Joined on 10/10/08
Perfect heatsinks for budget cooling
Pros: Easy to install, just take your time. They fit perfect and do their job with cooling. They dissipate heat as I can feel the heatsinks get hot after the computer has been on for a while.
Cons: None.
Overall Review: These don't dissipate a ton of heat but they do work. They exceeded my expectations but were within the thermal limits of what I thought that these wings could do. For RAM that I would overclock and need extreme cooling I would probably not use these.
Drivers included do not work
Pros: Now this card is good looking and compact for the price. It allows me to use windows and it works without the installation of the drivers for simple tasks. The card seems like it has a noticeable advantage over the card I bought this to replace and I would like to actually see the cards capabilities once (hopefully) I get a driver working with it. It is also very quiet and it would be great in a HTPC application. This card is receiving 2 eggs because I got my functionality out of it. If I bought this card for gaming or multimedia I would be very dissapointed and it would receive 1 egg.
Cons: I CANNOT find working drivers for this card and my computer. Every single set of drivers I have been pointed to so far do not work. It brings me to the same black screen as some people have been mentioning here. Every time I boot back into safe mode and use system restore to take off the drivers and then I try again. I have tried about 6 or 7 sets and none of them allow me to get rid of this black screen that comes with the driver install. I don't need the drivers to use this computer because it's a server but it would be nice to use some features that this card actually offered for $50. I don't know if it matters but I am using it in a Dell Dimension 4100 that does not support 8x AGP, it supports 4x. Dell Dimension 4100 with original motherboard and processor Mainboard: Intel D815EEA Chipset: Intel i815E/EP Processor: Pentium III 933MHz RAM: 1GB OS: Windows XP Pro SP2
Overall Review: Card works in XP on old machines for server applications that do not need multimedia. Otherwise, for gaming and video playback it doesn't work unless you can get the drivers working. I am guessing the drivers on the disc were designed for vista or are incompatible with my hardware, but why would they do that? If the drivers on the disc were actually updated and there were multiple working versions included than I believe that I would not be here writing this review. I have been trying for around 3 months now to get a working driver and have had no luck with the .inf editing, using multiple AGP hotfixes and I am still looking.
Perfect upgrade RAM
Pros: Used these to increase a customers RAM capacity and it worked flawlessly. The computer is noticeably faster and it is holding up to the test of time.
Cons: None.
Overall Review: The RAM was a great value when I purchased it.
Perfect upgrade RAM
Pros: Perfect upgrade to increase RAM in Dimension 4100 I am using as a server. Worked flawlessly.
Cons: None whatsoever.
Overall Review: I need more of these :)