ZOTAC AMP! ZT-50302-10M GeForce GTX 560 Ti (Fermi) 1GB 256-bit GDDR5 PCI Express 2.0 x16 HDCP Ready SLI Support Video Card

Pros: Sturdy outside that's easy to worth with without touching sensitive parts. The one I have that's working works great.

Cons: I bought two of these for two machines I built for my two sons. One works great, but the other one gets glitchy and freaks out as well as heating up way hotter than the working one. I didn't send in any of the warranty stuff because I'm not on top of stuff like that. I didn't do anything at first because the games my boys were playing weren't freaking out that bad, just random black pixels flashing. The game he's playing now (WoW, not super graphics intensive), is unplayable after a few minutes due to glitchy graphics. All I have to do is swap the cards in the two identical machines and the problem follows the bad card, so I know it's the card but I'm sure I can't do anything now, and wouldn't want to make one boy wait while they replace it so I'm out $300. It's partially my fault for not doing the paperwork, but if their products were more solid, I wouldn't have to. I realize this could be a fluke but from my experience, they only get 1 egg for shipping a defective product.

Other Thoughts: I suppose you take a chance with anybody and every company will have bad cards from time to time. This time, I got burned by this card.

Pros: Runs any game that I have with no problems. Fits inside my micro atx case (Barely), just misses where my hard drive is sitting.

Cons: Much longer then the 550. the hdmi to vga adapter they sent was bad, I just bought an hdmi cord and it worked out. No big problem

Other Thoughts: I have seen a lot of complaints about the card over heating, I don't know if they are overclocking it more then it already is overclocked but my card never goes above 75 degrees celsius. I have the evga precision x software and turn my fan up to 75% speed. Maybe their cases don't have proper ventilation. Anyways just max the fan speed and it's all smooth sailing. For the price it's got the best factory overclock on the website.

Pros: The card takes a high overclock! So high Zotac is trying to kill it with their bios!

Cons: The bios is buggy and the software engineers at Zotac have little clue what they are doing. Card comes with default 1150 volt, which actually hurts performance....giving same results as if it were clocked at 900mhz. Artifacts...Pixel and texture loads....and it hits temps near 90c on a 5 fan well ventilated case.

Other Thoughts: 10 months ago I purchased this card. After a month of tinker testing found that a voltage of 1087 shows a 5% increase in performance over zotac default. Of course altering voltage settings voids warranties. Now I would have never had to do this if Zotac supported there product and released a bios update.

Last march there were promises of a bios release to fix these issues but, if you visit their forum page it becomes quite clear they have written off the customers of the 500 series cards. Please do not buy this card unless you want to waste your time void warranties and ultimately watch the card die slowly before a year is up. I personaly will never buy ZOTAC again.

Pros: Looks great
Great FPS in BF3 and Guild Wars 2 on high settings

Cons: The little adapter they give you for the hdmi is to fat so I could not use it with my case.. I had to buy my own adapter (the thin wire vs the fat adapter).

Runs hot! BUT get Evga Precision X and turn your fan up! Stock runs at 40% fan speed! I turned mine up to 75 and it never goes above 65 on Guild Wars with max settings.

Pros: Fast card since it is factory overclocked, meets stock GTX 570.

Quiet: the card's fan is limited at 75%.

Cons: Gets really hot. Because the fan is limited to 75%, it gets too hot (but stays quiet if you like that).

It is also showing serious signs of degradation.

Other Thoughts: Since the fan is limited at 75%, temps under a full gaming load from BF3 can get into high 90°C. I have edited the card's bios to unlock the fan to 95% (100% too loud, no cooling difference). At 95% speed the temp rarely gets above 80°C.

The fun part: I can tell that the GPU is degrading because it will crash with voltages and clocks that used to be stable. I have proof because a stock 560 Ti has a clock speed of 822 Mhz at .950 volts; my card used to be able to do that just fine, now in order for my card to run stable at that speed I have to use a voltage of .975. It is also starting to cause my computer to blue screen after about 12 hours of sitting idle.

One more thing: if like your temps to be lower, I have noticed a temperature drop of about 7°C when disabling V-sync and Triple-Buffering.

Pros: Cheap enuff to SLI, works great, no real fiddling aside from keeping up with NVIDIA drivers.

Cons: Nothing worth speaking

Other Thoughts: I run a mid tower with fans (no water cooling) and I stay in the mid 40 C. SLI was a breeze and still no heat, mebe you guys are having problems with hot cases. I played with overclocking (underclocking too) and really the setup that it comes with wont be noticeably better. This is a great card for someone that wants to slap it in and get the most out of it (just avoid packaged drivers).

Pros: It is a good GPU for the price. It runs all of my games on the highest settings. Might buy more to sli in the future

Cons: Overheating. I only took of one egg for this but i thought about taking off two. Not only did I have to under clock and volt it to keep it stable but it still crashes occasionally after long gaming periods.

*note: I have plenty of case cooling and the cpu is cooled by the H100 from corsair. it should not be having heating issues.

Other Thoughts: It is out of warenty now so I am going to most likely open it up and try reappling some thermal past and go from there.
also...
I am on computer engineering major who is going for his masters who has spent the past five years running a computer repair business from my home, that's why I put the 4 point tech level. This is my first review and here is a review for the Newegg community, you are not all experts in computers... just stop, i read reviews and half of them are trash from people that claim to be high tech knowledgeable.

Pros: Overall fantastic card for its pricerange

Cons: Fairly cheap

Other Thoughts: Contemplating whether or not I should buy another one for SLI or move on to the 670.

Pros: Plays most to all current games
0 problems with install
Great price

Cons: Runs a bit hot, nothing a cheap side fan can't fix.

Other Thoughts: Thanks Zotac for putting out quality GPUs at affordable prices.

Pros: Easy to install, drivers readily available, kicks but - scores 14,774 on 3d mark06, 7.8 windows 7 64bit experience index. Excellent bang for the buck ratio, esp with the $30 rebate. I have found NVidia to give more GPU/1$ than AMD.

Cons: None so far.

Other Thoughts: It cracks me up to read these guys "under volting" the card. I would recommend discounting those reviews in their entirety if considering a purchase of this card. The components are engineered to work at the temperatures along with the design of the heat sink/fan. Assuming you have a reasonably ventilated case in a reasonably tempertured room, you will never have any problem with overheating. The same is true of CPU's. You see people buying extra fans etc because "it is running hot".