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Bought 2 of these graphics cards because I prefer EVGA/NVIDIA, they were an inexpensive addition for my build, and I could install them in an SLI configuration. I do alot of video editing and also play a few games and this card handles The Elder Scrolls V (Skyrim), Call of Duty 3, and a few other higher performance demanding games exceptionally well. I was pleasantly surprised and extremely happy with their performance. I use the 64 bit version of Windows 7 Ultimate and the graphics part of my "Windows Experience Index" jumped to a decent 7.6 and so far 7.3 total running everything in standard mode (no overclocking yet). Thus far, I have no cons about this video card, it runs relatively cool (31 to 35 degrees Celsius) and constantly performs smoothly without any glitches. My experience, best graphics card of its class. highly recommend it to anyone wanting great "bang for their buck". My system: ASUS Sabertooth 990FX Motherboard - AMD FX 4170 (Zambezi) 4.2GHz quad core processor - Cooler Master 212 Evo CPU Heatsink - 16GB (4x4GB)G.SKILL Ripjaws DDR3 1333 (PC10666) memory - 1- Samsung 840 Pro series 256GB SSD main drive - 2- 300GB WD Velociraptor SATAIII hard drives - 1- WD 1 TB hard drive - Cooler Master RS800 800 watt Gold Rated partly Modular Power Supply with up to 65Amps of output on the +12volt side of a single rail PSU - Antec mid size aluminum case with 1 200mm Cooler Master side case fan, 1- Cooler Master 120mm Sickle Flow rear exhaust fan, and 1- Antec 120mm front intake fan. Note: All case intake fans and power supply fan are filtered to help prevent dust without restricting air flow...Read full review
This video card was bought to replace a nVidia Quadro FX 3400 which came with a Dell Precision Workstation 670. While not a top of the line nVidia GTX series card (at the time of this writing), the price for performance is very good in my opinion. I got the needed boost in the video system I was looking for at a price I was very happy with. Installation was extremely easy, as was installing the drivers for the video card. In less than ten minutes, the system was up and running with the new video card and drivers humming along giving me the frame rates I had hoped for in the games I play. Being able to add a second card and take advantage of the SLI technology also appeals to me if the need arises for me to start playing higher end games. If you are looking for a upgrade from a older PCI-e nVidia card, this is a card you should consider for a mid range solution.Read full review
Card works excellently for for light to medium gaming on 1600x900 or less resolution. Really struggles on my 1920x1200 24" IPS monitor due to much more real estate. I was able to game on the smaller monitors at High or Ultra settings in 2-3 year old titles, but same games on bigger monitor had to drop the detail levels down to low to medium to get playable framerates. Very quiet overall and definitely worth the money. Very comparable in peformance to a Radeon HD 6670, but needs more power input. My advice is to find the AMD card and not have to worry about size or power on an older computer or budget build.
Gaming performance is very good, paired it with my modded Xeon Q3'08 E5450 3.0GHz 12MB 4 Core CPU on LGA775 motherboard and they together work very good, but GPU is bottleneck for this CPU, most time GPU works 100% while CPU work, 35%. I tested many games, Crysis I, II, III, NFS MW 2012, Shadow Of Mordor, F.E.A.R Bioshok Infinite, it can run Crysis I on High settings, [AA off on all games], Crysis II Maximum Edition on High settings, got 50FPS. Overall GPU is still good at gaming, i hadn't expected this FPS gain, had had GT430 before and the GTS 450 doubled the FPS in every game, it has 192 cuda cores and GT430 has 92, this is why it doubled the FPS I think. Tempetrature is 40° while working on PC, gaming temperature is 75°, and it never exceeds 75°. So the graphics card is in very good condition.Read full review
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Even though this is not a current model video card I have been extremely happy with the performance. I run 2 monitors a 23" LED and a 40" LCD tv. The video graphics are great, playing Sniper, Ghost Warrior, GTA, and Assassins creed 3 with no problems overclocked slightly. I have smoked 3 xbox 360s but this thing doesn't even get warm... I also use it for blu-Ray movies, it runs 1080p flawlessly on both monitors.
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