ZOTAC nVidia GeForce GT240 ZONE 1 GB DDR3 VGA/DVI/HDMI PCI-Express Video Card ZT-20404-20L

by Zotac

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 6.5 x 2.5 x 10.5 inches ; 1.6 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S.
• ASIN: B002X7A6N4
• Item model number: ZT-20404-20L
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
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  Electronics > Computers & Accessories > Internal Desktop Components > Graphics Cards

• Date first available at Amazon.com: January 4, 2010

Product Description

Product Description

Step into a virtual world of beautiful visuals and realistic environmental interaction with the powerful ZOTAC GeForce GT 240 series. Whether youre gaming, video editing, converting videos, image editing, or simply web browsing the ZOTAC GeForce GT 240 series has enough performance for all your needs. Gaming is where the ZOTAC GeForce GT 240 series shines with its impressive power and compatibility with Microsoft DirectX 10.1 and OpenGL 3.1 powered games. NVIDIA PhysX technology enables the ZOTAC GeForce GT 240 series to deliver unprecedented realism and fluid environmental effects and interaction for an immersive gaming experience. This ZONE edition graphic accelerator is using a Zotac exclusive technology that provides passive cooling with no fans providing a completely silent experience on the GT 240 platform.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars GPU Acceleration for Adobe Premiere, July 10, 2010

By	Ryan Moyer (Titletown, Florida) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

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This review is from: ZOTAC nVidia GeForce GT240 ZONE 1 GB DDR3 VGA/DVI/HDMI PCI-Express Video Card ZT-20404-20L (Electronics)

This card actually gave me a lower windows score than the 512mb 8800gt it was replacing. However, the reason I bought this card is because there is a hack in Adobe Premiere CS5 that will allow you to use GPU acceleration with this card, which normally requires a $500+ actively cooled quadro card.

So, for under 100 bucks I got GPU acceleration in Adobe Premiere CS5, passive, silent cooling, and the card has played any game I've thrown at it just fine to boot.

5 stars, easy.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Best HTPC GPU out!, August 2, 2010

By	N. Amaral (East Greenwich, RI) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

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This review is from: ZOTAC nVidia GeForce GT240 ZONE 1 GB DDR3 VGA/DVI/HDMI PCI-Express Video Card ZT-20404-20L (Electronics)

I dropped the ZOTAC nVidia GeForce GT240 1 GB DDR3 graphics card into my HTPC as an upgrade over the existing on board amd/ati hd3200. What a difference! My old card could not use CoreAVC and would struggle with most 1080p content.

Pros:
Completely silent
Single slot
Accelerates 1080p h264 content via CoreAVC/CUDA
Passes digital sound directly to my AVR through the HDMI output, helping me eliminate a cable.
Windows performance rating of 6.6

Cons:
Price, cheaper cards can be found that are not passively cooled.

Please post a comment if you would like me to test anything.

5.0 out of 5 stars Outstanding Performance & Quite, August 17, 2010

By	D. B. Wills - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

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This review is from: ZOTAC nVidia GeForce GT240 ZONE 1 GB DDR3 VGA/DVI/HDMI PCI-Express Video Card ZT-20404-20L (Electronics)

Outstanding performance, only requires a 300 watt power supply, is Fanless thus Dead quite and connects to HDMI devices. My windows experience rating went from (old GPU Nvidia 8500GT) Aero Desktop 4.6 to 6.6 and 3D Business / Gaming to 4.8 to 6.6. This is a great card, runs Windows 7 Aero perfectly & everything looks better than before, TV and DVD's are outstanding. It also runs games quite well and unless you're a hard core gamer this card should work well for you. Finally, it runs very COOL, my card runs between 45C - 52C depending on the load (I have two case fans front blowing out rear blowing in). Easy installation, win 7 found and installed all needed drivers.