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XFX GeForce 8500 GT Video Card

GeForce 8500 GT Video Card

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XFX GeForce 8500 GT Video Card

  • Reviewed by: Nate

    08-09-07

    Duration of ownership: 3 Months

    Strengths: good over all image quality.

    Weaknesses:when playing games with the 8500 gt and you move, the screen is jumpy and has some lines going through it as well,and this is just at normal resolutions.If you want to max out the resolutions and play,forget it ,it is not going to happen with this card.And this card is the 512 mb version.when you are at a stand still the picture looks fine.I am using a 24" widescreen monitor.Down right poor performance for gaming.

    Overall Evaluation: I bought this card for pc gaming,thinking it would be a good card seeing that it is coming from the 8 series family,boy was I wrong,and I would not reccomend this card to anyone for gaming.Now for movies it plays them real well and picture quality is very good.If you are using your pc as a home theatre system,It would be a great card for the price for that.This product gets a 3, poor performance for gaming but good over all image quality.

  • Reviewed by: aceskull

    10-31-07

    Duration of ownership: 4 Months

    Strengths: DX10, great for Budget Vista PC.

    Weaknesses:no hardcore gaming, speed, dual DVI.

    Overall Evaluation: This is not a gaming GPU, specs along should tell you. This cheap GPU is for kids, or regular workstations. You can easily run Vista Ultimate with the help of this card. DX10 support really is good for future gaming, you won't be playing card games in DX10 anytime soon.You can do Dual LCD, but one is regular VGA port, use the DVI connector. Supports SLI, but still isn't going to make your gaming world faster. 4 out of 5 does what it's meant to do.

  • Reviewed by: wen3wen

    08-08-07

    Duration of ownership: 3 Days

    Strengths: s-video

    Weaknesses:heard it runs pretty hot ... but i bought a vantec cooler placed on the pci right under the gfx card

    Overall Evaluation: I would recommend this product. The price for it right now is TERRIFIC ! the graphic card itself looks really nice and I had no problems installing it onto the motherboard or installing it onto the computer.

  • Reviewed by: pouralice2001

    08-08-07

    Duration of ownership: 15 Days

    Strengths: Small but powerful, support DX10 well.

    Weaknesses:Not for overclocker. only has 256MB and supports DDR2

    Overall Evaluation: this is a good card for its price comes from the geforce series 8 and it had DX10 its a great card if your looking to just play games with the dvi-i and vga and s-video you can use with any monitor also saves you a couple hundred bucks from the 8800GT,GTS,GTX whis cost 200-700 dollars

  • Reviewed by: Techiec

    08-04-07

    Duration of ownership: 1 Months

    Strengths: 1) DirectX 10 Support 2) Fan is reasonably quiet 3) Black PCB 4) PureVideo HD Support

    Weaknesses:1) Cannot play modern games, forget any DX10 games 2) Only 1 DVI Port and 1 VGA Port, not 2 DVI

    Overall Evaluation: This card is great for HTPC (home theater PC) use because of the HD acceleration and the reasonably quiet fan. It is also a great way to add a second monitor. However, NVIDIA graphics cards are known for gaming, and this low-end version simply cannot make the cut. It is not fast enough to play any DX10 game that will come out, and DX9 gaming is okay at best. Even the old 6600GT can beat this card in some games. For the price, it can be a great HTPC add-in, but I strongly discourage anyone from buying this for gaming. In the 8-series, gamers will need at least an 8600gt, and for DX10, a card that will be released in the future as all cards on the market right now cannot do DX10 reasonably well (even the 8800gtx has trouble, but this may be a driver issue).

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