Now what dose the title of this review have to do with the review, or rather the product? Well... lets just say at least you did not have to complain to your parents about why it did not fit. Now I'm not trying to be gross or anything, but this is a warning to everyone: don't be like me, be sure to look at the specs of your computer before you buy. It requires an AGP slot, I only had a PCI slot. As far as I know, this card can take a lot of stress, but is rather light on the internal RAM. Buyer beware!

I own an aging Dell Optiplex GX270. It's a small form factor desktop with a 210 watt power supply. The specifications for this card recommend a 300 to 400 watt power supply, but it runs fine in this machine so far. The most demanding thing I ask it to do is play World of Warcraft, and it does that fine. As far as for how much headroom the power supply still has, this system has also been upgraded to 4 GB of RAM, which is the most it will accept. (Incidentally, Windows XP Pro SP3 will only recognize ~3.25 GB of it.)

The 'best together' bracket kit that Amazon has listed with this card IS INCOMPATIBLE. Do not buy it with this card.

Also, a warning for anyone that owns this specific system and that is upgrading it. It has one Gen I SATA port on the motherboard. But because of extremely limited space, the expansion card case will interfere with a normal SATA connector on the hard drive. To overcome this, a SATA cable with a right-angle connector where it plugs into the hard drive is required, or you may find yourself having to use a Dremel tool to hack a chunk out of the expansion card case.

I installed this on my 3-yr old PC with an ASRock K7V3M motherboard. I bought a 19" widescreen monitor recently and the integrated graphics driver does not support widescreen resolutions (and it was giving me problems anyway) so I had to switch to AGP. Although the Mobo suport only up to AGP 4x, I had no problems using this card. The included installation guide was minimal but adequate. I connected it via DVI cable (not included) and setting up the BIOS and Windows XP to use the GeForce was straightforward. It automatically detected my widescreen monitor's optimum resolution (1440 x990) and used that by default. I downloaded the latest drivers/software instead of using the CD that came with it. The utility software was useful since I had to re-configure the color and gamma settings of the monitor - its in a well-lighted room so the default configuration is a bit washed out.

Inexpensive, AGP bus, good performance and easy to install - for a non-gamer that's all I can ask for. An excellent product and upgrade for those with older systems that don't support the new PCI-E bus.

I have a 5+ year old Sony Desktop with an AGP4x nVidia Geforce 5400. Game performance was not satisfactory. The XFX/GeForce 6200 installed like a charm; downloaded current nVidia drivers and the impact on not only gaming apps but overall performance of the machine was definitely improved. A worthwhile/cheap way to squeeze another year or so out of an older machine. Highly recommended!

Used this to "revive" and old computer and to leave it with a "decent" card. This was cheap and server for the purpose.