Pros: This graphics card costs about the same amount of money as most of the other R9 290 cards on the market.

For the money you get a really fast card that compares with higher priced NVIDIA cards and even performs better at higher resolutions.

I got this card to play 1440p games and so far I have been really impressed. This graphics card is very fast.

Cons: The problem with this graphics card is that ASUS didn't design the cooler specifically for this card. They took their cooler from an NVIDIA card and put it onto this card.

Because of that not all of the heat pipes make the best contact with the GPU cores meaning that even though the cooler is good it's not being fully utilized. Obviously this card is still going to perform cooler and quieter than a stock R9 290 cooler, but there are many other options for about the same price that cool the card better.

Other Thoughts: So in the end I wouldn't really recommend this card unless you get a really good deal on it, or just really like the way it looks.

There are many other options that run cooler and quieter for the same price. It's disappointing that ASUS didn't put more work into making the cooler more suited for the R9 290.

Pros: So far I am really impressed with the G3258. It's really cheap, has an unlocked multiplier, and can be overclocked on many non Z series boards.

With a Gigabyte board that costs less than this chip I have been able to get to 4GHz with the stock cooler. Temps are maxing out in the low 70s.

Cons: Going into the future this chip will most likely not age very well. With more and more applications and games taking advantage of multiple threads this dual core chip is going to fall behind.

Other Thoughts: I kind of wish Intel released an unlocked chip in all of their chip series as in the Celeron and i3 as well as the Pentium, i5, and i7.