EVGA SSC 01G-P4-3652-KR GeForce GTX 650 Ti 1GB 128-bit GDDR5 PCI Express 3.0 x16 HDCP Ready Video Card

Pros: Fantastic value card. Factory overclock pushes this card well past the 7770. Quiet, cool, looks adorable compared to the behemoth cards most run these days. Fantastic Linux support, ubuntu 13.04 runs like a charm. I'm not much of a gamer, but I do run FSX and Civ V -- both at full settings on 1080p without issues (paired with an FX-8350).

Cons: Unfortunately, the recently released 7790 and 650ti boost have taken over this card's market segment, and it's no longer the value proposition it was a month or two ago.

Other Thoughts: Unless you have this card literally installed inside a space heater, and place the space-heater-gpu-contraption inside of an echo chamber, I have no idea how you could complain about the noise. I have 2 Corsair AF140 fans in my case running with the included quiet-mode adapters, and you can't hear this card over those even when gaming at full blast. YES you can mess with the fan curve, set it to 100%, and then it does get a bit noisy. But in real-world usage i've never seen the fan get NEAR that high.

Pros: Super fast. Haven't been able to push it beyond 55C. Use it for video encoding and editing using vReveal and it took a standard def movie from 3 hours down to 25 minutes and a 720p movie to 55 min down from 5 hours. I should mention my old card was a gt430 for a reference point. I went from 1gb ddr3 and 96 cuda's to 1gb ddr5 768 cuda cores with this beast.

Cons: none.

Other Thoughts: paired with my e3-1230v2 and 16gb ram, ssd, and raid setup I can't imagine ever needing anything more. Then again my old Tandy 1000 had 640k ram and I had thought who'd ever need more! hehe.

Pros: Good quality visuals, multiple displays, high resolution

Cons: Like a number of people commented, it's LOUD. Not as loud as some make it out to be, but certainly loud enough to be heard over noise-canceling headphones. Also, the connectors are a bit squeezed together, but that's what happens with smaller cards.

Biggest problem is the fact that Windows 7 seems to blow away the graphics driver every time an update reboots the machine and it all has to be installed from scratch. Tech support's best options for me were to either A.) deal with it or B.) manually install ALL updates so that I can have it skip graphics driver updates.

Other Thoughts: Even when a card makes my game look great, if my best option for making it work is to spend an hour of my very limited gaming time manually installing updates to my machine, it's worth less than nothing to me. As soon as I can afford it, I'll be going back to ATI.

Pros: Powerful. Doesn't use much power and runs very cool, never had it over 62C with Prime95. Never had any lag. Runs Crysis 3 on Medium settings, everthing other game max settings.

Cons: Doesn't look amazing..

Other Thoughts: I would reccomend this gpu to anyone who is a gamer but doesn't need a GTX 660.

My Rig:
Case: NZXT M59
Motherboard: ASUS M5A97 R2.0
CPU: AMD FX-6100 3.3GHz
RAM: Corsair Vengence Low Profile 8GB (2x4GB) 1866MHz
PSU: SeaSonic M12II 520W Modular
GPU: EVGA 650Ti SSC 1GB
HDD: Maxtor 320GB
HDD(2): Seagate 160GB RAID 0
Headset: Plantronics GameCom 307
Mouse: Logitech M100
Keyboard: GearHead KB3600MPU
Fans: NZXT Blue 120mm Led/NZXT 120mm/Xigmatech Blue 140mm Led (X2)
/ Xigmatech Blue 120mm Led
Optical Drive: LiteOn CD+-DVD+-
Speakers: Creative T3130
Monitor: eMachines E202H Res. 1600x900 60Hz

Pros: -Great card for the price.
-Very small size (so it fill fit easily in just about any case).
-Seems to have good power for the price/size. Runs games like BF3 and The Witcher 2 on High-Max (which everything cranked up to the max The Witcher 2 slows down a little bit at times...but on High it looks basically as good and runs great).

Cons: -Can't run every game out right now at Max settings...but close!

Pros: Nice, cool running card, good enough for most games if you're not super-serious.

Cons: Screaming, uncontrollable fan with the unit I received.

Other Thoughts: I really tried to have this card work for me; 3 different mobos gave me the same uncontrollable, VERY loud fan, basically running at 100% at all times, from the moment you boot up. Manufacturer's fan control software didn't solve the issue either. My first RMA, and it's a shame because the gpu worked just fine.

Manufacturer Response:

Hello,

Please do not hesitate to contact us again if you have any issues with your replacement card.

Thank you,
Brandon B

Pros: This joker is a lot smaller than I thought, it packs a good punch, no overheat, no loud noise, it works a lot better than the 7950GT-OC It replaced, although smaller,plays crysis 2, MW3, sniper ghost warrior and V2, all work smooth

Cons: none

Other Thoughts: this is a small form factor with a good punch, running on an older 2007 acer MB at the moment with win 7 32 bit, the only problem I have is when computer sleeps it will not wake up, have to hard shutdown, tried many different settings, hope my new build I have been preparing will do better with the sleep issue.
win8 pro 64
gigabyte 970
gskill 1600 8-gig
fx8320
antec 650 psu
antec full tower

Pros: -Runs Battlefield 3 and PlanetSide 2 on Max settings
-First time installing a new Graphics card really easy!

Cons: I would much rather get a free game then the 75$ coupon, but better than nothing!

Other Thoughts: This Graphics card can run any game out on Med-high

Pros: The price was right, and glmark2 gave me this:
Here's what I got, using MATE (Metacity) in the windowed mode:

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glmark2 2011.09
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OpenGL Information
GL_VENDOR: NVIDIA Corporation
GL_RENDERER: GeForce GTX 650 Ti/PCIe/SSE2
GL_VERSION: 4.3.0 NVIDIA 313.26
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[build] use-vbo=false: FPS: 4369
[build] use-vbo=true: FPS: 12634
[texture] texture-filter=nearest: FPS: 11933
[texture] texture-filter=linear: FPS: 10837
[texture] texture-filter=mipmap: FPS: 13408
[shading] shading=gouraud: FPS: 9778
[shading] shading=blinn-phong-inf: FPS: 9819
[shading] shading=phong: FPS: 9688
[bump] bump-render=high-poly: FPS: 6769
[bump] bump-render=normals: FPS: 12314
[effect2d] kernel=0,1,0;1,-4,1;0,1,0;: FPS: 7133
[effect2d] kernel=1,1,1,1,1;1,1,1,1,1;1,1,1,1,1;: FPS: 4486
[pulsar] light=false:quads=5:texture=false: FPS: 11188
[desktop] blur-radius=5:effect=blur:passes=1:separable=true:windo ws=4: FPS: 3140
[conditionals] fragment-steps=0:vertex-steps=0: FPS: 9162
[conditionals] fragment-steps=5:vertex-steps=0: FPS: 8391
[conditionals] fragment-steps=0:vertex-steps=5: FPS: 9158
[function] fragment-complexity=low:fragment-steps=5: FPS: 9066
[function] fragment-complexity=medium:fragment-steps=5: FPS: 8726
[loop] fragment-loop=false:fragment-steps=5:vertex-steps=5: FPS: 9061
[loop] fragment-steps=5:fragment-uniform=false:vertex-steps=5: FPS: 9020
[loop] fragment-steps=5:fragment-uniform=true:vertex-steps=5: FPS: 8866
================================================== =====
glmark2 Score: 9043
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Can't say I'm disappointed...

Cons: The Boost model came out about a week after I had this installed. Oh, well.

Other Thoughts: I'm a Linux user, and am using the nVidia drivers, not the open-source nouveau drivers. nVidia's Linux support (despite Linus' outburst last year) has always been far better than ATI's Linux support.

Pros: Great bang for the buck. I bought this card instead of an ATI card because of the better driver support Nvidia offers for Linux.

Runs StarCraft II on Extreme settings perfectly in Wine 1.5.27. Amnesia Linux version runs beautifully on max settings, as well! Dota 2 would not run in Wine using Intel integrated graphics, but after installing this card, it runs perfectly on maximum video settings.

Absolutely satisfied with this card.

Cons: None.

Other Thoughts: Open source Nouveau driver would not load GNOME 3 shell. Had to install proprietary driver in Unity or GNOME Classic. Maybe I just had an outdated driver.

Specs:
Intel Core i5 3570K (stock speeds, stock fan+sink)
Asus P8Z77-V
Ubuntu 12.04 LTS
Nvidia proprietary driver ver. 304.84