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[Imperial]

Is crap, never buy this. I was down at my local frys getting a new video card because my 7600GT after 3 years of great services, finally bit the dust. The 8400's box made is seem so much better then my old 7600gt which is what I planned on buying until this card was spotted. No heatsink, just a tiny fan, maybe 60mm. I cannot even run Hitman Blood Money on High like my old card did. the card is shit, be warned. I have always trusted BFG and EVGA...but now i dunno.

[Crying Nipples]

Unfortunately, this is what i would expect from a $60 card.

 

[Agent Orange]

Dude...a 7600GT most certainly will smoke an 8400 card. You should really have looked it up. Its just supposed to be a budget DX 10 card...as a matter of fact I believe my old 6800GT smokes the 8400. It is what it is man. No false advertisements there.

[Imperial]

The box said otherwise lol. Yea, i took it back and the guy tried to pull the old "Well maybe you just don't know the rules of overclocking" lol...i told him i never overclocked it and wouldent even try with no heatsink. Man they are fucking dumb.

[Crying Nipples]

Honestly, I'd pay the 10% restock fee if possible. It'd be worth it to save yourself the headaches.

Pricerange wise, i'd pick up a 7600 Not dx10, not even the gt, but it'll get the job done either way.

[Crying Nipples]

Come to think of it, i'd rather have a hamster ball then have one of those things.

Stupid boxes...

[Choppah4]

8400's are designed for mostly DVD, TV, things of that nature, and not for gaming. I have an eVGA 8400 as a backup to my backup  and it had a hard time playing CSS with an E6600 @ 3GHz, 2GB of RAM, 680i motherboard, at a resolution of 1024 x 768. Granted it worked, but not nearly as well as 7600 or 8600. Main problem with an 8400 is the memory. It's only 64-bit, whereas a 7600 or 8600 are 128-bit, resulting in twice the performance in most cases.

[XtremeRevolution]

http://www.tomshardware.com/charts/graphics-cards/warhammer-mark-of-chaos-v1-6,581.html

Note your 8400 being way at the absolute very bottom...

I don't mean to make you feel bad, but you should have checked with some of us before going out and buying a video card.

[Sman666]

personally i wouldnt buy anything below 8600gt    i would recommend buying 8800gt/9600gt or above

[XtremeRevolution]

personally i wouldnt buy anything below 8600gt    i would recommend buying 8800gt/9600gt or above

Or you can save yourself the research and guessing and just read this article. They did all the work for you already.

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/graphics-card,1923.html

[Agent Orange]

personally i wouldnt buy anything below 8600gt    i would recommend buying 8800gt/9600gt or above

I'd buy the 7950GT if it was priced below $120 before I'd pick up an 8600GT personally, especially when I don't need DX 10.

[XtremeRevolution]

I'd buy the 7950GT if it was priced below $120 before I'd pick up an 8600GT personally, especially when I don't need DX 10.

Also consider that the 7950GT can be software voltmodded and can be overclocked to well beoynd the levels of a 7900GTX. Since they both have the same memory and same cores, all you really need is a better heatsink and you're set. I got mine up from a factory overclocked speed of 560/1450 to 640/1780. With a conductive ink pen, you can raise voltage even higher to get speeds of up to 700-720 on the core, at which point you can't possibly buy a faster single-core DX9 card. For reference, the 7900 GTX runs at 650/1600.