PNY NVS Quadro NVS 310 VCNVS310DVI-PB 512MB 64-bit DDR3 PCI Express 2.0 x16 Workstation Video Card

Pros: I have a few dozen of these in our office computers, roughly ~30 NVS310s installed. All of them worked out of the box. None have given us any issues. No lines on the screen, no fuzziness or blurred aspects.

Cons: As the picture shows, they should come with adapters. Mine didn’t. We have mostly HP monitors, so it wasn’t that big of a deal, but anyone ordering these video cards needs to know that they really should have proprietary HP adapters for non-HP monitors.

Overall Review: They work. Easy to install, quick to recognize, no driver issues. Small factor form support for dual monitors, what else could you ask for?

Pros: Works with nouveau out of the box. I’m not using any of the 3D capabilities, so can’t speak to those, but it’s a great way to drive dual monitors under Linux with completely open-source drivers.

Cons: Not fanless, so the fan might start squeaking with age. So far it has been silent though.

Overall Review: My video card included the adapters that the other reviewers were missing.

Pros: Very clean install for using dual Display port monitors. The NVidia software is great!

Cons: Kind of high price for the performance it offers.

Overall Review: I replaced a NVidia gt430 for this card to take advantage of the dual display port feature. The GT430 is actually a faster card according to the “windows experience index”!!

Pros: Quiet, cannot hear the fan.

Cons: The only con is what took me forever to figure out to get high-res hd to work, and actually, I had help from PNY tech support at 973-515-9700, http://www3.pny.com/AboutPNY/Contact_Us.aspx These guys were great, one phone transfer to a state side technichian. The cables provided with this card do not support 2560×1600 (displayport to d-dvi) 1920×1200 max with d-dvi I have two Dell u3011 HD displays and the card puts out the 2560×1600 when using a diplayport to displayport cable. I never uninstalled my previous AMD Video Drivers and everything still installed perfect by NVIDIA. I also have a Wacom Cintiq HD tablet and use a j5 create HDMI/USB connector for a third monitor, and the NVIDIA control panel recognizes it and lets me configure it. I am using an XT Desktop, 350 watt consumption, windows 7, 16GB RAM, i7 processor at 3.4 GHz In closing my only recommendation is stay with the native connector for the video card. PNY Tech support said that displayport to d-dvi doe not support 2560×1600 but does at the lower HD. This would have been great if it was in the spec sheet.

Pros: Can output to two monitors.

Cons: The box says: “Package Contents: Two DVI-SL adapters” The instruction manual also mentions the adapters. My card came without adapters so I had trouble connecting my monitors to the card. I ended up cutting the plugs off of the end of my DVI cables and shoved the frayed ends into the displayport but it didn’t work.