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Summary: Intel Extreme Graphics No (brown) AGP slot must use PCI slot
Review: Bought this card because I only had PCI as an option. If you disable the onboard graphics before shutting down to install the new card you should not have any problems at all. My card was installed and functioning within 15 minutes. Dual VGA output performance is excellent. I have an LCD and a CRT. This card allows two full screen programs at the same time or two websites side by side. Lots of adjustments can be made for dual monitors, well worth the time needed to fine tune this option. Would highly recommend this card as a great improvement and a great value. Couldn't really play Splinter Cell on the Intel integrated graphics, but no problem on this card. Now I can't wait to try the s-video output to my Sony 36" HDTV. Installed a Seagate 80 gig 8MB buffer 7,200 rpm drive as primary and now using original 40 gig 5,400 rpm Seagate drive as a slave for storage.
Total system performance is visibly improved. System is HP w/ 2.5 gig Celeron with 768 meg RAM.
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Summary: I'd give it less than 1 star if I could
Review: First card lasted 8 weeks and then started giving me a pink/purple screen when coming out of standby. After 1+ hrs on phone w/ tech support they concluded it was bad video RAM. If I simply sent it back, at a cost of $8 to me and 2 weeks time they would replace it......I spent the money and waited patiently w/ my old card nVidia base chip card working fine in my system. New card arrived in shrink wrap (hum looks reconditioned), installed it and recieved a BLACK screen. Simply beautiful! Since I'm computer saavy, I tried and tried myself to fix it but nothing. Called tech support once again. 1st tech spent 45min w/ me and updated drivers, ended call w/ me on a restart and said if that doesn't work it's a bad card!! Of course it didn't so I called back for a RMA# to turn it. 2nd tech spent 2 hrs trying things already tried w/ continual black screen. Finally I yelled Uncle. I had no more time to devoted to PNY! Went out and bought ATI All-in-wonder card....works fine! Now all I want is my money back and they want me to try more tech support....not!
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Summary: i think it's very goooooooood
Review: hi
i now its very good but it lease expensive
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Summary: A highly recommended card
Review: I bought this card at Best Buy and I can recommendi to anyone with no AGP running Intel Integrated Graphics. The Improvement in Halo was incredible, and all the three major graphics (specular, shadows, decals) became available. This card also features Hardware T&L so games like KOTOR, Call of Duty, and Rainbow Six 3 became playable when on the integrated graphics they were not. However when you are upgrading from integrated graphics you must think ahead! Before shutting down to install the card, disable the onboard graphics in the device manager, and make sure you have the latest drivers (it is a 10 meg download so if you have 56K get it ahead of time). one final thing: do not have any cards under this one because the fan will reverberate and make an extremely annoying sound.
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Summary: Dual Monitor Support
Review: I bought this card because I was attempting to install dual videocards to expand my desktop. As it turns out this card comes equipped with two outputs. Instead of having to run this card along with a crumby 8meg ATI rage, I was able to run both monitors off of a single PCI slot @ 128 megs. Bravo.
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Summary: Great card, slightly tricky to install, so-so support
Review: i did a lot of research before buying this card, and in my honest opinion this is one of the best PCI graphics cards you can get, and at $100 is a great deal. i was playing unreal tournament 2003 on my dell dimension p4 1.8ghz with 512mb ram and standard onboard intel 3d graphics running windows XP home, and i had to play with practically all graphic options unchecked and set on the lowest settings. after i installed the card (see below) i gleefully checked every box and pumped all options to the max, and was rewarded by a beautiful game in its fully glory, and at an even better framerate than before. well worth it.to install, it was somewhat of a hassle. the drivers included on a cd didnt work, and i had to go to pny's site to download them. but they send you over to nvidia to get the drivers, and since nvidia is the chipset and not the card, they provide drivers only with no support whatsoever. so, i got the drivers in, got direct x 9 installed, and no dice. you have to (again, this is windows XP home) go to the display, enable the dual monitor support, select the GeForce FX 5200 as your display for the second monitor, then choose that as the default, then dont expand display over 2 montiors. then you shut down, then plug the monitor from your onboard video to the new GeForce FX 5200. this is more of a windows XP/dell onboard video problem, which is what i still gave the card 5 stars, but you should still be aware of it. anyways, bottom line: great card! good value, great performance, and if youre stuck in PCI graphics land, you cant go wrong with this for $100 bucks.
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Summary: GeForce Does It Again
Review: I love this card. It's versitile, its east to install, its great for newbies or hardcore graphics users. The price ain't bad either :-) What more could you ask for?
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Summary: Great card for the $
Review: I purchased this card a week ago and I love it. It makes all my games look like new. I can't belive I played games with out it. Many games did not work at first, but updating the drivers ironed out any problems.
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Summary: Nothing but problems
Review: I recently bought one of these cards. Everything was fine for the first couple of months. Thing worked fine. Then the fan on it went bad. It growls really loud nonstop. So i called the customer support. They told me they don't cover it until the fan actually goes out and destroys the whole card. So then frustrated, I asked if i could just buy another. and they said no!!!
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Summary: Worth the money
Review: I upgraded my old 32MB SDR NVIDIA GeForce 2 MX 200 to this baby and it made all the difference. I use to live in the GeForce 2 MX era and that's changed to the GeForce FX 5200 era. About in the year 2000, I use to have a 3DFX Voodoo 2 card with 12mb graphics memory powered by a Pentium 2 450mhz with 128mb sdram with Win 2000. I couldn't play any 2000 games, I was stuck with older late 1990's games, and they didn't run so perfectly. When I upgraded to a P3 733mhz with 256mb of ram and swapped the NVIDIA GeForce 2 MX 200 32mb sdr(that's not ddr, please note) about at the end of 2000, I was screaming dude. My games were much smoother, looking a lot better and my system was much faster with more free memory and faster response times. I thought I was big dadio until I started to notice a performance drop in the most demanding 2-D and 3-D applications of 2001. In 2002 I could hardly play some of the average games of 2002, and in 2003 I couldn't play any average 2003 early games. I thought it was about time I'd ugprade at this point, so I could possibly play next generation games that make utilization of the latest Direct-X 9+ and OpenGL 1.4+ sdks. With all the eyecandy and high res stuff turned on too, but albeit not fast. I wouldn't mind tho. Along with the upgrade to the geforce fx, which included 128mb of DDR video memory(albeit super fast), I also upgraded to a P4 2.0 with 512mb of ram, and swapped off 2000, saved what I wanted off the hard drive, and got myself WinXP Home Edition and installed it and it prooved itself fast and sleek, and very dependable. I have all the latest ugprades for all my hardwaare, and now all my games run at the highest settings at about 80fps+, and I'm ready for next gen games such as Unreal 2 or Doom 3. Some of the most ancipated titles of 2003, and Half-Life 2 as well. These games are written to make numerous utilizations of the direct-x 9 programmable language most people do not realize and lack to have the ability to understand this new era of 3-D apps and games use. Sure I don't have the fx 5200 ultra, but if I upgraded fro that, that would be like upgrading from a nvidia geforce 2 mx card. I saved up for a while and got htis card for about 100 bucks, and for a modern 3-D card prepared for DX9 and opengl future games, that is unbelievable and outstanding to a certain magnitude of reality. Heh heh...for those poor people still in the geforce 2 mx era,(the geforce 2 mx is about 30-50$+ today), upgrade to this baby and your worries are over!
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