Pros: Blazing fast! Did I mention it's fast? Oh yes, and also it's really fast! I suppose I should also say it came well packaged, graphics look stunning on it, and manufacturing appears top notch, but I just can't get past the fast bit.

Cons: $700 is the most money I've ever spent on a graphics card. Ouch!

Overall Review: I'm not exaggerating about the speed on this thing either. I upgraded from an Asus GTX 980 Strix, which was a monster in it's own right, but the 1080Ti is doubling my frame rates from the 980 Strix. Seriously doubling them. I went from 63.4fps maxed out ultra at 1080p on the Rise of the Tomb Raider benchmark with the 980 Strix, to 126.3fps with the 1080Ti! I'll take a 99.5% performance increase from a single generation jump any day of the week! Now I need a 27" 1440p Gsync monitor to really let this thing shine!

Pros: Really great SDR with inky blacks, great contrast and serious visual pop. 32" at 1440p also makes text easier to read without having to use scaling. The price is also good for what you get! Build quality is solid and it has thin bezels and looks great just sitting on your desk. Out of the box HDR content (eg Cyberpunk 2077) running in SDR mode, colors can be a bit over saturated but a one tick drop in OSD Sidekick from 10 to 9 in color vibrance resolved that in SDR and looked great in game.

Cons: Not actually G-sync compatible despite their claim. Monitor will not show any refresh rate higher than 120hz available with an Nvidia graphics card even with all the adaptive sync compatibility boxes checked in Nvidia control panel and Freesync enabled on the monitor. Gigabyte has no drivers what so ever for this monitor to resolve that, so you're stuck with Generic PnP for your monitor driver in windows. Most damning though is the HDR. The monitor looks fantastic both in game and out until you enable HDR, then... wah wah waah. All the colors are muted, and everything appears like you're viewing it through a very thin fog. If you crank the brightness to 100 and drop the black equalizer to 9 and bump the color vibrance to 11, then it almost looks as good as SDR did except for the faint haze. The fine detail does look a tiny smidge better than SDR once you've done all that, but it's a lot of fiddling to get there and lacks visual pop. That's about the only pro I can see to HDR on this monitor. But then you have to switch it all back when you go to the desktop if you don't want your eyes to bleed in SDR mode. Also if you alt tab out of the game with HDR enabled, the mouse performance is utterly terrible and barely controllable, which is not an issue when running games in SDR mode.

Overall Review: This monitor really does look great for everything to include games in SDR mode and sports a good price. So as long as you never plan to use HDR mode and just want to enjoy a great looking SDR monitor, I'd say it's a good monitor and give it a whirl. For the fact that I bought it specifically for HDR and the HDR is bleh at best, I can't give it my recommendation. I'll probably keep it until current gen graphics are available at Mustang vs Ferrari prices, then find a 4k HDR monitor. Monitor gets 2.5 eggs for not being fully G-sync compatible and HDR being meh, but since that's not an option I'll round up 3. -Ryzen 5900x/X570/64GB 3600 DDR4/GTX 1080ti/Win 11- Everything is setup and enabled as per myriad tutorials for this monitor that I've found trying to solve the yuck HDR issue, but no dice. Which was the same for the other folks with this monitor having the same issue. No resolution.

Pros: Blazing fast performance. Runs cooler than reference design with better performance. Very quiet fan operation.

Cons: The card is huge! Will not fit in many mid towers.

Overall Review: While I am very happy with the ASUS Strix OC's performance, it came at a steep price and not anticipated price. On top of the $589 I paid for this card on Newegg, I ended up having to make an emergency 45 mile round trip and forking out an additional $140 at a not so local PC store for a new PC case, because the Strix would not fit in my Cooler Master Storm Scout mid tower case. The Storm Scout accepts a 10 3/4" (27.3cm) video card, but the Strix is 11 5/8" (29.53cm) long. Needless to say I wasn't thrilled when I went to install it and discovered it wouldn't fit in my case. So before you buy this card, be sure that your case will take an 11.5" or larger video card, or plan on spending a bunch more on a larger case like I had to. That's also my reason for knocking off 1 star on the review. As for performance though, I can't complain in the least. I was running a GTX 680 before, and was pulling around 28-30fps on Dragon Age Inquisitions on high settings. Now I'm pulling down 58-60fps on ultra settings. My 3dMark 11 score also jumped from 3519 with the GTX 680, to 6146 with the GTX 980. This card may use the same 28nm process as the GTX 680, but Nvidia has made massive improvements in the chip architecture and efficiency, and Asus did a fantastic job with the proprietary cooler and their overclock of the card! This card flat out rocks for speed, and I'd swear the graphics even look better now. My bottom line on this card is this; If you have a full tower or a large mid tower, or if you are planning a new build from scratch in a large tower, then run, don't walk to go get the ASUS Strix. If you do have a mid tower or mini tower though and don't want the added expense of buying a new tower (and the hassle of rebuilding your system in a new enclosure like me), then go with a reference design GTX 980 card that is shorter in length than the Strix.