XFX Double D FX-795A-TDJC Radeon HD 7950 3GB 384-bit GDDR5 PCI Express 3.0 x16 HDCP Ready CrossFireX Support Video Card

Pros: Very good price to performance ratio
Looks good
Runs cool with 1 monitor

Cons: Stock fans are garbage
Voltage is locked, unless you find a way to unlock it
Runs hot with more than 1 monitor

Other Thoughts: I bought this card back in September 2012, and it was a big upgrade from a 9800GT. I was running one monitor at the time, which had the temps at about 35 in idle, but when I hooked up a second monitor, it went up to about 40 degrees. The more monitors you have plugged in, the hotter it will get.

I tried overclocking it, which worked half the time but I left it at stock since I had no need to OC. After about two months, the fans started to make a loud humming noise. I figured it was normal, until it drove me crazy one day. I took out the card and manually spun the fans, which caused a buzzing noise when spinning. I tightened and loosened the fan screws to see if it was vibration noise, but I found out it was the barrings inside. One of the fans was working and was silent, but the second just made such a loud buzzing noise. I recently bought an Arctiv VGA cooler to replace the stock one, and now this card is awesome. It's totally silent at 100% fan speed and the card idles at 38 degrees with three 27" monitors.

I could have used the warranty, but was too lazy and wanted an aftermarket cooler anyways.

I will be overclocking it soon when I unlock the voltage.

If you get this card, get a custom cooler for it. The stock one sucks.

I gave 3 eggs because of the issues with the fans. I expected them to go bad after a year or so in, not after two months.

Manufacturer Response:

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Pros: First, this card is an awesome overclocker. Only had one issue with it while doing my initial overclock, and that was because I got a little crazy. The card runs everything I throw at it. It maxes out BF3, Crysis2, Skyrim, Borderlands 2, Guild Wars 2, Starcraft 2. Plain and simple, the card is great.

Another side note, this card directly competes in performance and price with the 660ti. Depending on the game, (If it is Nvidia sponsored or not), the performance will vary, but once you start overclocking this thing, it will destroy the competition, and who can argue with 3gbs of ram?

Cons: I have no complaints about the card itself at all. The game it came with (sleeping dogs at the time), was utter garbage. Now, that I finally have the game working, its awesome, but for a full month after I got the game, I couldn't even get he game to start. Either way, it was free and now that it is working, it runs smooth as butter. And this is not something that xfx, amd, or newegg could control so there is no way I'm docking an egg for that blunder. (Especially since the game was free)

Other Thoughts: If you are on the fence between getting this card or a Nvidia card, I would seriously take a good look at the games you will be playing. Although this card is freaking awesome, games like Borderlands 2, and the Crysis series are notorious making the games run far better on a Nvidia card, even if the card is worse than its amd competitor. If you are going to be playing games that have no allegiance to either brand, then I strongly recommend this card.

Pros: very fast 800 to 1000 frames in Rfactor, every thing on Max .

Cons: price always swings down .... down ... and down.

Other Thoughts: going to get another some time.

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SeaSonic M12II 620 80 PLUS BRONZE
Intel Core i5-3570K Ivy Bridge 3.4GHz (3.8GHz Turbo)
GIGABYTE G1.Sniper M3 LGA 1155 Intel Z77
Thermaltake AF0030 120mm Red LED Case Fan
Thermaltake Commander MS-I Epic Edition
G.SKILL Sniper Gaming Series FM-25S2S-120GBSR (SSD)
XFX Double D FX-795A-TDJC Radeon HD 7950 3GB 384-bit GDDR5 PCI Express 3.0 x16
LG DVD Burner

Pros: -Great cooling, I've never gone above 70 degrees even under a high stress test.

- Amazing FPS, I havent even run Fraps yet because I havent even seen a snigle jitter, I run Sleeping Dogs, Skyrim, Oblivion, CoD Black Ops, and more all on the highest graphics settings with phenominal results.

-Price; For $300, you can OC this card to perform nearly on par with the Radeon HD 7990, and with the amazing cooling this card offers, Over Clocking should prove to be no issue at all

-Dual DVI, I'm running with a total of four monitors, (2x23" and 2x15") and the dual DVI allowed me to use my older monitors, connected through a mini-display port to VGA adapter, along with my two newer monitors, connected through DVI. I have yet to use the HDMI out, but I may use it to hook up to my TV once I move. The layout of the card really helped me to connect everything I needed.

Cons: It's Massive, If you're looking at getting this card, measure your tower. I bearly got mine in past the 3.5" mounting bays. While the cooling is amazing, you need to have a place for your hot air to go, too. The card produces a crazy amount of hot air, so be sure to leave room behind your unit for venting.

Other Thoughts: If you're looking for an amazing higher end gaming card, I would definitely recommend this to any gamer. Over Clocking is as easy as 1,2,3 if you're looking to do benchmarking, too.

Pros: Looked nice...

Cons: Went up in smoke after 3 days (literally), XFX support is weak, replaced a 3 day old card with a refurb. So i paid full price for a refurbed card. XFX completely ignored all of my messages, and finaly answered me with a one sentence reply, which answered NONE of my questions. Pretty much telling me "too bad". Never been made to feel so irrelevant by ANY company in my 20 years as a technician. Will never buy XFX again.

Other Thoughts: There are alot of companies out there who WANT your return business and treat you as such...XFX is definitely not one of those companies.

Pros: - Low load temperature, about 78C in gaming
-Quiet, 40% fan with 78C temperature at full load, that's great, 20% fan at idle with 54C temperature
-3GB memory, running Skyrim with full HD mods and AA,AF turned to max and the card barely stutters, using about 2500MB memory at 1080P
-Great look and construction of materials, card looks slick
-Price/performance ratio can't be beat in my opinion, especially for someone who needs a large amount of memory (less memory with similar performance can be had for better prices)

Cons: -Did not come with any cables
-Actually no cons, just had to think of something to put in

Other Thoughts: When people first boot it up and see their idle temperatures in the high 50s, they need to understand that this is done to keep the noise low with a 20 percent fan. Under full load the furmark burn in test my card only reached 78C with slightly over 40% fan, which is very quiet

Pros: Awesome card for the money, together with the game and the rebate I got what I would consider a 450-500 dollar value for 270.

Replaced my old GTX480 to play a heavily modded Skyrim.

Installation went without a problem. Right away saw idle temps at 59C and was concerned, but i think they keep the fans low for noise reasons. With furmark burnin runnning, temps never exceeded 76 degrees.
And that's with the fans barely going over 40 percent.

During gaming the fans are whisper quiet and that is a big plus for me. For overclocking or cooler temps all you have to do is run msi afterburner and set the fan to scale with temps . I did that with all my Nvidia cards but had no need for that with this one.

3 GB memory allows me to play with full high res mods, at 1920X1080 with AA and AF set to max and get 60 fps in most areas. Some heavily forested areas slow down to about 30 fps, but once again this is not vanilla Skyrim but a heavily HD one.

So far feeling pretty good about this investment and can see myself owning this card for years.

Cons: No extra cables included with the box, but most probably have all the cables and crossovers needed so just a minor gripe since I had to think of one.

Other Thoughts: I'm used to seeing around 40-42 idle temps in my GTX 480. So my initial thoughts about seeing the 59C idle on the 7950 was this card must be a dud. Noticed the fan speed was barely around 20 percent compared to 45 percent on the Nvidia card.

But after running the burn in test I can see why they did it. This card really doesn't need any higher than about 50 percent fan speed to keep cool. And a range between 20-50 means whisper quiet sound out of your system. Even with 59 C at idle you can't get any more than about 78C on full load.

Pros: Runs cool at ~35deg idle and ~60-70deg maxed depending on the game. Quieter that my case fans until the temp starts to get up there.

Cons: No voltage control but not a big deal.

Other Thoughts: Coming from a Hd 6750 this thing is a monster. In Skyrim i went from barely maxing it without AA or filtering to maxing it with AA and filtering maxed with all the eye candy mods compatible with each other. ALL THE FOLIAGE!

Pros: after updating graphics drivers to 12.9 the sleep problems seems to have gone away

Cons: Still having freezes during gaming.

Pros: Running this in my Cooler Master case with idle temp of ~36 Cel. Max load has pushed it to 65 Cel. I have it overclocked to 950/1375 without tweaking any voltage.

Cons: Big card make sure you have roughly 11" of space in your box for this.

Other Thoughts: I have been an nVidia guy for 5+ years. Coming from an MSI 560 Ti Twin Frozr II. I was surprised that this XFX card runs as cool as it does I was expecting 70 Cel + at max load. Noise is fine with the help of Afterburner to manage the fan. Overall very happy with the performance @ $299 with Sleeping Dogs and a $30 MIR.