SAPPHIRE FleX 100354FLEX Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition 2GB 256-bit GDDR5 PCI Express 3.0 x16 HDCP Ready CrossFireX Support Video Card

Pros: Pros....lol, I don't know since I just RMA's my second card in a month. Here is a positive spin, it is suppose to make me happy and do magical things with my 3 DVI monitors I just bought for Eyefinity (when I get one that works).

Cons: 1st one was defective. 2nd one was defective. Now I am about to pay shipping again for the second one and send it off for another replacement. The replacement is probably one someone shipped to them and it was defective but maybe they don't do jack testing and send them out again. Can't wait for my third defective card in another 2 weeks or more? I will probably get to try out my third nearly two months after my purchase.

The 1st one would not work on anything but the base video mode in Windows. The 2nd one works as long as I don't plug in 3 DVI monitors for Eyefinity which is why I picked this card.

Other Thoughts: Hopefully the Sapphire deities will feel pity on me for having to pay RMA costs twice and not having a working card for a couple of months. At this point though I'm expecting a lightning bolt of death from the great Sapphire deities to strike me down at any moment.....right after I hit the submit button below for this revi......(loud cracking sounds with blinding light (sapphire colored of course))

Pros: Very Fast
Easy Install
No problems with drivers
Extremely quite

Cons: None come to mind

Other Thoughts: Great piece for my first build. I love this thing it has given me no problems at all.

Pros: When it was working, it normally would handle any game thrown at it, on ultra. Except for the more demanding games that are coming out.

Cons: I believe my graphics card has had issues for awhile. I would run battle field 3 and would crash often. About a week ago I was rewiring my computer doing cable management and my computer randomly turns on, and my mother board gives me an error, it was a graphics card related error. The computer would turn on but nothing was coming up on my monitor, not even a splash screen. I took out the graphics card and tried starting my computer and it would boot up to the login screen then crash. I also tried different slots for the card and it still didn't work.

Other Thoughts: The over all performance was alright, but ever since I have had problems with this graphics card I have had a hard time working.

Pros: It works well

Cons: Sorta big even by big standards.

Pros: So I reviewed this card back at the end of December/beginning of January when I had just received it and had not had time to play any games or anything on the card. So far I can defiantly say that this card will handle everything I have tossed at it on max settings!
Call of Duty: Black Ops 2: Max@180-220 FPS
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3: Max@ 145 FPS
Metro 2033: Max@ 90-120 FPS (this game is still graphically demanding!)
S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Shadow of Chernobyl: Max@ 110-130 FPS
GTA IV: Max@ 90-115 FPS
Battlefield 3: Max@ 100-120 FPS
Dishonored: Max@ 145 FPS

Cons: None, still loving the card after nearly 4 months!

Other Thoughts: I still love this card. As a side note I do not overclock or mess with the cards settings other than occasionally manually changing the fan setting to suit my use of the card. However with that being said I run an older CPU that is not overclocked, and am sure that others who overclock their cards will probably get higher frame rates than I did. Happy Gaming!

Pros: Runs what I need flawlessly. Period.

Cons: No cons.

Other Thoughts: One egg off for shipping. It took a week for a 3-day shipping order to get to my location, which isn't normal. Buttttt since that I ordered around the holidays, I suppose that was the earliest it could get here.

Pros: Great card runs bf3 on ultra no problem, stays REALLY cool sapphire did a great job with the piping and heat sink design. Dual profiles works out well for overclocking have mine running at 1.2ghz with out any issues. First radeon card of many for me.

Cons: Upgraded from a 560ti, was a kinda of a pain to do but that may have been my old m3n-hd-hdmi board giving me issues. After I broke that thing in half and got a hold of a new mobo everything seems to be working good.

Other Thoughts: After messing with my computer for a week finally realizing that my old motherboard was just being a jerk, I finally got it all up and running and could not be happier. This is my first ever Radeon card, I was partial to evga as they never gave me a issue, but having a AMD setup I decided to match up my processor with the same chipset as my gpu and could not be happier. Evga still makes a great card but if you have a amd system this is the way to go, and i have had a lot of evga GPUs, from a 5700 to two 7600's to two 9800gtx's then to two 560ti's I could not be happier with my switch may by another and run xfire soon.

Pros: This thing has plenty of frame rates in the games I play. I was able to play Civ5 at higher details than my old HD5770.

Cons: None yet. I'll see how the warranty holds up.

Pros: None

Cons: Each reply from Sapphire tech takes 36-48 hrs. After two exchanges of emails, they can't grasp the fact I've already sent back one of these cards--for a different problem, and are trying to blame the problem of the second card on my monitors. Even after I told them the monitors were properly identifying themselves to the 1st card and two other Sapphire cards I have lying around. I wanted a simple answer--is it another bad card, or is there a software fix.

Other Thoughts: I give up and am sending the second card back to Newegg as well.
Would advise against Sapphire unless you're willing to mess with a long drawn out process of back and forth emails if you have problems. I'll be looking for a company I can CALL. I don't care what the card cost. My time is worth $$.
Thank you Newegg for your return policy, it's why I spend a LOT of money with you.

Pros: ?

Cons: Had 3 displays working OK. 1-30" at 2560x1600 and 2 at 1920x1080. 1st card developed 'flickering' horizontal lines after running it for about an hour. Sapphire said to replace it. Sending it back to Newegg now--thanks Newegg-but went ahead and ordered replacement. Figured it would just swap out.
New card refuses to detect one of the monitors other than Generic NonPnP and limits resolution to 640x480.
Been trying for 4 hours to get it to properly detect the monitor.
Since it should have been a direct swap with nothing changing, I'm assuming I have a bad second card.

Other Thoughts: So far Sapphire not responding. BAD response from Sapphire means we should not be dealing with them.
If no GOOD answer in the next 12 hr. the second card goes back as well and it will make the last Sapphire I buy. Too bad as I've been using them for years in mine and client's computers.
If you don't see an update here, it means I send the 2nd card back as well.