MSI nVidia GeForce 8400GS 256 MB DVI/HDTV PCI-Express Video Card N8400GS-TD256

I bought the Sparkle version of the GeForce 8400 GS 256 MB with the Black Friday deals.

Card was cheap at $28 and it works well with Win7 but I specifically bought this card to test how well it would work with Linux... any kind of Linux.

ATI has classified my current ATI x300 card as a legacy card and doesn't provide any new drivers. The newest Linux kernels also don't support the use of the old legacy drivers so it was time to find something that would work out of the box with not much tweaking.

The GeForce 8400 GS fits the bill for a low end cheap card. Graphics and video work well in Linux with no stutters or flickering. Compiz and Emerald work well too.

My one complaint is that the 8400's that have a fan attached are a little noisy. The noise isn't loud but it has a consistent high pitched whiney noise that you may not like. The noise is a known flaw with these cards, you just need to decide on what type of use your computer will...Read more

I bought this for our church's box running Windows xp 64-bit. The only drawback was that the original driver files do not load up with the 64-bit edition of XP. I almost wiped the hard drive and installed a clean copy of a 32-bit version, but then I got the novel idea of checking with NVIDIA's website. Sure enough, they had the correct driver I needed for this card. Downloaded the file and was up and running in minutes. Got dual monitor support. Couldn't be happier. For the price of this card, you definitely can't go wrong!

Had the card for a month now and its really getting hot and crashing now, i had to mount a fan to it to keep cool...by three months it was burned out.......i noticed it also did not have the 6pin.....anyway it lasted three months....now i need a new card....thanks alot!