ECS Black Series NBGTX560-1GPI-F GeForce GTX 560 (Fermi) 1GB 256-bit GDDR5 PCI Express 2.0 x16 HDCP Ready SLI Support Video Card

Pros: Easy Setup! Great Graphics! Great Price On Sale

Cons: None!

Pros: I bought this card to replace my aging HD5670 and decided to go Nvidia this go around. Glad I did. Very simple to install and download software. Never had a graphics card that needed the extra PCI-E power cables connected to it, but I figured it out without any hiccups.

My WEI score for Graphics went from 6.7 to 7.7. Which the score is out of 7.9 so I'd say that's a respectable score. I went from having to dumb down the graphics on Skyrim, Dota 2, BF3, and League of Legends due to the old graphics card, but with this I crank everything up and it has no issues whatsoever.

I may download the MSI Afterburner software to mess around with overclocking, but as it stands right now, I have zero issues with this card. Never heard of this company and couldn't find any English reviews on the internet, so it was kind of a risky move, but it seems to have paid off. Very sturdy design with a sleek and simple exterior. If you're skeptical, don't be. Well worth what I got it for.

Cons: For the price range you can get a 7850, which is probably the better buy, but I wanted to try out Nvidia this go around.

Pros: Runs cool - but I recommend using Precision X GPU fan controller.

Fan speed Profile: 40% @ idle - 50% @ 50c - 60% @ 60c, etc.
Ambient room temp: 73-74f
Idle GPU temp: 31-33c
Load GPU temp: 55-60c

I got it primarily for Path of Exile and Diablo III and I'm very happy with the results thus far.

Very smooth card when connected to its native PCI-E 2.0 bus.

Cons: None so far.

Other Thoughts: This is a great card for aging 2.0 PCI-E bus systems. I highly recommend researching video cards and coresponding bus speeds before randomly buying a card and expecting it to work in any system.

I tried a 3.0 PCI-X card on my 2.0 PCI-X system and it was nothing but problems from day 1.

This is the 3rd card in my system and its wonderful. No complaints so far.

Pros: Plays bf3 on ultra at 40 fps

Cons: Non

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Pros: This card is awesome still. I have had this card more then a year and it's running great, and still able to play the big name games no problem. This part probably took me the longest to decide it was at a good price at the time about 190 bux's then the others just jumped 80-200 bucks more so I'm glad I didn't go higher this one works...kinda funny to see 600 series out already about the same price as this fella.

Cons: For awhile there was a software bug would make the graphic card crash took them awhile to fix it but they did so :)

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Pros: -Fairly priced for it's performance.
-Quiet fan compared to it's competitors.

Cons: -Heat sink/management operates at average performance.
It reaches about 60C after playing an hour of BF3 at maximum setting in a room environment of 67F.

Other Thoughts: For my card I was able to overclock the core clock to speeds between 920~950MHz.

As for rebates, I never got mine back. I took photos of the documents and the UPC bar before mailing it in. Send in an inquiry, but never got a reply back. Gave up trying to get a measly 10 bucks back.

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Pros: P1040 refrence board from the TI version. will work with any 560Ti water block. runs BF3 and Skyrim at 720P max settings with only 50% usage. never excedes 60C and fan is super quiet

Cons: a Ti in disguise but can't unlock due to laser echting

Other Thoughts: Decent card running it with a 520watt PSU and only useing 300 watts max total system with a quad core and 8 gb ram. definitly better to get this over a 550Ti, could only run that at med settings at 720P with 100% usage. i still don't see going to a Ti over this for at most 16% better AF.

Pros: I ordered this card to upgrade from an EVGA GTX260 so I could play Skyrim in all of its glory. I also have an Elitegroup Black series mobo so I figured compatibility wouldn't be an issue. The card itself is actually smaller than my previous card so that worked out well. The power plugs are on the end of the card as opposed to the side which also works out well. After I put the card in I couldn't hear any additional noise. I downloaded the Nvidia 290.53 beta driver and it worked fine (supposedly increases performance in Skyrim by 25%). The performance I get out of this card is great so I don't think I'll O.C. this card anymore than it already is

Long story short: Good value for an overclocked card, runs quiet and is stable.

Cons: None yet, I've only had the card for a few days. If the card is as good quality as my mobo, there will be no problems.

Other Thoughts: Not a con but I had one hiccup while installing.

-Had to reboot my desktop a time or two before my monitor received input. I booted into windows and the display turned weird colors before finally settling back into the normal windows display / color scheme. This problem persisted as well as my display freezing even after I booted into safe mode with networking and uninstalled and re-install the nvidia drivers. Turns out the card wasn't seated completely as I had forgot to push the latch on the PCI slot to secure the end of the card. After I remembered to not be dumb, worked smooth as silk.

Home Build PC
Windows 7 Pro 64-bit
Elitegroup Black A890GXM-A series mobo
Western Digital 750G HDD and Seagate 1.5T HDD
4 gigs DDR3 RAM (forget manufacturer)
AMD II Quad Core 2.6 Ghz
750 Watt PSU (forget manufacturer)
Elitegroup Black 560GTX video card

Pros: I ordered this card as a gift for my brother to upgrade his machine from a GeForce 7300 in his Dell XPS 410. I walked into this purchase VERY skeptical as no one seemed to have purchased this card before so there were no reviews to go by, I had never heard of Elitegroup before, and some of their other products weren't getting consistent reviews. I must say, however, that this card works INCREDIBLY well! Noise levels on the fan are very reasonable and the performance is superb. Paid as much for this SuperClocked card as I would have for the regular version from any other manufacturer. This card will most likely never be O.C.'d beyond what it already has been as everything runs stable and fast as is, though My brother does plan to run this card in SLI with a partner card int he future. Great buy, highly recommended!

Cons: None, apart from the brand not being too well known yet. If this level of build quality and reliability continues I suspect that will change rapidly.

Other Thoughts: System stats: Dell XPS 410 (In name only)
Windows 7 Ultimate
factory MoBo w/BIOS update
factory 350 Gig 7200 RPM HDD
4 gigs DDR2 RAM (forget brand name)
Core 2 Quad 2.66 gigs
Asus Xonar 5.1 DG Sound card
Cooler Master 750W Power Supply
Elitegroup Black Series GEForce GTX560