Customer Reviews

PNY Nvidia GeForce 7900 GS 256MB GDDR3 PCI Express Graphics Card

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This is my first mid-range card. I was not disappointed. It has all the hardware supports required by DirectX 9.0c. This means that you will get a decent game experience with most of the games currently out on the market.

Note that this card does not have hardware support for DirectX 10. This means that you won't be able to take full advantage of the new video features of Windows Vista.

In summary, if you play the latest games on an XP machine, you will not be disappointed. If you intend to do serious gaming on Windows Vista with games to come, buy a card that supports DirectX 10.

I'm not an avid gamer but every now and then i will buy a game i like.
I purchased Need For Speed Most Wanted, and on my X600 SE 256mb card it could not handle full resolution without being choppy. I wanted a better card but didn't want to buy a high end card for say $500. I had settled on the X1600XT as Dell recommended it for my machine. However after researching online for a few hours and speaking to the guy at best buy, i purchased this card for $179. I have to say i am well impressed with it. I can play Most Wanted on full resolution and full graphics on my 24" LCD Monitor. It looks awesome. I also brought Half Life 2 which is also full graphics and resolution and no choppyness whatsoever. It was well worth the money. The only problem i had was that after installing the card the plug from my power supply was very short and it would not reach the graphics card. Luckily i had a small power supply extension from an old machine. I put that on and it reached ok.

I am running the card on a Dell E510, P4 D930 Dual Core 3.0GHZ. 2GB Ram.
This is a great card for the price definately worth it if you don't want to spend to much on a card but have excellent graphics.

The 7900 GS with 256MB of fast RAM is a good performer ("great" on Windows XP), however, it is unforgiveable that nVidia still doesn't have an SLI driver to allow two of these cards to run in tandem in VISTA. They certainly have had ample time to have drivers ready. Maybe they just want you to spend twice the amount of money, and buy their 8800 Series cards.

I had my new Dell XPS I got a year ago installed with a 7900 GS. It runs great and the capabilities and performance of the card are very, very good even a year later. This should be a 5 star review then, huh?

Not quite. Unfortunately, a fraction of games on the market use techniques that work fine with everything but certain NVidia cards on Vista. I've run into particularly nasty problems with games such as FEAR and Sins of a Solar Empire. Now, there could be a chance that the developers messed something up here, but NVidia's poor customer support and habit of denying that issues exist pops up over and over again on their forums. I also see stories of NVidia dragging their feet when it comes to fixing these things and working with other development groups. Maybe their newer cards work better with these games on Vista, but I'd recommend you find another card that's known to work better across the board and give NVidia a chance to develop some better support policies.

Not sure if it is my cpu processor or graphics card... but the new 7900 Nivida did not work. It caused lines and other distortions. Put my old card back in.

I bought this card for $99.99 plus shipping here. For this price the performance to price ratio is unbeaten as far as mid-range cards go. I'm able to play Crysis in mid settings and 1024x768 witouth much lag. Other than crysis, most games will play at full settings except AA and ASFF smoothly and maybe at 20-25fps with them enabled lightly.

Upgrading from a Geforce 6600, this card was a great choice. overall, i'm happy with it and its performance.

The fan can get loud however when it is at full load, but considering that i have A/C in my room, i can't hear it with A/C is on. in a quiet environment though it is clearly loud.

The card also overclocks pretty well with the stock cooler. i was able to overclock to 550 / 781 Mhz (up from 450 / 660 respectively) without artifacts at all. anything higher may show some artifacts.

I purchased the 7900GS with my new dell desktop at the beginning of March 2007, its now almost July... I have 2GB Ram, dual core processor. The card works better than I hoped. Company of Heroes on highest settings is smooth. Video editing, and all features of Vista Ultimate work great on my dual 1600X1200 monitors (one flipped vertical, one horizontal). Using Media Center to record/edit TV has made my TiVo seem like a sad waste of money... WOW also works great up to the highest graphics settings.

I highly recommend the card, despite some of the strange reviews I've read. Vista 32bit has no problems with it, and I'm dual booting with XP Pro which is also great with the card.

Nice buy. I'm really satisfied. World of Warcraft at maximum resolution (1680x1050) and max quality and NO PROBLEM. It was my goal, I achieved this I'm satisfied. My machine: Core 2 Duo E6400, Asus P5N-E, 2Gb RAM (Corsair XMS2 800 MHz) and this videoboard. I didn't use DVI.

seems to be working great. instalation was great and super easy to hook up all the cables from my tower.

Bought the card to run the newest games like BF2142 on my AMD 3500+ single core system.

Standard shipping only took a couple days. The package arrived undamaged. Installation was simple taking less than ten minutes to install card and drivers. I used Nvidia's included software to over clock the system by almost 20%! BF2142 runs smooth with default moderate graphics settings.

I'm a happy customer. This will be the last card I need until I build a vista system sometimes next year.