EVGA 256-P2-N751-TR e-GeForce 8600 GT 256 MB PCI-Express Graphics Card

This product provider was very helpful in servicing my needs. Communication was direct and responsive. They even provided supplemental accessories that may assist with those needs. Very good experience.

This little beast packs a punch. On my rig (3.0 Ghz AMD 64 X2 6000+, 3 GB of ram, Windows 7 Ultimate 32 bit) it works very well. Before, I was using integrated graphics and could not do anything related to video games. Now I can run most games on high settings and even new ones run well. Dragon Age Origins works very well on medium settings at full res for me 1440x900. The dual monitor feature is excellent too. Small quirp is that the card goes loud when on serious gaming sessions but that's to be expected.

OK, this card works, and is worth about what you pay for it. However....I think I learned a lesson. Others have made similar comments, but I had to learn by doing. The lesson is this: Don't expect this card to make your single-core econo-model PC into a game/graphics demon. It will make your display smoother and make it possible to run some graphic-intensive games. In the process, it will push the power supply to the max, and you'll discover other bottlenecks such as disc and memory i/o. In retrospect, I'd have been better off to put the cash towards a higher-end PC.

This card is worthless if you want to play DVD's on your computer. I installed it and it worked with videos on the Internet but when I went to play DVD's. It didn't worked. I called their customer service and after many attempts to fix the problem, they tell me that this card might be incompatible with XP or maybe Windows Media play or maybe Real Player and maybe all the other DVD players that I tried. So I have to honestly say buy this card at your own risk.

I just called EVGA and was able to confirm that they've really hid the ball on this one -- it's NOT HDCP enabled (and there's no way to find it out from their Web site, manuals or spec sheets). What this means is that any protected content (e.g., Blu-Ray, HD-DVD, Vista HD video, etc.) will not play through this card and you'll get a blank screen. It basically moots one of the core functionalities of this chipset, that it offloads H.264 video processing from the CPU onto the video card.

Although this card is older and used, it really did the trick in helping to renovate a 2007 Dell Dimension E521. Marked improved graphics and enhanced screen resolution from a newer monitor.

Worked perfectly!

I bought this card some time ago, and i cannot believe the performance improvement i have got, having only a computer worth $200 (Athlon 64 3400+, 1gig DDR ram, 450W PS,DVD+R burner,250Gig PATA hard drive) I was able to play Crysis, and Unreal Tournamnet at medium. Once i made a little upgrade (Athlon 5600+, 2 Gig DDR2, GA-MA78M-S2H)for about $200, i was able to play Crysis with all setting to medium and UT3 with all settings to High, i have made computers using the 8500 gt for my relatives and i know that there is no comparison with this video card.