Just bought a...

[Flisker]

i have the same card but the 512mb version... its fairly decent...

however i would of personally went the extra £5 and got the 9500GT (the replacement card for the 8500 and the 8600).. but thats just me.

youll also need to consider buying a new PSU (Power Supply Unit) as mine old PSU was a standard 300w PSU and believe me theres no chance it would of run the graphics card....

so unless you want problems, upgrade your PSU

Well concidering I'm in the Ukraine and bought it there as well that's all there was in the shops all the rest were ATi's which i didn't really want for some reason. and lots of the Computer pros on this forum have said a 300W PSU should run fine with it. I will upgrade it but not just yet, may be in the future sometime.

[jam666]

i should of re-phrased my post, what i ment to say was it WILL run on a 300w PSU providing its a good PSU.

but if for example your computer has just a standard cheap PSU like hp, dell, casecom or anything along those lines...) you probably will have problems (im not saying you definately will but theres a very good chance you will)

[Flisker]

Well its a Dell PC so it will have something along the lines of dell for the PSU

[Flisker]

Coming home tomorrow (sunday) so I will tell you if it works or not

[Flisker]

Its in and works a treat after installing drivers at a 800x600 resolution on a 17" widescreen (very bold) and then updating the drivers to make it work properly with vista. It is a little bit louder then my pc on its own lol.