Product Summary
Mfg Part#: VCG8600GXPB
Buy.com Sku: 204450333
UPC: 00751492345888
Item#: C399D2
Buy.com Sales Rank: 78703
Play it and watch it in HD with a Verto GeForce 8600 GT HDCP-capable graphics card. Features full support of DirectX 9 and DirectX 10 for games, plus the ultimate HD movie experience with HD-DVD and Blu-ray movie playback capability.
| NVIDIA SLI certification ensures a quality user experience by putting each set of graphics cards through a rigorous series of tests including diagnostics, benchmarking, burn in, and interoperability with SLI-Ready motherboards, power supplies, cases, system memory, and gaming applications. Only graphics cards that pass NVIDIA SLI certification can be called "NVIDIA SLI-Ready certified." Be sure to look for the NVIDIA SLI-Ready badge when you buy your next graphics card. |
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| Customer Reviews |
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| Value |
 4.7 |
| Performance |
4.6 |
| Ease of Use |
4.6 |
| Overall Satisfaction |
4.4 |
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5 of 5 Great Card - had to remove pcAnywhere 10/24/2008
from Minnesota
Great dual DVI card. Quiet, relatively cool. I had to remove pcAnywhere for the nVidia drivers not to crash
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5 of 5 GREAT! 9/9/2008
gerardo818g from burabnk,ca
Great product! never has a video card before. BUt when I bought this video card it improve my overall performance on my computer. As well better pictures and great games to play. AS well Great in surfing the web with CoolPics (PicLens). com
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5 of 5 Great Card for 46$!!!!! 6/30/2008
from Brooklyn, NY
This card sells on Tigerdirect for 90$ (70$ on sale), got it on buy.com for 86$ with 40$ mail-in rebate. So for 46$ it's great. The clock speed on the card is 540gpu/720mem stock. I downloaded riva tuner and the latest nvidia drivers and was able to overclock the card to 640/840 with the core temp going up just 2 degrees. the card performs great in bioshock at 1280x768 res. with everything turned on high. any higher resolution and the frames drop considerably. on 3dmark my scores were low but then again im running a e7200 cpu on an intel matx mobo with 2gb ram so i wasnt surprised. 3dmark scores are heavily dependant on the system u run your video card on. my advice is if you're getting an nvidia card, make sure to get a mobo with nvidia chipset built it like the nforce series. nividia has a program called ntune u can download that analizes your whole pc and overclocks it to stable levels automatically. i couldn't do this cause of the intel mobo. thus i had to overclock the card separately with riva tuner.
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5 of 5 GreatProduct Great Price 6/23/2008
Lynn Bankston from Covington, Georgia
I bought this item and it was $46 after rebate, I can't hardly believe that I received the rebate in 14 days. I usually have to wait 2 to 3 months. The card works great. I would buy again. Buy.com shipped the item out very fast as usual.
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4.3 of 5 Good value, loud fan 6/3/2008
Mike from Cincinnati, OH
This card is a good deal- I run Far Cry, Half-Life 2, and Portal at maxed out settings (1680x1050) and it performs very well. It even does a good job of handling Crysis on medium settings. MAKE SURE you take off the sticker on the fan though, after a couple weeks my computer started to make an awful whining noise and I couldn't figure out what it was. It turns out the glue that holds the sticker to the fan heats up and the sticker begins to slide and jam the fan blades. Overall, the card has a very good performance to price ratio and I recommend it for casual gamers.
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1 of 1 customers found this review helpful.
1 of 5 PNY DOESN'T BACK WARRANTY 6/3/2008
dneil123 from Fort Wayne IN
I will never buy a PNY product again, they don't honor their warranty as it is stated on their product box. They told me it doesn't matter what it states on the box and they refused to fix it.
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5 of 5 Excellent 6/2/2008
from New Jersey
Very nice card for the money. As the other two reviews have said, they need to stop putting a sticker on the fan. The card gets hot and the glue softens. I was glad to get read the review and removed the stickers when I heard a noise.
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4.7 of 5 Good Value for Mid-High Level Gaming 5/28/2008
mjguilly83 from Lafayette
I purchased this card to pair with the 8600GT 256mb I already had. This card does very well in SLI mode, especially for a total price of about $180. Granted, a single 8800 GTS would probably run a touch better, but if you can find two 8600 GT cards for less it's a good value. In SLI mode I am currently running Age of Conan on very high settings at 1600x1050 resolution with a solid 30+ FPS, similar performance with Oblivion. I'm very happy with the "value" of this card, but performance is a bit lacking compared to what is available. The only time I encounter a problem with this card is when Anti-Aliasing is enabled more than x2. With AA it doesn't deliver. Also, AoC was nearly unplayable on high settings in single GPU mode, but bearable on medium settings. Oblivion ran solid on medium-high settings in single GPU mode.
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5 of 5 A decent videocard 5/24/2008
from New Jersey
The card does what I wanted it to do - so far. I don't play games and I have used it to output to 1280x1024 from Windows XP. No issues but I realize these are very simple/non-stressful conditions.
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5 of 5 pny 8500 gt 5/5/2008
from alcoa tn
awesome graphics
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1 of 1 customers found this review helpful.
4.7 of 5 Great but... 5/1/2008
from Sterling Heights, MI
This card is great. I download nTune and can overclock.
Two issues though:
1. It crashes Media Player whenever play a DVD. My PC is a Dell.
2. The PNY logo sticker on the fan was spinned off center due to heat. It caused noise and overheat. I removed it and it is good now.
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5 of 5 I like the PNY 8600GT 4/30/2008
Joe from Illinois
I like this video card. Am not a gammer so wasn’t looking for a turbo card. My MB has a built-in graphics card and switching to the PNY 8600GT greatly improved the looks/performance of the LCD monitor. It also solved a graphics issue I was having with Nero 8. Some reviews say this card makes a lot of noise but I have not experienced that.
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5 of 5 Great product for the $ 4/27/2008
from San Diego, CA
Easy installation. Good picture quality for a $50 card. Very happy with purchase.
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4 of 5 Other 8600GT cards are quieter 4/27/2008
from Twin Cities, MN
I have tried a number of Dual DVI cards, including others with the 8600GT chipset. This PNY 8600GT's fan is loud.
If you want a quiet card, try the eVGA version of the 8600GT - the fan is almost silent.
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3 of 3 customers found this review helpful.
5 of 5 Pull sticker off before installing 4/21/2008
from Everytown, USA
Pny sticker slides of center of fan after card heats up, could cause to overheat if you do not catch it in time.
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5 of 5 GREAT CARD 4/20/2008
from Green Bay, WI
I'm not a gamer, but I do edit a lot of video. The card has performed flawlessly. I appreciate the many adapters and options for various display types - That was well thought out by the manufacturer. I purchased this item on sale with a rebate - Remarkably the check from PNY arrived in just 19 days! That's probably the quickest rebate I've ever gotten.
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4 of 5 Good card, with some glitches 4/4/2008
from Central Jersey
Got the card from Buy.com for a real good price, and that is the main reason I bought the card. Card shipped in two days to my door, installation was breezy. However, the card start to make noise after 2 hr of usage. As it turns out, the stupid sticker on top of the heatsink fan came off the fan head and slowing down the fan considerably. Taking off the glued sticker off solved the problem of intermittent noise, but the fan is still noisy. Other than the card noise, I really hate how hot it runs even at idle, in my case 58C.
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5 of 5 Excellent video card 4/3/2008
Yang Liu from Stanford
very nice video card. Good performance, and easy to install.
I install it both on XP home, and Ubuntu 7.10. It works well on both platforms.
Low price and high performance. Strongly recommend.
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