Joined on 01/03/05
Decent Card

Pros: It works with my older visiontek 4870. Got about 30-40% increased performance in crossfire. Runs cooler than my visiontek card.
Cons: Its unstable when used as the primary card, I had to swap slots with my visiontek and use the visiontek one as the primary display to get these to Crossfire stably.
Overall Review: Now that I have my setup running well, its blazing fast, feels fresh again even with a setup over 2 years old.
Very Impressive card - Highly recommend - Coming from Pulse XTX

Pros: -Very similar in raw performance to the Pulse XTX -RT Performance is even more impressive than I expected -FSR4 is legendary compared to 3 -Visually stunning card -Very adequate cooling -Underclocks well and then boosts insanely high
Cons: -FSR4 isn't natively supported in many games (can be fixed via optiscaler) -It's a massive beast of a card, may not fit in some cases -Depending on your case, the power cord pass through may not work very well -Fan curve at stock is horrendously bad, basically doesn't use the fans... so needs tuning.
Overall Review: I was so scared trading in my beloved 7900xtx for this 9070xt. But after an absurd amount of research I determined for longevity, even as a 4k only gamer it was the wise choice. Yes, I'd love to have more like 20g of VRAM. But at the same time... the technology in this card is just lightyears beyond the 7 series. It just feels far more solid and stable in day-to-day gaming. I always felt like I had to prime the engine and grease the bearings on my XTX to get it to ride sally ride (and oh did it ever) but with the 9070xt it just works, flawlessly without any tinkering. And I think this is only going to get better in the future whereas the XTX will get worse. I'd highly advise tuning your fan curve more aggressively. As well as drop the voltage by about 50 and power draw by 15-20%. After doing this my card has been boosting to 3400 Mhz. And staying ridiculously cool. However, even out of the box, it's very acceptable. I haven't played at all with memory, but I may get into that at some point. Definitely recommend this card, especially coming from anything at or below XTX level. Especially right now when Newegg is giving $750 for the XTX and you can buy a premium AIB 9070XT for around $800 or less.
Powerhouse of a card and insane value at around $800

Pros: -Saphire builds quality cards, they didn't skimp on the cooling of the pulse model -Very stable -Doesn't often require upscaler or frame gen at maxed out 4k. -If you can find it around at around $800 it's hard to beat the price/performance. -24 gb VRAM futureproofs this bad boy for a long time. -Very small form factor for this card.
Cons: -Draws large amounts of power -Can run somewhat hot if left unchecked. -Zero RGB (minor gripe and obviously i knew when i purchased it)
Overall Review: I was playing the graphics card market for about 6 months and got extremely fortunate to snag this card at $829 mid February. I'd have paid about a hundred dollars more for it and would still have been happy. Very grateful to get it almost 200 under msrp especially after all the current absurdity right now in the market. I do take the lower price into consideration. With that said, this card is a freaken monster. If you read nothing else, read this - USE THE AMD SOFTWARE TO CUSTOM OVERCLOCK AND DIAL BACK THE POWER DELIVERY TO MINUS 10 PERCENT (make sure to click save after). That's all you need to do, don't bother trying to undervolt as this card needs the control of that or will grow unstable. When done this way the card still consistently auto boosts to over 3k core clock and runs a solid 10 degree's cooler than with stock settings. I was debating returning the card due to high memory temps (reaching a constant 94-95c under full load). Once I tweaked that setting though, memory never gets over 88c and the performance is exactly the same. Hot spot is always right around 78c max. Very pleased. Hope this helps someone :)
Great product, runs cool and quiet. Highly recommend!

Pros: -Great packaging -Clean looking PSU -Works great, runs cool!
Cons: -NA
Overall Review: Highly recommend this product, always impressed by it.
Guess I was lucky?

Pros: Best graphics I've seen. Completely Smooth gameplay on maxed settings. Quickly Moving/Engaging story Lots of side quests. Linear - I enjoy shooters that continue moving forward and don't confuse me as to what to do next.
Cons: Had to do a little troubleshooting to get the game to boot. Once I disabled tripple buffering in ATI control panel it booted right up. Played it through on the hardest difficulty (nightmare) wasn't that hard at all..
Overall Review: I guess I got lucky with my setup. I have a 6950 running on windows 7 64 bit. I have the newest 11.9 catalyst drivers running. I honestly didn't have a single bit of lag or texture popping or one crash to desktop in the 15+ hours it took me to beat the game. I loved rage.
Ohhh so good.

Pros: Installed this with an aftermarket beast of a heatsink and set it to auto-clock based on my memory's speed and it booted up stable at 4.2 Ghz. Idles at around 32C which is an absolute joke. It's been a while that I have gamed and felt such stability. I feel like I could probably run 2 or 3 times the apps that I previously on my core2quad. There is just something about these second gen icore procs. The first gen was good, but wow this second gen line just blows me away.
Cons: None as of yet.
Overall Review: I went with intel after a couple years of noticing the strength of there core2 product line. Recognize that Intel has it made right now in this league and use this product, you will be blown away too. I love AMD, I'm ATI all the way, but intel has them beat in the CPU realm.