Product Description

Upgrade your PC with the almost universal Verto 8400GS PCI for amazing performance with support for the PCI bus.

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Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #2244 in Consumer Electronics
• Brand: PNY
• Model: VCG84512SPEB
• Original language: English
• Dimensions: .75 pounds

Features

• Increased performance over standard "integrated graphics" allows users to play the latest games with more detail and speed
• Supporting Microsoft DirectX 10, 512MB of on-board memory, NVIDIA's Unified Architecture, ultra-high resolution displays up to 2560x1600
• Supports the PCI Bus standard as well as offers dual-monitor support via 1 DVI and 1 VGA outputs plus an S-Video output
• Microsoft Vista Ready with 512MB on-board memory
• Toll-Free Techsupport and 3 year warranty

From the Manufacturer
PNY offers an entire lineup of graphics cards based off of NVIDIA’s GeForce graphics processors to enhance your visual computing experience. Whether looking for a smoother Microsoft Vista experience or faster frame rates in today’s latest games. With bus types ranging from PCI, AGP to PCI-e 2.0 and memory buffers ranging from 256MB to 1GB, PNY has the card for your specific computer configuration and application need.

NVIDIA® Geforce® Graphics processors are essential for the best Windows Vista™ experience.

Delivers the features of the Geforce® 8 series architecture for an incredible value.

Deliver the features of the GeForce 8 Series architecture for an incredible value
- Revolutionary architecture dramatically enhances 3D gaming features, enabling lifelike character animation and rich, immersive gaming environments.

- Experience the latest visual effects with Microsoft DirectX 9 and next generation DirectX 10 games.

- Full Shader Model 4.0 support delivers unparallel levels of graphics realism and film-quality effects.

Revolutionary new video processor provides an outstanding Blu-ray Disc and HD DVD movie experience on a PC¹
- World’s first video processor to offload 100% of Blu-ray and HD DVD H.264 video decoding from the CPU.

- Experience the latest visual effects with Microsoft DirectX 9 and next generation DirectX 10 games.

• As Blu-Ray and HD DVD movies become more complex and feature rich, only PureVideo HD technology can deliver the best experience when playing the most demanding titles.
• Lower CPU utilization results in reduced power consumption and less heat and noise.
• Unsurpassed Blu-Ray and HD DVD movie picture quality.
• PureVideo HD technology delivers outstanding picture clarity, ultrasmooth video, vivid color, and precise image scaling for movies and video.
• Hardware acceleration for decoding H.264, VC-1, WMV and MPEG-2 movies delivers lifelike images that have up to six times the detail of standard DVD movies.
• NVIDIA PureVideo HD technology is the core of a complete solution, featuring hardware acceleration, post-processing, HDCP and HDMI circuitry and integration with leading HD movie software players.

1 - PureVideo™ HD support is currently only available on Microsoft® Windows™ Vista. Visit www.nvidia.com for upcoming Windows XP driver support.

PNY offers an entire lineup of graphics cards based off of NVIDIA’s GeForce graphics processors to enhance your visual computing experience.

Key Features

• NVIDIA® unified architecture with GigaThread™ technology
• Full Microsoft® DirectX® 10 Shader Model 4.0 support
• 16x full-screen anti-aliasing
• True 128-bit floating point high dynamic-range (HDR) lighting
• One Dual-Link DVI output supports 2560x1600 resolution displays
• NVIDIA Quantum Effects™ physics processing technology

What’s in the Box
8400GS 512MB PCI graphics card, Quick Installation Guide, Installation CD.

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Customer Reviews

PCI video card, not PCI Express
I had researched this video card on other websites looking for a PCI video card. I have an older intel motherboard and wanted to stay with Nvidia products. Other websites showed this to be a PCI card. One of the pictures on Amazon's site shows a box saying PCI Express. This picture is not for this video card as this card is PCI, not PCI Express. I had contacted PNY after ordering this to confirm, they don't make the GeForce 8400GS in a PCI Express card. The other picture of the video card itself doesn't depict this video card either but the written info. about the video card is correct.

The video card itself is easy to install, works without any problems. If you have an older motherboard that doesn't support PCI Express this is the video card for you.

PCI NOT PCIe
This is not a PCIe card like the pictures of the card and box show. I wanted PCI, I looked at Nvidia's website and found that this card came in both PCI and PCIe format depending on who made it.

Ignore the Pictures and the product discription this is PCI.

Does not fit
I had to give this review a 1 because the product, although carefully matched to the bus type in my Dell 3000 PC, did not fit. I spent an hour carefully trying to fit this product into the PCI slot on my computer, but it clearly (and barely) would not fit. I called the manufacturer and they said that sometimes you get one that for some reason will not go in, and to order another one. Perhaps it's an issue with the motherboard (Dell 0R8060) that others have experienced also. Would appreciate any helpful feedback.