Is the Nvidia GT220 1GB any good?

??|||hi charlie

as mentioned its a budget graphic card however compared to previous budget graphic cards its actually not too bad....

however as you probally knew when you bought it you wont be running any of the latest games at high detail...but for gaming at lower resolutions such as 1024x768 this will actually produce some capable frame rates.. so lets look at the cards specifications

it has a 625mhz core clock and 1gb of gddr3 memory running at 790mhz(1580mhz ddr effective ) ... throw in a 128bit memory interface and this results in a memory bandwidth of 25.2gb/sec... and allthough this isnt a massive bandwidth its a decent amount and better than other budget cards

in terms of power it draws just 58w which also means you dont need any additional power connectors ,and in regards to a power supply a 400w psu should be more than enough to power this card,( 20A or more on the +12v rails )

the gt220 also support pixel and shader model 4.1 and direct x 10.1.. however to take advantage of these you need to have windows vista or better installed... windows xp only support direct x 9 .. allthough you can use this card with windows xp.. but you just wont be able to run games using direct x 10 features

so in reflection the Nvidia GT220 is a capable budget graphic card and with the 1gb of gddr3 memory you experience some great frame rates and lower resolutions

i hope this helps,any problems let me know

good luck charlie !|||it is considered entry level gpu for the 200 series

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GeForce_200…



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_…

the latest is the 400 series|||It's a budget card. Not the best for gaming but it's alright.