With nVidia releasing the mid- and low-end Fermi technology-based 400 series graphics cards, it is an opportunity to pick up the previous generation 200 series cards at a knockdown price. Or so I thought when I saw a Palit GT240 with 512Mb GDDR3 memory for just £45. These cards are retailing in PCworld for £90-100.I wasn't expecting too much and I just hope that it would be a quiet, low power yet effective graphics card that I could use to upgrade one of my test systems with. It is quiet, you don't need an extra PCI-E power connector for it, but it only seems to run 5,324 3Dmark06 benchmark. And that is DirectX 9 and not 10.1 which is what that card is supposed to be capable of.
So I've decided to keep the nVidia 8500GT in the test system and rebox the GT240 to sell with a DELL 230 mini-tower for about £70.
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