Galaxy - GeForce GT 520 Graphic Card - 810 MHz Core - 1 GB DDR3 SDRAM - PCI Express 2.0 x16

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• Rated 5 out of 5 stars

  Great card

  • Incentivized
  • My Best Buy® Member

  I installed this card in 45 minutes, you should read the instructions before open the case. You need to buy DVI monitors, it won't work with old VGA monitors. I installed and configured 4 monitors, load the drivers and software, was running great 4 screens at the same time with no issues, great but not the best card, for the value, excellent.

  Posted 13 years ago by MAUTO

• Rated 1 out of 5 stars

  Expected the best but got the worst...

  • Incentivized

  I thought I was really on to something when I saw this "4 Display" video card for only $116.00 bucks. The minimum requirements are as follows: PCI-Express 2.0, 300W Power Supply, 1GB of System Memory & only 200MB on hard disk space. What a steal. Actually no. I have a brand new HP Pavilion P6000 series (model HP6610f) with an AMD Phenom II X4 Quad Core 635 processor, 16GB of RAM, 2TB HDD and a 500W Antec ECO-Green Power Supply. What more do I need other than simply pluggin the darn thing in to the PCI-E x16 slot? Well, I needed to take it back to Best Buy. I actually returned two new cards twice. No video when booting up the machine. No HP BIOS, nothing. I tried EVERYTHING from testing the dual DVI cables (they work) to booting to the onboard video card, installing the drivers, rebooting, switching back to the PCI video card and nothing. I even tried two brand new cards from BB and got the same results. The Galaxytech.com website only provides the same graphic 2' x 2' poster in the packaging that demonstrates how to plug the card in and push the power on button - DUH!. Common sense to install it right? Well, it took more than common sense to wipe away my tears and put my old GeForce 8400 GS back in to see my monitors work just fine. I guess I'm stuck with two monitors instead of four... SIGH

  Posted 13 years ago by BBinc

• Rated 4 out of 5 stars

  Great value, but not simple as pie

  • Incentivized

  Needed 3+ monitors on a Vista machine. Had two Quadro's working, but using two slots and Vista never liked the driver install, but it did run cleanly. So for the price and a single slot and GPU power, this looked like the perfect upgrade. What doesn't really get explained, the card produces two displays that are double wide. The card and hardwired splitters cut the two in half, so that if you maximize in this mode, a spreadsheet (or any other app) fills two displays. There is an application in the install that I run every time I boot up, that configures each application to take up no more than one of the screens. But each pair of monitors shares one wallpaper image via stretching, but the Windows execution is four separate screens when the four way split is applied. One other little bug, if the computer is inactive and screensavers blank out the monitors, one pair goes fully to sleep requiring me to go to the setup app, edit the connection, then cancel the edit, to wake up that port and restore video to it. I might not have this optimally configured, but it works well enough. If people are struggling with analog VGA's, I suspect odd resolutions are causing the failure, not the outdated connectors. But one thing is for sure, Windows took a big step backwards from XP with Vista for modern display management. I know Win7 is much better, but this is a reasonable workaround for Vista upgrades if anyone is still doing that sort of thing. I'm running four contemporary Samsung widescreens with DVI out of the card, into cables that have HDMI for the monitor end.. All identical and they look and perform very nicely.

  Posted 13 years ago by FourWide