ASUS GTX670-DC2-2GD5 GeForce GTX 670 2GB 256-bit GDDR5 PCI Express 3.0 x16 HDCP Ready SLI Support Video Card

Pros: + excellent performance; no jitters in any game I've played so far
+ super quiet; barely makes any noise
+ beautifully constructed, solid build quality, and the backplate adds a lot of flair
+ performance near matches a 680 making it an excellent overall GPU choice
+ 60-70+ FPS in Planetside 2 with all settings on max

Cons: + cost is on the higher side but not a huge issue

Other Thoughts: ASUS Maximus V Formula
Intel Core i5-3570K
ASUS GTX 670 DirectCu II
Corsair Vengeance 1600 MHz Low Profile 2 x 4GB
Western Digital Caviar Black 1TB
Corsair AX 760
Cooler Master Storm Trooper

Pros: When you can get it to work for the 3-4 days that it actually will, the games look great and it can handle anything.

Cons: I got my first 670 about 9 months or so ago and I'm now on my 5th card.

-My first card ran amazingly for about a month before crashing randomly while playing Dark Souls. RMA.

-My second card I received was dead out of the box. RMA.

-My third card I received was just my second card returned to me because I forgot the $.25 User Manual. re-RMA.

-My forth card, again, ran great for about 2 weeks before completely crashing and burning while playing Witcher 2. RMA.
This is the point where I started going crazy. I had to make SURE it was nothing in my computer so I ended up spending $850 on a new mobo, CPU, PSU, CPU cooler, and hard drives before my next card arrived.

I'm now on my fifth card and it won't run with drivers installed. I can run my computer with the drivers uninstalled and I can run fine in safe mode. But as soon as I install the driver, (display driver or any of the other secondary drivers) weather it's the WHQL, Beta, or any legacy driver, it crashes at the end of the Windows startup screen. Every single time.

I'm becoming incredibly discouraged about Asus and Geforce in general. I pretty much wasted $420, plus $850 on new components, and another $90 in shipping, and almost an entire year later I have nothing to show for it. I've gotten a total of about a month and a half's worth of use out of this card.

Everyone is basically is refusing me a refund or even credit, even though I think it's pretty fair that I deserve one at this point seeing as how they refused to hold up their responsibilities as a company by giving me a working product.

Other Thoughts: Don't buy this card if you have any respect for your money or integrity as a PC builder.

Pros: Awesome cooler, even though it doesn't exhaust it keeps my temps below 70C at full load. (Ambient arount 25C). When fans are at 100% they are barely audible compared to the rest of the fans in my case. Peforms VERY well. I've OC'd it to get better performance then a stock 680.

Cons: Heavy and sags a bit in the PCI-E slot. PCI-E power plugs are a bit awkward to remove due to the heatpipe going into the card right under the PCI-E power connectors.

Other Thoughts: Fantastic Card, great non-reference cooler. ROCK SOLID.

i5-3570k - Corsair H60 Cooled (Push/Pull)
Sabertooth Z77
16GB G.Skill Ripjaws DDR3 1600
ASUS GTX 670 DCII - 2GB
Kingston HyperX 3k - 120GB
Seagate 1TB - 7200rpm
Samsung 750GB - 7200rpm
Antec EarthWatts 750w Modular PSU
CM Storm Scout ATX Mid Tower

Pros: Great Stats

Cons: Horrible driver issues and not well supported by many games that are/have been out over the past year.

Other Thoughts: In order for my games to run and not crash, I've had to underclock my card from the default settings. I've never underclocked anything before in my life (don't gamers spend most of their time overclocking things?). I tried to contact ASUS multiple times and they kept saying the problem was with the game because it "worked fine in windows". To this day Nvidia and ASUS don't recognize there is a problem with the card and there is a lot of finger pointing and no one is stepping up. In hind sight, I'll stay with AMD/ATI for future cards because I've had better luck with them (even if they do have lower stats). 1 year with the card and I am starting to see some light warping in the display in games. I keep my fingers crossed that it doesn't die on my like other people who have commented here.

Pros: Great card could handle anything while it was working

Cons: First problems came while I was playing skyrim. Game froze computer restarted. Tried turning skyrim back on to see if problems still lingered...Same thing happened again. Tried to re-install drivers/updating drivers, seemed like the problem stopped, but got worse as long as the computer kept running. Videos/movies being played would start freezing up while I moved the mouse. Playing games were impossible, every game I turned it would freeze and lag constantly. Shutting down the computer became a hassle, screen would freeze and shutdown would never occur. Had to force shutdown by holding power button which is ridiculous. Switched back to my 560ti problems stopped and everything works perfectly.
Highly disappointed in the a card, spent $419 dollars on a defective product and have to return it to pay $16 shipping for the return... I expected more "quality" from the first Asus product I bought, very disappointing.

Manufacturer Response:

Dear Valued Customer,

I am sorry you have had problems with your GTX 670 graphics card. If you would like, you can send it our repair facility within warranty to fix or replace your card. You should certainly have a card that works perfectly so please let me know if there is anything that I can do for you. You can reach me at cl-jeremy@asus.com with any questions, comments, or concerns you may have.

Regards,
Jeremy
ASUS Customer Loyalty

Pros: Pros - It's a great card.. When it works. Owned since August 2012.

Cons: Cons - So many.
1) Video Display Drivers Crashed. So.. so many times. There are ways around this via a regedit. But at $400+ should this be necessary?
2) Constant Freezing and locking up on the last NVIDIA driver updates. Yes, I know this is a driver problem. Last updates by Asus were in October 2012.

Other Thoughts: This is probably the largest amount of money I've spent for one single component. I'll never do it again. ASUS support is non-existant, so don't expect help there.

Manufacturer Response:

Dear Lycanthe,

I apologize for your experience with your GTX 670 graphics card. You are welcome to use the latest drivers from Nvidia (314.07, dated 2/18/2013) if they perform better for you. If you still have problems, please contact me at cl-jeremy@asus.com. Your card has a 3 year warranty with us at ASUS that you are welcome to utilize to get a replacement. Please let me know if there is anything that I can do for you, I am happy to help in any way that I can.

Regards,
Jeremy
ASUS Customer Loyalty

Pros: Well the obvious pros of this card is mainly you can get a great OC on it, but that's only if you were fortunate enough to get one that runs well and is actually stable. The card itself runs great completely stock and doing no changes to it out of the box.

Cons: I just built a completely new rig at the end of December so I've had this card for less than 3 months. I had a few "display driver crashes" not to long after I got it and for the last month it's been crashing constantly some days and running fine others. I'm just completely fed up with it now though, I can't even run an internet browser window with the gpu usage spiking up to 99% randomly for no apparent reason and then the display driver crashes. I've searched for countless hours and tried dozens of different things to fix this issue and nothing seems to work. I'm really disappointed in the amount I spent on this card and how unstable and unreliable it is.

Other Thoughts: If you plan on getting a new card wait for something better as I've read a lot of the 680's are doing the same thing as the 670's in my search for a solution to my problem!

Pros: no pros about this card i recieved

Cons: Did not even last 3 weeks.First started the rainbow effect in games,then started crashing my PC. Then went black and never came back on,not happy at all with this card I received.

Other Thoughts: Also when i received the card and took it out of the box. Their was black smug on the end of the cards like it had been burnt,not sure what this was but i was worried from the start. I see that I was right to worry.

Manufacturer Response:

Dear Valued Customer,

I am sorry to hear that your GTX 670 card isn't working anymore. If you have not contacted either Newegg or ASUS Support yet, please email me at cl-jeremy@asus.com. If you can provide me anything about your card that you experienced out of the box, it would be beneficial to your case.

If you have any questions, comments, or concerns feel free to let me know.

Regards,
Jeremy
ASUS Customer Loyalty

Pros: play any game maxed out in sli amazing and quite imo

Cons: because the cards are so close together in sli top one tends to heat up n the fan rpm/temp. curve isnt enough games have locked up on me

can use an alt. prog. to set fan rpm/temp. curve not that big of a deal to me
only con i have

Pros: Great card , powerful , good design / quiet.
can run bf3 ultra at 1900*1200 no problems whatsoever as far as framerate.

Cons: To start : here are briefly my system specs:i7 2600k , 8gb kingston hyperx dd3 , 775 thermatake 80+, gigabyte ud3h b3 , crucial m4 128gb (only hd).
I installed the card to replace my faulty radeon 6850 (which I established for fact was a faulty card based on dozens of forums I read regarding the issues I had with it- gave me BSOD's artifacts daily).

This card functioned great the first month or 2 but then I had a few issues with driver recovering successfully screenflash.However there were no BSOD's or artifacts with the card and it happens fairly rare.

I reinstalled the driver , installed newest 314.07, set the GPU to high performance mode , disabled Vsinc , disabled hardware acceleration on my browser and the issue is now very sporadic (no more than once a day , in fact the last time i seen it was 3 days ago).Ive contacted asus and they advised me to raise the voltage on the card (haven't tried yet) if the issue returns I will consider.

Besides this , I am satisfied with the card even if occasionally I have this inconvenience. I don't think the card is faulty (fingers crossed) and honestly Ive had a laptop that had this very same issue run for 7+ years and still working fine (the laptop has a 9600m gs gpu on vista).

Other Thoughts: If shopping for a card today , buy a 660ti honestly better value for money , I bought this card when the 660ti wasn't out yet.