Pros: The card is generally pretty quiet. I picked it up to replace a Gigabyte 4870 card (which I'd upgraded with an Accelero cooler & 120mm fan), hoping to increase my Crysis 2 PC performance at 1920x1080 yet not ramp up my PC's sound profile. The card is a bit louder under load, but quickly ramps down after gaming is done.

Cons: I experienced repeated crashing in Crysis 2 after a few minutes of play. Turning down the card's mild overclock, 920 to 900, helped a lot, but was an unexected requirement from the "IceQ X Turbo" overclocked card. Fallout 3 is crashing within minutes of starting, even with the lower clock. The latest Catalyst drivers are installed.

Overall Review: This ongoing phenomenon of being hassled with rebates to get a lower price is quite irksome, I wish vendors would settle on a moderate price decrease for all instead of a slightly larger one for those who want to waste their time jumping through hoops.

Pros: It's a compelling storyline with a bunch of side missions. Yes, that's indeed Liam Neeson narrating as my dad.

Cons: Not supported on Windows 7. Despite the game, O/S, and card being patched to the latest versions, I encounter some glitches on my Windows 7 box. These became much worse after upgrading to a new video card, though reinstalling the thereafter game lessened some of the pain. It's frustrating to zoom through my sniper scope, have the game hang, and then take down my entire operating system. My email reply from Bethesda support, a week later, simply confirmed the game was not supported on Windows 7. The slow mo images of decapitations almost every time I finished an enemy with a head shot became quite tiring.

Overall Review: A five star game with 1 star technical issues yields 3 stars. I don't understand why it's so hard to build a game that doesn't take down your entire operating system when it fails. My experience here makes me reluctant to try Bethesda's other titles, like Rage, Elder Scrolls, or Oblivion...

Pros: Cheapest 1GB 4870 I could find. With my system, the card can just about play Crysis Warhead on Enthusiast settings at 1156x864, though is more comfortable on "Gamer" with 4xAA.

Cons: Card would only run under heavy load 10-15 mins before crashing my games - or my entire system. VRM temps got up to 70C-80C before crash, other card temps 60C-70C, which Gigabyte support indicated was well within limits. Also note that the fan runs 100% all the time, which was annoyingly loud for low-graphics activities such as surfing the web or reading email.

Overall Review: Item was covered by Limited Non-Refundable 30-Day Return Policy, which means I can't give the card back for good. I wonder why only some video cards are classified non-refundable by NewEgg... Hope a working replacement comes in time for me to claim the April rebate! My system includes: GIGABYTE GA-P35-DQ6; Intel Core 2 Duo E6750 2.66GHz; 4 GB DDR2 1066 (5/5/5/15); SeaSonic S12 Energy Plus SS-550HT 550W; Antec Solo Case. Running Vista Ultimate 32 bit.

Pros: As many reviews indicate, it seems to run reasonably cool compared to most other cards with the same GPU. I see 45C-48C just typing this review, and haven't seen it go above the high 60's when gaming. I was impressed to read about the card's lower power consumption, particularly at idle - the GPU clock seems to drop to 500 MHz when not under load. I appreciated the default overclock, and that ATI Catalyst Overdrive auto-tuned it a bit higher to a 690 MHz GPU clock and a 1190 MHz memory clock. It also has HDMI output via adapter.

Cons: I didn't find the performance boost, or level of quiet operation, that I'd expected to get after reading many review articles. I was amazed that I couldn't pull Gamer quality on Crysis Warhead at 1280x1024 with this card! Manually adjusting the fan, I find it silent up to about 35%, then an increasingly loud whine develops through 60% when wind noise begins to overtake the whine. Granted, I have a pretty quiet setup and a sensitive ear. I've encountered these sort of harmonics before with other pulse width modulated motor controllers, and suspect that's the culprit here.

Overall Review: My system includes: GIGABYTE GA-P35-DQ6; Intel Core 2 Duo E6750 Conroe 2.66GHz; Crucial Ballistix 2GB (2 x 1GB) DDR2 800; SeaSonic S12 Energy Plus SS-550HT 550W; Antec Solo Case. CPU oc'd to ~3GHz. My old video card was an ASUS EN8600GTS SILENT GeForce 8600 GTS 256MB 128-bit GDDR3, and with a mild over-clock would play Crysis Warhead at Mainstream just like my current setup. Benchmarks on Tom's hardware suggests my CPU is not the bottleneck (an E8500 only shows 10% better FPS, and quad cores no better), so I'd expected a Crysis quality upgrade with this card and didn't seem to get it. When I purchased the card it had a standard return policy from NewEgg, which isn't the case anymore (now 30 day). I had to RMA a defective memory upgrade, so am waiting to see if a bump to 4GB helps me out. If not, I contemplate returning this for a silent 4670 or 9600GT, since it didn't deliver the performance boost in Crysis, but I hate to eat that 15% return fee.

Pros: The price was right.

Cons: I replaced my previous 2GB 800 MHz DDR2 memory with this 4GB 1066 MHz memory, and my system ran fine for a day. Then I started getting PFN LIST CORRUPT errors, and eventually my Windows Vista system wouldn't boot, even from CD ROM. I replaced the new memory with my old memory, and the system works again. I had taken the BIOS defaults for running the new memory at the expected 1066 MHz, and even attempts to run it at slower 800 MHz were unsuccessful.

Overall Review: My system is a GIGABYTE GA-P35-DQ6 FSB 1333MHz with Intel Core 2 Duo E6750 @ 2.66 GHz. I've submitted RMA, and hope the replacement works better.