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Customer Reviews for PNY NVIDIA GeForce GT 545 1.5GB DDR3 PCI Express Graphics Card
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PNY NVIDIA GeForce GT 545 1.5GB DDR3 PCI Express Graphics Card
Model: VCGGT545XPB
SKU: 2734077
UPC: 751492507569
This graphics card features NVIDIA PhysX technology and 1.5GB DDR3 memory to ensure lush images and 1440MHz clock speed for fast, efficient processing. The PCI Express interface provides flexible connectivity options.
Average Customer Rating:
4.5
out of 5
(6 Reviews) 6
Rating Snapshot 6 reviews
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83% of customers would recommend this product to a friend
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Customer Reviews for PNY NVIDIA GeForce GT 545 1.5GB DDR3 PCI Express Graphics Card
Review 1 for PNY NVIDIA GeForce GT 545 1.5GB DDR3 PCI Express Graphics Card
Perfect upgrade for HP e9120y/SWTOR
Customer Rating
5.0
Value for Price
5.0
Compatibility
5.0
Features
5.0
Ease of Installation
5.0
What's great about it: Perfect upgrade for 300W system
What's not so great: nothing yet
This card fit my needs perfectly. I upgraded from an ATI 4350 and didn't want to also upgrade the 300W power supply in my HP Pavillion e9120y. This card goes in without any issues. It doesn't even need to connect to the power supply. It runs SWTOR on 1900x1200 lag free (I have a few settings on high...haven't tried all settings maxed out yet)
I would recommend this to a friend!
Build or modify your own PC:Yes
Level of Expertise:Average
Primary reason for building/modifying PC:Gaming
+5points
5out of 5found this review helpful.
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Review 2 for PNY NVIDIA GeForce GT 545 1.5GB DDR3 PCI Express Graphics Card
awesome graphics and sweet picture quality
Customer Rating
5.0
Value for Price
5.0
Compatibility
5.0
Features
5.0
Ease of Installation
5.0
What's great about it: everything
What's not so great: nothing
not as good as a 550 or 560 TI but its still one of the best improved everything for me cant wait for assassins creed to come out to play it on very high graphics
I would recommend this to a friend!
Build or modify your own PC:Yes
Level of Expertise:Expert
Primary reason for building/modifying PC:Gaming
+3points
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Review 3 for PNY NVIDIA GeForce GT 545 1.5GB DDR3 PCI Express Graphics Card
decent upgrade GPU
Customer Rating
4.0
Value for Price
3.0
Compatibility
5.0
Features
4.0
Ease of Installation
5.0
What's great about it: fantastic low power usage card
What's not so great: a little expensive compared to competition
my old card was NVIDIA 8600 GTS.
Ideally this card should be around $100 because power usage and computing power it would compete against AMD 6670.
I went with this card instead of the 6670 because in Windows I didn't want to change from cuda programs to AMD's version and I use Linux and vdpau is better then AMD's version.
There are still no reviews of this card on other sites, so I have no idea where the last reviewer got the idea that NVIDIA has endemic hdmi problems. I had no problems with mine, and have not read about a lot of other people having problems with NVIDIA cards and hdmi
I would recommend this to a friend!
Build or modify your own PC:Yes
Level of Expertise:Average
+6points
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Review 4 for PNY NVIDIA GeForce GT 545 1.5GB DDR3 PCI Express Graphics Card
Decent budget gaming card
Customer Rating
4.0
Value for Price
3.0
Compatibility
4.0
Features
3.0
Ease of Installation
5.0
What's great about it: Easy to install, easy to setup
What's not so great: Bad HDMI port
If your system has a typical pre-built system power supply, its a decent card. If you don't mind also spending money on getting a better power supply, then I'd pass on this card.
I find the price a little high compared to what you get. If you have reward zone coupons to use,or find it on sale for under a hundred dollars, then its an excellent card.
I had to return mine, because as has been mentioned by reviewers on other sites, the HDMI port isn't the best. I ended up having green lines or strange sparkle looking colors on the screen. They went away after turning the monitor off and on again. Its not horrible, but it can be a annoyance.
I would recommend this to a friend!
Other Best Buy Products I Recommend
Build or modify your own PC:Yes
Level of Expertise:Average
Primary reason for building/modifying PC:Gaming
+3points
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Review 5 for PNY NVIDIA GeForce GT 545 1.5GB DDR3 PCI Express Graphics Card
Good card, but not as advertised
Customer Rating
4.0
Value for Price
3.0
Compatibility
4.0
Features
4.0
Ease of Installation
5.0
What's great about it: 144 cores, and 1.5gb of memory for CUDA apps
What's not so great: Best Buy lying about the specs
This website lists the card as having 192 processing cores.
It technically does, but 48 of them are disabled by the manufacturer.
The true number of active and available cores is 144.
Buyer beware!
No, I would not recommend this to a friend.
Build or modify your own PC:Yes
Level of Expertise:Expert
Primary reason for building/modifying PC:Multimedia (music, movies, photos)
+7points
12out of 17found this review helpful.
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Review 6 for PNY NVIDIA GeForce GT 545 1.5GB DDR3 PCI Express Graphics Card
Great card on a budget
Customer Rating
5.0
Value for Price
5.0
Compatibility
5.0
Features
3.0
Ease of Installation
5.0
What's great about it: Great video card, even better price tag!
What's not so great: Not getting it sooner
Awesome card to say the least! Installed on a Windows 7-32 Bit machine. Have an older Quad CPU Q6600, 3GB Ram & worth noting only a 350W power supply. Runs suer quiet, no power connecter needed. Setup was a breeze & instantly saw a huge difference in games. Not that I hold much weight to the new Windows Experience rating guide but it went from a 3.9 to a 7.5. It would have been higher but the HDD brought the score down. I am "beta" testing a new game due out in Aug. The old card was a Nvidia 8500GT. The only not so great thing is I didn't get this sooner. Close to 50FPS on Black Ops.
Other comments:
I spent the better part of this week doing research online reading review after review. Although I never buy anything without reading about it first I bought this today with no knowledge of it being good or not. I'm glad I did, no regrets. I learned you can't always go by other feedback, just jump in with both feet.
I spent the better part of this week doing research online reading review after review. Although I never buy anything without reading about it first I bought this today with no knowledge of it being good or not. I'm glad I did, no regrets. I learned you can't always go by other feedback, just jump in with both feet.
Hope I helped you decide one way or the other, user feedback is always a plus.
I would recommend this to a friend!
Build or modify your own PC:Yes
Level of Expertise:Expert
Primary reason for building/modifying PC:Gaming
+24points
30out of 36found this review helpful.
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