EVGA GeForce GTX 570 (Fermi) 1280MB GDDR5 PCI Express 2.0 x16 SLI Support Graphics Card 012-P3-1570-AR

Pros: Got this card hooked up to a 42" s0ny Br@via. Works great at 1080p res. No complaints from my upgrade because I no longer have to worry about sli profiles and lots of crashes with SLI.
*Puts out WAY less heat than the sli 285s..this is the major reason I purchased this 570.
*Games that make heavy use of GPU power benefit off of a powerful single card.
*Temp does NOT exceed 70C. (285s would each hit 76C, that literally makes them a nice convection heater)
*GPU fan is much quieter thanks to its new vapor chamber technology.
*DX11 tesselation is a nice bonus and makes games look great.
*Of course dont forget to register for EVGA's limited lifetime warranty. The first thing that I did when i opened up the box.

Cons: *Lower minimum framerates with AA on. Scenes with alot going on would bring my 285s with 4xAA down to about 50 fps..the 570 handles 4xAA pretty well but it goes down to 40fps. A noticeable difference, but really no need for 4xAA unless you'r obsessed with having high everything settings.
*EVGA's 570 does not allow too much OC potential thanks to their cheap 4-phase Volt Regulator Module vs their competitions gpu's sporting 8-phase VRM. ---I have about a 3-5% OC depending on the game. No problems so far.

Overall Review: I must note that some people do not feel that upgrading from SLI cards to a 570 or 580 is worth the extra dough, but the temperature in my room went from stuffy to comfortable with the upgrade, and I still max out most games graphics..No complaints from me. Not to mention that if I so choose in the future, I can always pick up another 570!

Intel i7 920 @ 3.8GHz
OCZ Vertex2 60gig SSD
COOLERMSTER Hyper 212 CPU fan.
3 CHannel ocz memory @ 1600MHz(7-7-7)

Pros: It was working well for more than a year or so and giving pretty good gaming quality.

Cons: It now crashes while I'm playing world of warcraft, haven't played other games long enough as I have time constraints. it takes about 3 hours more or less, gives a black screen and says: your drivers has stopped working and recovered!

Overall Review: Probably should'ave went with an AMD GPU. probably would have lasted more than a year for 300$