3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Quiet, compact, decent performance, nice Fermi acceleration,
December 29, 2011 This review is from: MSI 1GB DDR3 128Bit Graphics Card N450GTS-MD1GD3 (Personal Computers)
First of all, I am not a gamer, so don't ask me if this card lets you play game X at frame rate Y. I don't know. I bought it as an upgrade to an old ATI Radeon HD3870 card as I wanted to use the application acceleration features in Adobe Photoshop and DxO Optics Pro.
The card is compact - much smaller than the older ATI - but it does take up two slot spaces. Unlike many GPUs, the fan has no cover or duct. I worried that the fan would be noisy, but it is inaudible over my already quiet CPU and power supply fans (I do have a very quiet system.)
When I installed it, Windows 7 x64 automatically downloaded drivers which installed fine, but I got newer ones from Nvidia's web site, which also installed fine.
I was a bit taken aback, when I ran the Windows Experience Index test, that the graphics rating went DOWN from 7.1 to 6.9. I had expected it to be at least as good if not better than the old Radeon. That said, comparisons I have seen have shown the...Read more
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