Joined on 03/11/10
Awesome Card
Pros: Upgraded from SLI'd 560 Ti's and there is a huge difference in frames. I'm able to play on high settings while frapsing with decent fps. Without frapsing I can run triple A title games with high or near ultra graphics with 50-70 fps. Other games it runs 120+ FPS. Games I've played recently that I can run between high and ultra are crysis 3. 50-70FPS. If I bump AA up to 4x+ frames significantly decrease. While playing PS2 my CPU (2600k) was bottlenecking my gpu. I OC'd to 4.4 ghz and it switchs between both cpu and gpu for bottlenecking so I hit the sweet spot. Definitely increased performance on PS2. Haven't tried Crysis 3 yet with OC'd CPU. Fans run pretty quiet but I don't notice them because I have a headset on. Also runs games on my 42" LCD/Plasma T.V. at pretty similiar frames to my 24" Monitor. GPU looks pretty sweet as well I'd have to say, nice and clean structure. Plays perfect for following games. Borderlands 2, Deadspace 3, crysis 3, Planetside 2, Batman Arkham Asylum. And a multitude of other games that don't have near as high system requirements as the games I listed above.
Cons: Price is pretty steep, but the 4gb definitely worth it if you plan on playing games with huge resolution. IE 42" T.V's. Almost didn't fit in my medium tower, had to push wires aside connecting to my power supply to fit the bad boy in.
Overall Review: Worth it for the price if you like the eye candy for recently released games.
Meh
Pros: Everything worked great out of the box for 1 week, no issue's.
Cons: Put a wireless card on the mobo and started having difficulties getting my comp to run, BIOS would freeze, couldn't get to windows login, some logo came up saying that I had overclocked some hardware which I hadn't. Comp would freeze randomly throughout start up sequence, fans would accelerate to 100% for no reason. Pulled the card out and it made no difference, went into BIOS set it to default, upgraded BIOS software still no changes. About to RMA this board.
Decent Fans
Pros: Fans definitely looked cool and matched colors with my case which was a plus. I purchased 2 of them, one of them is failing after 2 years of use so I purchased some corsair fans to replace them.
Cons: Basically the fan that is failing will either stop completely or rotate at about 45rpms.
Overall Review: If you are looking for longevity of these fans you might want to look else where. Out of the 2 I purchased 1 is already malfunctioning.