EVGA GeForce 8400 GS Passive 512 MB DDR3 PCI Express 2.0 DVI/HDMI/VGA Graphics Card, 512-P3-1301-KR

Well, the requirements say you need a minimum of a 350W power supply, but I threw this into an older Dell Vostro desktop unit, running MS Windows Server 2012 R2 Standard, with a 300W power supply, and it is running fine. Also, I originally installed the entire suite of NVIDIA programs, including 3D Audio, 3D Vision, Physx, etc. and there were no issues. The installation disc comes with the unit, along with the half-height rails, which I didn't need in this tower. The driver will install real time, with no reboot required, and will instantaneously kick your video resolution to where it should be for your monitor, which was great. Recommend for Windows Server 2012 R2, as this card is fan-less (passive), and the driver is nice and light weight. Recommend driver-only installation for Server, even though, again, I had zero issues with the full load installed. If you have a 350W+ power supply, and are using your server as a workstation, I don't see why you couldn't game with this one. Great card for the money.

I order the card for my media center, build on a mini-itx motherboard without hdmi port, to take advantage of the presence of HDMI in/out port on my new stereo system.Video quality is great, but audio signal is so and so. I add to connect a connector between the audio SPDIF connector of the graphic card and the one of my motherboard to get sounds. Beside, if you are running linux, the nouveau driver acts a bit funky and required some tuneup.I would recommend to buy the ASUS EAH5450 SL/DI/512MD3/MG(LP) which works out of the box without cable and tuneup

The best upgrade my system received is the EVGA GeForce 8400 GS Graphics Card upgrade.MY System Specs:Compaq Presario SR5214X Desktop, Windows 7 32 bit, Intel Core 2Duo 1.66GHz, 2GB DDR2 RAM with onboard shared memory Intel GMA memory card.My requirements:I wanted a simple video card with a HDMI slot and enough memory to hook it up to a HDTV monitor. This video card does the job and it has made my computer run faster because my system RAM is free.Technical Tips:Get the make and model of you computer to Google and find out how you motherboard handles video cards. First you have to go to the BIOS settings to select the PCIe as your video card destination and disable the existing video card before you install the drivers for a new video card or the new video card.Good luck.

Just what I wanted, no frills, great value and gets three job done!

I spent about 3 hours trying to install this card on Windows Vista. Downloaded new drivers and installed, but then Windows would no longer boot cleanly. Had to boot into safe mode and search the web for solutions. Unfortunately, nothing seemed to work. I returned the card. Back to my original card with the noisy fan, which at least doesn't crash Windows.Probably there is a way to get this card to work on Vista, without a complete re-install of the OS, but I was not able to find it, and can't afford to spend any more time on it. This is 2012, and this stuff should be plug and play. Not this time though. Will look for a card from another vendor.

I bought the 512k/no fan card to replace a failing ATI Radeon HD 2600 display card that was original on a Dell 530S desktop running a fully updated version of Win XP. I don't do gaming or other display intensive things -- just browse web sites and so on.The card comes with a disk of obsolete drivers; up-to-date ones are available at the support web site. There's no information on the box and no manual or other documentation inside -- not even a 'quick start guide.'Some of what follows may apply only to computers like mine (Dell 530s with HD 2600 graphic card originally installed).The card seems to work fine using the already-installed ATI graphic driver, at least as nearly as I can tell in a couple of days. I spent about ten hours trying to install the NVIDA software for the GeForce 8400 but never got anything better from it than a mostly black screen with green and red features. You can read some of it. The usual arrow cursor displays as a 3/4" square with red 'dirt' on it. Hint: The active part is at the top, near the left.BEFORE ATTEMPTING TO INSTALL THIS CARD BECOME FAMILIAR WITH WINDOWS SYSTEM RESTORE. If you have to use it you may be working with a trashed screen and it'll be easier if you know how it works.This card actually has five devices: The graphic display driver and four audio drivers. When you install the card and bring up XP it will lecture you about the five new devices that you need to install drivers for but it has no clue WHAT drivers and will not be able to find them. You just cancel those messages.IF YOU KEEP THE CARD you will get the same messages every time XP restarts. To stop that go to 'System' -- 'Hardware' -- 'Device Manager' and locate a block of five 'unknown' devices, one of them labeled as a graphic driver. Right click and 'disable' each in turn. That will stop the messages and XP will continue using new card with the HD 2600 drivers and the audio drivers and hardware on your machine.Basically the GeForce card seems to be fine on XP but -- I think -- the NVIDA software for it does not support XP. I don't know what useful features that software might have or if there might be oddities I haven't discovered. I am using the card every day though -- it's on this machine -- so I'll find out!I have used ONLY the VGA output. When I plugged the monitor into the DVI jack using an adapter just now it said 'no signal' but it might work if I restarted. I would have great doubt about the HDMI output since the HD 2600 does not have that function.IF SOMEONE KNOWS A WAY TO INSTALL THE PROPER SOFTWARE, PLEASE REPLY TO THIS REVIEW!Customer support was excellent considering that none of them had anything beyond generic advice which didn't fix the problem. However I don't think well of manufacturers who don't document their products clearly, including what it won't do, necessary work-arounds, and so on. The only reason it got two stars rather than one is that the card does work -- I am using it. But what a colossal waste of time.

This card replaced the onboard graphics adapter and provided us with a dual monitor setup. Great resolution and speed. Installed without a glitch on Windows 7. Great quality and performance particularly at this low price level. Everything was exactly as I needed with great delivery time as well.

Installed the 1st time and drivers loaded without a hitch, came up with both monitors working and It works very well! Would buy it again for another PC if I needed another dual monitor card.