Pros: A work of art and a thing of beauty. Custom design and it shows. Backplate

Cons: As with all 290X cards, overclocking can cause issues. I bumped up the memory and core and experienced the "black screen" issue. Went back to stock clocks and the issue hasn't repeated and it's been a few months.

Overall Review: Look we've been spoiled by massive overclocks... thing is, the 290X just can't do that out of the box. Run the card at reference specs and enjoy without headache. I mean, these cards were $600+ not six months ago....

Pros: Burns with Nero

Cons: Lighscribe doesn't work, even after downloading the latest Lite on drive firmware (from 5 to 6) and updating both nero and the lightscribe software. If like me you use lightscribe, stay away. Tried differing makes of disks, etc. Keep getting no print errors.

Overall Review: Never had errors on my old Lie on, wanted to get the sata version, should have just stuck to what worked. If you don't use lightscribe this burner works fine.

Pros: Desktop like performance 240GB SSD 17.3" 1080p screen & 16GB DDR3 1600 (11-11-11 1T)

Cons: Huge beast.

Overall Review: Had to activate windows, not an issue the key is on the bottom of laptop but just be aware. A 4 core 8 thread Haswell @3.7 turbo is still a great cpu in 2018 Basically, this is a desktop replacement w/o gaming.

Pros: Out of the Box you're looking at ~1974 core speed. Temps. No cooler issues here. Have not seen GPU temp exceed 76, usually around 73 Sustainable 24/7 mem o/c of ~9,200 Compared to my Asus 290X, much less power and no more room heater! I got this card to max 1080p. 4X/16X everything Ultra+ w/min frames above 60fps. This card does that out of the box.

Cons: 24/7 stable, my card only sustains an o/c of 2012. Max sustainable o/c bump of 38 on the core? Weaksauce.

Overall Review: Back plate might be carbon fiber? Card is roughly same size as my Asus DCII 290X but somehow lighter? Using GPU-Z .0.8.9 my avg power consumption is 80% and max has not exceeded 94%?? Not sure what to take from that.... Fans truly seem to operate independently. Nice LED colors if you're into that. Participating in ZOTAC Experience

Pros: Ok I'm going to copy another reviewer here because he hit all the notes: bright sturdy glass stand swivel, pivot good on-screen controls clicky/responsive controller (yup) very loud speakers (wow! Yes, surprised again) attractive appearance (surprised, doesn't look/feel cheap) thin bezels lots of inputs picture fills the entire screen. On some channels, light letterboxing top/bottom but not on the sides.

Cons: I don't think you can wall mount it. The "pole" for the stand is already attached. All I had to do was attach the flat bottom.

Overall Review: VERY WELL PACKAGED. Thing came to my door not just in the box, but with corner pieces and straps. Impressed. I mean if this was $350 okay I'd give it 4 stars, but for the current price (and the BF sale price I snagged it at) it's a sold 5 star unit.

Pros: eVGA has good to great customer support

Cons: Card was not stable out of the box. Anytime it went into boost mode it caused freezing and locked up. Also, although it wasn't an issue, why would a company ship ACX and ACX 2.0 version? Yes please I'd like the old version, what?

Overall Review: I did not experience coil whine as some others have had. I just go a bad card, it happens. I think I'll wait this one out and probably go with someone other than eVGA this round.