PowerColor PCS+ AX7950 3GBD5-2DHPP Radeon HD 7950 3GB 384-bit GDDR5 PCI Express 3.0 x16 HDCP Ready CrossFireX Support Video Card

Pros: Very nice design, you can tell powercolor put some effort into the cooling system that they utilized making this. I only play games on 1920x1080 and this card makes that resolution a breeze. Crysis 3 got over 60 FPS with most settings turned maxed, temps rose to a steady 55C. Very quiet Cooler on this guy as well. I have a relativly quiet tower 550D from corsair, I buttoned it up with noctua fans, the PowerColor matches up with these components well and keeps my system hush.

Cons: Well not going to knock an egg off but I had to RMA the first card I got, from what I understand the video memory may have been bad on it because it was causing horizontal Blue lines on screen. But replacement was easy enough.

Other Thoughts: Good buy, no regrets!

Pros: It at least let me boot.

Cons: The card was D.O.A and newegg ran out of them when I went to get a return. Hopefully they'll have more in the near future.

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Pros: quiet and fast.
Massive improvements over my previous xfx 5850 in DX11 games , in some cases 600%+ improvements.I was impressed how well my AMD phenom II 965 Scales the GPU. HIGH res future proofed

Cons: Freezes from lack of voltage in Crysis 2(had to take an egg), I either have downclock core or up the voltage to fix it.Driver issues from some games unable to load up while AA turned on or some games unable to read the 3GB memory locks the seetings on minamum, this specific issue is with all 3GB+ cards though.O btw idk if this is a con , depends on your opinion , but this card is wide , very wide measure your case , I have a large case i spend 300$ on two months ago and i can't close the door on it , but it still fits lol :P

Other Thoughts: I can't wait to buy another one for crossfire , I'll probely wait for 8xxx series ;

Pros: Upgraded from a powercolor 5850 PCS+ (still going strong in another computer) and it was definitely worth it; despite a cpu bottleneck fps took a very nice jump.

Idle temps/idle power consumption are lower too, thanks to the new architecture (load temps and power consumption are just slightly higher).

And Like the 5850 PCS+ this card has everything people actually care about:decent performance, no noise, decent cooling, and stability- it just works! Look at some of the other brands that made it in the video card reviews at similar price points- sure they have higher clocks, maybe even slightly better cooling (never as quiet)- but guess what? None of that means anything if they fail or get glitchy, buy quality, not hype! Something that you won't have to hassle over.

Cons: Gaming temps stay a little high- around 53 degrees Celsius, (never gone over 60 though)

-long card

-price

-The GTX 660 Ti gets a bit more fps for a lower price....we'll see how long that lasts in the future with that small 192-bit bus...

Other Thoughts: I was debating whether to buy this or the slightly cheaper PowerColor PCS+ AX7870 7870 (vortex II edition). At the end of the day power consumption (and lack of reviews) made me choose the 7950. But in hardware reviews/benchmarks it is a pretty close call in performance...
it has yet to be customer reviewed almost anywhere =(

Pros: I concur with everyone else, this is just a phenomenal card, and is very quiet compared to other cards I've had. Run games on max settings with great frame rates. This is just a super card and looks great in the case, too. Haven't messed with OC'ing yet, but not sure I even need to, but will play around with pushing this card a little harder - soon.

Cons: Like everyone else, wish top tech didn't cost so much :)

Other Thoughts: Card fit in my mid-tower, but is on the longish side. Didn't mess with install disc, rather downloaded latest from AMD, installed, reboot and BAM - pure awesomeness.

Pros: It's fast. It's quiet even at 50 to 60% fan speed. This replaces Sapphire 2G 6950 and it was 'loud' at 60% fan speed. This one on the other hand I can barely hear the fans spinning at 60%. It handles my Eyefinity setup at 5980 * 1080 very well since it has 3G of GDDR5 memory. I play Tera online and it looks absolutely beautiful and lag-free running on this card. Temps are just fine also...runs between 35 and 48 degree after playing Tera or Left4dead for about 3 hours..

Cons: Well..this is not a big deal....but...I can't seem to OC to 1000/1400Mhz without crashing in Tera. It could be the drivers..not sure. I even raised the voltage a bit to about 10 to 15%...but still not stable. So I decided to settle for 950/1350Mhz (stable).....It's still very fast..so I'm happy. Running 12.6beta currently...seems to work well.

Other Thoughts: It may not be as fast as GTX670 running certain games...but..it seems to handle Eyefinity set up very very well. And games such as BF3 in Eyefinity set up use up a lot of VRAM(So I heard)...and 3G GDDR5 seems to help a lot. Unless you have GTX670 4G version or something..lol Besides this one runs faster(OC-ed) with some games.

My setup:
Intel i5 - 2500K OC-ed to 4.3Ghz
8G of DDR3 1866 memory
128 SATAIII SSD
350GB 7200RPM SATAIII WD storage drive
620Watt Antec modular PSU
1080p 22" Acer monitor X 3 in Eyefinity
Powercolor PCS+ 3G HD7950
Asrock Z77 pro-4M mobo

Pros: Pretty tweakable card. Nice cooler system, very effective as a single card. Pretty sexy looking in the case.

Cons: Stock shroud design in x-fire makes it so the card above ingests hot air from the card below. This causes your upper card to heat up considerably. Make sure you have some good ventilation. Stock clocks ended up with the fan on the upper card going at 68% of speed. Card doesn't exhaust much heat out the rear due to shroud design not going all the way to the rear vents. It just re-circulates hot air back onto itself. Card out of the box had the rear metal piece bent (the piece that mounts to the case). Bought my 2nd card from another vendor and noticed the same issue. Seems like a manufacturing issue from Power Color. However, this was minor and a simple straightening with good ol' elbow grease got everything fitting nicely.

Other Thoughts: If Powercolor would extend the cowling to the rear exit and cover up those sexy heat pipes all the way to the PCB board so that air can only exhaust out of the front or rear of the card, they'd be able to prevent the hot air ingestion issue with a common x-fire setup. This would drop air temps for the upper card and would reduce the need for extra fans allowing for a quieter computer. Or if they'd offer a liquid cooling solution, that'd work too!

Pros: FAST. went from P3300 in 3dmark11 to over 6000 at default speeds.
overclocked core to 960 with built in driver overclocking.
overclocked and running furmark, i've still only gotten this card up to 66C. very cool and stay quiet because of this.

Cons: large. length is normal, but heat pipes do extend out to make the width wider that some cards.

Other Thoughts: Phenom II 955 BE @ 3.8GHZ
Old card: 5830 @ 950/1250

Pros: 10% overclock out of the box. Pretty easy to get 20% more using the catalyst overclock util.

At stock speeds the card is very quiet. Much better than my HD6950.

Speed-wise, it is a fantastic card and is particularly well suited for single-card triple monitor setups. Eyefinity keeps getting better!

Cons: Price, but this too shall pass.

Other Thoughts: Battlefield 3 @ 5760x1080 (3 monitors) is very doable, though you still will have to turn down some settings. On a single monitor you should be able to hit ultra or a mix of high/ultra.

BF3 is the only thing I currently play that will stress this card.

Pros: Lets start with, this card is EPIC. I mean, it plays every and any game you throw at it!

First off, idle temp is a lovely 32 C. Cool strait from the start, and keeps cool even under load.

Most games have a hard time keeping up with this card!

One of my favorite parts though, is how silent this card is! I mean, I can't hardly hear it running. This is why I was drawn to this card, is that it is so silent. Although I was skeptical of the reviews I read on how silent it is....I'm very pleased that it truly is near dead silent.

I highly recomend getting this card if you're looking to play games on max settings, and if you don't want to listen to a rocketship blasting off while you're playing them! Good work on the card PowerColor!

Cons: None.