a good card for a mediacenter pc or for a low end office pc (Club-3D 8400GS)

Member Name: Jamesth

Product:	Club-3D 8400GS
Date:	30/05/08 (401 review reads)
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Advantages: good quality for image, low price, good multimedia possibility

Disadvantages: 3d rendering is really not that much

The 8400gs from Nvidia is and excellent video card for low range pc, ideal for media center pc, this video card can play all the media you may want to view including hd media and blue ray, the 3d power is somewhat modest so I suggest to stay away from this card if you want to play some modern game in a good resolution.

This particular card from club-3d it has a passive heat dissipator, so that mean no noise at all coming from little fan and it has:

1) an old crt exit, useful if you still have an old monitor

2) a DVI exit, useful for modern LCD monitor

3) a tv exit

It comes with 256 megabytes of ram and can be turbocached up to 512 that means it can use up to 512 megabytes of ram of your pc to work better.

It surely is a good solution if you use your pc only for office applications and multimedia, and you want a low price solution.

Being a low end card this video card actually has many other advantages, it uses less energy than many other video card , probably around 10 watt in idle and 38 while working and the price is very competitive , you can find this card in most stores for a price of £20 - £25

You can even play old game or even newer ones in very low resolution probably up to 1024x756 at max(1-2 years ago it was a high resolution but now is considered a low- normal resolution) but probably the best choice if your budget is somewhat higher in this case is at least a 8600gt for around £40-50 or a 9600 at £80-90

Summary: a good low end card for a user who only uses the pc to browse the net or office work

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