Pros: I just received these and they are true Sony OEM batteries just like the one that came with my camera. These are so hard to find at a reasonable price and this one sold by GoldStar is the best I've seen.

Cons: Really no cons at all, other than Sony should produce batteries with higher mAH than the 1020mAh in these as the new a6500 cameras have very high power consumption.

Pros: I'm updating my 02/10/2012 review of this card after the RMA process with MSI. In a nutshell, many of the artifact problems I saw appear caused by poor cooling, not of GPU but of VRM and possibly video RAM. I had noticed that the 2GB version of this card is the highest rated 560 Ti on Newegg: 88% 5-egg ratings (out of 122 reviews over the last 6 months). MSI RMA process, through Ms. Jane Gao (RMA rep on many of the issues on this page) allowed me to return this card and upgrade to the 2GB version. Only had it running for a few days but its Newegg ratings are encouraging. In addition to the 2GB of video ram this card also has VRM heatsinks which the original 1GB does not. These are clearly visible near the PCI power sockets in the Newegg pictures and are not in the 1GB version. Hats off to MSI customer support and especially Ms. Jane Gao, who went the extra step to keep a customer happy.

Cons: The NVIDIA reference card included cooling for both VRM and RAM but many vendors omitted it. This seems a big cause of video artifacts and color changing, like yellow sky or purple parklands. It is a logical explanation for the problem I had, where the card ran fine for a few days. Then a reboot wasn't enough: I had to shutdown for a few minutes and then boot. Newer versions of this 1GB appear to have added VRM heatsink and TwinFrozer III has a form-in-one heatsink for both VRM and RAM. The 2GB 560 Ti had a VRM heatsink since it came out in Sept 2011. Lessons learned perhaps. I found these out in the bit-tech.net review of this card and overclock.net (MSI silently adds VRM cooling).

Overall Review: Lack of VRM and video ram cooling seems like a real low cost feature to add to this card that could have avoided a lot of problems. The 2GB version of this card from MSI had VRM heatsink from the start and has stellar ratings in Newegg. Great customer service from MSI, especially Ms. Jane Gao, who helped me upgrade to a 2GB card with VRM heatsink.

Pros: compact package, easy to hide near any outlet, good range

Cons: Difficult to configure due to bugs in autoDNS. This is the part that translates the device IP to a name (setup.ampedwireless.com). The problem is if you change the default IP address of the device, the autoDNS software doesn't find out about it and the device becomes unreachable, even if you try to reach by IP only. Trick was to disable autoDNS to make this work. Setup was unusually difficult and required multiple resets to factory defaults. Tech support is beyond inane: I setup a chat session when I had the autoDNS isssue and the rep told me it was easier to talk through it, better for me to call. But if I was put on hold for too long, I could start another chat. Not easy to find such inane, unprofessional tech support these days.

Overall Review: Bear in mind the speed reported by this is raw wifi speed. Run an internet speed test through and the speed will be about 1/3 what the wifi adapter says. That's because http and file downloads run over TCP, which reacts to packet losses by throttling down, and there are more packet losses on wifi than wired. Don't expect 40Mbps on a speed test. Did provide some improvement in some corners of the house with poor reception and after all the hassle setting it up, will keep it. But a disappointment.

Pros: Where to begin ... - TF4 cools GPU to below 40C on adaptive VSync. Better yet, infrared images of TF4 in hardware.fr show most of the card below 50C with only isolated hot spots the size of GPU socket or VRM modules. Every other video card shows uniform high temps, same as GPU, through most of the card. - stock speeds: I wanted 660 Ti performance with the best power consumption, temperatures and component lifetime. This card already gives 50% higher performance than my MSI 560 Ti O/C (21,000 FPS vs 14,600 FPS according to glxgears). - superb nvidia linux support: I upgraded the nvidia drivers in preparation for buying this card and was pleasantly surprised with a 10% performance increase on the existing 560 Ti. [Got this card after RMA of a 7950 due to unstable and low-performing AMD linux drivers; lesson learned.]. - inaudible, even on boot I can't hear the famous reversed, dust-removing fan operation - great improvement on my (already good) MSI 560 Ti O/C. High performance OpenGL apps like flightgear run at 45 - 60 FPS (card sync to VBlank) on adaptive VSync and 1920x1200 resolution. Could hit 60 without the adaptive VSync but that adds 10C to temps. - outstanding pre-sales support from MSI, who explained that the POST problems mentioned in this card come from a BIOS that required GOP support and has now been replaced with an older BIOS. My card booted without problem, although I had a USB at the ready to change the BIOS.

Cons: - has 4 VRAM chips not covered by heatsink, 2 in front and 2 in back. Measured the temps on the ones in the back with an infrared thermometer and they got up to 45C. Some motherboard temps are in that range too but MSI could have sprung for a small heatsink for them. My TF2 560 Ti had no VRAM heatsinks at all and it didn't cause any problems, but why take the risk when the rest of the card is so beautifully engineered? - 192 bit memory bus: understanding that the memory bus is all that separates this card from a 670, but this was too extreme, may hurt at high resolutions.

Overall Review: TF4 is a real accomplishment from a distinguished engineering team at MSI that has just outdone itself; there may never be a need for a TF5 now that GPUs are going to smaller manufacturing processes that result in cooler temperatures. I really like this card and it will still be a sad day when I replace it with an MSI 860 Ti.

Pros: This is a really well-engineered card with an extensive heatspreader covering both VRM and memory. That shows up in reviews that add thermal imaging of the card, such as in hardware . fr. The VRM area there only got to 75 degrees, just 5 degrees warmer than the GPU. Seems very high quality GPU cooler also.

Cons: I installed this card on my linux PC and was shocked to see only half of the FPS I was getting from the 560Ti that this card was going to replace. That's using the AMD linux driver, which showed it was working with the card, displayed temperature, etc., but got less than 30 FPS on intensive OpenGL apps. That's not even trying. Of course, it's not Sapphire's fault, they made a great card but the driver comes from AMD. The 7950 GPU has been out for a year and their linux driver is still just going through the motions. The only egg I'd deduct from Sapphire is because of the 2 year warranty instead of the usual 3 years.

Overall Review: I really wanted a Radeon 7950 as my next card since its video benchmarks were much better than my 18 month old 560Ti. But there's no way to use it without a good driver from AMD. This was surprising because AMD's professional graphics cards do have very good linux support. Better stick with Nvidia for linux from now on. A lot of time spent discovering this outstanding hardware product from Sapphire. My setup: ASUS P6X58-E WS | Intel Xeon W3690 | MSI GTX-560 Ti 2GB | Creative X-Fi | Seasonic X-650 | Silverstone FT-02 | Akasa Freedom Tower

Pros: Tried this card on a recent Debian linux system with the open source Radeon driver and was astounded by how well it worked without hardware acceleration. With the flight simulator from flightgear.org I was seeing about 25 FPS on this open source driver.

Cons: This card doesn't use the Catalyst driver that most AMD cards use. Although major linux distributions package the Catalyst driver to get hardware acceleration, that driver won't recognize this card. One has to install the FirePro driver straight from the AMD .zip, bypassing the package management system, or else live with the open source driver, which is fine for most uses but not for intensive OpenGL apps. So while AMD provides a linux driver for this card, it's separate from Catalyst and most linux distros don't bother packaging it. That's a problem if you want to keep all components of your linux install managed by its packaging system.

Overall Review: I would have loved to keep this card but lack of support from linux distros forced me to replace with a card from the other manufacturer. AMD should package all their drivers into a single archive, like the other manufacturer, which would make them easily available in mainstream linux distros as managed packages. I'd buy this card again in an instant if its drivers were available as linux packages.