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(More customer reviews)I actually bought this card to "downgrade" from an Nvidia 9600 GT Low Profile Low Power card. I run a low profile Core i7 system (yes I'm crazy) mainly for doing video encoding, and I wanted a decent low profile graphics card in order to do some light gaming. However, my 9600 recently started getting unstable on me, so I needed to get a replacement. My older card used a DVI to VGA converter (yes, I have a VGA-only monitor, but it has component ports in the back as well for my Wii and PS3, which is why I bought that monitor in the first place), and for some reason, after it got unstable, the native resolution of my monitor was unable to be detected, and when I forced it to the native resolution, it resulted in blurry areas in the middle-left and middle-right section of my monitor. Now that I'm going through a native VGA port on the Radeon 5570, the sharpness came back, and the native resolution of my monitor is detected.
One other thing is that this card is a standard size for a low profile card. My older 9600 GT was uncomfortably within a centimeter of touching my Blu-Ray drive in my case, whereas this card fits with enough room to spare.
Even with the "downgrade" in specs and the shrink in size, the card performs wonderfully! The Windows 7 Windows Experience Score for graphics stayed at the same place (6.8), and I'm still able to play the games I played while I had my 9600 GT. Assassin's Creed II runs fine at full settings, Dragon's Age runs fine at full settings, and I can continue doing my video work without worrying about my GPU failing out of nowhere.
One thing, though, that I should warn anyone installing this card into a low profile system is that you are going to need a small nutsetter as well as your run-of-the-mill Philips screwdriver in order to replace the full height bracket with the low profile one. I was missing the nutsetter when I received my card, and I had to continue using my old card for an extra day since I needed to get my nutsetter the next day. I have never switched brackets on a GPU before, so this was new to me. Hopefully more people are prepared when they do what I did.
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