Joined on 06/15/11
Great RAM for the Price
Pros: Large size and cheap! I have two of these in a M4A79XTD EVO at stock speeds, working great.
Cons: I tend to mix RAM and found out these don't like to Dual channal with anything but them selfs. Could be the cause to some of the buyers saying they crash on start up.
Overall Review: Wish I had spend the extra money on the heat spreaders. Specs M4A79XTD EVO ATI HD 4850 512Mb AMD Phenom II x4 955 @3.60Ghz
Works without issue
Pros: Not really sure what happened to George's card, guessing it was DOA. GeForce Experience found and installed the drivers for windows 7 Pro x64 and after a reboot, worked without issue until the machine was replaced.
Cons: Not much
Overall Review: 8400 GS seems to be one of those cards that wont die anytime soon, its a great card for a quick upgrade thou there are better options out there if need be.
Better than Soda
Pros: Great heatsink, lots of compatible cards!. Got this with Arctic Silver 5. Dropped my HD 4850 well below 40c on idle and has not broke pass 55c on furmark and OCCP. I just stuck a 95m fan on the side to cool the card, can't hear a thing.
Cons: Arctic G1 is not worth it! It works but it makes me worry, after the 5 cure plus some the VRAM skins still move and it looks like the skins will just fall off! The volt regs tend to overheat, only because if you look at the board of a HD 4850 the regs are close together and the provided skins have to be modded to work right. Only downside other than the G1.
Overall Review: I was able to push the core 730Mhz and memory 1025Mhz. Temps are: Under Load Core--53c Mem--60c Idle Core--30c Mem--40c
Good Card
Pros: Great card, got for use in a low power/low heat HTPC system with Win7. Runs great including Hardware decoding (using XBMC), giving my Pentium 4 a break. Found out this card is nativly supported in OS X 10.6.8!
Cons: It does not perform as well as my HD 4850, mostly due to the memory bandwith (128 bits vs. 256 bits). Wish someone would make a good cooler for the 4850, the card runs ~70c at idle.
Overall Review: Don't buy this card unless you know what you are looking for. Hardcore gamers look away!!! There is a reson this card does NOT need a external power cord from the PSU.
Ok card
Pros: Pulled the card out of a old Dell XPS system for a AMD Hackintosh system running snow Leo. If you flash the card right you can run it on a Mac Pro, just without CrossfireX
Cons: Old card, can get a 5xxx for same or less money!!
Overall Review: Don't buy it if you want to run high-end games!!
Great Card
Pros: One of the best LowPro cards I have. Even if this has a Passive cooler it still is a great buy. 1Gb vRam and PCIe x16. Don't think this is a gaming card, It has a HD5400 based GPU but to make it so small, it uses a mobile card! So you will be gaming on a overgrown laptop.
Cons: Did not come with a LowPro bracket for the VGA port, just took the bracket off a old Rage 128 LowPro. Passive cooling, Only because I do light gaming on this card (HL2, COD, Pre 2010) On some games it reached 60c+! This is normal for any HTPC setup.
Overall Review: I took the heatskin off a card similiar to "VisionTek 900374 Radeon HD 3450 512MB 64-bit DDR2 AGP 8X Video Card" Here on NewEgg and this one had a fan. This pushed the temp below 30c!! Was able to overclock the Clock to 690Mhz and Memory to 750Mhz<could not push the memory farther because I would get video coruption at antything above 800Mhz even if AMD's OverDrive pushed it to 820Mhz!!> It was below 50c!! This Card Does a fan controler and a 2-pin plug so you can put a aftermarket cooler if you want to.