Need to decide on a new graphics card? (Club-3D 8400GS)

Member Name: toddysreviews

Product:	Club-3D 8400GS
Date:	19/03/09 (75 review reads)
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Advantages: Great value for the performance.

Disadvantages: Not up to todays standards.

The club-3d graphincs card is a good card for alot of applications like watching videos on the internet and playing a few basic games but for alot of things you might need to spend a litlle bit more money. It has a DVI and HDTV out but if you want to actually watch blu ray movies and play games in high defenition the this card is definately insufficient. I have had this card for almost a year and it does have quite a few problems. If all you are using it for is basic un demanding applications like youtube and old games then it's great but as soon as you push it on some more modern games even as old as company of heroes then you will have serious problems. It will fail and even crash your computer after about 30 mins to an hour of gaming even on extremely low settings. Even watching HD videos on youtube you will notice a drop in framerates. I have overclocked thiscard using riva tuner to 561MHz core clock, 1134MHz shader clock and 500MHz on the memory and it increases the performance and framerates in games by a noticable amount but is stil not very good. if you want a card for todays applications i would reccomend spending around £50 - £100 at least. overall this is a reasonable card and it is very cheap for the performance, but its not that great for alot of things. I give it a 4/10. And remember, It's never too late to rate.

Summary: Good for very un demanding applications like word processing.

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