Pros: Price, performance, outstanding. Absolutely the best card I ever owned. IQ is off the hook and the card takes everything I can throw at and says give me more. Well done ATI, nice to see your back in style. I also upgraded from a G92 8800GTS 512MB and it was totally worth it in my opinion. Can wait to see what ATI has in store for us next. For the record, no ATI fanboy here either. My Graphics card ladder includes 11 ATI Cards and 14 Nvidia cards.

Cons: None

Overall Review: The card is hot at idle, but heat doesn't effect the cards performance at all because under-load the temps hardly climb at all from it's idle temp. Didn't put this under cons because it really doesn't effect anything and I don't consider it one. Fan-Speeds will be bumped up in the drivers at next release according to what I've read, and second party OC utilities for fan-speed adjustment should also become 4800 Series friendly within the next month or so. Interesting note regarding the bundle, HIS includes a screw driver with it's card which incudes repalceable bits. I thought this was pretty silly when I read it. However after receiving the card I ws pleased to find out that the screw driver was also a flash light and a level. Pretty cool extra actually.

Pros: The Absolute fastest AGP card you could own, but not much faster than a minorly overclocked X1950 Pro

Cons: Massive TEC Cooler allows no room for ramsinks or heatsink on the video memory. So overclocking is extremely limited. Memory clocks are 1400 Mhz when most PCI-E cards are clocked at 1800 Mhz. massive power requirements. Manual addendum recommends 550w. 3 molex connections are required or one PCI-E connection & 1 Molex Connection. Extra power connector is for the TEC Cooler. The TEC Cooler exhaust air into the case. Also many users reported that the TEC wasn't even attached properly in the first place and had to RMA or remove backplate qnd add padding so GPU would make adequate contact with the heatsink.

Overall Review: If Gecube had used the standard cooling design or better, this would have been an excellent card. True it's the fastest, but I think the negatives out-weigh the small increase in performance over the Pro.

Pros: Great card, nice bump in performance from the stock models for the extra $30. I can run all games under Vista 64 using 8xAA/16AF @ 1680 x 1050 without a performance penalty. IQ is excellent. Stress tested card using Fur Mark for 70 min. no issues at all. Also ran ATITool for 90 min. and looped 3Dmark for 2 hours and the XOC ran flawlessly using Cat.8.8. No complaints at all.

Cons: I don't have a crossfire board so I can run two of them.:)

Overall Review: Recommend using Profile Fan-Hack or ATI Tray Tools to keep card cool at idle just like all the other HD 4870 cards from the vaious manufacturers. Have mine set for 39% whick keeps the card betweem 46C-50C at idle. Although the card works fine at the default fan speed as well. Ran Fur Mark for 30 min. with the default fan speed of 23%. No issues at all. I prefer to keep the card cooler though, so I'm leaving the fan-hack in place.

Pros: Nice, single slot solution with 20A power requirement on the +12V rail, 400w PSU recommended.

Cons: It's considerably slower than the X1950XT, I've had both and returned the 7950GT. If you have the room the XT is the way to go.

Pros: Great card runs warm but within specs and works fine. Gaming at 1680x1050 with setting maxxed for most game titles. My card also overclocks niceley to 675 Mhz Core / 1600 Mhz. effecitve for the memory. Performance is slightly better than the X1950 Pro on my rig and scores about 500 3DMarks higher than my old HIS ICEQ3. Yes, a small performance gain over the Pro, but IT WORKS and is also built well, unlike the 2 Rev.1 HIS cards I owned previously.(On that note, HIS reworked the ICEQ3 Turbo and there is now a Rev.2 which appears to work much better). So far, I'm very happy with the card and very glad I bought it. Benchmarks aside, the card just "feels" faster and in gaming, movement seems much more fluid and realistic.

Cons: Only one I can think of would be the size of this monster. It takes up 1 AGP slot and 2 PCI slots. Wasn't an issue for me however, as I only have 1 PCI card anyway.

Overall Review: FYI - the Gecube's default memory clock is 700 Mhz./1400 Mhz. effective. I Couldn't find this info anywhwere before I purchased the card. Needed to use ATI Tray Tool for overclocking as ATI's Catalyst Control Center did not allow the memory to be overclocked. Also, I would not recommend upgrading from a X1950 Pro to this card fro a small performance gain. However, If you have not bought a Pro yet, don't. Buy this card!

Pros: A great card at a great price with 512MB of GDDR3 on board. Have had exactly zero problems with this card since it was installed. It runs every game I can throw at it at 1600x1200 with all in-games setting maxxed and I am currently using an AMD64 +3700 CPU. GPU temp when idle is 41c and under load may reach 70c. Very happy with this Upgrade.

Cons: Can't do Crossfire with AGP Cards. If I could, I would have bought 2 of these.:)

Overall Review: As other have said, make sure your Power Supply is up to it before making your purchase. A number of users are saying Sapphire has Quality Control Issues when in reality it's their inadequate power supplies which are to blame. Yes, there have been a few reports of poorly attached heatsinks, but the majority of the complaints appear to be a direct result of an under-powered PSUs. Recommended Specs for this Video Card call for 450w PSU with 30a on the +12V rail. If you intend on shopping for a new PSU. I strongly recommend going to ATI's website and search for Power Supplies. This will bring-up a link to recommended Power Supplies.