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from Tucson, AZ
I bought this card (NVIDIA GeForce 210 model BFGP210512E) for my HP Pavilion y6110p about 11 days ago because I was finding more and more that I was watching tv content online. I specifically chose this model over others because of it's price and the fact that it would output both VGA and HDMI.
The installation was easy and straight forward and I had no problems installing on a 64 bit Windows Vista machine.
Being new to having more than one display, it took me a while to learn about extended laptops and cloning one display based on the other. In the end, I used the extended desktop setting and if I wanted to watch a youtube video on my TV, I would just drag the window over to my HDTV and voila. I could keep working at my computer and still have the video out put to the TV.
I originally had a problem with the HDMI image being cut off at the top and sides. After some googling, I realized that there was a setting in the control panel for the card that would fix that.
I absolutely had no problems with the card until the last few days when the fan that cools the CPU on the graphics card started getting really noisy. I might not have noticed on another computer but I specifically bought the HP computer because of it's quietness and now all I can hear is that noisy fan. This is a deal breaker for me and I will be taking it back.
What's great about it: Easy to install on Win Vista. Control Panel and Settings easy to use. Pretty good price.
What's not so great: Fan Noise is disturbingly loud
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from MA
Had to send back to BFG for warranty repair because the cooling Fan started to fail. Currently using a VisionTek - ATI RADEON HD 4350 with no issue. I will use the BFG card as a backup when it comes back from repair.
What's great about it: It was easy to set up. Has HDMI so you can connect to your TV
What's not so great: DeInstalled and Reloaded drivers 7 or 8 times in a course of 1.5 months because the card would fail to display in color.