Customer Reviews

Galaxy 25SFF6HMUEXX 512 MB DDR3 GeForce GTS250 PCI-Express Graphics Card

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I selected this version of the NVidia 250 card/chipset because it has both DVI and HDMI output. This card is in a Windows Media Center computer hooked up to a HDTV. I also bought this card for its CUDA GPU interface. I do a great deal of home videos and was frustrated with the video transcoding times with my CPU. Using a CUDA enabled encoder (Badaboom), encoding is faster than realtime and my CPU's are not consumed so that I can use my PC for other things.

One complaint that I have is the way that this card hooks to my S/DIF connector on my motherboard, and even on the card. The card has two unmarked and hard to find pins that you need to connect a generic cable. The generic connectors would not fit the connection on my mother board so I had to splice two connector wires to get the needed connectivity. I would have prefered that Galaxy use standard connectors. Other than this one problem the card has been working great.

Kept my money while they attempted to retrieve the "mistaken" items sent to me. Couple weeks later attempted to give me the refund without shipping cost - ended up threatening legal action before I finally seen the shipping refund - items never arrived - they were recalled and I was left to wonder what happened to my money... The full price that they said they should have been was ridiculously high and more than I would ever consider - thought I found a decent bargain for my kids computers. ... This is not going to be my only bad review. No longer shopping for deals on Amazon for me. Set-up for dissapointment a few too many times with missing parts, and now a renegotiated bargain while there are plenty of other bargain sites out there.

I bought this item from Amazon, but it is actually sold by TigerDirect. They told me that they have sent the wrong item and let me reject the item. But after I reject this video card, they just returned the money for the item, but not the shipping fee, which is ridiculous.

Don't buy this item.

I got this card when it was on sale for $34.99, but was shortly told the item was incorrectly listed, there for they were stopping the shipment and giving me a full refund...ordered on the 2 of April, got notice of my refund on the 18th...and it was just for the base price of the item(full refund is not just base item price). So not only did I not get what I payed for, but I also didnt get my money back ether. I have been burned by TD in the past and was taking a chance that I might get something good from them for once....guess I was wrong.

This GTS 250 is has the standard GTS 250 spec, but that is where it ends.

It is whisper quiet for this high end of a card. I only hear a bit of sound when playing highly demanding hard core games. The card has HDMI and DVI out. HDMI output has sound and comes via a connector cable to you SPDIF out on your sound card or motherboard. The card has 2 PCI power slots. However, only one is required. The second one is used if you plan to overclock this card. I didnt try to overclock it and I only use 1 slot. It does come with a PCI power converter. Overall, I am really happy with this card and price.

Those who bought this item when it was on sale for $35, did any of you receive it? Would really appreciate your help.

So I bought this one a couple days ago (Today's 04/02/2010), because of the bargain price it had; I just got a mail from tigerdirect (the vendor) telling me they already shipped a different card than this and that i need to turn it back, since its not whats advertise.