Charles-Etienne G.
Joined on 01/13/12
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The price is right

Pros: Silent Powerful Good design
Cons: Huge
Overall Review: Based on its MSRP price of 329$, this card is excellent. Even if its a stock card, it runs BF4 without any problems @ 1080p, Ultra 4XMSAA between 70 and 80 fps which is exceptional for the price. Make sure you have the place in your case. Even with a full tower you may have trouble since the card is large, not just long. If you want that card I higly recommand waiting the price goes back to the 300s tho.
Do not buy

Pros: Manuel is well done?
Cons: The PCI-E release pin on port 1 was broken but I did not realize it until I had my GPU in which made it incredibly hard to actually remove afterward and nearly broke it.
Overall Review: Can't believe that at that price range ASUS does no QA on these boards. They put all in the flashiness and nothing into the actual quality. Always went with MSI before and will buy again from them. ASUS is done for me.
GTX 980 disapointment

Pros: Cool design Stays cool Potential
Cons: Defective unit. I LOVE EVGA, really their products are usually excellent but that GTX 980 Classified (2nd highest tier of GTX 980 in their lineup) miserably failed. Massive crashes 1 after the other, no stability whatsoever. Re installing drivers and windows did nothing to help.
Overall Review: Technically this card can push all games to max setting but mine was not able to keep BF4 1080p on the 40 fps range in MEDIUM. Extremely disappointed. Those gpus are supposed to be tested before being sold, that one was not.
550$ disapointment

Pros: Design Temperature
Cons: Performance, drivers, stability. This is card is in the higer end of Sapphire. The chips used for them are ''binned'' which means that they pick only the chips with top results after 80 hours of non-stop testing. I can't believe this chip passed the test, it is highly unstable, crashing every time I use windows...yes every single time. For a high end card, this is just disgusting to have such low quality. There is zero stability and you never know when the card will start to act up and crash everything it's just a time-bomb.
Overall Review: Would I have known that Sapphire could deliver such mediocre product, I would have stayed with nVidia which delivers every time. Like I said this product is marketed as a ''luxury'' GPU which means you should and have the right to expect a 100% working unit since they are tested for long hours in their facility before being sold. How can such a bad card gets approved is a mystery for me but it's the last time I buy Sapphire. I will only get fooled once.
MSI letdown

Pros: Sturdy build
Cons: Overall quality Software Hardware recognition Tech support (what a joke)
Overall Review: I bought this board 2 months ago, installing physically was a breez but software was a mess. MSI Command Center and Live (to update drivers) is aweful. I started having trouble with CPU fans, loosing all control and then when I tryed to join tech support it was just a mess. I wish I could return it. First time with MSI and 100% last time as well.
Fast

Pros: Blazing Fast High quality Good software support
Cons: None
Overall Review: With Intel you alway get what you pay for. They are not the cheapest but quality is there. This SSD paired with a i7-4770k at stock speed 8 seconds boot! Compared to a Patriot and a Crucial, there is no question as which is the fastest/best quality!
