Palit GeForce GTS 250 DirectX 10 NE3TS25NFHD52 512MB 256-Bit GDDR3 PCI Express 2.0 x16 HDCP Ready SLI Support Video Card

Pros: Lowest cost GTS 250 card on NewEgg. Has an HDMI port. Have this card installed onto this rig: Gigabyte - UD3P Board AMD X4 955 Quad 4GB DDR3 GSkill memory 500GB 32mb cache WD HD Ran 3dMark06 with everything at default, score 14000. Decent score for this card. Card is very overclockable.

Cons: Uses 2 power inputs.

Overall Review: Nice card for the money and does what I need it to do. Once overclocked, the score should sky rocket, but at the moment, I get no lag on gaming. Very smooth card.

Pros: Nvidia IS # 1, this card will handle COD 6, Crysis 2, etc. set at high with no problems, original heatsink was good but I upgraded cuz i'm an overclocker and need a little more, but this card has been a great upgrade from 9800gt, I wasn't to sure about Palit, but no problems, I would buy Palit again.

Cons: none

Pros: cheap, has HDMI built in runs at 44c which is a lot cooler than most nvidia cards I've tried

Cons: not much of an upgrade from 8500 GT, feels cheap I'm afraid to OC it

Overall Review: bought this to replace an old GB 8500GT 512MB factory oc at 600 mhz, had this card for years and the 250 gets about 8 fps better in WoW have not reinstalled any of my other games yet but this is the main reason I wanted it. I got a 9600 gso 384MB version when they first came out that does better than this

Pros: Great price to performance ratio compared to 5750. I picked mine up for $105. Overclocked and stable: 749 Core 1003 Memory 1684 Shader GPU-Z Results Pixel Fillrate- 12G Texture Fillrate- 48G Bandwidth 64GB I haven't found the limits of this card yet, I just cranked the numbers a bit and it runs stable in Counter-Strike with max settings. 55 degrees c after 1hr gameplay with 80% fanspeed.

Cons: No directx11 support (do you need it?). No eyefinity.

Overall Review: I was looking at a 5750 or even a 5770 as a budget card, but I compared speeds to the GTS250 first. The new ati boards have eyefinity and directx11....if you are like me and don't need those things, this board is much better than the competitive 5770 considering the price. Palit seems to be a good company. This is the first product I have bought from them.