EVGA 256-P2-N751-TR e-GeForce 8600 GT 256 MB PCI-Express Graphics Card

Amazon Customer Reviews

(3 out of 5)

No HDCP!

I just called EVGA and was able to confirm that they've really hid the ball on this one -- it's NOT HDCP enabled (and there's no way to find it out from their Web site, manuals or spec sheets). What this means is that any protected content (e.g., Blu-Ray, HD-DVD, Vista HD video, etc.) will not play through this card and you'll get a blank screen. It basically moots one of the core functionalities of this chipset, that it offloads H.264 video processing from the CPU onto the video card.

(4 out of 5)

Pretty good

This plays Team Fortress 2, Half Life 2, portal etc at 45fps with all the settings turned up to high @ 1280x1024. Once you're in the game you can't really tell the difference between 30 and 120fps anyways so this is a great card. It plays Bioshock at 35fps @ 1024x768. I'm using a core 2 duo 2.2ghz with 2GB of ram, which is way more processor than I need for these games. If you don't need 1600x1200 @ 120fps this should be just fine for your needs. Also it supports directX 10, but if you're playing games you're probably not running Vista, which needs it to use DX10. But it's there if you need it 10 years down the road.

(5 out of 5)

Beware of the computer illiterate reviews

You'll notice some that have reviewed this card talking about how they have a Gateway computer... and other nonsense like ram and processors, these are things that have nothing to do with graphics card compatibility. So don't listen to them of course. They all need to get Macs.

This card, if you have the right motherboard for it, packs a lot of bang for your buck, and can run most of the latest games at decent fps. I highly recommend it.

(5 out of 5)

Evga makes a good product

I don't actually own this card...yet *shakes fist*

I read the other two reviews and it kind of seemed silly that someone with an old computer buying a new series video card rated this card poorly because it didn't work for him. I've been using evga now for a while and I really like it. It's not top of the line, but it's certainly not at the end.

They haven't done me wrong....and I know what i'm talking about when it comes to computers.

(1 out of 5)

Beware problems with older computers?

I own a gateway media center computer with a pentium D processor, running XP and 4 gigs of ram. I also have a 500 watt PSU, so there should of been no reason for this card to have any problems. Well, I went from a ATI to NVidia, which apparently is sometimes a problem. Anyway, the LCD monitor I had would not read the card on the first boot, so I would have to boot twice for it to work. I called EVGA and they told me they had no idea, that's right "no idea" why it's not working. They told me to just get a new card, so I did. The new 8600gt didn't work at all, so I reinstalled my old card which has no problem, and returned the 8600gt. I'm fed up! I gave it a 1 because zero isn't available, and you might have no problem with it.