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Band : EVGA
Model : 896 P3 1257 AR
Product Features :
- PCI Express 2 0
- 55nm GeForce GTX 260 Core 216 Superclocked with 626MHz clock
- 896MB 448 bit 1 ns GDDR3 memory
- 1053MHz clock with 2106MHz effective memory rate and 1350MHz shader clock
- Full DirectX 10 and Open GL 2 1 Support
>> Does the job and then some
Was looking for a higher end graphics card for some special software I am running Cost was a factor and this card is a great value does every thing that cards twice as costly do Its fast and the graphics look great Excellent value
>> WTF
I ve Got This Card And Was Working At 1X
Not At 16 X
It Wasn t Motherboard s Fault Because I Tryed This Card On The Other Motherboards Rampage Forumla Rampage Extreme And Gigabyte P35
So I Couldn t Keep This Card I Can t Play Games On Max Settings
I Sold It For 40
It Was Worst Purchase By Me
>> Works well with a 3 year old PC
I bought this card to upgrade my existing PC see specs below That PC is almost 3 years old and with a new card power supply and more memory I hope to get another 3 years out of it before looking for a replacement The cost of the card and power supply and more memory is expected to be about one third of the price of a current day equivalent replacement PC
Installation
Physical installation was pretty straightforward and took 5 10 minutes As other reviewer have noted the card is long indeed a little over 10 inches but it fit in the case with room to spare One thing I noticed was that in my pc the card covered 2 PCI slots one PCI express one non PCI express while using only one the PCI Express Results may vary in your situation
Software installation was a little more cumbersome but it may have been caused that Windows Auto Update tried to install software during the installation of the driver software I ended up crashing the computer and had to install the drivers a total of 3 times Again not sure if this had to do with the drivers themselves
The software is pretty straightforward and it comes with trial version of a handy tool FRAPS This tool allows you to measure framerates among other things It appears that you can record screen shots and movies of your games as well but I have not tried that functionality
Once installed I tested it on 3 games
Call of Duty 4 Modern Warfare This game allowed me to run with all possible options maxed out at 1900x1200 while achieving a framerate in the 60 70 range at graphic intensive points An example would be a scene at night in the rain with lots of movement At other time fps was well above 100
Assassins Creed Again I was able to run with all option maxed out at 1900x1200 The framerate hovered in the 35 40 range when churning through graphic intensive scenes higher at other times While not as high as hoped I did not notice too much flickering
Crysis SP Demo I downloaded the demo when it first came out It did run on the NVIDIA 7900 GS but only at Medium settings in a 1200x768 resolution Even then the screen would sometimes flicker and stutter With the new card I could run it at high in 1200 768 while achieving a fps of 30 I did not notice any noticeable flickering
Note I did have to buy a new power supply because the standard PSU that comes with the Dell is rated at 375W which is not enough for this card If you google a bit you can find a calculator that let s you estimate the total power need for your PC It estimated my power need at 390W I decided to go with a 550W PSU It appears to be working well
Overall I think this card has given my computer an extension on life The cost of the card and power supply and more memory is about one third of the price of a current day equivalent replacement
Original setup
Dell XPS 410
E6400 Dual Core
2 GB Memory
NVIDIA 7900 GS
Vista Home Premium SP2
