Yes I have not posted in ages mainly because I was at boarding school for a while and I had no access to Datarealms, But now I am back hopefully .

Now...getting on topic my good comp broke down do to some technical difficulties (I dropped it while moving) so I had to revert a hunk of junk desktop that is only compatible with regular crappy PCI cards.I wanted to put my games on the computers so I got the best card I could find for it and was wondering if anyone could tell me if it is any good.

Processor: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.93GHz (2932 MHz)
Operating System: Microsoft Windows XP, 32-bit (Service Pack 2)
RAM: 2.5 Gigs
DirectX version: 10.0c
GPU processor: GeForce 8400 GS
Driver version: 181.20
Stream processors: 8
Core clock: 567 MHz
Shader clock: 1400 MHz
Memory clock: 333 MHz (666 MHz data rate)
Memory interface: 64-bit
Memory: 512 MB
Video BIOS version: 62.98.20.00.51
IRQ: 19
Bus: PCI Express x1

nice?

really? I thought it was a hunk of crap. My last comp was a quad core so I am really noticing definite speed and graphics differences.

That looks pretty sound for a, uh, not PCI-Ex 16x bus. You probably won't be able to play the newest games on the market, but it will be good for the rest. Also of note is that it generally (and, for that matter, unsurprisingly) performed better in tests than its ATI counterpart.

However, the only way to really see if it's good is to try it out.

EDIT: Oh, and the Pentium 4 is just about the best single-core processor you can get. Compared to a quad core, sure, it's not that great, but you should be fine.

It can handle fallout 3 on med settings so I guess its alright yet it is simply overwhelmed by garry's mod and CSS unless they are played in DX 8 with low settings

You're an idiot. If the ATI COUNTERPART was an actual counterpart and not just SOMEONE THINKS THIS IS THE ATI COUNTERPART it would perform equally.

Name one game he shouldn't be able to play.

crysis?

If he can't play Crysis he's doing something wrong.

My 1.6GHz dual core ATI X1300 2GB RAM Vista setup can run Crysis on medium. And Crysis Warhead, too.

But evn that machine ahs way more RAM than any default system that the main OEM companies make. Most non-gaming platforms have no more than 1GB.

Crysis isn't that RAM-intensive, though.

I've never seen it take more than about 600mb from me.