I bought this PNY VCGGTS2501XPB GeForce GTS 250 1GB video card to replace my old PNY 9600GT, here is some thought about this card
Pros : (1)Great brand and trust company PNY(2) cheap price (3)fast speed (4)quite, no much noise (5)attractive looking (6)well packaged
Cons : (1)No real major cons
NOTE : (1)PNY warranty policy need REGISTER the card within 90 days of purchase
Official Information from PNY website :
SOLUTIONS : XLR8™ Graphics Cards offer the latest spec NVIDIA SLI™-Ready GPUs with full DirectX® 10 support, HDCP capability and Overclocked options for hardcore gamers to push faster frame rates for the ultra-realistic gaming experience.
PNY VCGGTS2501XPB GeForce GTS 250 1GB video card Product Specifications :
- Bus Technology: PCI Express 2.0
- Memory Amount: 1024MB DDR3
- Memory Interface: 256-bit
- Memory Bandwidth (GB/s.): 70.4
- Fill Rate (billion pixels/sec.): 47.2
- Shader Clock (MHz): 1836 MHz
- Core Clock (MHz): 738 MHz
- Memory Frequency (effective): 2200 MHz
- Stream Processors: 128
PNY VCGGTS2501XPB GeForce GTS 250 1GB video card Key Features
- NVIDIA® Unified Architecture
- Full Microsoft DirectX 10 support
- NVIDIA PhysX™ technology
- NVIDIA CUDA™ technology
- 3-way NVIDIA SLI® technology
- NVIDIA PureVideo® HD technology
- PCI Express 2.0 support
- Two dual-link DVI outputs
- Dual-link HDCP Capable
- OpenGL 3.0 support
- Minimum System Requirements
- PCI Express or PCI Express 2.0-compliant motherboard with one dual-width x16 graphics slot
- One 6-pin PCI Express supplementary power connector
- Minimum 450W or greater system power supply (with a minimum 12V current rating of 24A)***
- Intel Pentium 4, AMD Anthon XP class processor or higher
- 100MB of available hard disk space
- 512MB system memory (2GB recommended)
- Microsoft Windows Vista or Windows XP Operating System (32 or 64-bit)
- CD-ROM/DVD-ROM drive
Included in the box
- NVIDIA GeForce GTS 250 1024MB Graphics Card
- Quick Installation Guide
- Installation CD, which includes:
- Detailed installation guide
- NVIDIA ForceWare Drivers
- Microsoft DirectX 9.0c
- NVIDIA GeForce Demos
- PNY and NVIDIA Desktop Wallpapers
- One DVI-to-VGA adapter
- One DVI-to-HDMI adapter
- One internal HDMI audio cable