ASUS GeForce GTX 680 4GB GDDR5 PCI Express 3.0 SLI Support Video Card GTX680-DC2-4GD5

Pros: Great single card for those wanting to run multiple displays or single monitors at 2560 x 1440 resolutions. If you're not doing that then this card is overkill; the 670 4GB is actually sufficient for single monitor play at this resolution. My highest end titles with everything turned up are the only ones taking advantage of the more than 2GB of memory available and not by that much. So, this card will serve well for the next two years playing at this high resolution. Cooling is great, ASUS cooling solution is one of the reasons I picked this one up versus the others. The EVGA model FTW+ is the only other one I would consider aside from this card.

Cons: None, happy with this card, got what I paid for.

Overall Review: I love how further advanced hardware is for software these days. You can get away with playing the most intensive games at good resolutions and settings with a $300.00 GTX 660 Ti. This card just ensures that your experience for the next couple of years will go smoothly with no hiccups.

Pros: Take it out of the box. Install it on your motherboard. Plug in your monitor. Sit back and be amazed. This one unit is replacing 2 8800 GTS cards running in SLI. This card just blows them away. This is also very quiet even with the 2 fans. It plays all my games on maximum settings and I see things I never saw before. LOL. This will truly rock your world.

Cons: None.

Pros: Runs whatever you want and runs it smoothly. Runs Crysis 3 maxed out, runs Far Cry 3 maxed out (AA @4x. 8x made my FPS drop in the 20s surprisingly). Also allows me to run BF3 maxed out AND record it in Fraps and retain 30+ FPS.

Cons: Price.

Overall Review: Like I said, I had to turn down AA to 4x in FC3 which really surprised me. I was getting frame rates as low as 20. Everything else just chugs along at 30 FPS or better. I play at 1080P because I'm too cheap to buy a real fancy monitor that's capable of 80 million pixels squared. My system includes this card plus the following: i7 3770K Asus Maximus V Extreme 16GB Corsair Dominator @2400mhz Corsair H100i Corsair AX850 PSU Also, I don't understand why everyone is complaining about the manual or lack of one. I didn't even look at mine. I literally stared in awe at its beauty for a couple minutes and slapped it into my system when I got to that point during my build and commenced to gaming. There's nothing special about installing this card. Push into slot, insert screw, plug in power connections. Voila!

Pros: I won't go into details about how amazing the GTX 680 performs, you already know what you're looking for if you're shopping for a GTX 680. I will talk about the non reference design of the heatsink and fans. I'm really impressed with the noise level, or the lack there of, which is very low. I have two of these cards in SLI and they produce less volume of noise than my 2 case 120mm PWM fans - no high pitch whine. Exactly what I was looking for. So far my usage of fan RPM is about 1080 idle and 1800 while gaming. The max RPM is 2880 according to the supplied GPU monitoring software. Top GPU reaches 80c and bottom 74c while gaming with 75f ambient temp. Sounds hot, but in my experience, GPU's can handle higher temps than CPU's. Besides, the monitoring software shows 130c max.

Cons: Lack of documentation. The manual is a total of 2 pages printed in 40 different languages. I don't need a manual, but some will. Besides, it doesn't even show a graphics card with SLI configuration in the manual. It's more of a quick setup guide. That is what I wanted to see. Do I use left the left or right SLI cable slots with a 2-way configuration? That was a rhetorical question as I have it working fine in the left SLI slots.

Overall Review: GPU mem usage in Far Cry 3 Ultra settings (no MSAA) is 1.7GB at 5760x1080. No hiccups with framerate in single player, simply perfect.

Pros: Ridiculously powerful card here. I know a $600 investment is enough to make some shy away, but in this instance you get precisely what you pay for. I utilize a great EVGA program to both overclock and frame limit the card and have had remarkable success. Now, for a more simple way of explaining why it's a good purchase: Battlefield 3: 1920 x 1080, all ultra settings, 60 FPS using my HDTV Skyrim: 1920 x 1080, all settings maxed, 60 FPS Bioshock Infinite: 1920 x 1080, ultra settings, 60 FPS See a pattern here? Smooth, reliable gameplay against any title you wish to play. Cannot recommend enough.

Cons: Only one hangup I had while configuring the card. You CANNOT use cable adapters of any kind. My rig was utilizing a DVI-to-HDMI cable in order to connect to my TV (it was necessary for another OS I was hosting on a separate hard drive). This, however, caused my screen to be slightly oversized at 1920x1080, clipping a half inch on all sides of my display. In simple terms, the GPU was saying "Oh, I'm connected to a DVI monitor, let me push a signal based on that!" But on my HDTV's end, it saw an HDMI and didn't line the margins up properly. TL;DR: don't use a display adapter. Use a straight HDMI or DVI cable only.

Pros: Asus branding usually translates to higher than average quality. Reinforced PCB with backplate! Uses two 6 pin connectors (not 8) good for less than newest PWR supplies (although adapter is included). Tiny LED's on card for each power connection. neat. It's pretty! Single 690 runs GTAIV tweaked to max detail, at 43 fps, average (playing/driving), benchmarks in-game at 64fps (so did the GTX 660, but actual gameplay is much nicer). For $30 more, you get 2GB more ram... Not quite needed yet.

Cons: I usually have an SLI setup. This ASUS card is longer than other cards in my collection. I am fortunate that the Antec 900 case of mine, allows me to extend the drive bays out of the face bezel about 1/2". Tweaking software, is OK, but fan heat vs. power curves wont save properly after editing. Likely will be fixed in an update, but I went with EVGA's PrecisionX software. No hackery required to run EVGA application. It can make a bit of noise at full fan speed, but nothing louder than a case fan at full tilt (2200 rpm). I'm knit picking (note 5 eggs)

Overall Review: I opted for the 4GB video ram, since in a year or two when I possibly add a second card in SLI, I will have 4GB per GPU. Guild Wars 2 can make this card bog, maxxed out.. even with AA off. haha, room to grow. Of course it handles BF3 handily. This puppy puts out a lot of heat into your case. Make sure you have a decent case, that moves air, and can fit this.

Pros: I just upgraded to this card from a Zotac 560 Multiview, so I must say, it has been quite a leap. I haven't had the card for very long yet, but I'm thoroughly impressed with the results it's given with what I've thrown at it. I plan on getting a second in the near future. During a full load it maxed out at 49c in the Azza Hurrican case I just bought as well. This has been my first true powerful graphics card and I'm loving every second so far.

Cons: I don't really have a con on the car per say, and I'm in no way going to knock off one egg for this, but I wish to add it. I'm truly bummed at the fact that literally only a few days after purchasing this card from Newegg, they placed the deal for Metro: Last Night. This was one if the main reason I've decided to upgrade was for the next Metro and for Bioshock Infinite I just purchased. I still have full intentions on buying it since I get 10% off on Steam for already owning Metro 2033. It was just really horrible timing..

Overall Review: Incredible card. Buy it, and I promise you won't regret it! It's well worth every penny!

Pros: Setting the already amazing performance of the reference 680 aside, this model goes above and beyond. The engineering genius that ASUS has brought to the table with this card will speak for itself for the hardcore gamers out there. I went from two GTX 570s in SLI, and this card from ASUS plays Skyrim smoother and with almost 0 crashes. I'm averaging higher FPS (though not beating the max that the SLI config put out), and lower temps. The highest I've seen this card go is 61c in my system with air cooling. It's quiet, even at 100% usage.

Cons: This one is on ASUS. When I bought the card and paid almost $600, you would think there'd be SOME kind of promotion with it. Nope, I got a vague manual in 20 different languages, and when I initially tried to register it, the ASUS website kept giving me errors. It's about a month and a half later now and I've just now been able to register it, and not only that, I come to find out that they're giving away $150 in credit for 3 different online games.... Don't get me wrong, I love this card, and ASUS is second to none with their hardware (50% of my system is ASUS parts), but I feel rather short-changed. Maybe it's ASUS, maybe it's the Egg, can't blame a guy for feeling disappointed, eh?

Overall Review: Can't wait to get a second one for SLI some time down the road!