ASUS Radeon HD 4870 DirectX 10.1 EAH4870/HTDI/512M 512MB 256-Bit GDDR5 PCI Express 2.0 x16 HDCP Ready CrossFireX Support Video Card

Pros: I've been waiting for a quality company to start putting these out, I narrowed it down between Gig and Asus. Went with Asus because of the free mouse pad, lame I know. Overall the price/performance is spectacular, awaing the new drivers. Nvidia dropped their prices, still went with ATI due to X-fire and still better price/performance and less power hungary than it's "green" apponent

Cons: catalyst drivers need to come out yesterday.

Pros: Substantial improvement over 8800gts. ASUS has standard Newegg return policy vs 30 day limited for other brands, meaning that one can return to Newegg if it breaks in the first year instead of dealing with manufacture. Also ASUS has fan tuning software included.

Cons: Play Crysis for an hour and you will contribute to global warming! But hey, it will be a good space heater this winter.

Overall Review: Ordered 11:00 am Thursday, delivered by noon Friday! Way to go Newegg and UPS!

Pros: Switched from a 9800 GTX and I must say.. Wow. Out of the box I turned up the clocks to 790/1100 and set the fan speed to 30% with ASUS's Smart Doctor utility. It severely outperforms my 9800 GTX and gets to 60c max load and I can't even hear the fan at 30%

Cons: Let's just hope my rebate goes through... I've had terrible luck with rebates.

Overall Review: The past 5 video cards I've owned have been nVidia. My motherboard is nVidia too. But I get this weird feeling that this Xmas I'll be buying a crossfire board and adding a second 4870. ATI needs some more business to remain competitive anyways. Not a huge fan of monopolies =P

Pros: This far exceeds my old EVGA 7800GT OC'd card, both 3DMark06 graphics scores were improved by a 100%.

Cons: HOT, running at 50 degrees idle.

Overall Review: The Smart Doctor software is nice to use for fan control, which gives you three options: Auto, Fixed Speed, and Smart Cooling, which allows you manually set breakpoints (in temperature) for certain fan speeds. I have it on Smart Cooling, and at its lowest, its still audible. Definitely the loudest component I have.

Pros: Great card; the performance speaks for itself. Really loud at startup/shutdown, but only for about a second. ASUS's warranty is really good. The packaging was nice. It'll serve admirably as a space heater come winter. At stock speeds I can't even hear it and the back of my case is facing me. It came with a free game and mousepad...

Cons: The free game sucks and the mousepad smells funny. Also, the card gets really hot, but everyone knows that by now. At load, however, it still doesn't get any hotter than my old X1900XTX, so it's not like high temps are anything new.

Overall Review: I don't know why so many video card manufacturers think its a good idea to put CGI girls on the fan/heatsink. It's always seemed like the nerd equivalent of naked chicks on mudflaps to me...

Pros: I upgraded to this card from a 9800GTX and the image quality is much much better in Crysis(1680x1050, High) and also faster in FPS. Same goes for Mass Effect. The card's cooler is very good, Asus has the Smartdoctor software to raise the fan speed so you don't have to edit the original driver . The fan is at a QUIET 30%. Card idles in high 40s and 50-65c in load depending on the games. Cooler than my 9800gtx in temp. It is about half to almost an inch shorter than 9800gtx. This card is guaranteed to run any games today at 1680x1050 reso on max settings butter smooth. Scored only a bit faster than my 9800gtx in 3dmark06...but that's not accurate anyways since your other hardware plays a factor in your overall score. The real result is in games, you will see the power of this card in your games. Love the GDDR5.

Cons: The only thing people(those who didn't buy from Asus) complain about this card is it's hot...just edit your ATI driver to turn up the fan...because the cooler is terrific.

Overall Review: I have this card along with a Q6600 @ 3ghz, Gigabyte P35 DS4 and 4GB of ddr2 800. PS: Asus has nice packaging like others have mentioned.

Pros: WOW! My FPS jumped about 5x from my previous card (Radeon x1600) I love this card! So easy to lightly overclock with ATI's auto tune. Stays adequately cool on 40% fan speed. Highest temp I've seen is ~65.

Cons: Kinda loud above 40% fan speed. Picture on card faces down.

Overall Review: If you have ~$280 get this card, else get the 4850.

Pros: Software comes with catalyst control center which you can select to autotune the Gpu clock to 790. And runs very well at that speed. I have still yet to find a game that this card wont run on its best graphics. Awsome brand, I waited for Asus to sell there for the faster updates and awsome warranty.

Cons: This card is the hottest thing in the computer(Stays around 75c). I have it turned all the way to its fullest and it is still only half the temp it could be. The above is not really a con, just something to take in mind. Make sure you get a cool case to go with it.

Overall Review: Watch out Nvidia, I beileve AMD has took the show once again....