MSI GAMING GeForce GT 710 1GB GDRR3 64-bit HDCP Support DirectX 12 OpenGL 4.5 Heat Sink Low Profile Graphics Card (GT 710 1GD3H LPV1)

Inexpensive for a brand new video card. Solid DXVA capabilities for an HTPC. Worked great to replace a dying 7600GS in my dad's computer. Very low power.Passive cooling might not be enough for this card if you task it alot and have a case with very low airflow. My dad's small form factor PC saw it running in the 80s celsius just running some light games. I attached a slim low-noise 40mm fan to it with a ziptie and that was easily enough to cool it down. Now it never gets above 60*C when playing games for hours. So be aware the cooler is just too small to be a good passive cooler for games and DXVA in a super tight case. In a case with better airflow this is probably less of an issue.It's paired with a C2D E7500 Wolfdale 2.93Ghz and 8GB DDR-2 800 RAM so not an amazing PC but enough to push this card along well enough. It runs Youtube, Netflix and Media Player Classic with 1080p mkvs smoothly. It has HDMI output which makes it good for our occasional HTPC needs. Again the card does DXVA okay, but not amazingly. Combined with the CPU it's more than enough to handle high bitrate 1080p which is the goal. So for that it's pretty useful despite the low performance. Better at DXVA than the 7600GS by a longshot.Modern features but very weak performance. Runs older games somewhat worse than the ancient 7600GS it replaced, and newer games just a little better. This card isn't intended for games, but it would be nice to see it perform more like its specs. It's not as disastrous as the GT210 was, with simply broken performance, but it's pretty weak.That said, it runs Source games okay with the settings scaled back, and runs Battlefield 1942, Call of Duty/UO and lots of other popular older games. My dad uses it to play Rome Total War and Medieval 2 nearly cranked which makes him happy. Runs most lighter-weight newer games with low settings as well. So it's not totally helpless, but it's not meant to compete as a gaming card. AMD's APUs are much faster than this, and the integrated in newer Intel CPUs is also much faster. For my dad's older PC though, this MSI GT710 was a perfectly reasonable replacement part.

I needed a video card quickly to get my office PC back up and running. For some reason, my old video card stopped outputting 3840x2160 @ 30Hz (30 frames/sec), and went back down to 1080p. Because my monitor at the office is 3840x2160, that meant I only had 1/4 as much space for windows, and my productivity was hurting.My old card, a Radeon HD 5450, required that I use drivers from 2012 to let me drive that video timing out on HDMI. But one fateful day, even the old drivers refused to send it, with no explanation as to why. I also had to rig up a little device to keep the HPD (Hot Plug Detect) signal from going away when I turned my monitor off, or the Radeon would switch to the DVI output. Every. Single. Time. It was really frustrating.So I went and got this, because I was just looking for a card with the following:- It outputs 3840x2160 @ 30Hz on HDMI- It's silent- Low powerI did about 5 minutes of research, found this, verified on nVidia's website that it would do it (it's spelled out that it will), and whipped out my credit card and hit "Order Now." I ordered it on Thursday, and Amazon had it to me on Friday (even though it was normal Prime 2-day shipping). Bonus.So I crack open my mid-tower, find the old card covered in dust (but it was also a fanless card, and the dust blew right off, no probs), and slap this in. The driver install took ages (gotta have all of those patches and tweaks for games I won't be playing...) and eventually I was back up and running. With this card, 3840x2160 showed up, and was marked as preferred. And when I turn off my monitor and turn it back on again later, it didn't switch to DVI because it decided to. Excellent.To summarize:- Works with 2016 drivers in 4K, unlike some other budget cards- Doesn't decide spontaneously to switch to DVI from HDMI- I'm happy with it

5 stars for what I paid for it. But ?I don't want to over-inflate people's ideas of what it does.Got this for a mini Optiplex refurbish unit. It's not a powerhouse. But it beats the onboard by a good bit, frees up the RAM the onboard was borrowing, and worked on the tiny built in PSU in my mini optiplex.It's not for new/high end games. But it plays video beautifully and does low end older programs well.