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(More customer reviews)The tag line "by Hewlett Packard" should read "FOR HEWLETT PACKARD ONLY!"
This card was purchased to replace an ATI Radion Card that was failing to the point of barely usable.
I work with a dual monitor setup and use Adobe's suite of graphics programs and View 7, etc. So I needed the rendering capabilities inherent with the Quadro series cards. After a thorough explanation of my work and usage habits to Customer/Technical Support at Nvidia, (very limited gaming) they recommended the 370. Given the price, stepping up to the new FX 580 seemed like a no-brainer, and it was.
However, the only choices for card manufacturers were HP and PNY. PNY's Customer/Technical Support ratings were poor so I went with HP. It was purchased on Amazon on a Wednesday evening and it came in on Friday morning. Perfect. Unfortunately, it was not clear prior to purchase that the card was intended for HP workstations ONLY, or that use in other systems would void the warranty. My bad, should have researched that further.
Nevertheless, I installed the card anyway, and then downloaded the latest drivers from the Nvidia website and it worked fine. The card was very easy to install. It only draws 45 watts of power so there was no need to upgrade the power supply. It is also very quiet. So far the 580 has proved more than capable of handling everything that I have thrown at it with fanstatic results.
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