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Owned For:
1 month to 1 year
Good chip, fan is too loud for HTPC use
12/17/2013
This review is from: GIGABYTE GeForce GT 640 DirectX 11 GV-N640D5-1GL 1GB 64-Bit GDDR5 PCI Express 2.0 HDCP Ready Low Profile Video Card
Pros: I needed to upgrade my existing discrete HTPC card for a bit more ability with the latest codecs. This chip looks to be a great use for that.
Great that we finally have some decent low profile cards to choose from.
Nice that it's a true single slot cooler, but that also leads to the Cons below.
Cons: The cooler fan is much too loud for HTPC use. Even when under moderate load it's very audible. Even the wife notices which is bad.
I've tried a number of the software tools to quiet the fan and they do work to an extent at the high end, but then make the low RPM speed even higher than default. So you end up with less noise on the high end and more noise on the low end.
In the end this card is not going to stay in this machine. I may try and pull a dual fan setup from an older nVidia low profile card and replace this one. At least the noise from that fan is tolerable.
Very good for the price
10/25/2011
This review is from: MSI Laptop X460DX-006US Intel Core i5 2nd Gen 2410M (2.30 GHz) 6 GB Memory 500 GB HDD NVIDIA GeForce GT 540M 14.0" Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit
Pros: None
Cons: None
Other Thoughts: I've looked at the recent Acer laptops along with other brands and all of them had tradeoffs of one form or another. (the Acers have massive throtting issues due to heat) This is still the best bet you'll find.
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Owned For:
1 week to 1 month
Great card if you have the right motherboard
04/19/2011
This review is from: LSI MegaRAID Internal Low-Power SATA/SAS 9261-8i 6Gb/s PCI-Express 2.0 w/ 512MB onboard memory RAID Controller Card, Single--Avago Technologies
Pros: When it works, it’s fantastic. Great read and write speeds with RAID 5.
Cons: I’ve had this card in four different motherboards trying to find a good match.
Other Thoughts: First motherboard was an Intel G41 chipset board. It worked in that board, but since the PCI-e slots were only 1.1 the speed was not up to what it could be.
The second board was an Intel G55 chipset board. In this board it would work fine up until you hit the RAID stripe size, then it would jump randomly from huge read speeds to almost nothing. It seems that all P/H55 chipsets only run at half the PCI-e spec. This causes major problems with this card.
The third board was an Intel H67 chipset. The motherboard would not even post with the LSI card in. Stay far away from H/P67 chipsets and any RAID cards.
The fourth (and final) motherboard I’m trying is actually one on the compatibility list. SUPERMICRO MBD-X8STE-O I have high hopes for success with this board.
My advice, be very careful what motherboard you pair this card with.
