Review of Gigabyte Technology NVIDIA GeForce GT 240 512 MB
If you are buying this kind of card, meaning one that has good performance for the money, then you must have done your homework. So I won't get into that side of things and discuss performance and benchmarks. Instead, I will talk about aspects you do not see in the typical benchmark reviews and what it is like to own this card. First off, when you open the package and see the device you immediately notice that it is a quality product and not cheap piece of hardware. It feels well made and that feeling is only reenforced by the shape and size of the fan. It is definitely the bulkiest and most sci-fi looking I've installed in my machine. More pleasantness comes in when you install it and setup the drivers, which is a synch on Windows. Even on my Hackint0sh OS X 86 running Snow Leopard 10.6, it was picked up and was immediately running with acceleration without the need for KEXT changes. In addition, when you see your games running smoothly (I upgraded from an ATI 2600 XT)