- I installed this card to run a 3rd monitor on my system. Set up was easy on this Windows 7, 64 bit OS. My other card is a dual head GeForce 8400 chipset and the new Zotac card plays well with it. I used Windows control panel to arrange and setup the monitor array.By the way, the fact that this card runs DDR3 memory has nothing to do with the variety of memory allowed on the motherboard. My motherboard is a DDR2 board and runs 8GB of DDR2 memory. My old video card uses DDR2 memory, but it could just as easily be original DDR, or an even older PCI card, as long as there's enough memory to run Win 7's demanding display requirements.
- My little sister wanted to play Sims 3 on her Dell Dimension desktop. Problem was that while all the specs checked out, the Dell didn't have an AGP or an express 16 slot for a decent video card. It only had an x1, so here we have the Zotac Ion. Specwise, it looks good. Half a gig of DDR3, decent clock speeds and worlds faster than the regular pci speeds thanks to pci express.Likely just my Dell, but upon sticking this in the machine, it went into windows got recognized as a sound card (one eyebrow went up) then crashed with a slew of parity errors and a message to call for help (eyebrow 2 went up). Turns out that the Dimension desktops among several other Dell pc's, reserve the x1 slot for everything…
- NVIDIA ION, 512MB DDR3, Core Clock: 589 MHz
- Memory Clock 790 Mhz
- DirectX 10.1
- PCI Express x1; 1 DVI, 1 HDMI
