ASUS ENGTS450 DIRECTCU/DI/1GD5 GeForce GTS 450 (Fermi) 1GB 128-bit DDR5 PCI Express 2.0 x16 HDCP Ready SLI Support Video Card

Pros: Great card at first.

Cons: I bought two of these when I built two identical systems back in March of this year. They worked fine until on the first system the DVI port stopped working. And now on the second system, using HDMI and DVI (dual monitors), the screens are starting to show bad color artifacts. That's about the only way I can explain it. Areas where it can't display a certain color so it's swapped out for a completely different color. For example a gradient of red on the screen will have a green/blue blocky patch streaked through it. This is VERY annoying when trying to work in Photoshop or something when you need colors to be at least somewhat accurate and reliable.

I have to say that I love ASUS. I have MANY products both at home and at work by ASUS from optical drives, to motherboards, to monitors, and I've always been very happy. But, this will definitely see me steer clear of ASUS video cards from now on.

Pros: This thing has a lot of juice. It is very stable. The cooler design looks great! This card handles everything I throw at it! I don't game, but I do a lot of multitasking and videos, and It barely coughs. 7.2 in WEI (my system is 5.9 because of boot drive. Need to upgrade to a SSD for that).

Cons: Wonder why Asus is still using a VGA port. I rather have DVI/HDMI/Displayport only.

Other Thoughts: I bought this unit as an Open Box, and it came with everything exept the retail packaging. The card was pretty much in perfect condition. I've upgraded from a EVGA card which was good since my 8800GTS before that died, but I was throwing too much at it when multitasking and running video. This card can handle everything I throw at it, and while not the Nice Quadro Card that I want, It is about 1/3 of the price of one.

Pros: Need Help --- I need help...I have a Seasonic 520W Modlar PSU...with 20A 12+v line...

Will this Card work on this psu...as in its requirements it says it need an 12+v rail with min 22A....

Please suggest...

Cons: n/a

Pros: keeps cool, runs all my games perfectly. great upgrade for cheap!!

Cons: none yet

Pros: Good Value for the Money. I mainly got this to play Starcraft 2, which I run on High settings. In most scenarios, it runs very well (70+ FPS). It also runs Battlefield: BC 2 well on medium.

Older games like Team Fortress 2, Dawn of War, etc, are a total breeze with this card on high settings. I don't play WoW, but I'm guessing you can set it on the highest possible settings. I mean c'mon, people, that game is like 7 years old now; you better be able to crush it.

Cons: When things start to heat up, it can slow down. Huge 3v3 and 4v4 SC2 battles can certainly slow this card down (15-25 FPS). But these battles are rare & short-lived, and I expect slowdown when 300+ different units are onscreen battling all at once. Same idea with Battlefield: BC 2, where high-settings are certainly playable, but I prefer the higher frame-rate (seems to hover around 45 FPS) of medium settings.

Also, the size is big. Not just long and fat, taking up 2 slots, but also wide with the heat pipes (wider than the draft nVidia card). Because of that, I had to remove my power supply and other stuff just to be able to install it since I couldn't slide it in the back of my case. Pretty big pain in the rear.

Other Thoughts: In general, this card is a great value for most mainstream gamers. It will easily handle just about every modern game. Just don't expect 100 FPS on Crysis Warhead with 2048x1600, 12xAA, 16xAF, "ULTRA EXTREME!!" settings.
Other Specs:
AMD Phenom II X4 965
4GB DDR 3 Corsair RAM
ASUS mATX mobo w/ 1 TB SATA Caviar Black 6 GB/s HD

Pros: Options for both SUB-D and DVI outputs. Overall a good video card for the price and it performs admirably. Owned for two months and there have been no issues at all with it.

Cons: Big Beefy Video Card. Yeah, its so imposing that you'll loose two expansion slots on the back of your case to it instead of one, so be sure to pick its place on your motherboard wisely!

Pros: Good budget video card that can still preform well with gaming. Runs very cool, idles at 26C and never gets over 65C under load. Overclocking is very easy with the Asus SmartDoctor software that is included. Mine is currently running stable at 950mhz engine clock (1900mhz processor clock), the memory is at 4000mhz, and the voltage is at 1.15v. I can run most new games on high graphics settings.

Cons: This is a budget/medium performance card

Other Thoughts: Overall a GREAT value. Thanks Newegg!

Pros: Nice-looking card. Installed easily.

Cons: I noticed some problems immediately in MW2 with bad rendering problems and my system bogging down. It ran OK in Windows 7 for a few days and then just died with no video at all even at bootup. I'm sending it and getting a different card since this one is out of stock now.

Pros: Superb value for your money. This card turned my aging system into a gamer's delight. I went from barely being able to play Battlefield Bad company 2 in multiplayer on Medium graphics setting to easily playing it in multiplayer on the High graphics setting.

Cons: none.

Other Thoughts: I plan to buy another identical card for SLI mode to tackle games coming out later on this year. I'm running a P5N motherboard with the Q8300 Core 2 Quad processer and 4 gigs of ram.

Pros: Rates 7.1 on Windows Experience Index for both aero graphics and gaming graphics performance. (This rating was obtained with the default graphics card settings) Runs extremely cool. Stays at about 29 to 30C when idle. Very good graphics card especially for only a little over $100. Much more cost efficient than Radeon GPUs.

Cons: I wouldn't consider it a con, but this graphics card is very large as are many high performance graphics cards. So those people with micro-ATX cases need to make sure they have enough room. My case is ATX and this video card presses gently against my hard drives.