Pros: Excellent purchase for about 80% of top-of-the-line (single card) performance. Runs nice and cool (35c idle, ~50c after a few hours of Crysis). Does not exhibit the reported fan control issues of 256MB 3850s. Installed and runs flawlessly on nForce4 mobo and with even a 400w PSU.

Cons: Catalyst drivers use ~20MB more RAM than Forceware. Adaptive AA does not work with Guild Wars (Catalyst 7.12). Catalyst Control Center requires .NET 2.0 unless you use ATI Tray Tools which has not been updated for 38x0 support yet.

Overall Review: Board runs @ stock 3850 clocks (don't know why New Egg doesn't say) and is ~1/2 inch longer than the 7800GT it replaced. X2 3800+ @ 2.4, Asus A8N-E, 2GB OCZ Plat r2 DDR400, 400w Antec Smart Power v2, 2x Seagate SATA drives + BenQ DVD-RW, X-Fi ExtremeMusic, Xp Pro Sp3 RC.