Home > Consumer Reviews > EVGA 01G-P3-N945-LR GeForce 9400 GT 1GB DDR2 PCI-E 2.0 Graphics Card

EVGA has always been a great upgrade card because they manufacture quality items at very good prices. This card is no exception. The installation is easy only taking up 1 PCIe x16 slot. There is small fan just over the processor. The memory is only DDR2 which is ample for most games. The really nice part is that this card allows older machines to catch up to Direct X 10. I tried it with Vista 64 and it installed just fine. I also tried it with Vista 32 and had no issues. I did not try it with XP.

Specs:
Model EVGA 01G-P3-N945-LR
Interface PCI Express 2.0 x16

Chipset NVIDIA
GPU GeForce 9400 GT
Core clock 550MHz
Stream Processors 16
Memory Clock 800MHz
Memory Size 1GB
Memory Interface 128-bit
Memory Type GDDR2
DirectX DirectX 10
OpenGL OpenGL 2.1
DVI 2
TV-Out HDTV / S-Video Out
RAMDAC 400 MHz
Max Resolution 2560 x 1600
Cooler With Fan
Dual-Link DVI Supported Yes
HDCP Ready Yes

If you need a good card to upgrade your system you cannot go wrong with this one.

Thank you for reading my review.

I have an hp computer which has an integrated nvidia graphics chip which was great for basic computer operations but not really good for multimedia and or gaming. I saw this card for sale here on amazon for the ridiculously low price it is, and, concidering its specifications, I figured I would give it a try since I had an open PCI-E port free in my computer.

Wow! What an improvement this card has made! Not only did my computers video processing performance increase 500 percent, but the overall image quality it displayed is noticeably more lively! Oh and for vista users, this card will take full advantage of vista and do it with awesome performance. For an idea of how this card handles gaming; I have bioshock for xbox360 so i downloaded the bioshock demo on my pc to compare. I can get bioshock to run on my pc with this new card with a fairly good frame rate at the highest settings. However, in the end my xbox360 clearly outperformed my pc with bioshock in just about every way. (I'll give my full pc specs at the end) Although my PC could not run bioshock up to par with my xbox360, it could run it at a more than playable frame rate at medium quality settings. So if your a person who doesn't need the best of the best and just wants to play some games then this card is probably ideal for you.

Now, if you are concidering buying this card, there are just three main requirements you should have met before purchasing: at least a 300w power supply, an unused PCI-Express slot and have either a windows xp or windows vista operating system and you should be all set.

My computer specifications are currently as follows:
Intel Pentium Dual CPU E2180 2.00GHz
4.00 GB RAM
Nvidia GeForce9400 GT 1 GB DDR2 (the item i'm reviewing)
500w Antec Power Supply
Windows Vista Home Premium

Hope this review helps you decide if this card is right for you!

I purchased this video card to replace an ATI video card from the last generation of cards. it miles ahead of it. With 1GB of ram it flies on all online games I play including Guildwars, WOW, WAR, and DDO. It runs Crysis and Halo 3 at a very playable framerate at maximum graphics settings running at 1280X840 resolution. I highly recommend it if your looking to get great graphics at a reasonable price.

I had read other reviews posted here previous to purchasing this Graphics Card that boasted just how well it worked for such an amazing price. I have to admit, it's stellar for the pricetag. Most of the reviews were concerned with basic uses, however, so I wanted to create a review for someone like myself who was working on a budget to come up with a good gaming machine, but worried that "cheaper" might not cut it.

I play the online game World of Warcraft pretty extensively and purchased the following computer setup:

* AMD Phenom 9650 Quad-Core
* 640GB hard drive
* 7GB of DDR2 memory
* 64-bit Vista Home Premium
* NVIDIA GeForce 6150 SE 128MB

The graphics card was near useless, giving me perhaps 6 FPS in a majorly populated city and around 3-6 FPS during a 25 man raid. This was with all the settings turned down and virtually no UI enhancing addons. After installing the 9400 GT 1 GB, I'm able to use all those beautiful addons, turn all my graphic settings to max and get around 19-38 FPS in a majorly populated city, 40-70 FPS in a normal, noninstanced environment and around 25-45 FPS during instanced, 25 man content. I played a long time at a low framerate, know how frustrating it is and I have to say, after installing this it's like playing a whole new game. I can't heap enough praise on it for how little I spent.

Not sure how helpful this review will be to those who play other online games, but WoW seems to be a pretty decent hog when it comes to resources. I hope this was helpful to at least one other curious person.

For those looking to updgrade to a great graphics card for a fraction of the cost of the next generation cards--this is the one for you! Like many other users I needed to upgrade from my onboard DAC.

Make sure you verify that your power supply is rated at least 300-watts; if not you'll need to upgrade that as well. Even with that in mind; you'll still come out miles ahead.

So far--I'm running many games with all perks loaded including Fallout 3, World at War & Crysis. There's such a marked difference in performance from my old setup and the support is also great at EVGA as I actualy received very helpful information from the support staff before actually installing the card and we all know how rare great customer / tech support can be these days!

Here are my specs;I hope that my review proves useful:

HP Dual Core AMD Athlon 64 2.5 GZ**
HP W2207 Widescreen Monitor**
3 Gb Memory**
500 Gb Hard Drive**
480 watt Antec Powersupply**
EVGA GeoForce 9400 GT PCI-E (Reviewed)**