Joined on 10/27/03
Awesome Card
Pros: Awesome performance, Looks great, rigid with backplate so it won't bend in your system, run cool & quiet, overclocks well. Easily able to run over 1200mhz with very little tweaking at all. Looking at getting a seconds. 1100+ GPU score in 3dmark11
Cons: None
Overall Review: It's unfortunate the run of bad cards that people are experiencing, however this card at the end of the day is the same as all the other 680 just with a different cooling shroud and bios. EVGA is good about catching issues with cards and I would't pass the beauty up because of a small percentage of owners bad luck. Remember a much greater percentage of people will review a product poorly with a bad experience than those with a good experience.
Awesome Board
Pros: Looks Awesome. Overclocks great. Great features. Awesome BIOS. Dual bios (multiple versions, setups, and independent saved profiles.) Savable overclocking profiles. (can even be exported to USB)
Cons: Little more expensive than say a ASrock Z77 Extreme 4 but I think its a better buy if for nothing else than it's appearance.
Overall Review: The more I think about stuff for this review the more I recommend it. Especially if Blue is part of your color scheme
Great Value
Pros: Great Price, PCIe 2.0 X16 or X8X8, in expensive, good amount of accessories, looks good, runs fantastic, looks great.
Cons: eSATA used one of the native SATA lanes as oppose to a secondary controller leaving only 5 internal. One is perpendicular to the board which is a bit odd however It's not blocked by a second video card like another review suggests so long as you have a 90 degree SATA cable.
Overall Review: Only 4 stars because it isn't a "blow you our of the water board" but nothing is wrong with it.
Offered a fake product at a price that was great if it were to be genuine.
Razer deathadder = Fake.