Joined on 10/25/05
Amazing card!
Pros: This thing overclocks like crazy. The reference cooler is the best yet, and has a very smooth, hushed tone of just air moving. I put mine under water (Swiftech MCW82) and it screams - 1325 MHz on the core and 1625MHz RAM.
Cons: None
Overall Review: System: i5-2500K @ 5.0GHz Gigabyte Z68XP-UD4 G.Skill 2x4GB DDR-2133 @ 2134MHz 10-11-10-30 Gigabyte 7970 @ 1325/1625MHz 3DMark11 - 10257 BF3 @ 2560x1600, 4xMSAA @ 60FPS Amazing.
Awesome card
Pros: Overclocks like a beast. I have it on water and it does 1350MHz core @1.3V and 1775MHz on the memory (YMMV of course). The speeds are insane, to say the least. I mostly leave it at 1125MHz core @ stock voltage since I don't need the speed for the majority of games. I play all games at 2560x1600 and the highest settings with ease on a single card. When I bought this card on release (January 9), this was the only single GPU product on the market that could do that. Performance is staying strong four months later, and new titles like Alan Wake still run great. The stock air cooler is the best AMD has released so far regarding low noise and high airflow.
Cons: Power consumption isn't the best, especially for a 28nm chip. I also had some issues with the Zero Core tech (the card wouldn't wake from long idles) which have since been resolved. I'm not docking an egg for either simply because the positives far outweigh these little minor grievances.
Overall Review: This is really a geek's card, especially if you want to get the most out of it. I was considering switching to a GTX 680, but they're such weak overclockers this 7970 still ends up being faster, which is disappointing to me three months later. If you're in to tweaking you can get a lot of performance out of it, but I think for $20 more the GTX 680 is a better buy for the average user, as it will be a faster card with lower power consumption out of the box.
Excellent board
Pros: Excellent package for such a little board. The technical design is great (great power delivery); board layout is well thought out. There's a bunch of little extras that seal the deal, like MOSFET heatsinks, extra fan headers, 8x secondary PCIe slot if I ever go Crossfire/SLI. BIOS is easy to navigate, tons of options and tweaks
Cons: Nothing big really, can't enable all of the power save states once overclocked. This might be a problem with the chipset/design rather than this specific board.
Overall Review: Full System: Gigabyte P55M-UD4 i5 750 @ 3.8GHz (190x20), 1.325V Noctua NH-U9B Heatsink G.Skill Ripjaws DDR3-2000 @ 1900MHz 8-8-7-18, 1.6V XFX Radeon 5870 @ 900/1250 2x 1TB WD Caviar Black Corsair HX620W PSU 16x Samsung DVD/RW Lian-Li PC-V351 Case Dell WFP3007-HC Monitor Currently running the F4h BIOS. This is a really sweet little gaming rig =D.
Awesome card
Pros: This card is just plain excellent. The build quality and design are fantastic and this card is very easy to tweak. I've been using ATI Tray Tools to control the card's clocks, voltages, and fans. Now I idle at about 35-37C and load at 60C. My card overclocked stably to 840MHz core and 1050MHz RAM (can go higher on the RAM but it puts out too much heat). In games it just chews through everything. FSAA up to 4x results in almost no performance hit which is amazing. I just played through Crysis with everything set to "Very High" and it looked beautiful.
Cons: It does put out a lot of heat underload, but I haven't owned a card in the last 3 generations from both NVIDIA and ATI that hasn't. Nature of the beast unfortunately.
Overall Review: I am very happy with this purchase and it's stellar performance.
Great!
Pros: Works flawlessly USB mouse with PS/2 adapter has NO lag Quick switch time LED is a great addition
Cons: None so far
Overall Review: Didn't use the audio so I can't comment on that. Great product and does exactly what it's supposed to. Was very cheap when I bought it.