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Galaxy GeForce 8400 GS Video Card - 512MB GDDR2, PCI Express 1.0 x16, Support for 1GB Memory, (Dual Link) DVI. VGA, HDTV, Low Profile

Galaxy GeForce 8400 GS 512MB PCIe Video Card
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Galaxy GeForce 8400 GS Video Card
Play it and watch it in HD with a Galaxy GeForce® 8400GS HDCP-capable graphics card. Superb for driving the Microsoft® Windows Vista™ experience, GeForce™ 8400GS runs Vista™ features quickly and seamlessly, allowing you to play the latest Microsoft® DirectX® 9 and DirectX® 10 games. Plus the ultimate HD movie experience with HD-DVD and Blu-ray movie playback capability. Awesome features at an incredible value!

What It Is & Why You Need It!

  • Full support for both Microsoft® DirectX 10 and DirectX 9 for unparalleled levels of graphics realism and performance.
  • NVIDIA PureVideo™ HD technology provides unsurpassed Blu-ray and HD DVD movie picture quality.
  • NVIDIA 8 Series graphics processors are essential for accelerating the best Microsoft® Windows Vista experience

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Knowledge Before You Buy!
Make sure your motherboard is compatible with this video card. For example, PCI Express video cards won't work with motherboards designed only for AGP or PCI video cards, and vice versa. Please read the specifications carefully or call us for expert advice.

ESSENTIAL SPECS:
• Interface Type: PCI Express 1.0 x16
• Maximum Resolution: 2500 x 1600 (Digital)
• Video Memory: 512MB DDR2 (Support for 1GB)
• SLI Support: Not Supported


Specifications

  Lifestyle:  Mainstream
  Chipset:  NVIDIA GeForce
  GPU Series:  NVIDIA GeForce 8
  GPU/VPU:  NVIDIA GeForce 8400 GS
  RAMDAC:  Dual 400 MHz
  Fill Rate per Second:  3.6 Billion texels
  Additional Features:  HDCP Enabled
  OpenGL 2.0
  DirectX 10
  Vista Certified
  SLI (Not Supported)
  Maximum Resolution:  2560 x 1600 (Digital)
  Video Memory:  512MB
  TurboCache
  Supporting 1GB
  Memory Type:  DDR2
  Memory Interface:  64-bit
  Core Clock:  450 MHz
  Interface Type:  PCI Express
  Interface Speed:  x16
  Connector(s):  VGA (15-Pin D-Sub)
  DVI (Dual Link)
  HDTV/S-Video
  Multiple Monitors Support:  Yes
  Overclocked:  No
  APIs:  DirectX 10
  1080p Support:  No
  Video Output:  DVI
  S-Video
  VGA
  Low Profile:  Yes
  Cooling Type:  Fan
Detailed Features

A Closer Look


NVIDIA Unified
Architecture

NVIDIA
Lumenex™ Engine

Microsoft DirectX 10
Geometry Shaders

Shader Model 4.0
Technology

Galaxy GeForce 8400 GS GPU Features

  • NVIDIA® Unified Architecture click here for demo »
    Fully unified shader core dynamically allocates processing power to geometry, vertex, physics, or pixel shading operations, delivering up to 2x the gaming performance of prior generation GPUs.
  • GigaThread™ Technology
    Massively multi-threaded architecture supports thousands of independent, simultaneous threads, providing extreme processing efficiency in advanced, next generation shader programs.
  • Full Microsoft® DirectX® 10 Support click here for demo »
    World's first DirectX 10 GPU with full Shader Model 4.0 support delivers unparalleled levels of graphics realism and film-quality effects.
  • NVIDIA® TurboCache Technology
    Shares the capacity and bandwidth of dedicated video memory and dynamically available system memory for turbocharged performance and larger total graphics memory.
  • NVIDIA® Lumenex™ Engine click here for demo »
    Delivers stunning image quality and floating point accuracy with ultra-fast frame rates:
    • 16X Anti-aliasing Technology
      Lightning fast, high-quality anti-aliasing at up to 16x sample rates obliterates jagged edges.
    • 128-bit Floating Point High Dynamic-Range (HDR) Lighting
      Twice the precision of prior generations for incredibly realistic lighting effects-now with support for anti-aliasing.
  • NVIDIA® Quantum Effects™ Technology click here for demo »
    Advanced shader processors architected for physics computation enable a new level of physics effects to be simulated and rendered on the GPU-all the while freeing the CPU to run the game engine and AI.
  • NVIDIA® ForceWare® Unified Driver Architecture (UDA)
    Delivers a proven record of compatibility, reliability, and stability with the widest range of games and applications. ForceWare provides the best out-of-box experience for every user and delivers continuous performance and feature updates over the life of NVIDIA GeForce® GPUs.
  • OpenGL® 2.1 Optimizations and Support
    Ensures top-notch compatibility and performance for OpenGL applications.
  • NVIDIA® nView® Multi-Display Technology
    Advanced technology provides the ultimate in viewing flexibility and control for multiple monitors.
  • NVIDIA® PureVideo™ HD Technology
    The combination of high-definition video decode acceleration and post-processing that delivers unprecedented picture clarity, smooth video, accurate color, and precise image scaling for movies and video. Feature requires supported video software. Features may vary by product. (Supported video software is required to experience certain features.)
    • Discrete, Programmable Video Processor
      NVIDIA PureVideo is a discrete programmable processing core in NVIDIA GPUs that provides superb picture quality and ultra-smooth movies with low CPU utilization and power.
    • Hardware Decode Acceleration
      Provides ultra-smooth playback of H.264, VC-1, WMV and MPEG-2 HD and SD movies.
    • HDCP Capable
      Designed to meet the output protection management (HDCP) and security specifications of the Blu-ray Disc and HD DVD formats, allowing the playback of encrypted movie content on PCs when connected to HDCP-compliant displays. Requires other HDCP-compatible components.
    • Spatial-Temporal De-Interlacing
      Sharpens HD and standard definition interlaced content on progressive displays, delivering a crisp, clear picture that rivals high-end home-theater systems.
    • High-Quality Scaling
      Enlarges lower resolution movies and videos to HDTV resolutions, up to 1080i, while maintaining a clear, clean image. Also provides downscaling of videos, including high-definition, while preserving image detail.
    • Inverse Telecine (3:2 & 2:2 Pulldown Correction)
      Recovers original film images from films-converted-to-video, providing more accurate movie playback and superior picture quality.
    • Bad Edit Correction
      When videos are edited after they have been converted from 24 to 25 or 30 frames, the edits can disrupt the normal 3:2 or 2:2 pulldown cadence. PureVideo uses advanced processing techniques to detect poor edits, recover the original content, and display perfect picture detail frame after frame for smooth, natural looking video.
    • Noise Reduction
      Improves movie image quality by removing unwanted artifacts.
    • Edge Enhancement
      Sharpens movie images by providing higher contrast around lines and objects.
  • Dual 400MHz RAMDACs
    Blazing-fast RAMDACs support dual QXGA displays with ultra-high, ergonomic refresh rates-up to 2048x1536@85Hz.
  • One Single-link DVI Support
    Able to drive the industry's largest and highest resolution flat-panel displays up to 1920x1200.
  • Built for Microsoft® Windows Vista™
    NVIDIA's fourth-generation GPU architecture built for Windows Vista gives users the best possible experience with the Windows Aero 3D graphical user interface, included in the new operating system (OS) from Microsoft.
  • PCI Express Support
    Designed to run perfectly with the PCI Express bus architecture, which doubles the bandwidth of AGP 8X to deliver over 4 GB/sec. in both upstream and downstream data transfers.

NVIDIA ForceWare
It takes a powerful suite of software to complement these complex processors. NVIDIA ForceWare™ unified software environment (USE) is the key to unleashing the full power and features in NVIDIA’s desktop, platform, mobile, and multimedia products. Delivering a proven record of compatibility, reliability, and stability with the widest range of games and applications, ForceWare ensures the best out-of-box experience for every user and delivers.

Windows Vista Ready
Windows Vista is the first operating system to require a GPU (Graphics Processing Unit) to realize the best experience possible.
PCI Express Support
PCI Express is a new Intel bus architecture that doubles the bandwidth of the AGP 8X bus, delivering over 4 GB per second in both upstream and downstream data transfers.

A Closer Look

Minimum System Requirements

  • 256MB of system memory
  • Microsoft Windows Vista -or- Windows XP
  • CD or DVD-ROM drive
  • 50MB of available hard disk drive space for basic driver installation
  • 300W PCI Express-compliant system power supply
  • PCI Express-compliant motherboard with one vacant PCI Express x16 slot
Customer Reviews and Rating  
Customer Rating:    4.7
Customer Reviews: 73

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Value 4.8
Features 4.6
Quality 4.7
Performance 4.6

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Great performance value
Reviewer:  daniel_ff752 on  Nov 18, 2009
Customer Rating:    4.0
Value 4.0
Features 4.0
Quality 4.0
Performance 4.0

This video card rock for no more than it cost.


Yes, it's a video card
Reviewer:  louielou1234 on  Nov 13, 2009
Customer Rating:    4.0
Value 4.0
Features 4.0
Quality 4.0
Performance 4.0

Bought this, it arrived. I put it in my computer, now I can utilize my wide screen monitor at a high resolution. What more is there to say?


Upgrade your video for Windows 7
Reviewer:  DaveT on  Nov 11, 2009
Customer Rating:    5.0
Value 5.0
Features 5.0
Quality 5.0
Performance 5.0

I bought this card after discovering that the integrated video on my Intel motherboard was seriously dragging down my machine's performance. You should have seen how slow Google Earth or even Solitaire behaved. I selected this particular unit after seeing it listed on the Microsoft website as being Windows 7 compatible and finding that it was a relatively cheap solution to the performance problem. My system really flies now. Good price, easy to install (I let Windows find a suitable driver for it), no drama, it just works. A serious gamer might want to look at something else but for everyday use on Windows 7, it punches the ticket.


very gd product did the job
Reviewer:  cyberfkd on  Nov 11, 2009
Customer Rating:    4.8
Value 4.0
Features 5.0
Quality 5.0
Performance 5.0

haha


Great product and price
Reviewer:  Dallas on  Nov 05, 2009
Customer Rating:    5.0
Value 5.0
Features 5.0
Quality 5.0
Performance 5.0

Was easy to install and works perfectly.


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What You Should Know
DVI: Digital Visual Interface!  What Is It?

Monitors come supporting different video connector technologies:  VGA, DVI, DisplayPort, HDMI, or combinations.  Not every monitor supports these, so check the specifications carefully before making your selection.

The Digital Visual Interface (DVI) is the most popular high-quality digital connection for monitors (though HDMI is quickly becoming its equal in popularity).  DVI is a video interface standard designed to maximize the visual quality of digital display devices such as flat panel LCD computer displays and digital projectors. It was developed by an industry consortium, the Digital Display Working Group (DDWG). It is designed for carrying uncompressed digital video data to a compatible monitor or projector, and is partially compatible with the High-Definition Multimedia Interface (HDMI) standard in digital mode (DVI-D).   DVI represents a major improvement in image quality over the older VGA standard. 

The DVI interface uses a digital protocol in which the desired illumination of pixels is transmitted as binary data. When the display is driven at its native resolution, it will read each number and apply that brightness to the appropriate pixel. In this way, each pixel in the output buffer of the source device corresponds directly to one pixel in the display device, whereas with an analog signal the appearance of each pixel may be affected by its adjacent pixels as well as by electrical noise and other forms of analog distortion.

Previous standards such as the analog VGA were designed for CRT-based devices and thus did not use discrete time display addressing. As the analog source transmits each horizontal line of the image, it varies its output voltage to represent the desired brightness. In a CRT device, this is used to vary the intensity of the scanning beam as it moves across the screen.

The two types of DVI interfaces are Single Link and Dual Link. Following are the features and benefits of each:  Single Link - The Single Link interface is limited to a maximum pixel clock of 165 Hz. It uses four (4) twisted pairs of wires (one each of Red, Green, Blue and Clock). Maximum resolution is 1920 x 1200 at 60Hz.  Dual Link - The Dual Link interface is most common for today’s modern LCD monitors. It provides three times as many pixels as the Single Link interface. And its maximum clock may exceed 165 Hz. Dual Link uses six (6) twisted pairs wires with two (2) each for Red, Green, and Blue, as well as a pair for Clock. Dual Link’s maximum resolution is 2560 x 1600 at 60Hz. When you use the Dual Link Interface you can use a longer cable because of its higher bandwidth. Dual Link also provides HDCP support, which is required for Blu-Ray playback.

If your Computer supports DVI ports, but the Monitor does not, then a DVI to VGA adaptor is available at low cost to solve this.  Or inversely, if the Computer output is only VGA, and the Monitor supports DVI, adaptors are available for this as well.  For our selection of Monitor Adaptors click here »

Dual Monitor Technology
Few PC users have ever experienced the huge productivity boost that comes from using multiple monitors on the same PC.  Ironically, many of today's PC have the capability already installed, and Windows (since 2000) natively supports dual monitors.  Configuring dual monitors is so easy: just use the second video port (if there are two separate ports installed), or add a second video card or better yet, a video card that has dual DVI ports.  Then plug in your second monitor, change a couple of simple Windows settings, and you have double the Windows Desktop.  This lets you have your spreadsheet and email visible at the same time, or PowerPoint and Photoshop.  The combinations are endless.  And since most of the overhead is handled by the video card, there is little significant impact (if any) on system performance.  Dual Monitors is one of the simplest, yet most amazing productivity boosters you can add to your PC!  Optionally, you can use a dual monitor stand and recover your workspace in the process!

Click Here To Find Video Cards - Look For Dual DVI/Dual Monitor Ready Cards »
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PCI Express - Delivering Dramatically Improved Graphics
Doubling the bandwidth of the AGP 8X graphics bus, the new PCI Express represents the most profound change to desktop architecture in nearly a decade. PCI Express replaces AGP, allowing much larger amounts of data to move between the graphics card and the CPU, and will soon replace PCI expansion slots as well. The PCI standard allows for a 32-bit bus with a maximum throughput of 133MB/s. By contrast, PCI Express will run at 2.5GHz. PCI Express is a two-way serial connection that carries data in packets along two pairs of point-to-point data lines, compared to the single parallel data bus of traditional PCI. Gamers will benefit from an incredible upgrade in video quality with PCI Express, because it will allow for more powerful video cards, inspiring developers to create more realistic environments that will make games come alive with astonishingly lifelike colors and images. Video enthusiasts will also benefit because PCI Express will accommodate higher-quality video throughput (amount of data you can send per second). As network television moves over to HDTV broadcasts, PCI Express positions the PC platform for integration into the living room, while also allowing for HD video editing and other bandwidth-intensive tasks. PCI Express is compatible with existing PCI drivers and software operating systems and is designed to co-exist with current PCI hardware.
Video Card Designs
Today's high performance video cards enable amazing graphics, and frequently come emblazoned with high-impact graphics, or in brilliant colors.  These help to enhance the appeal of the card.  However, from time to time, manufacturers do change these designs and colors, but this has no effect on the features, specifications, or performance of the specific video card model, and will usually retain the same manufacturer's model and part number.  The images displayed for a video card are based upon the sample provided by the manufacturer, and the specific visual design you receive may vary.  So remember, while the card may look cool, it's the specs that matter!


Will Your Motherboard Support the Video Card You're Purchasing? Here's the Answer...

Before you buy - make sure your motherboard is compatible with this video card. For example, PCI Express video cards won't work with motherboards designed only for AGP or PCI video cards, and vice versa. Please read the specifications carefully or call us for expert advice.

Close-Up: PCI, AGP, and PCI-E (PCI Express)

Check your motherboard and make sure you are purchasing the correct cardbus type.

There are 3 types of cardbus slots currently available: PCI, AGP, and PCI Express (PCIe 2.0 is compatible with PCIe slot)

PCI - The most widely used I/O bus, it provides a shared data path between the CPU and peripheral controllers, such as network, display, SCSI and RAID cards. Though limited in terms of performance, they are considered the best value when you upgrade your video capabilities on a PC. The PCI interface can be found and used in nearly any motherboard.
Click here to view our selection of PCI Cards

AGP - The AGP slot is next in line of higher graphic performance. It was designed especially for the throughput demands of 3-D graphics. It offers up to 8x improvement over a PCI card, is 32 bits wide and runs at 66 MHz. It provides a direct connection between the card and memory, and only one AGP slot is on the motherboard. The motherboard must be equipped with an AGP bus slot for an AGP card to be compatible.(AGP 1x provided a data transfer rate of 264 Mbytes/sec. AGP 2x is 528 Mbytes/sec. AGP 4x is 1 Gbyte/sec. AGP 8x is 2 Gbytes/sec.)
Click here to view our selection of AGP Cards

PCI Express - PCI Express is the newest technology that is superior to both PCI and AGP, in terms of graphic performance. It offers performance as much as 4x faster than the fastest AGP 8X slot. PCI Express connections can support fast data transfer rates, which can be used to connect high-speed devices such as high-end video cards. The slots come in different variations and speeds, such as x1, x4, x8, and x16. Presently, most high-end motherboards meant for design, video production, or gaming come with PCI express slots. To use a PCI Express card, your computer must have at least one available PCI Express slot.
Click here to view our selection of PCI Express Cards

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Galaxy GeForce 8400 GS Video Card - 512MB GDDR2, PCI Express 1.0 x16, Support for 1GB Memory, (Dual Link) DVI. VGA, HDTV, Low Profile
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