PNY Verto GeForce 8500GT 512MB Video Card by PNY
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Digital camera reviews of PNY Verto GeForce 8500GT 512MB Video Card
Digital camera Review: It is worth it if your a wow player
Summary: 5 Stars
I have a dell e521 that came with a 128b 7300le. I was constantly plagued with lag during games(mainly World of Warcraft). Funny thing is at times it would give up to 100fps,but would drop to 10fps at times.Weird huh.
Anyway, I had been looking for a video card for a while. Problem is what kind of card to buy that can use a 350watt power supply or do I buy a more powerful power supply and get a really good video card. I might as well get another computer ($60-$80 for a ps + $120 and up for a higher end video card and I'm still stuck with a 1yr old rig thats not meant for gaming anyway.
I almost made some bad choices, but luckily ended up finding this one. I just put it in rebooted and it installed itself. I did go to nvidia and download their beta driver for it. It has a few extra features. Now I run at 60fps to 80fps steady. It will occasionaly drop to 40fps, but thats cause of blizz's latest patch caused some problems. It isn't receiving the information quick enough. so it is working harder. My guild mates would discuss when their sytem would drop. All of ours would be within seconds of ech other (thanks blizz).
I don't watch movies very often, so I tested for this review. I put it Transformers and skipped to the end where the big battle seen is. Played it beautifully, not a stall, skip, or jump. It made me want to take my computer to my 42"lcd and use it instead of my dvd player. Computers put out much clearer graphics.
Those of yall looking for good video without having to gut your system. This is it. I use vista, but I imagine xp would be almost as simple to install. Don't cheese out spend an extra 20 bucks, dont get the $30 or $40 one,you'll be happy.
Almost forgot I don't know how it will do with higher end games like crysis or orange box, But if your want to play those you need a higher end sytem anyway.
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I just ran the Vista Experience Index. I had a base of 3.1 and now it's 4.7. It's not the videos card lowering it now. It's the processor(4.7)and vista graphics(4.9).
The score for old video graphics (3.1) and the new one (5.2).
That's a huge jump.What a difference.
Digital camera Review: NOT GREAT FOR FSX
Summary: 3 Stars
hey this is a good graphics card but not if you are playing hardcore PC games. i got mine for flight simulator x and it still cant be played on high settings. its great for the price but if i could do it again i would save up a little more and go with either a GeForce 7900 with 512MB or a GeForce 8800 with 512 mb, you'll be happier!Digital camera Review: Needed more info
Summary: 3 Stars
Thought I knew what I was doing technically speaking but found out otherwise when I received the product. Will have to upgrade hard drive, ram, and motherboard for this to work, so it was a more expensive project than I originally thought. It was probably mostly my fault, but I think the requirements for this upgrade could have been more clearly stated. I'm sure it'll work fine when I've upgraded my upgrade.Digital camera Review: Not good for BD playback...yet.
Summary: 3 Stars
I bought this board a week ago. I spent almost three days researching for an affordable H.264 hardware decoder graphic board to play a Blu-Ray disc (BD). I have a Vaio desktop VGC-RC310G that comes with a Blu-Ray disk drive. Unfortunately, Sony packed a GeForce 7600GT graphic board (TurboCache??? Come on, Sony...) that doesn't have hardware decoding for H.264. So, it does play slow, not good at all to watch a movie. The nVidia sells a "PureVideo Technology" software that is supposed to "release partially" the hardware decoding on Series 7 of nVidia's boards. I downloaded the trial version and it didn't make any difference. I checked the numbers at the Windows processor performance meter and it was all the way close to 100% of processor usage when playing BD.
I ran WinDVD to play the BD-movie and... it didn't. The options for hardware acceleration were there (color and graphic), available at WinDVD. However, every time I reached the DVD main menu, an error message popped-up saying "WinDVD MFC... error". After clicking "OK", WinDVD closed. I took the disc out of the driver, changed WinDVD setup to disable the hardware acceleration. Put the disc back and I was able to watch the movie... slow, as before.
I couldn't believe that. I browsed the Internet looking for information about the WinDVD MFC error and, in the end, I was at nVidia website. At the link saying about the features of a "perfect" HD-DVD or BD-DVD player computer, I was shocked when I read that GeForce 8500 and 8600 are not supported (yet) by WinDVD. The only option available was an specific version of the PowerDVD, from Cyberlink. So, the hardware acceleration feature of my 8500GT is useless, unless I am willing to spend another 100 dollars buying a new software.
I wanted to tell you, guys, this saga just to help others to not fall into this BD-DVD thing. At least not right now. I feel myself like when I bought my first laptop with a DVD drive. I couldn't play a DVD movie there since my hardware (that is, my graphic board) didn't have any support for video playback. It's awful that we, costumers, are carried out to believe that something in the market (BD-DVD playback) works, when actually it does not. Unless you have 600 dollars to spend in a "muscle card" like 8800's boards.
So, if you want to play BD-DVD in your computer for a reasonal price, forget it. It's not ready yet. As that Kurosawa's character says "MADADAYO"...
Digital camera Review: Not that great of a card for much other than basic use, or watching HD content...
Summary: 3 Stars
Well, I purchased this card as an upgrade from my EAX300 video card, which had 128MB of DDR Memory, and a 64-bit memory interface. I was expecting quite an improvement over that card, however was less than impressed. I have a program on my computer called Real Desktop, and what it does is make your desktop 3-d. This performed alright on my EAX300, but I was hoping with my upgrade it would be better. I was wrong. It was choppier than ever, to the point I couldn't even use it. Then, tried playing a game, (Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas) which as an older game, has pretty low requirements. I know this isn't a gaming card, but I did expect somewhat of an increase in performance. Anyway, this is how it went down. On low settings, this card was comparable to my EAX300, and to be honest, my EAX300 did better, getting framerates around 55-65fps average, and going as high as 80-85fps in low detail areas. This card however got an average of around 35-45fps, and only went to about 55-60fps in low detail areas. Definitely not an improvement. However, with all settings turned up, and 3x anti-aliasing, my EAX300 would stay around 1-10fps, while this card would get about 30-40fps. So in high settings it faired better than the EAX300, but with low settings it did worse. I will admit, this card played HD content with ease, compared to my EAX300. Sometimes my EAX300 would freeze up on HD content if you tried to skip it ahead, and then wouldn't play, and you'd have to restart. This normally meant I couldn't fast-forward through it, or I'd have to restart the entire film. However, with this card, I was able to skip through, and my HD experience was much better than before. So if you don't play alot of games, and don't have many 3-d apps you use, this could be a good card for you. If you plan on playing games, or have a favorite 3-d app, you might not like it so much. One thing that is my fault is that I knew I shouldn't get a card with DDR2, but I decided to anyway, and it got very hot, just as I knew it would, and performed half as good, if that, as DDR3 memory. Guess it's up to what you'll use the card for, but it wasn't for me.