ZOTAC nVidia GeForce GT240 ZONE 1 GB DDR3 VGA/DVI/HDMI PCI-Express Video Card ZT-20404-20L

I purchased my computer in August of 2007. By January of 2009, the fan on the original video card died, so I replaced it with a highly-recommended video card made by a different manufacturer. However, by February of 2010, the fan on the second video card began to whine and grind. After disassembling the fan assembly and realizing that the fan on the card was not an easily user-serviceable part and would cost about $80 to replace, I decided I was done with fans on video cards. I gave this card a try and haven't regretted it one bit.

The machine runs considerably quieter without having an extra fan in the case. The heat sink does get warm, but not hot, to the touch during general video editing and HDTV playback. Even though this card only occupies one slot on your motherboard, it does take up as much room as two slots in your case with the heatsink, so be ready to lose that extra slot (especially if you have a Micro ATX board like me). All in all, I do recommend...Read more

This card actually gave me a lower windows score than the 512mb 8800gt it was replacing. However, the reason I bought this card is because there is a hack in Adobe Premiere CS5 that will allow you to use GPU acceleration with this card, which normally requires a $500+ actively cooled quadro card.

So, for under 100 bucks I got GPU acceleration in Adobe Premiere CS5, passive, silent cooling, and the card has played any game I've thrown at it just fine to boot.

5 stars, easy.

WOW... am I impressed with this piece of marvelous video, graffix hardware.. Got this baby in the mail installed her in my duo core 6000+ amd pc... And off I went into the most amazing experience I've ever had playing wow and many other games I have in my collection.."ON MAXED SETTINGS" The installation was a blast no problems what so ever.. I'm thoroughly please with this product.. There is one issue though which didn't take away from my review, because the product makes up for it.. I figured there was a 3d config for the glasses.. well turns out there's hardware you have to buy.. This card is a none based SLI card.. but lol you wouldn't have guessed it.... plays high 3 dimensional setting.. Advice!!! right click desktop nvidia settings.. turn everything up 16x... muahahahaha you'll love the experience.. For under 100.00 this card blows higher end competition out of the water.. THANK YOU ZOTAC AND I'LL BE BUYING MY VID CARDS FROM YOU IN THE FUTURE.. No this comment is not a gimmick...Read more