Pros & Cons
Pros
Massive performance improvement over integrated intel hd series cards, and suitable for light gaming. Great for a htpc setup or if you just want to lessen your electricity bill - this consumes a maximum of 19w.
Cons
Down the drain. Hopefully this isn't indicative of qc issues with n nvidia or msi. Not worth the price.
Highlights
Quality
I am very pleased with this purchase it arrived nice and early andit works with full efficency
Ive had my pc for over 4 years now with the graphics card being an nvidia gt240, which to be fair has served me well.
The difference in graphics quality was night and day!
Now for the product: i found my old oem geforce 405 graphics card was starting to struggle a bit and wouldn't run 4k (pixelated... Read More
Price
Is v quiet and saves power at the same time.
Competitiveness
The most powerful energy efficient cards out there at the moment for the price.
It's a entry-level kepler, that's for sure, but it's also the best alu-to-bw-ratio card on the market.
That is all grandy and dandy but to the additional cost of getting say a gtx660, consider too the relative power consumption.
Even yet with gtx 660 prices coming down, you can probably grab a gtx660 ti for around 30quid more (these where the prices i ha... Read More
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Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
This card also runs rome ii total war on high settings with shadows low as they are intensive at a respectable fps the single play map sometimes jitters but its a poorly optimised game
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
Ive recently bought this card for £50
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
Oops and my card is still going
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
I tried it on high it did run but at 1520fps
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
Its also built pretty well i did have an issue with the card not booting from hdmi which msi themselves seemed to stumped by but i think that is a pretty isolated fault solved by using a dvi to hmdi cable
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
The vga connection which needs to be removed if youre using it lp is a bit of pain but nothing too tricky couple of screws3
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
I was expecting to have to buy at least an nvidia gtx970 but after some searching on google i found that this card was supposed to be capable of 4k resolution