Low-cost GeForce 8400GS graphics cards announced

at what? 2fps?

nice find though. Would make a good general purpose (and no gaming) computer hardware.

i love when they put marketing crap like that in.

tbh, i do not see any practical use for these. what precisely can they do that the previous gen like 7300's and x1300's cannot.

It's perfect for DX10...if you like slideshows!

only point i see to this is even cheaper HTPC

they are meant for office pc's wanting to run aero properly and for htpcs to decode hd movies via hd dvd and blue ray.

They went to the OEMs 1st so you'll see HP, Dell, etc. putting them on their systems and charging a premium for the option like $100.00 or so.

i hope your being sarcastic

64bit interface???

If there's one thing that annoys me more it's to hear someone say a low-end graphics card is a "non-gaming card." I don't think people realize just how many games out there don't require that much graphics power, and are greatly enjoyable.

That being said, when it gets to around $90, for nVidia cards, the 8600GT will be a great buy.

It's not gonna make Vista look any better. If you don't play computer games, then any integrated graphics is fine too.

But, like you said, everyone here does play games, and to us this card is... bad.

It does actually, it runs perfectly fine on any integrated DX9 card that has DEDICATED (none of this shared business) RAM.

theres a very big difference with a 6100 with DEDICATED memory and the vast majority of computer users who have the latest and greatest intel integrated. It would be easier for a person using a dell/hp machine to drop in a card like this than replace a motherboard with a 6100 so that they would be able to run aero. also a 6100 does not decode hd (i.e. blue ray) as well as an 8400.

Laugh all you like, but that's one sweet card! My local Wal-Mart still has a single NVidia FX 5600 on the shelf... that 8400GS will run all over that card. I'm not sure the exact price on that 5600, but if I remember correctly it's over $100... I am NOT kidding. Wal-Mart has some seriously jacked up prices on old hardware.

Good god... will someone stop nVidia before they get down to a 32MB dx10 card?

The latest integrated intel is suprisingly good, runs the source engine suprisingly well.

It's not meant to be a gaming card. It's meant to replace the 7300 series whilst adding better H.264, VC-1 and MPEG2 high-definition video playback.

http://www.dailytech.com/NVIDIA+Pa [...] le7783.htm

Or something like that.

and im talking about the intel integrated not nvidia's. did you read my posts?

To clarify for everyone, why anything the 8xxx series or better??? nVidia did not include any MPEG4 or H264 <blue ray> decoding hardware on any graphics card until the 8500GT cards. Which immediately also put the 8600GT in this category. However at the same time the 8700 and 8800 did NOT have these specialized HW blocks. Was not for gamers, but for HTPCs.

The difference being that if you played any thing in BluRay, HD-DVD, Flash, Quicktime, HULU, etc.. that used any MPEG4 derived codec, you would see VASTLY increased CPU utilization if you didn't have these cards. Has very little to due to memory, or GPU speed.

If you use MPEG4 video, you must have a 8400GS, 8500, 8600 or a 9xxx series card to take advantage of this. NO 6xxx or 7xxx cards have these features, and about 1/2 of the 87xx series or higher end gaming cards do not have these blocks as well.

Simply put the 8400GS for MPEG4 or derived codecs will outperform any 7950GT OC 1GB series cards.

Different people are searching for different things so it's not really their fault.

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