Pros: This card has been silent at idle and relatively quiet at full load. Temps have always been low (in antec 300 case with low volume case fans). Never any issues with drivers (now on 10.11). Plays COD BO maxed out at 1600x1200.

Cons: There have been one or two games over the years that have overtaxed this card (Crysis) and I've had to lower the setting.

Other Thoughts: Replacing this with a GTX 570 but thought I'd do a final write up.
Its been a great card over the years

Pros: Great OC capability, since it can OC to about where I stock 4850 is.

Also, it's not too loud on 100%, and stays cool, which is a major plus when pushing those OCs.

Cons: Not going to really be enough for the higher resolutions, but that should be obvious, but it should be enough up to 16x10.

Other Thoughts: If you're on a budget, nothing's better then this card!

Pros: Great card for the money - gets great FPS on most games and stays cool.

Cons: I received a bad card. Had to RMA it based on screen flickering and multiple crashes.

Other Thoughts: Terrific card if I didn't receive a faulty one. I hear the new release (model # with HDMI at the end) has less issues with it.

Pros: With my 19" 1280x1024 , can max out most games. Getting very acceptable fps. Crossfire them for a cheap alternative to a more expensive card.

Cons: no

Pros: When it was working it was impressive for a budget card. It blew my 7800gt out of the water. Sad part is that it died the following day. Newegg did allow an RMA on it with no hassles...but still a pain. I upgraded to a gts-250 for only ten buckaroos more. I have never had problems with Nvidea cards so back into the fold for me.

Cons: It died in a day

Other Thoughts: ..it happens.

Pros: Everything is great about this card! Definitely a great card for a cheap price!

Cons: None

Pros: I can still browse the internet, some games still work.

Cons: Each release of drivers makes this thing work worse. Checkout the AMD support forums before buying this card. Use of version 8.11 seems to have the least amount of issues.

Other Thoughts: Terrible performance at this point. Could overclock easily in ver 8.12, now any type of overclock locks my computer. Massive amount of complaints over at AMD forum seemed to be totally ignored by AMD. Very disappointed so far. Vista home premium, amd x2 5200, 2 gig 800mhz ram, single 5830 vcard, net frame 3.5, directx 10.1, catalyst 9.3, msi k9a2 platinum.

Pros: This card Is great on Xplane 9 minus antialising i maxed out every setting and still runs smooth at 1920x1200
Older source games like CSs and DODs are amazing.
BF2142 is great ill test it out on COD4 soon and GTA as well.

Cons: of course update the drivers the stock drivers seem a bit buggy

Other Thoughts: it was replaced with on with built in HDMI a week after i got this not a con its a great card i dont think you can get any more bang for the buck

Pros: Overclocks like a champ, I can play games at maxed settings on my lame 1440x900 monitor.

Cons: If I had a higher resolution monitor, this might start to slow down.

Other Thoughts: Great oomph for the price.

Pros: *Great bang for the buck when I purchased it. Got it for $79.99.

*Haven't seen this card break over 50C yet! Stays cool! HUGE FAN!

*Played through most modern releases flawlessly; Fallout 3 on HQ settings never looked any better.

Cons: *None! Great product!

Other Thoughts: Bought this to replace a dying PNY9600GT I had, haven't looked back since!