Janet F.
Joined on 12/06/08
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Sparkle GTX 465

Pros: Great card, bought two for SLI
Cons: The second card with non reference cooling has no spline on the edge of the PCB so the PCB sags at the end of the card, not horribly but it is still bad enough to bother me.
Overall Review: The first card I got had the reference cooler as pictured, the second card came with a non reference cooler on a reference PCB. (cooler is similar to a Asus Direct CU cooler) There was no way to tell the difference until the package was opened since Sparkle put the card in the same box as the first. http://www.sparkle.com.tw/product_detail.asp?id=110&sub_id=385
Not DOA

Pros: To the owner that reported his board as DOA below, the Video for these boards will only work with Core I3 and Core I5 Clarkdale dual core CPUs, your I7 will not work because it does not have on die video.
Cons: none
Not a Atom

Pros: This Board has a Via Nano CPU not a Intel Atom as the reviewer below stated.
Cons: none
Overall Review: The Via Nano is an out of order CPU whereas the Intel atom is a in order CPU.
Great Video Card

Pros: Quiet Fan, Very cool running (idles at 28C) works on Linux (see other thoughts)
Cons: none
Overall Review: Ubuntu 9.04 does not have hardware drivers for this card by default, Must download NVIDIA 190.32 beta driver from Nvidia's web site and install it via the command line
