ZOTAC ZT-20101-10P GeForce GTS 250 512MB 256-bit GDDR3 PCI Express 2.0 x16 HDCP Ready SLI Support Video Card

Pros: Card runs absolutely anything I put in, Absolutely maxed out. Granted, i am running at 1024x768...but anyways, its a great card.

Cons: The reason i gave this card 3 eggs, is because of the immense cooling problems i had. At first the fan in the card didn't work. It was grinding up against the front cover of the card. so i took apart the card, and noticed that two of the three mounting brackets for the fan were GONE!!! I tried everything, rubber bands, tape and anything under the sun. But still, the fan just kept grinding away. So i had a red led coolermaster 80mm fan lying around, and i taped it over the fan slot. it worked for about 20 minutes in a game, then the card just shut off. I took apart the card again, and realized that not only was the card missing screws, it was missing thermal tape over one of the memory chips!!! So i took off all the other thermal tape, and applied some arctic silver 5 to the memory and the gpu, and now it runs exceptionally cool. Thank you newegg and walmart for 80mm fans, electrical tape and good ol' fashioned arctic silver 5.

Other Thoughts: If you read the entire con section, you deserve a medal.
I really do like this card, now that it works. i guess i'm the only one to have this problem so far, or at least the first to report it.
Specs:
mobo:gigabyte ga-ep45-ds3l
gpu-zotac gts 250
cpu-intel c2d e8400
ram: 4 gigs ddr2 1066
seagate barracuda hdd
lg burner
600w psu
Thank you coolermaster for your awesome fans.

Pros: Everything..great card runs cool all games on high to utlra high..Zotac Firestorm utility is great!
Price was more than a bargain, would by again for sure!

Cons: Zotac could drop the price of the 260 a little aswell ;p

Other Thoughts: Why use Evga Precision when you can use the Firestorm utility by Zotac...

Pros: This card has dropped in price considerably. It's so good that even not saving a bunch I got a really good price to performance ratio. Translation: Great Bang for the buck! I've run Crysis in high settings and the game looks good, plays smooth. Fallout3 looks, plays good.

Cons: none

Other Thoughts: I hate the idea of sli, I think any card you should get enough performance in a single card. This inexpensive card has pushed 1680x 1050 resolution in games no problem.
I'm running a p45 Gigabyte board with E8400 cpu. modest rig, but nice.

Pros: Card runs everything I throw at it. Stays fairly cool. Leaves room to overclock somewhat.

Cons: Still a long card, much longer and it would not have fit in my case.

Pros: This card is running Call of Duty: World at War at great framerate on my Core i7 system.

Cons: I had no clue what to do with the two pin SPDIF connector. :-)

Other Thoughts: Since this supports SLI, it's a great way to slowly build a great system.

Pros: runs cool,runs quiet,runs AOC @1680x1050 4xAA 8x AF settings maxed 60 fps+ just about everywhere.runs CODWAW smooth as butter with lots of eye candy.got this for $129 and a free game to boot.seems very high quality,the packaging and extras are very nice,and the card seems to be very sturdy and well put together.I would def recomend Zotac products.

Cons: huge,make sure you have plenty of room in your case.the 8 pin power connector is very inconvient if you dont have 2 -6 pin connectors,and the recomended 450watt ps is barely enough to keep from blue screening every time you fire up a game,make sure you have 26amp on your +12 volt side to spare or get at least a 500w ps.

Other Thoughts: had to get out the dremel tool to get this to fit in a Thermaltake Saprano case, wich is a pretty roomy case.also had to use a seperate 6 pin to molex connector,as the adapter for the 8 pin needs 2- 6 pin pcie connectors,so I had 1- 6 pin pcie connector and 2- 4 pin molex connected into a 6 pin adapter on the other side of the 8 pin adapter lol, messy but it works.

Pros: I know this is a 9800 in nice clothes, But out of all the cards I have purchased in the last year, roughly 6, This by far is the best made, Hell the packaging alone was worth the price..Its big but I'm not running a xps or something lol.

Cons: Nothing at all, went up in price a day after I ordered it ...grins

Other Thoughts: cod,coh,L4d, all maxed out at 1900x1200...buy it, runs like ice with evega percison is extremly queit at 60% fan and idles at 32c, loaded at 45c...useally a Ati advocate but I gotta give this one credit..

Pros: Plays everything I throw at it at 1680x1050, overclocks easily. Great card.

Cons: Nothing really

Other Thoughts: This card uses an 8-pin power connected. Make sure your power supply has one of these, most have 6-pin power connectors. It also doesn't come with an adaptor to connect 4-Pin Molex connectors like most other cards. You either have to have an 8-pin connector or two(2) 6-Pin connectors to use the converter that comes with the card.