Joined on 08/05/01
Works

Pros: Works, I can't notice any single degradation. I use an antenna for HDTV and split it between my Media Center PC and Flat Screen, so I can watch TV without the PC or through the PC.
Cons: none.
Overall Review: Cable tv is a thing of the past.
Heat Sink Problems

Pros: I didn't get to use the card.
Cons: The heat sink takes up more space than it should. Most high end cards take up two PCI slots but this one is more like 2 1/2 to 3 pci slots. Which made it hard to fit into my ECS KA3MVP motherboard. It did fit but the heat sink was pressed hard into the 4 pin power plug on the MB. It would also be impossible to put a second card in the MB for crossfire as the heat sinks are larger than the gap between the cards.
Overall Review: It was hard to tell how big the heat sink was from the picture provided by new egg because there isn't a side picture. But the heat fins themselves take up 2 slots on top of the card and the card take up one slot down.
Works Great

Pros: Much faster than my r9 290x, and very affordable considering prices of new products have gone up.
Cons: I wish more games supported Directx 12.
Oh so fast.

Pros: It's just kicking but. It's about twice as fast as my 5780 running 3 monitors (eyefinity). Games run smooth. Sorry no fps numbers here but in 5870x1080 game run great. It's also a beautiful card.
Cons: I want another one.... crossfire....
Stolen game

Pros: would be fun if I could play it.
Cons: Origin would be the con. My account got hacked and my game was stolen. Since I didn't enter my real birth date I couldn't recover my game. (i've been older than 18 for some time now and I'm just sick of entering my birth date when ever I want to watch a game video so I entered a random date)
Overall Review: I tried to get origin to help me return the game, I even sent em a copy of my receipt from my newegg purchance, and a photo of my game disk with my manual with the game code, and my ID, but they didn't care.
works

Pros: Easy to set up a RAID 1 works
Cons: none, well I wish it could set up three drives in a raid 1 config.
Overall Review: I set up 2 Samsung F3 drives in a raid 1 config on my Asus M3a79-t deluxe motherboard because I don't trust AMD's raid drivers. Worked right away, installed windows 7 and now I have much faster boot times similar to the boot times on my work computer which uses a SSD.