PNY - Verto NVIDIA GeForce 8400 GS 512MB GDDR2 PCI Graphics Card

I accidentally fried my old Radeon 9250 256mb graphics card and needed to buy a cheap alternative. I never did like ATI's interface on my computer and always had problems. After shopping around within my budget I went to Best Buy. There, the friendly computer experts helped me to go online and order this card because they do not have any PCI cards in stock on their shelves. Ordering online at BestBuy was a snap. The product was ordered on December 21st and arrived on December 23rd, just as promised. I opened the box and read the instructions, which I highly recommend doing. Before installing the card, you must make sure that you go into your BIOS program and change the graphics card setting to PCI. Installation was very easy. My only difficulty was the fact that my PCI slots are just about exactly far enough away from the openings in back of the computer with no room to spare, so it was a tight fit. Once it was in I simply turned on the computer, popped in the provided Installation Disk, clicked on "install drivers" and voila, it was done. After restarting the computer the graphics came up beautifully with 1080p (1920x1080) native resolution. I immediately tested it by watching a download of "Avatar" and the video quality was extroardinary with no choppy images or lag time in playing the video at all like there were previously. I also tested streaming video from Hulu and I no longer have to use the lowest video setting to watch shows. I did not disable my onboard graphics until after this one was already up and running, and did not notice a difference after doing so, so I do not know if it is necessary. I tried playing a few easy games and it ran them beautifully. However, this card is not for high end gaming. It would not run a game I downloaded called Heroes of Iron 3, but I later discovered that game required a Ge Force 8800 and 2 gb of ram. I will test it on other games later and possibly update this review. In conclusion, the entire buying experience of purchasing this Graphics Card through Best Buy was about as good as it could possibly be. The card works perfectly for my usage, which is watching streaming video and light game play. You could also easily run 2 monitors with this card. If you only have PCI slots in your older computer (Mine is a 7 year old Gateway) I would recommend this card in a snap. It is a vast improvement over the Radeon 9250 I previously used. Less than 30 minutes from opening the box to everything working perfectly.

I opened the box and installed the GeForce 8400 GS into the PCI slot of my HP Pavillion a847c Desktop with ease. After troubleshooting a blank screen at start-up, I found out I had to disable my integrated video card through the device manager and set the display settings in BIOS to PCI. Then after installation, I downloaded the latest drivers for the card, and PRESTO! IT WORKS GREAT! Sure its not the ultimate card for games, but its WAY better than I expected for a standard PCI card. I can max all the settings in Warcraft III: Frozen Throne, and it runs fine. I also can now play HoN with great effects. Haven't tried some of the more graphics-demanding games yet, but for the price and considering its PCI, I am very pleased. GL HF!!!!

Being stuck with only a PCI slot on my computer i was always starved of decent performance on a card. Now i can play most games and I can even play crysis on low settings fine. Thats pretty good for a 4 1/2 year old system with only PCI. I had to reinstall the drivers on the card because i jumped the gun and didn't read the instructions carefully lol. Also make sure you turn your onboard graphics to PCI instead in your motherboard bios or you get a black screen. If PCI is your only option don't hesitate buying the awesome card. BTW it works flawlessly on my 42 inch LCD tv in dual monitor.

This is a perfect graphics card if you cannot afford the newest cards, but want a good picture and quality, it fits slim line desktops, too.

My PCs motherboard fried on me several weeks ago and I was short on cash. I bought a refurbished 3.0 Dell Pentium 4 single processer PC with 1 gig of ram on ebay for $177.00 to tide me over for awhile. It only supports PCI so my choices were limited. I added this card for my video and I am back playing Left 4 Dead and Fallout 3 at Medium settings. If you need a PCI card, this thing is fantastic for games at a very reasonable price. I couldn't be happier with its performance and will probably put off buying a really powerfull machine for another year now. It saved me a lot of money.

Some of my friends we're telling me about World of Warcraft I knew it was nerdy and within a hour i was hooked. When i got home to try it the "Graphics Error Message" popped up so i go this. Great card at a great price if you want to be casual gamer or high end take it it will take anything you throw at it.

I got a second hand computer to run RealFlight G5.5 and Phoenix 3.0 Flight training simulators during the winter. I did not want to spend alot of money and to my suprise this video card works great without having to reduce the graphics quality in the sims. Installation was hassle free and took about 10 minutes including installing the drivers. I did have to reduce the video apeture in the system BIOS to the minimum 128mb for best performance. Running Intel Dual Core 2.6ghz with 2gb system ram. If you only have a PCI slot for video, this card is a great value.

I installed in this in a Dell Dimension 8300 running Windows XP with no problems. I couldn't remove the original video card so I went into the system setup and disabled the old card so the computer wouldn't keep telling me it had found new hardware. Graphics look good on screen and installation was a breeze!!!