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Customer Reviews for PNY XLR8 NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GTX+ 512MB GDDR3 PCI Express Graphics Card
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PNY XLR8 NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GTX+ 512MB GDDR3 PCI Express Graphics Card
Model: VCG98GTXPXPB
SKU: 8968138
UPC: 751492406534
This 512MB graphics card features a powerful NVIDIA GeForce processor with PureVideo HD technology for stunning movie performance and NVIDIA PhysX for high-speed gaming.
Average Customer Rating:
4.4
out of 5
(18 Reviews) 18
Rating Snapshot 18 reviews
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14
4 stars
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3 stars
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83% of customers would recommend this product to a friend
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Customer Reviews for PNY XLR8 NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GTX+ 512MB GDDR3 PCI Express Graphics Card
Review 1 for PNY XLR8 NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GTX+ 512MB GDDR3 PCI Express Graphics Card
incredibly powerful card
Customer Rating
5.0
Posted by: tmseato
from Sioux City,IA
on 02/16/2010
Value for Price
5.0
Compatibility
5.0
Features
5.0
Ease of Installation
5.0
"Another awesome video card from PNY, with NVIDIA Chip, I love it, I can play my games in full quality with no problems, and smooth playback. The price is great, since for this type and quality 5 years ago, it would of costed me approx: 500 dollars. The only negative things I have is it's a very huge card, and bulky. It was a very tight fit in the case, I recommened everyone to check the dimensions of there case and the area surrounding the PCI Express x16 bus slot, because I had to change my sata cables since the card wouldnt sit down correctly because the sata cables were in the way, but now everything is running excellent and beautiful. Go Get it!!...if you got the room, or just enough room."
What's great about it: Value and Price
What's not so great: The only negative things I have is it's a very huge card, and bulky
I would recommend this to a friend!
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Review 2 for PNY XLR8 NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GTX+ 512MB GDDR3 PCI Express Graphics Card
Good card
Customer Rating
5.0
Posted by: Draven99984
from Belton, MO
on 01/21/2010
Value for Price
5.0
Compatibility
5.0
Features
5.0
Ease of Installation
5.0
Excellent card for the money!
After I bought a different card that was AWFUL, I got this card. I am beyond pleased. Installed easy on Vista, Runs high quality graphics on games without any choppy frames.
CON: I researched the graphics card online and went to the store to pick it up, but when I got to the store they have the card marked at $149.99; $25 more the on the web. Best buy easily and hassle-free price matched. Kudos to best buy!
What's great about it: Easy install, good price, good card
What's not so great: Price difference in the store
I would recommend this to a friend!
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Review 3 for PNY XLR8 NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GTX+ 512MB GDDR3 PCI Express Graphics Card
Bang for your BUCK !!!
Customer Rating
5.0
Posted by: Wallace093
from Silverdale, WA
on 01/18/2010
Value for Price
5.0
Compatibility
5.0
Features
5.0
Ease of Installation
5.0
had to go out to nvidia's website and manually install drivers to install the nvidia control panel to turn on sli mode
What's great about it: Easy to instal, win 7 supported, 3 way sli runs great, can run your games in sterioscopic 3d which is pretty neat
What's not so great: NO Cons what so ever
I would recommend this to a friend!
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Review 4 for PNY XLR8 NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GTX+ 512MB GDDR3 PCI Express Graphics Card
Works well
Customer Rating
4.0
Posted by: fs
from Wisconsin
on 01/05/2010
Value for Price
5.0
Compatibility
4.0
Features
4.0
Ease of Installation
5.0
I bought 2 of these because I wanted SLI in my PC. Installed easily and seems to be working alright now. I couldn't SLI with a BFG 9800 GTX because the bridge from my EVGA motherboard is rigid and the cards are of different dimensions. So I sold it on Ebay. I guess they heat the case up some, but are doing okay now.
What's great about it: Requires only one 6 pin power plug
I would recommend this to a friend!
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Review 5 for PNY XLR8 NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GTX+ 512MB GDDR3 PCI Express Graphics Card
Best Performance and gotta say WOW!!!!
Customer Rating
5.0
Posted by: Jimmy03
from Redwood city, California
on 10/01/2009
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This card runs everything max settings. Just so wonderful.
What's great about it: Everything
What's not so great: doesnt have overclocking software
I would recommend this to a friend!
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Review 6 for PNY XLR8 NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GTX+ 512MB GDDR3 PCI Express Graphics Card
Money poorly spent
Customer Rating
2.0
Posted by: OrdoAbChao
from Des Moines
on 10/01/2009
Card requires too much power/cooling than it's worth.
It runs everything you throw at under the highest settings without flinching, but is HIGHLY prone to overheating (even with 3 case fans) and is incredibly loud right before shutting itself off.
After doing some googling and forum trolling, it has become obvious to me that the 9800 cards are all having the same issues. Apparently the fans do not work properly and it is an issue which nvidia has yet to diagnose and fix.
This card should only be used in computers with a well done water cooling system. It runs too hot, it has huge fan flaws, and it demands a LOT of juice and room.
A shame to...because it makes everything so pretty...
What's great about it: Runs anything/everything I threw at it...for about 2 minutes...
What's not so great: Where do I start? This card is horrible...
No, I would not recommend this to a friend.
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Review 7 for PNY XLR8 NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GTX+ 512MB GDDR3 PCI Express Graphics Card
best friggin vid card ever
Customer Rating
5.0
Posted by: Nagol172
from erie pa
on 08/27/2009
Value for Price
5.0
Video/Sound Quality
5.0
Performance
5.0
Ease of Installation
5.0
i can run left 4 dead (full res and full everything!!!) on one monitor and watch a hi def movie on another monitor with no lag
What's great about it: can do anything i want it to
What's not so great: nada
I would recommend this to a friend!
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Review 8 for PNY XLR8 NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GTX+ 512MB GDDR3 PCI Express Graphics Card
PNY 9800GTX+ failed on first day
Customer Rating
1.0
Posted by: jairic
on 08/26/2009
Value for Price
1.0
Video/Sound Quality
1.0
Performance
1.0
Ease of Installation
1.0
This GPU failed shortly after install, PNY refused to repair the card, even when I offered to pay for their support. Do not, under any circumstances, ever, for any reason at all, buy a PNY product. Best Buy has other great brands like ATI and BFG. There is no reason for you to spend money for a product that will not work.
What's great about it: Absolutely NOTHING
What's not so great: It failed on the first day and PNY refused to resolve the issue, even if I paid for it.
No, I would not recommend this to a friend.
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Review 9 for PNY XLR8 NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GTX+ 512MB GDDR3 PCI Express Graphics Card
great card
Customer Rating
5.0
Posted by: hounderd
from Madison, WI
on 07/17/2009
Value for Price
5.0
Video/Sound Quality
5.0
Performance
5.0
Ease of Installation
5.0
this is a great card, if your thinking about getting it just DO IT! the price for this card was great when i bought it, but now the GTX series is nearing around 190-200$ so it would probably be smarter to go with the gtx 260.
overall this card is great tho, never had any problems with it, PNY has been great (free lifetime warranty woo!). im sad to see that people would give this card a bad review because they cant figure out how to install a simple molex to pci adapter or dont have the sufficient power supply to run this beast, grow up kiddies.
What's great about it: runs great, fast and stable.
What's not so great: kind of big, make sure your case has room
I would recommend this to a friend!
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Review 10 for PNY XLR8 NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GTX+ 512MB GDDR3 PCI Express Graphics Card
Misleading Packaging
Customer Rating
3.0
Posted by: JnKor
from Tampa, FL
on 07/14/2009
Value for Price
4.0
Video/Sound Quality
3.0
Performance
3.0
Ease of Installation
1.0
The package lists a molex-to-pcie adapter as included, but a note inside says it has not been included and PNY tech support will send one. However, when I called PNY tech support, they informed me that they would not send me an adapter because any power supply capable of supporting the card should have come with an adapter.
No, I would not recommend this to a friend.
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Review 11 for PNY XLR8 NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GTX+ 512MB GDDR3 PCI Express Graphics Card
Great Card! Installation may give trouble for some
Customer Rating
5.0
Posted by: Starbucks
from Burleson, TX
on 06/17/2009
Value for Price
5.0
Video/Sound Quality
5.0
Performance
5.0
Ease of Installation
3.0
I am not going to touch the performance of this card in this review as this information is readily available in other reviews of this card. Suffice it to say that you should be very pleased. I would like to instead discuss the size of this card and installation. I have an Acer M5360 desktop and am upgrading from an ATI Radeon HD 2400 pro that came with it. This card as others have said is huge...suffice it to say that if the card was 1/4" longer...it would have not fit. I had to move two hard drives around and move my HDTV tuner card down a slot to give the GeForce 9800 GTX+ a little breathing room. But all in all it was a fairly easy install if you are used to getting in to the inards of your computer. I did have to replace the Power Supply with an Antec 500Watt that BB also sells. Total install time took about 30 minutes including the time of installing the new power supply and video card. With that all said...I wouldn't worry to much about the size of the card....I would just return it if it doesn't fit and point out that there are no dimensions on the packaging so you really wouldn't know if it fits until you pull it out to install it. Hope this review helps those out there who are concerned about fitting this bad boy into your rig.
What's great about it: Performance and Cost
What's not so great: Card Size, Will require those with manufactured PC's (Dell, HP, Acer, Etc) to upgrade their power supply
I would recommend this to a friend!
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Review 12 for PNY XLR8 NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GTX+ 512MB GDDR3 PCI Express Graphics Card
Not too shabby
Customer Rating
5.0
Posted by: kfliss
from Denver, Co
on 05/31/2009
Value for Price
5.0
Video/Sound Quality
4.0
Performance
4.0
Ease of Installation
5.0
I was skeptical about the 9800GTX+ from PNY at first after reading reviews and the fact that it only has one 6 pin power connector. However i gave it a shot and am glad I did. Ive paired it with a BFG 9800GTX+ OC that is much larger, has 2 6 pin power connectors, and is factory overclocked to 760 / 1890 / 1125. This PNY is 738 / 1825 / 1100.
I have both cards running in SLI and have them both overclocked to
810 / 1890 / 1125. And I was pleasantly surprised to get the PNY clocks that high with out it crashing. So all in all this is a decent card. Im not sure how it would hold up by itself but for SLI it seems to be a decent card.
I gave this card a 4/5 on quality and performance due to the fact that its excelent for what it is but is quickly becoming outdated with what has come out since its release.
I have both cards running in SLI and have them both overclocked to
810 / 1890 / 1125. And I was pleasantly surprised to get the PNY clocks that high with out it crashing. So all in all this is a decent card. Im not sure how it would hold up by itself but for SLI it seems to be a decent card.
I gave this card a 4/5 on quality and performance due to the fact that its excelent for what it is but is quickly becoming outdated with what has come out since its release.
What's great about it: 55nm, over clocking potential, got it on sale for $145 cuz bestbuy rules, card size.
What's not so great: only one power connector but still functional at and beyond factory specs.
I would recommend this to a friend!
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Review 13 for PNY XLR8 NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GTX+ 512MB GDDR3 PCI Express Graphics Card
Only a fool would pass this one up
Customer Rating
5.0
Posted by: scootersl
from Climax,MN
on 05/09/2009
Value for Price
5.0
Video/Sound Quality
5.0
Performance
5.0
Ease of Installation
5.0
Only a fool would pass this one up, great value to performance ratio,My hp pavilion a6700y had a performance of 3.1 using vista 64 bit(the rating that is determined in the game section of vista), now with the addition of this card its at 5.8. Had to update the PS to the thermaltake 450W...If i had a gripe, it would be that its very tight fitting this card into the standard hp case.
What's great about it: great value to performance ratio
What's not so great: tight fit in hp case
I would recommend this to a friend!
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Review 14 for PNY XLR8 NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GTX+ 512MB GDDR3 PCI Express Graphics Card
High Performance Gaming CARD!
Customer Rating
5.0
Posted by: xToneLoCx
from California, USA
on 02/15/2009
Value for Price
5.0
Video/Sound Quality
5.0
Performance
5.0
Ease of Installation
5.0
Another awesome video card from PNY, with NVIDIA Chip, I love it, I can play my games in full quality with no problems, and smooth playback. The price is great, since for this type and quality 5 years ago, it would of costed me approx: 500 dollars. The only negative things I have is it's a very huge card, and bulky. It was a very tight fit in the case, I recommened everyone to check the dimensions of there case and the area surrounding the PCI Express x16 bus slot, because I had to change my sata cables since the card wouldnt sit down correctly because the sata cables were in the way, but now everything is running excellent and beautiful. Go Get it!!...if you got the room, or just enough room.
What's great about it: Wonderful Graphics! Great Performance!
What's not so great: It's a Huge card, and bulky! very tight fit!
I would recommend this to a friend!
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Review 15 for PNY XLR8 NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GTX+ 512MB GDDR3 PCI Express Graphics Card
Big boy does a fine job.
Customer Rating
5.0
Value for Price
4.0
Video/Sound Quality
5.0
Performance
5.0
Ease of Installation
5.0
This a good mid priced card! You get the benefits of the newest developing technologies without blowing the big bucks for them. I've had no heat problems or lagging at all, and I run everything maxed out. For those like me that have been without decent video all of their lives, this could be the card of your dreams.
What's great about it: It can handle anything I throw at it. It's like we were made for each other.
What's not so great: Would be nice to have at least one HDMI, but they added an adapter to cover for that.
I would recommend this to a friend!
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Review 16 for PNY XLR8 NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GTX+ 512MB GDDR3 PCI Express Graphics Card
incredibly powerful card
Customer Rating
5.0
Posted by: CoDWaWfan
from Santa Clara, CA
on 01/22/2009
Value for Price
5.0
Video/Sound Quality
5.0
Performance
5.0
Ease of Installation
4.0
This is the best card in the world! It's really big so you need a big case with tons of fans to keep it cool and you probably will need to replace the power supply. I had a Dell inspiron 531 and I replaced the power supply, the case, the RAM, and it works incredible. I maxed out all of the settings on Call of Duty 5, World at War and it plays incredible. Also, it's great for vista. It used to be that when I pressed the button to scroll through the windows, it was very shifty and not smooth at all but now it works like it's supposed to. Also, videos play much better. Those looking for a first card, it looks expensive but you can save up for it. Also, replacing all of the parts necessary like the power supply and the case sounds hard but it's really easy also. Just don't touch the pins because you will have to clean them with contact cleaner or the card won't work.
What's great about it: Works incredible, way more powerful than my integrated chip
What's not so great: lots of heat produced, lots of power used, lots of space needed
I would recommend this to a friend!
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Review 17 for PNY XLR8 NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GTX+ 512MB GDDR3 PCI Express Graphics Card
AMazing!
Customer Rating
5.0
Posted by: NIUSINC
from Wellington, OH
on 01/04/2009
Value for Price
5.0
Video/Sound Quality
5.0
Performance
5.0
Ease of Installation
4.0
amazing upgrade. i went from a 7600gt to this, ammmmmmmmazing. i did have to switch all my components to a larger case as this thing is huge, the automatic fan control system works well and seems to keep everything running good, i use it to play call of duty world at war, and everything runs tip top. although it puts off a ton of heat under a high load, so make sure u have a way to draw in cool air and to blow out hot. but overall, love it!!!
What's great about it: Fast, clean crisp gfx
What's not so great: turned my PC into a space heater, very big
I would recommend this to a friend!
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Review 18 for PNY XLR8 NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GTX+ 512MB GDDR3 PCI Express Graphics Card
Best card I've ever had.
Customer Rating
5.0
Posted by: mrpep1
from Chicago , IL
on 10/06/2008
Value for Price
5.0
Video/Sound Quality
5.0
Performance
5.0
Ease of Installation
4.0
Even though you only have 2 dvi's you can use a DVI to HDMI adapter which comes with the card but I would rather a hard wired HDMI port then an adapter.
Otherwise, the card is impressive right out of the box. The size is immense and it may be snug but it will fit. Make sure your power supply is at least 500w it requires 2, 6 pin power connectors to run. The gaming is awsome I maxed it out and played my Call of duty 4 and it looks and runs awsome its HD gaming when set to 1080i resolution. I also have a bluray drive on my pc connected to a samsung DLP 56'' TV and it looks awsome when the card is maxed out as well. My older nvidia 8600gt would lag when I maxed it out when watching blurays.
Awsome card runs great buy it if you gamer or run a bluray player so you can get as much out of your games and movies as possible.
Otherwise, the card is impressive right out of the box. The size is immense and it may be snug but it will fit. Make sure your power supply is at least 500w it requires 2, 6 pin power connectors to run. The gaming is awsome I maxed it out and played my Call of duty 4 and it looks and runs awsome its HD gaming when set to 1080i resolution. I also have a bluray drive on my pc connected to a samsung DLP 56'' TV and it looks awsome when the card is maxed out as well. My older nvidia 8600gt would lag when I maxed it out when watching blurays.
Awsome card runs great buy it if you gamer or run a bluray player so you can get as much out of your games and movies as possible.
What's great about it: Looks awsome with settings maxed out on games and bluray.
What's not so great: Instesad of 2 dvi's , wish at least one of those would be a HDMI.
I would recommend this to a friend!
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