Pros: With a video card obviously designed for gaming, performance comes first, and this card delivers more than anyone could ask. It's as fast as any single-GPU card to date; with the heavy overclock, it matches a GTX680, even beats it in some games. I can't find anything that even comes close to hitting the card's limits. It earns close to 3x the score of the Radeon 5870OC it replaced in most benchmarks. The card is just as good on the other details, too. MSI's cooler is a work of art. It runs quiet, almost silent after the 30 second "dust removal cycle" on startup. Despite that, it's very, very cool; temps average well over 10C better than the NVidia reference card. The construction feels very solid; the case and fans aren't cheap and flimsy like most others video cards I've gotten my hands on in the last few years; definitely seems well constructed. I'm not sure how much the military-spec components are worth, but reviews indicate that the power components -are- considerably more robust than other cards in the class; it won't affect its performance but it's nice to know the extra reliability is there. Drivers seem very solid; I was getting used to the driver issues with my old Radeon, but I haven't seen a single glitch since replacing it.

Cons: Very poor at direct compute applications; Nvidia designed this one as a pure gaming card. If you're looking to make use of GPGPU applications, you're going to want an ATI card this generation. The green team gets left in the dust here. Not something I care about personally, but definitely worth keeping in mind if you plan to use the card for that.

Overall Review: I could not possibly be happier with this card; I'm sure it's the best video card I've ever owned, as far as performance for the money. I always feel a little guilty going with Nvidia parts; I just like ATI/AMD better as company, as far as their business ethics and such...but I just can't pass up components this good. MSI's really won me over with this one. One of the fastest GTX670s, as well as one of the coolest and quietest, and it's far cheaper than most of the others. I can't find any shortcuts in it; it's certainly not in the build quality. I don't know how they managed it, but it's an amazing buy, and I know what brand I'll be going with in the future.

Pros: Card performs as advertised, quite fast. Range is good with the included external adapter.

Cons: Certain reproducible scenarios cause the card to fail entirely and be unable to see networks at all until restarting the computer. The oddest but most easy to reproduce of these for me is, I can leave Steam downloads going all day (60 GBs of GTA V downloaded without problems.) However, if I try to do anything else WHILE downloading from steam, within a few minutes the card will shut down. As noted in another review, once it does this, if I try to reset the card in software, the computer can not be cleanly shut down; it will just hang on shutdown with the card trying to enable itself. This can be worked round but makes no sense to me, even with a reasonable amount of networking knowledge. This is with the latest drivers; no other issues at all with this PC.

Pros: -FAST. CPU and GPU both lightning fast for this price point. This little laptop will handle anything you throw at it now; there's no game it won't run, though you might need to tweak the detail settings a bit for a few of the newest. Boots up in seconds even without an SSD. -Gorgeous screen; beautiful colors, endless viewing angles. -Great keyboard, easy to use and pleasant to type on. Number pad included. Programmable colors are just a bonus. Touchpad is responsive and accurate. -Quite decent sound for a laptop -Temperatures stay very reasonable. The case gets warm but not hot; the CPU seems to stay around 60 under moderate loads, the GPU a few degrees higher...far under any sort of safe limit.

Cons: -Fans are somewhat loud. -Display is thin and feels flexible...possible that it might not be able to take a ton of abuse. -Memory is a single 8GB stick so dual channel mode is not supported out of the box, may impact performance in some applications. -Battery life is mediocre compared to other laptops in this class

Overall Review: Easily one of the best if not the best machines to be had at this price point. Keeps up with more expensive machines with no problems at all. Build quality is excellent, design is attractive without being overdone, everything feels quality. The compromises made with this compared to a $2000+ laptop are miniscule, making it easily the sweet spot for someone who wants a good all around laptop. As long as the thin screen holds up, this is near perfect.

Pros: Great speed and range

Cons: None now that fix is in place

Overall Review: Adding on to that last review since I can't find a way to edit an existing one. For everyone having issues with this card, there is a fix that seems to resolve the issues with it shutting down, if you're comfortable making changes to your settings and registry. At a command prompt with administrative access, run the following commands - netsh interface tcp set global rss=disabled netsh interface tcp set global autotuninglevel=disabled netsh int ip set global taskoffload=disabled In the registry, disable Windows SNP by setting the following keys (create them if they do not exist) [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Tcpip\Parameters] EnableTCPChimney=dword:00000000 EnableTCPA=dword:00000000 EnableRSS=dword:00000000 This has resolved the problems I had so far with no negative performance impact at all. As such I've upped my review to five stars as the card now performs flawlessly.