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Awesome Video Card
By medina4me on Reviewed in the United States on March 2, 2017
Pros Price 4GB of DDR5 Dedicated Video RAM Nicely Packaged Incredible Graphics Quiet (I got the single fan one) Cons Not sure I found any but if you want dual monitors be prepared to use different cables for each monitor or I suppose purchase some sort of Y cable for either DVI, Display Port or HDMI port. This Card only has one connector for each of these cables which for me is not an issue. Review - I received this card two (2) days ago and I promptly installed it and test it. I work in IT so I didn't need to read the instructions but it comes with a Display Driver Disk, a little installation instruction manual, a quick start fold out sheet and a pretty fancy metal sticker. All documentation comes in English, German, Spanish, French, Portuguese and 3 different Asian languages (I am guessing they are Japanese, Korean and Chinese). I didn't have to change my power supply since mine is able to handle 450Watts but you should know you would need at least a 300Watts Power Supply. In fact, before you buy any Video Card you should go to the manufacturer and see what it requires and adjust accordingly (either buy a new Power Supply or buy a different card). However, I don't know any systems that carry a 250Watts Power Supply anymore all of them are either 300 or 350Watts and if you bought or built a Gaming Rig I'm sure you went insane with the Power and got the biggest thing you could afford. PCIE Connector and mine didn't require any additional power other than the one provided by the Motherboard which made swapping out cards extremely easy. I installed the Drivers provided by EVGA and then I launched my NVIDIA GEForce Experience and Updated the Driver to the latest (my previous card was also an NVIDIA card). It took me longer to unplug all the cables and break my computer open and put it all back than it did to install the card and the drivers. Noticeable improvement in Video on Games and Performance. I tested it against a recently purchased Game which is still in Beta (Star Citizen) which was very Jerky and requires a minimum of 2GB or RAM (I had just below 2GB at 1.7GB with my old one). Not only did it render it beautifully the performance improvement was evidently. I also test it with Mass Effect 2 (which my old card could handle easily) and the improvement in video detail was amazing (my wife who is not a gamer could tell the improvement immediately even though she's only seen the screen periodically here and there). I tested it against SWTOR and I increased all the Graphics settings to high (which was nice to see the effect) and it handled beautifully. I have not done any Arena style gaming yet so I cannot speak on its performance on PVP and Arena Style games. However, it handles fine in fights, zero lag or any issues that I have found. I am very happy with this purchase so far. I was fretting between the EVGA, MSI or GIGABYTE one and looked at all the overclocking specs until I went cross eyed. In the end I chose one that fit my budget below $160 and to be honest for the level of gaming I am doing (no VR obviously) it doesn't matter all the overclocking. The bottom line is 4GB of dedicated DDR5 RAM just for Video. If you are fretting look at three things 1. Get a card with minimum 128bit Memory Bus 2. Get at least 4GB 3. Price
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Best price/performance low power card on the market - UPDATED
By Persnickety on Reviewed in the United States on February 10, 2018
I've been using this card for a while now and my opinion of it has slowly lowered to more of a 3star rating because: I purchased a new Acer monitor to set up a dual monitor display and the colors for the new monitor just were not that impressive until, I rebuilt my system to accommodate a Ryzen 7 cpu and ran into a serious problem with this card (more on that in a second). The end result was I had to put an older AMD card into my system and when the system booted WOW color! The Acer monitor was suddenly much more vibrant, blacks were noticeably darker, and all colors were much more vibrant. But the entire reason I had to install a different card on my system was because the 1050ti which gets all its power from the PCIe bus (no extra plug) was causing my new system to lock up. After 2 weeks of pulling cards, changing memory, upgrading power supplies the problem finally became apparent, the card wasn't negotiating the PCIe bus power correctly, causing the system to crash if it went to idle. The card I replaced it with actually draws more power and has a separate power plug but runs stably. For my money, these 2 issues knock this down to a 3 star product. Original review: I didn't expect this much of a performance boost without an extra power connection from the power supply. Given that bitcoin miners are keeping video card prices high i think this is one of the best value/performance cards on the market. That 4GB of memory really is a must for reasonable performance these days. Run from cards that don't have at least 4 gigs of memory. I ran the Adam demo on this card, it took 4 tries but finally was able to do it which is just wow I can't believe "this" card can run the Adam demo. (google Adam demo if you don't know what this is) The drivers do come with a bunch of NVidia junk ware. (Really some of that stuff borders on malware) Overall a great card I highly recommend it.
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