EVGA 512-P3-1300-LR GeForce 8400 GS 512 MB DDR3 PCI Express 2.0 DVI/HDMI/VGA Graphics Card

UPDATE: 3-20-16 Well it's been about a year since I got this card and I can honestly say that I have not had one problem with it at all. In fact I'm now using two monitors and it still works great. It is super quiet. I never have had the fan problems I have heard about. Over all a solid card. Great bang for the buck.You know I almost did not buy this card as some of the bad reviews really scare you off. But in the end I went ahead and took the chance. I'm glad I did. Honestly I am not a big gamer but I do have a Pinball emulator on my computer with over 80 different pinball tables and some of the graphics are pretty intense. My old ATI 2 gig card butchered these pinball tables and I could hardly play them, but with this card every table is gorgeous and plays perfect. Video play back is very vivid and makes watching my movies like I have never seen them before. The colors absolutely pop now. And the icing on the cake for this card is the software. I have had many ATI cards and to be honest the software on this card blows ATI out the door. The best part is that the software gives you the ability to adjust your monitor colors so that what the card puts out is what you see on your monitor. On any other software they give you the option to adjust the colors too, but the problem is that if you have an older monitor or a new one, they all show colors differently. So when you adjust the color on the software, what you adjust may not be what you see on your monitor. Not sure if this makes sense or if I am describing it properly but once you use the color adjust on this card and it's software you will understand. You just slide the colors till they match on your monitor and walla, your done. Now what you see on your monitor is exactly what the card is putting out. If your into video or picture editing this is a huge thing, as sometimes when you are editing a color and then when you print the picture you find that it does not look the same. That's because most of the time the colors you see on your monitor are not synced with your video card.Also for those that talk about power wattage problems. You have know that if you under power any electronics that need more juice to run right, you run the risk of burning them up. If they say you need the bare minimum of a 300 watt power supply, you should already know that the card if pushed hard is going to need at least half that much to run properly. Also you have to understand that every computer is built differently and some use a bunch of power just for the main board and such. If you have a couple of CD drives and hard drives running all at the same time and you put this card in the machine and then you start to have problems, it's because your computer is already taking a lot of juice from the power supply and now with this new card, you are taxing it to the limit. So buying this card requires some working knowledge of your computer and it's power draws. Most companies put only the minimum power supply that will support their hardware specs to save money. So if you have more stuff added to your machine, you run the risk of either burning up the power supply or some of the stuff in your computer. So do your self a big favor and save your self a lot of heart ache. If you have a small power supply and want to put this card in your computer then get a bigger power supply. I have a quad core that came with a 500 watt power supply and I upgraded it to a 750 watt power supply because the old one died for the very same reason I just talked about. Power supplies are not very expensive and they only use the extra power when it is required of them. As for fan noise problems? Mine is as quiet as a mouse. (sleeping that is) : p

Before I begin, let me tell you that this Graphics card is on the low end and is not meant for intensive gaming or power. For me, this product was great since I am a casual computer user. I was tired of using my onboard graphics and decided I needed an upgrade. It works very well for watching HD movies and streaming HD content. You can play games but expect mediocre results because you will be forced to run them on low settings. Installation was easy, and new updated drivers are easily found on the official EVGA website. The fan isn't as noisy as some claim it to be, then again I have a thick chassis so that might be it. You can hear the fan at 100% speed but it isn't headache inducing or very distracting. The best way I can describe the fan is "white noise". If you get yourself a software called MSI adterburn, you can boost (overclock) the performance on this little card. I overclocked mine 100 Mhz over the stock limit and while ruinning a Blu Ray movie from my HDD, the max temerature on the GPU was 36 Degrees celcius. Not bad at all. I strongly recomend this Graphics Card to anyone looking for an upgrade to onboard graphics. Well worth the money. The delivery was fast as usual and customer service was amazing, thanks Amazon.

This graphics card replaces a GeForce GT635. The GT635 is a vintage card that was never designed with Windows 10/64 Bit in mind. The Windows 10 Driver Pack for the GT635 allowed the GT635 to operate smoothly but not impressively on the Windows 10/64 Bit platform.The GeForce 8400 GS (with fan) is a step forward but still an entry level graphics card. I am not a gamer nor a CAD/CAM designer. If you fall within those 2 categories this is not the card for you. However, if you just want a snappy, clear display on your PC, this card exceeds those requirements.A few negatives beginning with installation. Believing that since I was replacing a NVIDIA card with a newer NVIDIA card I thought the process would be a simple affair. The 1st "best practices" step is to delete all your current NVIDIA/GeForce Drivers. Using the Control Panel to delete a NVIDIA presence should make for an easy task ("should" is the operative word). Once you get into the Control Panel you will see many NVDIA entries - some of these are easy to uninstall using the Control Panel system. However, the majority of the NVIDIA programs required that I enter Device Manager and poke about there. Even using Device Manager several of the NVIDIA programs refused to delete - especially the NVIDIA Experience package. Oh well. I got bored and just restarted the PC (restart is absolutely required).After you install the GeForce 8400 GS card and again restart your PC it is time to spin the provided install DVD. For a graphics card company the DVD interface is archaic and clunky. Further, I could not get the drivers on that DVD to install. Fortunately, I had already downloaded the very latest drivers for Windows 10/64 Bit from the NVIDIA site so I bypassed the DVD and installed that package without incident. I went back into the DVD interface and loaded DirectX (not required but a good idea) and then restarted the PC. BTW, I did not load any of the other offerings on the DVD interface.Restart went without any issues. Since I have a good Audiology SoundBlaster Card and I am not a gamer my next step was to immediately disable all the NVIDIA audio drivers. I opened Device Manager and right-clicked/disabled every NVIDA entry under "Sound Video and Game Controllers." While in Device Manage I went up to "Sound Devices" and made sure that the Audiology SoundBlaster drivers were active and up-to-date (update is also a simple right-click & select Update Driver task). For the hell of it I restarted again, right clicked the speaker icon in the Task Bar to insure that Audiology SoundBlaster was the the only option under "Sound Devices."I took one final step relative to sound. Restarting the PC yet again and pressing the F2 Key to enter BIOS I check that the PC's Mother Board Audio Controller remained disabled. It was so I am done. Yea!!Use: The card works fine and the graphics are an improvement over the GT635. Thus far, the only negative is the GeForce 8400 GS cooling fan is quite noisy. I never heard the GT635 fan but the 8400 GS fan is far nosier than the computer's 2 main cooling fans. That is weird.