Product ReviewsMSI GeForce 210 N210-MD512D3H/LP Video Card
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 Rating: Review Date: 09/01/11  |
Cons: - None at this price point.- Avoid for serious gaming.
Pros: - Cheap (about $20 - $25 on sale).- Quiet (fanless)- NVIDIA: no neet for .net framework for driver installation.- PureVideo 4 support.- Great basic Windows 7 and light gaming support. |
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Rating: Review Date: 08/24/11 |
Cons: underpowered for modern games
Pros: great for most 5+ year old gamesHD video accelerationsilent Comment:
got this on sale to replace a crappy integrated Geforce 6100 and now i can play most of my old games at or near max settings, and i can also watch HD videos now. for someone in my situation, i wouldn't hesitate to recommend this card. |
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Rating: Review Date: 08/03/11 |
Cons: none
Pros: Slim profile Comment:
This card was on backorder but finally recieved it and installed it. No matter what game you play, the card keeps up, 512MB is more than enough and at this price, I'd buy another one. |
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Rating: Review Date: 07/12/11 |
Cons: None for what the product is
Pros: No fanCheapNo extra PCI power cables required Comment:
I got this to use in a server box I was building. I wanted something with no fan because I wanted to box to be as quiet as possible. No problems with this product in the five or so weeks I have had it. I would have no trouble recommending it to somebody for an application such as this. Obviously it doesn't have the horsepower required for gaming, but for a light duty application, it is hard to beat. |
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Rating: Review Date: 01/19/11 |
Cons:
none
Pros: inexpensivequiet Comment:
I picked this graphics card up to replace a dead card. It's for a file server so gaming is not a priority. Everything is working as it should be and it's quiet since there is no fan. Great buy for $15. |
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Rating: Review Date: 01/19/11 |
Cons:
None for windows application use.
Pros: Cheap and no fan. Comment:
Bought it super cheap. No issues at all for my sql server computer. Supports 2560 x 1440 res no problem. Please don't buy this if you want to play any kind of games. |
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Rating: Review Date: 01/17/11 |
Cons:
-Not for gaming, but that's expected with this card.
Pros: -Good for HTPC-Cheap-Low Profile-HDMI Comment:
All I needed was a card better than onboard video and this fit the bill perfectly. Good enough for watching videos and high definition content, plus it doesn't suck a lot of power.Don't expect good gaming performance, though. This is purely a HTPC card. |
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Rating: Review Date: 01/13/11 |
Cons:
none, it's not meant to be a high powered card so why complain about that?
Pros: Smallgreat for a test cardwill work for a htpc Comment:
If your going for a high powered card this obviously isn't the way to go, this cards meant for the HTPC builds and the extremely budget builds. I myself am going to use this as a test part incase I ever suspect my video card dying I'll swap it for this or if my HTPC's card blows out on me this will be going into there. Great deal on boxing day as well, can't beat it! Time to fill in the MIR! |
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Rating: Review Date: 01/07/11 |
Cons:
for price - none
Pros: Great HTPCQuiet (fanless)Decent PerformanceDirectX10 Comment:
Got this for $12.99 after MIR ... a very unexpected great deal and performance for that price.If ever that cheap again - will for sure be purchasing a 2nd for my daughter's machine :) |
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Rating: Review Date: 01/05/11 |
Cons:
Heatsink too tall to be placed next to another card, or for extra tight cases.
Pros: Cheap, well packed, silent, much better than onboard graphics Comment:
My shop machine is a small core 2 duo-based Lenovo Thinkcentre M57e. It has only a tiny bit of power to spare for a video card and limited capacity for cooling. So when I saw this card, with its low power GPU and its passive cooler, I decided it would be the perfect upgrade for the excruciating onboard graphics. The $13 boxing day sale price might have influenced that decision as well.It arrived in a small, straightforward box without any unnecessary packaging. Beneath the recycled cardboard insert was an install CD, several pieces of paper and a pair of low profile brackets. Having two brackets meant there was enough room to retain the VGA port in a low profile machine. The card itself shipped with a set of blue plastic protectors wedged in the ports and across the PCI-E connector. I'm not sure what good they are, but they do give the impression that MSI has taken some care with this product. The feeling was strengthened by the sprung screws used to fasten the large aluminum heatsink. There's no plastic clips to worry about here.Ahh, but the large passive heatsink that drew me in would nearly be my downfall.Installing the card required a slow, patient hand. I had to be careful to hold it precisely upright so that it could slip into place. And the VGA header's cable was pulled as tight as it would go before the second bracket fell into its slot. I was feeling very good about how I had narrowly avoided disaster.Then I tried to put the hard drive back in.Uhh...It quickly became apparent that while the heatsink left 2mm clearance for most of it's length, the small piece near the end with the MSI logo painted on it was raised enough that it ran into the hard drive bracket. Had they retained the same height across the entirety of the heatsink it would be a deliciously beautiful fit. But the slight increase for their logo was too much. I couldn't get the drive in without bending the card more than I felt was safe. But I had come so close, and I had paid so little, so I didn't feel like packing the card up and returning it. Instead I grabbed a vicious metal file and went to work on the heatsink. In minutes the raised bar of soft aluminum had been rendered flush with the rest of the fins. I carefully installed the card a second time and the hard drive drop ped neatly in beside it. Success!So there you have it. If you're using this card in a machine with a second slot worth of clearance next to it, it'll probably drop right in and be brilliant. But if you've got a tight space as I did, you may run into some space issues. With the price what it is and the performance such an improvement over onboard, I consider it to be worth the risk. |
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Rating: Review Date: 01/04/11 |
Cons:
None yet
Pros: Price, brand, passive Comment:
I got this on boxing day special, so the price was awesome. It will be used in an HTPC, and it's great for that application as it has a passive cooler which obviously = no noise. No problems to report. |
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Rating: Review Date: 01/04/11 |
Cons:
Gets kinda toasty after decoding 1080p for a couple of hours,
Pros: Cheap(when on special), Slient, Good for a media center pc, CUDA Comment:
Purchased this for a media center system that does some Photoshop work and watches movies off a projector, works great, speeds up Photoshop with hardware acceleration and decodes 1080p fine! If you can catch with a rebate do it or on special, I got it on boxing day and was a decent deal with a discount and mail in rebate. |
Replaced onboard video in a 2006 IBM small-form factor PC; this card provides great Windows 7 and light gaming performance. As an HTPC card, it's perfect - silent and with PureVideo 4 support. It draws little power from the 200W power supply and includes a low-profile bracket for those needing such.