MSI N460GTX Cyclone 1GD5/OC 1GB Overclocked Graphics Card Review

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(More customer reviews)This is about the smoothest running video card I've had in a long time. The past 6 years ATI has been my exclusive video card manufacture starting with the ATI X800 pro through the Radeon 1GB 4800 VC. After about 2 years with my 4800 it was starting to get long in the tooth with some of the newer titles this year. I originally wanted to go with ATI's 5850 model but the increase in price and high temps turned me off from ATI's products. I looked at Nvidia's GTX 470 VC but like the 5850 high temps, price, and power consumption turned me off. I was going to settle on the 5850 until this card came out, much better FPS per dollar, cooler temps, lower power consumption, and better over clocking abilities made this purchase a no brainer.
Pros
Cheap for what you get in performance, easy to install and very stable drivers at this point. Went from 48 FPS on my 4800 in Dirt 2 to 74 FPS over clocked. Speaking of overclocking I pushed the core to 800 MHZ, shaders to 1600 MHZ, and memory to 3900 MHZ stable with low temps around 65C playing Crysis.In terms of performance over clocked it performs on par if not a little better than the 5850 depending on what game and probably about 10 percent behind the GTX 470 which is not bad for cards that cost $50-100 more. Biggest reason why I got this card is because of 3D displays coming out in the near future something you can't get fully using ATI/AMD products.
Cons:
1st, Nvida's control panel is sloppy and slow, while the drivers so far has proven to be stable I can't stand how unresponsive Nvida's control panel is. 2nd reason why I switched to ATI only the past 6 years was card failures from Nvidia. My Gefore 2 MX, Gefore 4 TI 4400, and Gefore 6600 GT all failed in 8 months or less, not good when you are paying $300 plus for some of those cards. 3rd, this card is not that much faster than my 4800 playing DX9 or 10 games. I would say default settings its only about 25 percent faster, overclocked probably around 30-35 percent. This not really a con, I just prefer buying mid to high cards when it becomes 50 percent or more faster than my current.
Other thoughts:
If you got $225-250 laying around and have a VC slower than a 4800 or Geforce 260 than this card is right one for you, it's fast, cheap, and efficient in both size and power consumption.

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MSI Geforce 460GTX 1024MB DDR5 PCI-Express 2.0 Graphics Cyclone1GD5/OC, Dual-link DVI x 2, Mini HDMI x 1

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MSI Wind Nettop 120 Desktop - Black Review

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(More customer reviews)>>>> UPDATE! sun 27 dec 2009 <<<<
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For more performance with Youtube videos, and heavy flash sites, install greasemonkey for firefox, and then, install a script that force low quality in flash movies and animations for all web sites that you visit, this will reduce your processor use.
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>>>> UPDATE! mon 20 july 2009 <<<<
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I make a puzzle with tcpmp win32 (or you can buy coreplayer for windows), and now with it you can play even 1080p
videos and others high bitrated videos with the intel GMA !
You can play HD content with it totally smoothly ! for eee pc as well
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This is the best low consuption computer. >>>> UPDATE! sun 27 dec 2009 <<<< NOW WE HAVE NVIDIA ION...

COOL
> There is no hard drive, memory, or disc drive. So you can choose what you want and save money, and choose low power hard disk
> Only 30 W of power are required :-) Earth will thank you
> Atoms dual core performance is great, don't worry about it if you are planning using it like a server 24/7

BAD
> There is no wifi card
> Intel GMA video chip is slowly and crappy. Here is my recomendation:

You will realize, that you actually can't play high definition videos with the wife of the Atom processor, the Intel Graphics Media "Accelerator" (GMA). Frame skipping and audio cuts, will be totally a mess.

Can be frustrating, but there is a solution:

> Deactivate deblocking filter on all the codecs that support it (H.264/MPEG-4 AVC)

How ?

Install klite codec pack, and at the end of the setup, choose deactivate deblocking.

If you use build-in codecs player programs such GOMPlayer, there are options for quit deblocking filters.

This way you can play even 720p hardly encoded videos, you will see some blocks here and there, but no frame skipping or audio cuts.

Alternately, if you need more performance, you can choose 16bit of color depth.

FEATURES:

There is a:
1) cdrom/dvd bay, 2) mini pcie port, 3) wifi antenna -and rear socket for it- 4) rear jacks for 7.1 speakers system -and line-in/out and mic- 5) one frontal speakers jack 6) one frontal microfone jack 7) two frontal usb ports 8) four rear usb ports 9) one rear ethernet jack 10) one rear VGA port 11) onefrontal SD/MMC card slot 11) two SATA internal ports -sata only- 12) CF internal port -compact flash port- 13) one DDR2 200-Pin SODIMM Laptop Memory RAM slot 14) 3.5 hard disk bay 15) one power button 16) one power supply 17) one disc with drivers/controllers 18) one vertical stand adapter 19) one multilanguage user manual

There is no:
1) reset button 2) wifi card 3) DVI port 4) IDE ports -sata only- 5) hard disk -must get it- 6) compact flash drive 7) dvd/cd drive 8) ram memory -must get it-

Enjoy your hardware.

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Intel Atom230 1.6G, Intel GMA950, 1GB DDR2 (2GB max). 160GB Hard Drive, DVD/Super-Multi Drive,6 x USB 2.0 ports, 1 VGA port, LAN, 802.11 B/G, PCIe mini card., WiFi Antenna, Black Foot Stand,Includes Windows XP Home.

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MSI AE2280-008 21.5-Inch All-In-One Multi Touch Screen PC - Black Review

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(More customer reviews)Wow!This is a stunning piece of kit.The monitor is much bigger than you think as well and really is awesome for websites or watching video; the touchscreen is as responsive as an iPhone.The i5 processor and the 4Gb RAM mean it really is very fast and can handle many programs running at full-tilt.I'm really very impressed.

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Core i5-650 3.2GHz, Multi Touch Screen, ATI Radeon HD 5730 1GB DDR3 VRAM, 4GB DDR3 RAM, 640G Hard Drive, Super Multi, 2 X 5W, Hi-Fi 5.1 channel, SRS Premium Sound, Wireless 802.11 b/g/n, 1.3 MP Webcam, HDMI-in, VGA-in, 6 x USB ports, E-SATA, SPDIF

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MSI Radeon HD 4350 512 MB DDR2 PCI-Express 2.0 Graphics Card MD512H Review

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(More customer reviews)This product worked perfectly in my Dell Demensions desktop.A very good price for a card that has all 3 inputs.I bought it for the HDMI input as I have it hooked up to an LCD HDTV.

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MSI Radeon HD 4350 512MB DDR2 PCI-Express 2.0 Graphics Card MD512H, Dual-link DVI-I x 1, VGA (D-Sub output) x 1, HDMI x1

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