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I bought this card for myself after helping my brother upgrade his pc with the same model of card. My brother mostly plays WoW and after the installation process, which is very simple, the improvements were very impressive for the low cost of the card. He was very pleased with his purchase.

I, on the other hand, am not pleased at all. After I installed the card I tested it with Left 4 Dead and it worked pretty well, just a few stutters here and there, but no big deal. I noticed too, that those stutters would happen with Peggle too, so I though that had to be a bug in the drivers. I searched for the latest drivers and installed the 196.75 version from the nvidia website. During the installation my screen went black with a tiny green square in the middle and I had to turn off my PC. Turns out that nvidia released faulty drivers as the newest official release.

Nvidia posted a warning a few days later telling people about the faulty drivers and that they should install the previous version (196.21). I installed that version and problem solved... or so I thought...(even the small stutters I had noticed were gone).

The card worked nicely for a couple of weeks after that, but all of a sudden I started getting some very serious errors. At first the screen would lose video signal, forcing me to turn it off manually. Then I started getting freezes and blue screens. I couldn't even start windows (vista 32 bit). I decided to install the oldest drivers I could find and that seemed to work, at least it let me start windows. After that I started getting nvdllmkm errors, which after some research turns out are common, but no one knows exactly how to fix them. After some more freezes, lost video signal, blue screens and having to reset my PC several times just to start windows I decided it was not worth it and installed my old graphics card back. I haven't had any trouble since then.

After several lost afternoons, I wouldn't recommend this card at all. Maybe they'll get it together and release better drivers, but at the moment, even windows update takes the faulty drivers as a default.Get more detail about PNY GeForce GT 220 1024 MB PCI-Express 2.0 DVI with HDMI and VGA Graphics Card VCGGT2201XEB.