EVGA 01G-P3-1380-KR GeForce GTX 460 (Fermi) SSC+ 1GB 256-bit GDDR5 PCI Express 2.0 x16 HDCP Ready SLI Support Video Card

Pros: Ok tested COD4,COD WAW,COD MW2, COD BO'S,Crysis 2, Metro2033, And Metal of Honor. Easily Average 60+ With everything maxed at 1920x1080 with the cod series. Average about 35-50FPS on Crysis 2,and Metro maxed. Highest temps got was 90C with the fan about 70% on auto. This was scary at first but these cards are made to run hot, It's very normal. 0 artifacts or crashes. Ordered the high flow bracket from evga and it keeps it about 2-5 degrees cooler for 10$. Usally idles 35-45,and gaming 75-90

Cons: This absoutly drove me nuts. But i finally figured it out after a couple of months. To everyone that is having open gl problems,and compatibilty issues with older games, crashing, ETC........... All was fixed for me by going to microsoft and downloading the lastest DX9 runtime which is June 10. Now all DX9 games run great. Before i would get crashes with a black screen that would cut in and out, But it only stopped the game for about 2 secs. I read the event viewer that said VIDEO HARDWARE ERROR. I thought maybe the card was bunk. But after talking to several evga,and nvidia people they just said to download the lastest drivers which i thought i had. But apparently these cards,or all of windows updates do not upgrade your dx9 automatically which i thought they did. Which is entirely retarted if your playing older games,and software. Was almost gonna rma until i found the problem out. So make sure you research everything before you rma. Most likely it's not the card it's the software.

Overall Review: Make sure as soon as you buy this to download the latest forceware drivers,and to download the lastest DX9 Runtime,or you will get crashes in ALL DX9 games. Never had any problems with DX10,or DX11 games. Just crashed in DX9 before i upgraded to the lastest version.
Q9300
4GB DDR800
GEFORCE GTX 460 SSC+
Win 7 64bit
Antec BP 550

Pros: I purchased this card based on the experiences I had with my prior EVGA cards and service. I opted to pay a little extra for this one, because I liked the OC'd specs and the extra backplate which helps a little with cooling and looks great.

Completely silent reference series fan.

The big pro here was the EVGA support and service. I spent days and many hours on the phone with their support. Everyone I talked to was very knowledgeable and friendly. They definitely put in the effort to diagnose the issues I was having. When they determined that the card had hardware issues, they offered to send pre-paid shipping labels for a direct exchange with them. Ultimately, I opted to just return the card to Newegg for a refund.

Eventhough this card cost me days of aggravation and dozens of hours of trouble shooting, I gave it two eggs instead of one. I felt the excellent EVGA support deserved the extra egg. Also, Newegg's RMA was superb in regards to returning this item.

Cons: The card arrived basically DOA. Actually, it arrived worse than DOA. It arrived mostly working, which made it very difficult and time consuming to troubleshoot.

At first everything seemed fine. I noticed there was an issue after I started running the included NVIDIA demos. The frame rates started very high, but then started dropping all the way down to just 1 FPS. The rendering was also painfully slow. I was also having color issues between my dual monitors. Then some faint random partial horizontal lines started showing up on one of the monitors. Eventually I started getting the BSOD.

After running hours of testing and many troubleshooting steps over several days, EVGA determined the issues were most likely caused by faulty memory on the video card.

On another downside, the games and programs I use looked no better on this card than my 9800 GTX+.

The exhaust setup is not as good as my 9800 GTX+. They make an EE version of this card, but it is not silent.

Overall Review: As I was mentioning above, the reference and EE fan setups on these new cards are not as good as the prior series. The reference fan blows air around the card and keeps most of the hot air in the case, but is completely silent. The EE series blows all the hot air out the back of the case giving better temperature performance but is noisy. My current EVGA 9800 GTX+ is EE, but is 100% silent. Apparantly the problem is the new EE cards are smaller with a smaller, higher RPM fan which creates noise.

Based on EVGA's support, I will continue to buy their products. But I think I will hold off until the 5 Series price drops.

System Information:
ASUS Striker II Extreme MB, 3.0 GHz Core 2 Duo E8400, ASUS Royal Knight CPU cooler, Arctic Silver 5, 4 x 2GB OCZ RAM, 2 x WD 500GB RAID drives in mirror, EVGA GeForce 9800 GTX+ SC 512MB, 2 x Lite-On DVD-RW burners, 3.5" drive w/ memory card reader, Rosewill Challenger mid-tower, Thermaltake Toughpower 750W PS, Win 7 Ultimate 64-bit.