Pros: I have had the card for a day, but there are so few reviews I thought I'd give my first impressions. Overall, I'm very happy with the card and would recommend it to anyone who wants to go with AMD and needs to save a little space in their case (8.66 inches long vs. 9+ on most other AMD cards). I would note that the power plugs in perpendicular to the long side of the card and so the plug will stick out beyond the stated 4.67 inch width of the card. In my somewhat narrow mid-sized case, this means the power plug presses just barely against the wall of the case once it's closed. For me this is preferable to having it stick out in the 8.66 direction, but just wanted to point that out if relevant to your case dimensions. I'm running it in an older system with a Phenom II X4 965 CPU (which is clearly bottlenecking the card). However, I did upgrade from an HD 6770, and it's a huge improvement. Also note that I got the card on a nice discount, $170 straight up, no rebates, and it came with the "complete first season" of Hitman, which I'm not hugely into, but it was a great little bonus. The few games I've tried out run MUCH better. I can turn the graphics up and maintain a smooth frame-rate (50-60s in ESO, even in crowded areas, and despite my CPU). I also ran Heaven Benchmark with fairly extreme settings and had decent results, considering the rest my machine, (about 50-60 average FPS). I'm keeping my eye on the temperatures while using stock settings. So far it looks like it idles between 45-55 C and then the fan gently kicks from 0 to < 1,000 RPM to cool things down when browsing the internet. I can't hear the GPU fan at all compared to my CPU stock fan, which is usually idling < 3,000 RPM to keep the CPU at about 50 C when just browsing the internet). During "extreme" benchmarks and some high/ultra settings gaming the card appears to have maxed out at about 70 C. I suspect at this point my CPU is basically maxed out, and I'll never push the card beyond that until I upgrade my CPU. Sounds good to me! Also note that my case is a mid-tower and it's pretty cramped in there. The card barely fit opposite my HDD which I could not relocate easily. My case is definitely not optimized for airflow or cooling, so your results may vary, but I'm happy with the temps and performance I'm getting so far.

Cons: Not really any cons as long as you do your homework on the dimensions of the card and card + power plug. I'm sure I can fiddle with the fan curve to keep it cooler when idling if I wanted, but 55 C isn't so bad for light computing, especially given the cramped conditions of my case.

Overall Review: Can't say anything about OCing. For my situation that would probably be overkill as my CPU would likely bottleneck any performance gains.