Joined on 11/15/04
Its a WINNER!!

Pros: Man it makes my ASUS M3A78-T shine! I was pleasently surprised coming from Nivdia cards. AND my last being a MSI 8800GTX (G92) and this card runs right with it , if not passes it in everythng i do and i do push hard! Very happy! With Rebate total cost will be 99 bucks! got it on the weekend special. Going to get another even if i pay a little more now, for sure run in CF and that should hold me over on upgrades V card wise for a year, did i say? oh yea 41c to 44c load! overclocked. Those temps are great! what a load off knowing the card runs cool and you can up the fan speed in ATI Overdrive as well as Overclock. I did load ATI Overdrive lastest CCC version. Forget the CD get the lastest ATI drivers online. Havent even looked yet to see whats on the CD.
Cons: None! Nada! The bang for the buck is good! CON? OK well my bum is sore 12 hours non stop gamin' not a single shutter, crash, nothing! I threw everything i had at it! it threw it right back at me! I couldnt get it to slow up, crash. Twas FRAGMANIA! overload action! and it was still hungry for more! NO CONS AT ALL! Good choice for the money spent.
Overall Review: MY MACHINE RUNS 24/7. ASUS M3A78-T << sweet board, AMD 9850, Gskill PC 6500 4gbs, ATI 650 HD PVR Tuner, PC Power and Cooling 750w BLACK PSU (sweet) Ultimate Vista 64. WD400 , WD320. Custom Tower , well ventilated! Fan controller with 120mm fans. Honestly no issues , non, getting another one soon to run in crossfire. The M3A78-t i have, i could mount three but two should be just fine! $99 bucks! WOOT!
Price?? keeps inching up??

Pros: will run at advertized speed thats all! anything higher else and its a BSOD! my machine is high not machine memory a NO headroom! Better off upgrading to AM3 board and go DDR3!!! it you tinker you are gonna squeezer and more out of it you are dreaming. Crash bang
Cons: Ok heres the part that bothers me? why has it been inching up in price this sticks were 56 or 59 free ship just a month, max two months ago. i have watch it take 5 dollar increases in price. so i don't need it now that its 20 plus more dollars than what i bought. was thinking about adding 4 more gbs. But not worth it now as ddr3 is close and better. SO upgrade again soon..
Overall Review: OK for rated. NO HEADROOM! had mine for over 6 months still strong! But unhappy they are playing games on price!!!??
SUPER

Pros: I have been looking for a combo reader.. something 5.25 and with a few USB 3.0 plugs. and PRESTO all went well windows 7 ultimate 64 loaded it right up! works great! now i have those USB3.0's up front... 19 pin USB3.0 prefect for my ASUS M5A99FX PRO R2.0.. For the price you cant beat this! well depending on your computer. look if you are trying to plug this into a older system with windows xp good luck! UPGRADE your main board ...get with it..
Cons: NONE
Overall Review: works will all the different flash cards i have NO PROBLEMS!
answered my own q about OpenGL

Pros: The HIS H687FT1G2M is OpenGL 4.2
Cons: no
Overall Review: itchy fingers like to pop on one of these. but with AMDs new Bulldozer Processor just around the corner (June Release) i might wait! See pricing on AMDs cpu .money maybe better spend on a NEW motherboard. A AMD3+ board and AMD Bulldozer....My MSI twin 5830 is still kicking serious &$^ in Bullstorm , Crysis2 and all your battle games, and now Portal2 is great as well on very high. i cant see spending on a slightly better video card just yet.. Motherboard AM3 to AM3+ and AMD Quad 965 to the NEW AMD Bulldozer i think takes front row on my budget.. just might pull up on buying one of these even thought there are some gains..i rather do Processor and main board upgrade first, and watch these type v cards or better shed some more dollars! BTW Intel SandyBridge some? many? how many? are buggy ... best read up , what a shame. They say it could cost INTEL 700 million to fix! will they man up$$? or will they pass their F up cost on to you Intel fanboys? whoops?
thought 6870's had OpenGL 4.1 ??

Pros: OpenGL 4.1 is not listed?? its 3.2 isn't that the specs on OpenGL of a 5830?
Cons: i have been confused by HIS specs, will require googling so more to figure.
OCZ?? what is the guy saying?

Pros: Hey ahha fuming that bad you posted a negative review in the wrong place? or you think you bought a OCZ? its not a OCZ thought you would know that? what was it you exactly bought that took a dump? an OCZ or a PCPC (PC Power & Cooling )power supply?
Cons: none
Overall Review: i own several PCPC psu's no problems and they are over three years old.