PNY XLR8 GeForce 9800 GT 1GB GDDR3 PCI Express 2.0 x16 SLI Support Video Card VCG98GTEE1XEB

Pros: This is one of the best cards for the money right now. It is a slightly underclocked version of the 9800 GT, but you don't even notice the difference. It saves on power since it's an energy efficient version and it does not require a 6 pin power connector. Runs most games at high details, L4D, L4D2, CS:S, HL2, Guild Wars (from personal experience).

Cons: Just the inability to overclock, but that's not necessarily what you'd be in the market for if you're looking for energy efficiency. You don't really need to overclock it though, it's great out of the box.

Overall Review: DON'T compare this to the GT 220, the GT 220 is a lower end card than the 9800 GT. Newer series, yes, but not better performance. This 9800 GT has about 112 stream processors and is 256 bit, the GT 220 has only 48 stream processors and is 128-bit. Don't be fooled into thinking that same amount of memory equals same amount of performance. Yes, the clock is higher on the GT 220 but the card's speed bottlenecks at its lack of stream processors and the 128-bit memory interface. Make sure to do your research, look up benchmarks and reviews before buying.. ALWAYS!

Pros: Good performance-price ratio! 1GB video memory! Needs no extra PCI-E power! SLI compatible! Single slot! My rig: AMD 7850BE @ 3.2 GHz (stock is 2.8GHz) 2GB DDR2 800MHz 500GB HD 9800GT EE 1024MB 1280x1024 HP vs17 I get great FPS on these games: All Source games maxed (Half Life 2 Episode 2, Team Fortress 2, Left 4 Dead 2 etc) All Call of Duties maxed Anno 1404/Dawn of Discovery medium settings Batman Arkham Asylum most high 2x CSAA Burnout Paradise maxed Dirt 2 high settings, 8xQ CSAA Far Cry 2 maxed TrackMania Forever Nations maxed Basically all console ports will run maxed, Crysis and Grand Theft Auto 4 will run at high-med settings. Great for converting video with Badaboom (Nvidia GPU accelerated video converter), 2 hour movie from Xvid to MP4 (480x210) took about 20 minutes. 22 minute TV shows in Xvid to MP4 (480x270) takes about 1.5 minutes, great for the PSP video watcher. Temps are good: 70c at auto fan speed in game, 50c at auto fanspeed idle

Cons: Included "$50" 3D glasses are a joke, just a paper cut-out with colored plastic lenses you'd get for free at any movie theater. This is the exact same thing as a 8800GT just on a smaller (55nm) process so it runs a little cooler. If you can find a 8800GT for cheaper and have good cooling in your PC, get that instead.

Overall Review: In order to only use the power from the PCI-E bus and nothing else this is clocked a little lower vs most other 9800GT cards. Not a problem as you can easily bring it back up to normal levels.

Pros: Used as a dedicated physx card paired with my 4870 (google “gen L” for ati-nvidia pairs), this thing really provides an extra boost. In batman with max settings it only goes up to 35% load and looks so much better with physx enabled. This card really speeds up encoding times! I went from 22hrs to 4hrs to encode a blu-ray thanks to CUDA. Even as the main graphics renderer, this card provides quality performance in games and 1080p video playback. Its small and is single slot and doesn’t require an additional power cable. Uses significantly less power (appox. 40w) than the 6800gt it replaced. Came with 3d glasses (ill probably never use).

Cons: This thing puts off a decent amount of heat when being worked, but the fan stays fairly quiet. No TV out! Not good for an HTPC, unless your primary screen supports one of the following connections. Only supports DVI, HDMI via adaptor, and VGA via adaptor. Fan started making bad noises and ultimated died after only a month of use.

Overall Review: This card is perfect for a mid-level gaming rig, dedicated physx card, or an htcp that doesn’t need TV Out . RMA'd the first one with the broken fan, which was an easy and fairly quick process. Sent me a brand New card within 2 weeks, ive had it for over 3 months now without any issues and have worked it hard multiple times. quite satisfied with this purchase and i recommend this card to any one

Pros: Looks sleek and fit well in a tight case. Very easy installation. Ran multi-player games smooth at high settings. This was a nice upgrade to my existing card at a great price.

Cons: Fan became extremely loud when gaming. It broke in half within a week after light use. I was very disappointed.

Overall Review: This was my first PNY card and I was not impressed. While I may try them again, I'll pay more attention to the reviews.

Pros: FAST CARD! Slimmer than the others for this speed. *Cough, ATi cards.* Runs cool.

Cons: The EE edition is what you get. There is no 6 PIN plug on the card, so all the power is going through the power rail when you use it. Make sure your motherboard is of a very high quality.

Overall Review: I wouldn't have bought it if I knew it was the EE edition, but it seems to work fine. Just gotta be careful. So don't overclock as much as you normaly would on on 6 pin power video cards.

Pros: none

Cons: The fan made a horrible sound when first turned on then froze up and would not turn again.

Pros: -True single slot solution -Energy-efficient upgrade for modifying a mass-production big brand desktop PC (eg. HP/Compaq or Dell) to do moderate to high-intensity 3D gaming -Hybrid Power SLI & 2-way SLI supported (with an Nvidia Geforce 8000-series or N-Force 750i or 780i -based Mobo and/or another Nvidia GeForce 9800 GT or GTX -With mail-in rebate, less expensive than than competing brands' 512MB GDDR3 -Includes support for both HDMI and VGA interface via adapter as well as dual DVI, native connection. -Easy install with room to spare in my COMPAQ SR5710-Y mid-tower with Iris-8 ECS micro-ATX Mobo -Frees up the PCI-e (x1) slot next to it for the eSATA/SATA card I need to add a second optical drive and external hard drive! -Quiet fan -256-bit interface and 1 gig of GDDR3= much better performance than the Sparkle GeForce 9500GT it's replacing for me! -Newegg and UPS got it to me in 5-days, door-to-door, in the middle of the holidays, for the cost of a $2.99 RUSH processing!

Cons: -Fan exhausts into case, rather than behind it, which might be considered a big 'pro', if you have a case with good airflow and a desk without much space behind the case. -Not technically SILENT like the passive heat sink on the Sparkle 9500 GT ( but darn close!) -Rebate wasn't instant -Newegg dropped the price another 5 dollars after I bought mine (not a con for you, if you buy one NOW)

Overall Review: -I haven't tried, yet, but I understand the driver CD also includes an OC utility -My desktop configuration is stock Compaq, except for the replacement of the PSU with Rosewill RX-850 (SLI-ready, 80+ certified, 850 watts) and swapping the 3 GB generic stock PC2-6400 RAM with a Crucial Ballistix 4-gig dual channel kit, both from Newegg!

Pros: my rig bunk old compaq from 2004 3 gigs ddr2 ram that dont even match clock speeds single core amd 2.2ghz athlon 3500+ pretty bad huh well with this card im maxing out oblivion running dragon age origins on medium/high running crysis smooth on low/medium blasting any other games and the impressive part is that my motherboard only has a pci 1.0 x16 and this is a 2.0 card so these results are not even full power the fan on the card is great it auto adjusts and most of the time is silent running on like 1% under even the heaviest loads never gets above 70& power hovers around 61C* and under a full load is like 65C*

Cons: uhm... took a whole 3 days to get here i mean really wasnt free didnt come with a free pizza on delivery doesnt get me a date with women got a papercut on the packaging

Overall Review: for people who are on a budget definetely chip in the extra penny for this people who are looking to spend more on a high quality card dont need to this thing gets it done unless you need like ungodly power