Feb
06
PNY XLR8 GTS 250 1024 MB PCI-Express 2.0 VGA + DVI Graphics Card VCGGTS2501XPB
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- NVIDIA PhysX Technology
- NVIDIA CUDA Technology
- NVIDIA SLI Multi-Monitor Support
- NVIDIA PureVideo HD Technology
- Dual Dual-link DVI Support
Product Description
Immerse yourself in full NVIDIA PhysX gaming and bring your games to life with massively destructible environments and ultra-realistic physical interaction in games such as Mirror¿s Edge by Electronic Arts Inc. With full support for NVIDIA GeForce 3D Vision experience over 350 games in stereoscopic 3D* and give your eyes something to talk about. *Stereoscopic 3D requires an NVIDIA 3D Vision kit consisting of wireless GeForce 3D Vision glasses, emitter and a 3D … More >>
PNY XLR8 GTS 250 1024 MB PCI-Express 2.0 VGA + DVI Graphics Card VCGGTS2501XPB
3 Comments
February 6th, 2010 at 10:34 AM
When you want a value card that is going to work great, stop here. Great reliabilty, great FPS, looks awesome.
Rating: 5 / 5
February 6th, 2010 at 12:31 PM
I have shop around fry’s and other place for a decent card and to be honest, PNY wasn’t my first of choice. I settled for this card because of the price amazon was offering. After 2 weeks of using the card, I love it. It is solid and stable running windows 7 64 bits never the less. Most card I get have driver problem with 64 bit OS but this card ran smoothly with out a hitch. I am dual screen with my 2 samsungs 24′ and it still doing 7.1 score for win7 index. This is a great buy for a mid-end graphic.
Rating: 4 / 5
February 6th, 2010 at 3:16 PM
The GTS250 1GB card isn’t the “latest and greatest” that Nvidia has on the market these days, but for the price, it was a great upgrade choice from my 512MB EVGA Nvidia 8600gts card. The card is very big and requires at LEAST a 450W power supply, so be aware that if you get this card, you may have to upgrade your PS as well. I went with a 550W power supply, and it is working well. You should also know that it is a double-wide card, so if you have other add-on cards in your PC, you may need to do some additional card moves to make this fit in your case.
As for the performance, honestly, I am very happy with the card. I do some gaming every now and then, and things like Left4Dead2, Modern Warfare 2, and recently even DragonAge:Origins run very well on my machine, thanks to this card. The processor is a AMD x2 5600+ with 3GB of Ram, and this card is a great addition to make these games run well on my machine. I have been able to max out the settings on L4D2 and MW2, and *almost* max out Dragonage:Origins. When I try to do highest settings in DA:O I get some choppy frame rates, but at “high” it runs just fine. I think that if I was to upgrade my CPU and Memory, this would fix those issues.
One other thing that I noticed about this card after first installing it was that it ran not hot, but very warm. This could have been due to the mid-sized case I have, but I also needed to add another fan to the case in order to draw more cool air through after installing this card. I think this is normal for any modern card these days though… more cooling is always better.
All in all, I think that this is a very good card, and I would recommend it to others looking for an easy way to achieve better graphics for not a lot of money.
Rating: 5 / 5