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Entry level VGA round-up, 7 Geforce 8400GS compared

Videocards/VGA Reviews by geoffrey @ 2007-10-12

Home users and budget minded enthusiasts have been getting watered down version of high end hardware for years now, the latest Geforce 8 series recently got the same treatment, with NVIDIA introducing the 8400GS part, this lowly priced VGA card comes HDTV ready (for HTPC usage) and has a GPU with DX10 compatibility. We test 7 offerings from different manufactures and compare them to the low end range from ATI to see which one comes out on top. Read on to find out which card gives you the most bang for the buck!

PNY 8400GS 256MB Low Profile

PNY 8400GS 256MB Low Profile

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Inside the box

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PNY Geforce 8400GS

Manual

Driver disk

PC Game: Rainbow Six Vegas

HDTV cable

DVI > VGA adapter

PNY sticker

Specifications

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GPU core: NVIDIA G86
- core frequency: 459MHz // shader frequency: 918MHz

GPU Memory: 4x64Mb Hynix DDR2 RAM
- DRAM frequency: 400MHz // Memory interface: 64 bit

DVI, Sub-D VGA & HDTV-out

PCI-Express

DX10, OpenGL 2.0

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PNY is one of those manufacturers who made a straight copy of NVIDIA's preferred board design; this is how most Geforce 8400GS cards look like. To our surprise we found a copy of popular pc-game Rainbow Six Vegas inside the box. The price of those video cards matches the price of such games, this is what I call "ready for any competition"!

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Comment from Sidney @ 2007/10/12

Better than my X1300

Comment from Massman @ 2007/10/12

Great article, Geoffrey !!

Comment from Sidney @ 2007/10/13

Nicely structured/presented, making me want to buy one.

Comment from geoffrey @ 2007/10/14

thx guys

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