Zotac ZT-95TEH3P-HSL ZONE GeForce 9500 GT 512MB 128-bit GDDR2 (550MHz/800MHz)

Erik and I were in the same boat (using two 1920x1200 60hz 32bit color LCDs) ASUS VW266H 25.5-Inch Widescreen LCD Monitor - Black and benefited the same way using the card. An additional benefit going from my old 7300gt to this 9500gt is I can now watch screen filling 1080p HDTV video files without any hiccups, and my Intel CPU does not work as hard, so it's noise making heatsink fan no longer need spin on high to keep it cool. Occasional gamers will be happy with this card too - I play an Unreal Engine based MMORPG on weekends, and can now keep up with the rest of the kids in battle.
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I bought a pair of these so that my new desktop could have a triple-head (3-monitor) setup. I was a little nervous about how well a "generic" nVidia card would work - but I've been nothing but pleased!

The 9500GT chipset is well-supported by nVidia's drivers under both Windows and Linux, the SLI capabilities work as advertised, and the fanless heatsinks keep the cards cool even when I'm maxing out the GPUs. This card is a great value for the money.

There are only two "drawbacks" -- not enough to reduce the rating, for me:

1. The size of the fanless heatsink doesn't exactly block the neighboring slot -- but it's close. Depending on your mainboard, this might be an issue.

2. With only 512MB of RAM, it's not a high-end gaming card. You can certainly play any modern game with it, but high-quality FPS games will not be playable at their "most beautiful" settings. That said, the card sis $50!

I am running two of these in an SLI configuration. One alone gets a 3dmark score of 4,110. Two in SLI gets 6,320. I think my bottleneck is the CPU and not these cards. My computer is a nothing-special AMD running at 2.0 MHz. Strictly stock timing, no overclocking of anything.

I keep a big, slow-turning fan on them so heat and noise are not a problem. It's a solid setup, and when I spend the big bucks for a top-shelf card, I'll be able to make two of my friends very happy when I get rid of these. I am pleased with them, and the quality of this Zotac product. In fact, I am so impressed with the quality, I will look to Zotac first when I go to upgrade.