 6:22:48 AM

Rating + 5 Great graphics power without breaking the bank


Pros: Great graphics right out of the box. Attractive well-built card with cooling fan. (It's a shame to hide it.) Lots of powerful features at a great budget-friendly price.

Cons: None that I know now.

Other Thoughts: I used this video card to build a budget-friendly game PC for my husband so he can better enjoy playing EVE. He LOVES what he sees, he hasn't reported any glitches, and he can now enjoy the premium graphics features EVE features.

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mcgoo
Tech Level: somewhat high
Ownership: 1 week to 1 month
This user purchased this item from Newegg
1/31/2008 5:52:52 AM

Rating + 4 Nice affordable card


Pros: Cheap, yet adequate for running Vista.

Cons: None really.

Other Thoughts: Bought this card for a build for a family member. Basically all this card is used for is to run Vista and at most piece together home movies. Does what is needed of it.

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N/A
Tech Level: average
Ownership: 1 week to 1 month
This user purchased this item from Newegg
1/28/2008 8:00:26 PM

Rating + 5 Very Good Card


Pros: Very Good Card for the Dollar.i run cod4 @90 fps. and have no problems.Once Agian ty Newegg.

Cons: none @ all.

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Da Bruddah
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 week to 1 month
This user purchased this item from Newegg
1/27/2008 9:23:24 PM

Rating + 5 Great upgrade!


Pros: I bought this card a month ago and installed it into my standard Dell E521, changing out from an NVidia 7300LE. The change in performance was drastic and amazing! I went from games that ran on low-med detail at low fps, to games that ran maxed out with high fps!

Cons: The only problem with it is... I didn't get two! (And that's more my own problem...)

Other Thoughts: I've run it in several games, often for a couple hours at a time - and no overheating. With the rebate, this is one of the best cards you'll find - now my bottleneck is my processor (which is still a competitive one in today's market). If you are looking for a good card for a moderate gamer/standard applications, this is one of the best upgrades you can get. The size of memory doesn't seem to be an issue unless you're using applications with a LOT of textures to load - otherwise, go for higher memory speed, which gives a better data transfer rate =-> fps. (By the way, even the demo for Bioshock ran well with medium graphics on this card. Just make sure the rest of your system is up to it!)

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Rare
Tech Level: average
Ownership: 1 week to 1 month
This user purchased this item from Newegg
1/25/2008 11:55:01 AM

Rating + 5 Good Value For The Money


Pros: Detailed manual, board layout is ok and decently color coded, booted up no problems. No problems installing and updating drivers in both XP and Vista. I don't play a lot of popular games. I'm more of an mmo type of girl. It runs LOTRO and older mmos just fine. I imagine it'll run new releases like AoC or WAR fine too.

Cons: Using 2 video cards will take up a PCI slot.

Other Thoughts: I don't OC, but the options are definitely there for people that do. Dual booting XP and Vista. I can see where the holes wouldn't line up for some people. Mine lined up a little off, but I had no problems screwing them into the standoffs.

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Natedog
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 day to 1 week
This user purchased this item from Newegg
1/23/2008 11:55:23 AM

Rating + 5 Oh really


Pros: They say you need a really expensive graphics card to run the latest and greatest games, but that was a lie. I'm not running sli and dont have a really expensive rig but I do have crysis flying with this plain old cheap card.

Cons: Nope!

Other Thoughts: I am impressed with this card.

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hp
Tech Level: somewhat high
Ownership: 1 week to 1 month
This user purchased this item from Newegg
1/20/2008 11:19:20 AM

Rating + 5 very good


Pros: it works better than i imagine. i run rome total war at max out everything and the game is flawless with over thousands of units out fighting at the same time.

Cons: does it hot but im gona get more fans and a video card cooler maybe ill do a bit of OC

Other Thoughts: MSI should made a bigger fan for it.itS not that loud.

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tom from pittsburgh
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 month to 1 year
This user purchased this item from Newegg
1/19/2008 7:19:08 AM

Rating + 5 warm but not lava hot like people say


Pros: This card is great, scores a 5.4 on vista's gpu score for gaming. my 8600gt is at 5.6 so not to far off. running at 46 degrees Celsius while watching tv on media center.

Cons: none so far

Other Thoughts: Great for a home theater pc! buy it now

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Jay
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 day to 1 week
This user purchased this item from Newegg
1/17/2008 11:41:08 AM

Rating + 5 Absolutely Great Budget Card


Pros: I just wanted a card that could play a few older shooters and DVD's. For $50 after rebate, this card rocks!

Cons: Loud fan, but so what. Headphones takes care of that.

Other Thoughts: This card cranks out Unreal Tournament 3 on medium detail settings at 1024*768 at a solid 35-40 fps. I never, ever expected that.

City of Heroes plays back at 1440*960 with all details MAXED (8xAA, 16xAnisotropy, Full LOD) at a very solid 75fps, on average.

I had no right to ever expect anything like this from this card, and am extremely happy with it :)

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Rock007
Tech Level: somewhat high
Ownership: 1 day to 1 week
This user purchased this item from Newegg
1/17/2008 7:48:11 AM

Rating + 5 Good Graphics


Pros: Its good graphics card for small budget. Its good with XP and Vista. Movie, Picture and Games look totally diffent then onboard graphics.

Cons: Nothing at this time. Slight issue with my onboard graphics but its fix now.

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dada
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 week to 1 month
1/15/2008 2:04:54 PM

Rating + 3 don't count on MSI rebates


Pros: Solid graphics card.

Cons: Don't count on MSI rebates - no rejection response, no website to check on status, and very high rejection policy for any reason they can find or make up

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A. Nony Mouse
Tech Level: somewhat high
Ownership: 1 week to 1 month
This user purchased this item from Newegg
1/15/2008 7:26:28 AM

Rating + 5 Very nice!


Pros: After upgrading from a 7300LE, this card makes my computer much more usable for games & applications. While it's not a high-end card, it does a very respectable job with everything I throw at it (including Supreme Commander). It doesn't seem to overheat at all for me with stock everything, no case mods.
In all, I'd say this is one of the best deals for anyone on a budget who still wants good performance. The rebate only makes it better!

Cons: Some jumpiness in intense, high-texture FPS's occasionally, but not very noticeable. (May be other hardware/process issues)

Other Thoughts: If you're looking for ultimate gaming, this isn't quite what you want (unless you plan to get 2 for SLI), but it's an excellent buy for the average user.

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N/A
Tech Level: somewhat high
Ownership: 1 week to 1 month
This user purchased this item from Newegg
1/14/2008 11:27:26 PM

Rating + 5 Good


Pros: Seems to work. Can play Half Life 2: EP 2 at medium settings (1024x768 2x AA).

Cons: Idles at 47C.

Other Thoughts: 3DMark benched poorly at 2869, but I have a Pentium Dual Core (e2160) which can't really do heavy lifting.

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Ross
Tech Level: high
Ownership: more than 1 year
1/13/2008 6:58:51 AM

Rating + 5 ~OverClocked~Beast~


Pros: I was able to play crysis at medium details (Lag Free) Looks amazing.. without having to use riva tuner for your OC settings is great. This overlocked video card is a gamers dream for the right price. I have done research and found this video card is better than some 8800's So you are getting a good deal. If your computer is capable, get two of these Overclocked Beasts.

Cons: The only con i have, is not getting a second video card at the time of purchase. Two is better than one!

Other Thoughts: Computer Setup: E6400 Core 2 Duo, Asus p5n sli Lga 775 650i, 8 GB of OCZ tech 800mhz Nvidia SLI cas latency:3 4-4-4-12 with a Augidy 2 Z Sound blaster card, 500GB harddrive/split into 2 partitions. And this AWESOME video card!!! +mod case

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VR
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 week to 1 month
This user purchased this item from Newegg
1/10/2008 10:25:24 PM

Rating + 4 Decent


Pros: DDR3, Great budget card, would be good for SLI. Gets the job done pretty well.

Cons: Runs hot, 70C on Crysis, but never went over.

Other Thoughts: It runs hot, but it never crashed on me. You can buy aftermarket coolers if you want for $15 that would get the job done. Great budget card with DDR3, ran Crysis without a single hiccup.

Always buy modern cards as Nvidia goes legacy quickly, it's an 8000 series card so that is great.

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Videoman
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 month to 1 year
This user purchased this item from Newegg
1/10/2008 6:15:15 PM

Rating + 5 Awesome Card!


Pros: An overall great card, it runs AoE3 at max settings 50-60fps. Easy install, no size issues at all. Overclocks way further than the factory OC. No need for extra power either. Absolutely best DX10 card for the money in the sub-100$ category. OC'd in at 700/850(1700mhz effective). $55 is a steal for this card!

Cons: The fan runs WAY TOO SLOW. The stock cooler is the only bad part of this card. Use the rebate and buy an Accelero S2! No SLI bridge included (At least not mine).

Other Thoughts: Shipped and received in 2 days. Newegg is the best site around for any components!

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Koolbreeze
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 week to 1 month
This user purchased this item from Newegg
1/9/2008 12:26:03 PM

Rating + 4 First SLI System


Pros: I bought two 8500GT's for SLI configuration. After playing Bio-Shock, Call of Duty 4, and Crysis, I have to say that I very impressed. Great budget card for single or SLI config.

Cons: At full load both cards held up at 70 degrees celcius. Fan noise seems to be the only problem, just buy a better case.

Other Thoughts: I recommend to anyone to go SLI config with any Nvidia 8 series video card setup. Especially if you go PCI18-E 2.0.. However, dont slack on the Ram or CPU.

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Sil3nTx
Tech Level: somewhat high
Ownership: less than 1 day
This user purchased this item from Newegg
1/3/2008 7:50:15 PM

Rating + 5 Good Card!


Pros: First purchase on Newegg, and all I have to say is wow. This card showed amazing performance. I upgraded from intergrated Intel 910 chipset, and this is major improvement. It came in the next day (Well, I ordered it on a Sunday, Monday the Egg was closed, Tuesday was New Years, and Wednesday was a day to process my order. Nonetheless, It came in quick. It was free shipping and this card has GDDR3!

It runs NFS:MW on max graphics; something I couldn't do. Counter-Strike: Condition Zero's frame rate doubled.

No lag, awesome card.

Cons: This card runs a little hot; 56 degrees Celsius idle.

Other Thoughts: Make this card run less hot, then I'd be 100% satisfied.

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GraphicsDesigner2008
Tech Level: somewhat high
Ownership: 1 day to 1 week
This user purchased this item from Newegg
1/2/2008 7:24:54 PM

Rating + 5 Good DirectX 10 base card


Pros: Silent in spite of having a fan, Non-bulky, doesn't require separate PCI Express power cable, MSI Quality

Cons: None

Other Thoughts: Dell Dimension E521, Windows Vista 32bit, AMD 64X2 4400+ 2.2 GHz, this baby and 3.0 GHz of Crucial Ballistix (2x1GB and 2X512 MB). Boosted my Windows Vista rating from 4.2 (with XFX GeForce 7600GS) to 5.3 for Gaming and 5.9 for overall Graphics which is a huge improvement considering I had paid same price for XFX 7600 GS few months ago. Doesn't run too hot for me. As always, NewEgg rocks!

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c3h8
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 week to 1 month
This user purchased this item from Newegg
12/30/2007 5:38:22 PM

Rating + 5 Great Upgrade from a 6600


Pros: Direct-X 10, Open GL 2.0, Kicks but on Test Drive Unlimited, and runs most scenes on NFS Carbon.

Cons: Not a 8800GTX, I need to upgrade my CPU (Currently running a Athalon 3200 2.2GHZ, any Recomendations CHEAP)

Other Thoughts: 2008 is coming and I merely plan to save money, what should my resolutions be?
7:26PM, Dec 30, '07

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o0Kiwi
Tech Level: somewhat high
Ownership: 1 day to 1 week
This user purchased this item from Newegg
12/26/2007 7:01:20 PM

Rating + 5 Excelent buy!


Pros: DX10, OpenGL 2.0, GDDR3, overclocked, it's a lot for the money. Runs Bf2142 with everything @ high and 4-sample AA, and runs Crysis smoothly with most everything on low (that's good). Some people have been complaining about overheating, I have yet to have this problem after 2 hours of use.

Cons: None at all.

Other Thoughts: I need to get more RAM, can't keep up loading the graphics this card can dish out.

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Pr0tOCoL
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 month to 1 year
This user purchased this item from Newegg
12/11/2007 1:34:23 PM

Rating + 5 nice card


Pros: Good entry level DX10 card... runs all the games i play at medium to maximum quality... runs crysis on low settings, which is still great considering my setup is ancient... (3ghz P4|1Gb DDR2 667|this vid card) <-- ancient setup... still runs crysis on low settings...

Cons: none to speak of... good card for budget builders...

Other Thoughts: to those who say it runs hot... im not sure why you're having the problems but mine doesnt have any overheating issues... 6 case fans on my apevia x-alien case (only 5 running) and it stays cool enough to handle my games without artifacts or lockups...

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slobob
Tech Level: average
Ownership: 1 month to 1 year
This user purchased this item from Newegg
12/10/2007 4:28:18 PM

Rating + 4 hot like robot


Pros: Handles stalker, halo 2 no problem with reasonably high graphics settings.

Cons: People aren't kidding - this thing runs hot. Don't buy it unless you have a proper setup - I had to buy a new case to get my case temps down below the high 50's under load, even with a PCI slot cooler.

Other Thoughts: Good for the $$

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Travis
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 month to 1 year
This user purchased this item from Newegg
12/10/2007 5:59:26 AM

Rating + 4 Great Card for the $$$


Pros: Great fps in all games including COD4!! WOrks great with Vista with easy install.

Cons: Like some of the others it gets hot after 30 minutes of play. The bad thing is i have about 4 fans running and plus the one on the card and it still overheats.

Other Thoughts: Might as well get a pci fan to put on it, but for now use 20" fan on the side to keep the case very cold.

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Timmy J.
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 month to 1 year
This user purchased this item from Newegg
11/24/2007 8:50:07 PM

Rating + 3 Hot Price for an even HOTTER GPU


Pros: This card is nice alone, but is seriouse business when SLIed. If you want this card, get 2 and SLI for a cheap, AMAZING picture.

Cons: Runs way, WAY too HOTT. Just idoling, each of mine run at around 130 degrees!!! And I baught the PCI slot coolers too. I can't play more than 30 minutes of amazing graphics without overheating.

Other Thoughts: SLIed (these cards) = better graphics than one 8800GT. Much cheaper too. But they run way too hot, and Duel Core Center wouldn't run on my comp. so that I could underclock. I'll figure something out though.

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Xander
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 month to 1 year
11/10/2007 9:04:19 PM

Rating + 5


Pros: This card is very fast and cheap. When SLied it kicks that pants off of most other VGAs for 1/3 the price. I would rather have 2 of these for under 170 than a 8800 for over 500

Cons: None

Other Thoughts: FAST. Get 2 and SLi them.

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Steeldogs
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 month to 1 year
This user purchased this item from Newegg
11/7/2007 6:00:35 AM

Rating + 4 Great Video


Pros: This is a great card. For the price it does exactly what we need. I have put this card in 5 new machines and couldn't be more pleased.

Cons: None

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TJ
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 week to 1 month
This user purchased this item from Newegg
10/30/2007 11:30:31 AM

Rating + 2 Hotter than Arizona Hot!


Pros: Good quality Graphics! Works well in SLI mode.

Cons: Very Very HOT! runs at 178 Degrees F Computer locks up after 5 mins of 3D gaming. Heat sink is very poor and fan does not spin fast enough to cool it.

Other Thoughts: Works great for a few mins until heat builds up. Using Apevia x-navagator case with lots of fans. Cpu runs only at 34c Idle and 42c under load. Good card, but buy a after market cooler.

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