EVGA 04G-P4-3688-KR GeForce GTX 680 Classified 4GB 256-bit GDDR5 PCI Express 3.0 x16 HDCP Ready SLI Support Video Card

Pros: Superior overclocking capabilities. Good looks. The white led strip on the front matches my rig well. I have scores on various benchmarks beating out Titans with the overclock I was able to achieve. I was able to get the core up to 1286 Mhz with the boost kicking in and the memory at 7500 MHz!!! I know I hit the silicon lottery with this thing... But WOW!

Cons: Price, especially now that the 700 series are out. EVGA needs to get the prices in order. I would like a second one, but not at the current price. You can get a 770 with slightly better performance for much less. Size, I have a full tower but for smaller towers this card may be pushing it. Noise, this card gets a bit loud when your really putting it under a heavy load.

Other Thoughts: I want another, but I might just upgrade to a 780 unless they get the pricing right.

Pros: This card is great! It can OC very well and take a beating.

Cons: price, but it's an EVGA product so you get their awesome customer support and a quality product that will last

Other Thoughts: wish the hydro editions were cheaper

Pros: >runs all my games in ultra settings while mainting high fps. RIFT, crisis 3, skyrim with over 50 mods.

>runs PhysX applications extremely well.

>Nvidia control panel makes games look even better while provoding better performance and higher fps in every single game I own

>even capped at 55% fan speed this card runs extremely quiet and stays very cool.

>for a card of this caliber it also is very power consumption friendly

Cons: >price. it is a tad expensive but you get what you pay for.

>size. I wouldn't get this card unless I had a full tower and good wire/cable management

>not so much a con with the card itself but a few times during driver updates the NVidia driver crashed and wouldn't let me access the control panel. and since the update crashed during install when I tried reinstalling I would get an error saying my driver was corrupted. when I tried uninstalling the driver I would get the same issue. only option I was left with was reformatting my C drive. however I am sure this was an error on my part during the install. and even while the control panel was inaccessible the card preformed very well and I suffered no fps loss in games.

Other Thoughts: I love this card. I upgraded from a 480 and noticed a HUGE improvement in virtually all areas. Games run much better and smoother, fan is a lot quieter, card consumes less power. The only issue ive had with this card wasn't with the card itself but the driver.

Pros: -Custom built Card.
-4gb memory.
-Better binned chip for higher OC than most 680's
-Lower fan noise and better cooler than typical 680's.
-Most will boost higher than advertised clock. (mine boost to 1267 out of the box without me touching any manual overclock).
-Evga is in my opinion the best company to buy video cards from with unrivaled customer service.

Cons: -Does not come with EVBOT anymore.
-Very large card in both width and length. May require modification of computer case to fit even in larger cases.
-Gtx 780 was just released and GTX 770 will in a matter of day's meaning this great card will get overlooked.

Other Thoughts: This is a great card I have worked with many different models of the GTX 670 and 680 and I have found these to come with better binned chips that have more headroom than most I also realy like the cooler/fan setup on these cards offering better cooling and more quiet fan than standard 670's/680's.

I was so impressed with this card that I bought another to run in SLI even though the GTX 780 was released as two of these will handle anything you throw at them plus has 4gb of memory which will help with future proofing as games are already reaching the 3gb mark at 1080p.

If this card will fit in your case I would still recommend it even with the new series just releasing as it is not a typical GTX 680 and it is getting easier to find a good deal on this card most of these will surpass the new GTX 770 in performance and get close enough to a GTX 780 while being much cheaper. Great card.

Pros: And bob said... let there be the 780

Cons: and then there was... a week after I bought this card :/

Pros: Best 600$ I ever blew off! really I love this card,, I play a lot of arma and that game can ask for a lot,, and the 680 will make you happy, also run planetside 2 on maxed out settings really good,, Im thinking about watercooling but the card never gets hot. unless I use precision x

Cons: none

Other Thoughts: should last 4 fours until needing more power

Pros: 2nd fastest single core gpu on the planet. the titan is 1st and costs 1k. anybody that is disappointed in this card is doing something wrong.
the two reviews below mine were written by "bleep bleep" so pay them no mind.
if you have a 2nd gen i5/i7 and above with comparable core components then this card is for you.

Cons: we would all like for this card to cost 200.00............

Other Thoughts: im not sure why my first review that i placed was not posted as it raved on and on in detail but oh well. with "bleep bleep" posting bad reviews this card needs all the five star reviews it can get, and deserves because there is only one card faster and this card is built like a tank, period.

Pros: Gnarly powerful card, if it worked.

Cons: Awaiting Metro Last Light, i decided to order a new card, seemed like a beast. After installing the card itself I did a clean install of Windows 7 ultimate x64. After playing Metro for about 5 minutes, blue(black screen, can't see) screen of death. Later i tried a game that didn't even use the gpu, 10 minutes in, same thing. No matter what i do, crashes, crashes everywhere.

Manufacturer Response:

Hello,

Please contact us at 888-881-3842 so we can get more information on this and do some troubleshooting to narrow down the issue.

Thank you,
Brandon B

Pros: -Look and feels great
-very high quality
-never goes past 60c

Cons: -Can only run some games on max.
-not performing as well as i would expect.

Other Thoughts: I have 2 of these in sli and they're just not what you would expect. i mean you would think this in sli would blow everything else out of the water but i'm having trouble running crysis 3, the witcher 2 and metro last light on max settings. they are very demanding games but for my set up to run those games under 40 fps.

Manufacturer Response:

Hello,

If possible could you send me some benchmarks using these cards along with your system information? You can contact me directly at bbrunson@evga.com

Thank you,
Brandon B

Pros: Never overheats runs anything and everything (league of legends benchmark gameplay at 450fps on ultra) best 600$ I ever spent

Cons: I don't have the $$ for 2

Other Thoughts: Will any game slow this down?