Thursday, August 5, 2010

XFX GS250XYDFC GeForce GTS250 512MB GDDR3 2DVI Vga Card

Great card! Best bang for the buck on his category! I rather like this one over HD4850 because it offers the same or better performance, better driver compatibility for gaming and less software installation hassles. I'm not a fan of driver tweaking as I really think things should all be truly plug and play, as far as possible. Also, it costs just a few bucks more than 9800GT and packs 12 more shader processors, improved manufacturing technology, less heat and better clocks. This is as good as it gets for nVidia's great G92 GPU. 

Pros :
This video card is very powerful. In Folding at Home, it averages around 5,500 - 6,500 points per day. In Company of Heroes, it averages with 1280 X 1024 resolution, all high settings and 4X anti-aliasing, approximately 45 - 60 frames per second (60 Hz monitor refresh rate). Runs fairly cool (approximately 60 Celsius) with fan at 70% while running Folding at Home.

Cons : 
None yet. May be too big for Micro-ATX computer cases.

Other Thoughts : 
All in all, a great video card. Mine came with a coupon for 3D Mark Vantage if I remember correctly.

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