EVGA 04G-P4-2673-KR GeForce GTX 670 Superclocked+ w/Backplate 4GB 256-bit GDDR5 PCI Express 3.0 x16 HDCP Ready SLI Support Video Card

Pros: FRAMERATE - is MOSTLY 60 fps in most NEW games.
POWER CONSUMPTION - Ok, to be fair, even though I hate this card overall, I have to admit that my power consumption with the GTX 670 is substantially lower than my old GTX 580, or even the GTX 480. This is in large part due to the new "Kepler" architecture found on the GTX 600 series cards, which is more power efficient.

Cons: STUTTERING - I wish I was kidding. I wish I was exaggerating. I wish I could say "I just had a defective card, and a replacement fixed all my problems!" But no, I'm not kidding. This is no exaggeration. The card, and product line as a whole, is bad... I have never seen stuttering so bad in a GeForce product line, not even with the GTX 480 (that card just had heat issues). And it's not because of driver or NVCP settings, I played with both, driver upgrade and downgrades, I even did a clean Windows reformat to rule that out. The game stutters in these four games: Mass Effect 3, GTA IV, World of Warcraft, Diablo 3. 60 FPS, then drops to 10-25 FPS, then goes back to 60 FPS. Horrible. Don't believe me? Google it. This isn't just one or two users having this problem, the ENTIRE GTX 600 series is plagued with stuttering issues. Some games don't have it (i.e. BF3) but for a lot of older games it will. Don't believe me? Google it.

NO "REAL" CUDA - Oh sure, there are over 1000 CUDA cores on this card. Can you use them? NOPE! In Sony Vegas or Adobe Premiere, CUDA shows up as "available" but when you go to render the video file, you end up sitting 200% or even up to 300% longer than if you render the same video file with a GTX 480, or 580. I'm serious. Don't believe me? Google it.

Other Thoughts: I'm not kidding about anything in my review, if you don't believe anything I have to say, a quick google search "GTX 670 stuttering GTA IV" or just "GTX 670 stuttering" will net you COUNTLESS forum results of consumers who saw past the marketing hype and realized how terrible the GTX 670 is. This card clearly did not go through enough testing at NVIDIA before it passed into the hands of manufacturers like EVGA, Gigabyte, ASUS, etc.

To be fair, the GTX 670 is decent (notice I didn't say "great") at games performance. Sure, for games like Crysis 3 you'll see playable framerates at ultra details (not so playable once you enable anti-aliasing), but as a PERFORMANCE card, the 670, and to be fair, the entire GTX 600 series cards fails. Why? Because Kepler architecture sucks. Did I really just say that? YES. Because as a consumer who renders his videos and understands how 1080p video rendering works, I always took CUDA enabled rendering for granted. With the GTX 600 series cards, CUDA is technically still "there", but isn't available anymore for Sony Vegas or Adobe Premiere because of the new architecture altogether. This is FALSE ADVERTISING and shows that NVIDIA was too scared to communicate thoroughly with Adobe/Sony and probably other video rendering companies so that these companies could understand and compile new software parameters that take advantage of the new CUDA. It's either that, or NVIDIA really did screw up CUDA for the 600 series cards.

Why do I say that? Well, considering how long the 600 series cards have been out now (March 2012 according to Wikipedia), NVIDIA has had over a YEAR to correct some if not ALL of these glaring issues through driver updates or just a simple news posting on their website acknolweding these problems in the first place. NVIDIA has done neither. This tells me that NVIDIA is pulling the same false-marketing strategy that they've done with the 9800's back in the day-- Don't admit blame, keep selling the cards, upset customers, and just let the customer dissatisfaction simmer until the next card series gets released (which at the time after the 9800's was the GeForce 200 series).

All in all, the entire GTX 600 series product line is a scam. Yes, you are getting increased framerates over the GTX 500 series, but the loss of CUDA enabled rendering and the stuttering issues in so many games and the amount of time (over a YEAR now as I write this review) that NVIDIA has had as an opportunity to fix these glaring issues, doesn't justify buying this video card.

As a now-educated consumer, you have been warned. If you still buy this card, make sure you test ALL YOUR GAMES, not just 1-10 new games. There are those days when you want to revisit an old game in your library, and if you find that that game stutters a lot, and realize that NO driver upgrade or even downgrade will fix that stuttering, you can expect yourself to say, "Darn, neilthecellist told me so on his Newegg review, and I bought the card anywa

Pros: Nice looking, fast, plays Metro Last Light maxed out with 0 stutter or frame drop. Very beefy and awesome EVGA case badge in the box.

Cons: If you have a small case, you may want to double check your clearances cuz this card has the 2 pci video card power connectors on the side of the card as opposed to the back. Not really a con, though.

Other Thoughts: For anyone checking compatibility, here is my system:
ASRock X79 Extreme6 LGA 2011 mobo
Zalman 9900MAX cooler
EVGA Geforce GTX 670 4Gb
Intel i7 3820 @4.4Ghz
Asus Xonar D1 sound card
Rosewill Thor V2 case
Corsair HX750 PSU
GSkill Trident 16Gb (2x8) 2400Mhz kit
Mushkin Chronos Enhanced 120Gb SSD

Pros: This card is incredible. It does everything it's been asked to do. From gaming to model rendering for work, this thing does it all. With 4Gb of RAM, this card doesn't need anything else.

Cons: The size can be a factor. If you buy it, make sure your case will have sufficient space for it.

Pros: Excellent card. Purchased early on at a higher price. I play with a triple monitor setup, 3x dell 24in monitors at a bezel corrected 6060x1200 resolution. I play farcry3, mmo's, shooters, ect. Skyrim max settings at that resolution is still 60 fps and up.

Cons: none. Love this card. Need another.

Pros: Fast. Comes with some fancy stickers.

Cons: Hot at default fan speeds. 80C+ because it simply doesn't want to increase the fan speed and make noise.
Idling at 67C is just silly.

Other Thoughts: Install EVGA Precision X and setup a fan curve to fix this. It gets a little noisy but whatever. Upping it from 30% speed to 55% has negligible amounts of extra noise and drops the temps to high 30s/low 40s when idle.

Pros: -EVGA. I have only ever purchased their cards since my start with Nvidia (GeForce 2) and I have never been let down.
-4gb VRAM I especially needed this for my 1600p Dell u3011
-Handles everything I throw at it
:: Bought a 2nd for SLi. Crysis 3 runs @ ~45fps Ultra settings with 2xMSAA with dips down to 33fps. Don't really need much AA with such a HiRes monitor. BF3 averages 100fps ultra settings @1600p

Cons: -Cost. I bought my first card back in October '12 for $460. Paid $450 for the new one recently. Was gonna wait longer but seeing some epic games coming out soon and I just couldn't wait any longer.
-NEWEGG!!!! This has been my last and final purchase at newegg. I have been through this site since the beginning and it pains me to seek elsewhere. Ontrac shipping service is by far the worst I have EVER had to deal with. Leaving well over $1000 worth in parts at my apartment door in the rain where just any shmuck can come by and take it. Upon repeated complaints and requests for them to drop it at the office (like UPS does) they refuse to do any better. Boxes are horribly mishandled as well. I was EXTREMELY lucky to receive my items. I asked Newegg to have a freedom of choice. I would pay EXTRA for UPS but they refused so in turn, I refuse newegg. This deeply saddens me.

Other Thoughts: The shipping debacle isn't just singularly prevalent on newegg either. Many other sites have been slowly taking direct control of shipping methods which I find greatly displeasing. If I am going to pay for a parcel service, I believe I deserve the right to select who (which it used to be).

Pros: Like every other review has said, this GTX 670 works, & works well. I've had it for a good little while, & quite happy with it. I’m a big gamer & 3D sculptor, & there isn't much I can do to slow this thing down. So far, Crisis 3 is the only thing that I’ve noticed anything like micro stuttering with, but it’s few & far between with everything on ultra & max AA, but that’s just being ultra-picky. I upgraded from a GTX 660 SC that had fried out on me, & I’m glad that I decided to get the upgrade. All things considered, its a good 20-30% performance increase (taking in the fact I might have had a bad card to begin with, but it still worked like I needed it to while it lived).

Cons: The card runs warmer that I would like it to, but it really isn’t anything to gripe about. The highest I hit is ~78C. My house stays at about 26C, and the idle isn’t much more than that. The fan stays relatively quiet under a full load. You have to manually pump up the fan over 55% before it starts go get noisy. & I wouldn’t use precision x to overclock. There are compatibility issues with a lot of games; at least that I have seen. But again it’s really nothing to complain about. Awesome performance so far, making it worth what I paid ($439.99).

Other Thoughts: Overall I am looking to get a least one more, if not two for the same system, even if two alone is overkill for, well anything. Water cooling my system is a thought for a later date, if at all. EVGA's blower style cooling works quite well as long as you have decent airflow for it to.

System as of now:
i7 3770K OC@ 4.5ghz
GTX 670 SC+ (actually kept at default)
GIGABYTE z77x-UD5H mobo
16GB 1600 ram
240GB mSATA SSD (system drive)
2x sATA III 2TB 7200rpm HDD

Pros: 4GB,simple desing,super performance and excellent control panel and drivers

Cons: None

Other Thoughts: I play mostly flight sims and with my old 5850 I had mediocre performance (15-25fps on medium settings) on Cliffs of Dover, with this GPU Im getting constant 60fps with max settings and at last the AA works.I have had awful experiences with ATI drivers so thats one of the reasons I changed sides.Plus the control panel on Nvidia is a lot more friendly and all the feautures work, unlike the red side.

Pros: Very fast card. Quiet, cool, and powerful. Everything you would expect from EVGA. Has handled everything I have thrown at it with absolutely no problems.

Cons: None at all!

Pros: I have burned out Several graphics cards in my time and this one coming out the gate is just smooth and amazing, So much to that my wife thought that I was watching a movie while playing Tomb Raider. Nvidia has not once let me down Great jobs guy keep it up please.

Cons: I wish I had bought this card sooner.