EVGA 012-P3-1570-AR GeForce GTX 570 (Fermi) 1280MB 320-bit GDDR5 PCI Express 2.0 x16 HDCP Ready SLI Support Video Card

Pros: It was working well for more than a year or so and giving pretty good gaming quality.

Cons: It now crashes while I'm playing world of warcraft, haven't played other games long enough as I have time constraints. it takes about 3 hours more or less, gives a black screen and says: your drivers has stopped working and recovered!

Other Thoughts: Probably should'ave went with an AMD GPU. probably would have lasted more than a year for 300$

Manufacturer Response:

Hello,

There might be something along the lines of a overheating problem going on. Please contact us at 888-881-3842 so we can further assist you.

Thank you,
Brandon B

Pros: This card has been excellent. I've been running everything I can off my 1080p TV maxed out. Skyrim? Check. I had a slight hiccup once, just for a moment, but I couldn't replicate it. Darkstalkers II? Check. EVE Online? Check. Runs multiple clients well here, but if I'm flying around, I have to turn down the graphics to medium-ish, but then I can keep a third around in station. Everything I play has worked in full 1080p with maxed settings.

Cons: The only con is that the HDMI connection seems to have issues.

Sometimes, it stops reading my TV occasionally. I use it in a dual monitor setup with an older monitor using a digital cable, and it occasionally drops my TV as my extra monitor and crams everything into the smaller monitor. I have to unplug and replug in the HDMI cable in the back of my computer, and I have to do it without having the resolution and monitor settings window in Windows open.

After doing so, and it may take a couple tries, it reconnects and fixes itself.

Also, occasionally, the HDMI display goes blank for just a second. It's enough to break your concentration, but it's not enough that you miss anything.

Pros: Good graphics card

Cons: I've had lots of issues getting weird problems early on. Seems that the drivers weren't completely up to par.

Other Thoughts: Customer Support tried very hard to solve my problem, but it didn't actually get solved until they released updated drivers.

Pros: Works great when I have no issues

Cons: When playing World of Warcraft and sometimes simple flash games I get a display error that it suddenly stopped working. Updated the drivers etc, didnt help

Other Thoughts: If you know a fix for this, feel free to tell me.

Manufacturer Response:

Hi,

I am very sorry to hear that you are having this issue. Please give us a call at 888-881-3842 so we can work to get this resolved for you.

Thank you,
Brandon B

Pros: I was planning on getting a 2GB graphics card and ended up with this unit. I have been very pleased with the basic clock speeds and have not had to modify the settings to much for good game play. I have not had any issued with the blue screen of death like prior cards in the past.

Cons: none that I can think of at this time

Pros: Benchmarks, see other thoughts.

Cons: None, whatsoever. maybe the 1.2 vram, instead of 1.5 or 2, but whatever, it's a great card.

Other Thoughts: Benchmarks:
All of these are at 720p (1366x768) on highest settings with vertical sync turned off (duh).
Portal 2: 189
Dead Space 2: 210
Starcraft II: 90
Mirror's Edge: 82
Alan Wake: 78
Tribes: Ascend: 72
The Witcher 2: 68
Metro 2033: 62
Crysis: 36 <<< ef this game :-P

Heaven 3.0, with x4AA, x16AF, normal Tessellation, high shaders: 75 fps!!!!

Specs:
Asus M4A78LT-M
Phenom II x4 965 BE @ 3.4ghz
Crucial Ballistix 2x4GB @ 1600mhz
Antec Neo Eco 620W, 12v @ 48A
eVGA GTX 570 1.28 gb @ 732mhz
Seagate 1TB HDD

Pros: I`m a long time fan of the EVGA cards and they never let me down. Great buy for the buck, i bouth it on sale, have 2 in sli, they run everything i throgh at them. i did overclocked them but then they start to run a little too hot for my taste, still even wthout overclock they do perfect job.

Cons: none so far

Other Thoughts: in sli those cards run hot, they are a bit big, but all of the new cards are so you should be prerared with a big and spacsious case with very good air flow or water cooling. i pare those inside Antec P280 case and its a little tight for my Creative X-Fi to fit in, but this is due more of a MB lay out then the cards.

Pros: I have had this card for over a year now and I love it. It is super fast and still keeps up with all the new games and my multiple displays.

Cons: Not a knock on the card but Nvidia for only allowing 2 active displays at once without SLI...

Other Thoughts: Get it.

Pros: Very fast. I was coming from an eMachines computer with a GeForce 6150 SE, so admittedly it was terrible compared to the GTX 570....heck, the eMachines one was terrible compared to probably everything on the market. Anyway, I play Warcraft on Ultra settings at 180fps, so this graphics card is doing its job, and then some.

I almost went with the GTX 480, but heard that it gets REALLY hot. Heat hasn't been an issue with the GTX 570. I have plenty of airflow in my case, plus the in-card fan keeps it plenty cool. I have felt the various parts of the card after gaming sessions and it's barely warm.

Cons: None really. It was a little longer than I expected, so had the top drive bay on the Antec 900 not been placed the way it was, I might have had issues. I'm not sure how this will work in anything smaller than MidTower cases, so be sure you research case dimensions if you go smaller.

Other Thoughts: I'm happy with this card. The quality and price-point are unbeatable IMO.

Pros: Makes every game I have on my PC looks great no complains at all and no driver issues at all.

Cons: none.

Other Thoughts: Ok no joke this beast is huge had to move the hard drive but no biggie not enough for me to drop an egg.