DIAMOND Radeon HD 4870 512MB GDDR5 PCI Express 2.0 x16 CrossFireX Support Video Card 4870PE5512

Pros: Incredible performance. Cooler works flawlessly, even when voltage is increased, so long as you edit the profiles properly.

Cons: Takes a little bit to figure out the fan speed trick for this thing.

Overall Review: What I ended up doing (on windows XP 32bit) was making a profile using the updated Catalyst Control Center 8.7, then going into... C:\Documents and Settings\{USER}\Local Settings\Application Data\ATI\ACE\Profiles\ And copying the profile i made 10 times, naming each a multiple of 10 between 10 and 100. I then edited each .xml file so that the line under "FanSpeedAlgorithm read... <Property name="FanSpeedAlgorithm" value="Manual"> And then under "FanSpeedPercentTarget_0... <Property name="want" value="{multiple of 10 in filename}"> After doing so, loading profile 10 would set the fan speed to 10%, 50 to 50% (the one i usually use), and so on...

Pros: This card is a beast. Runs very quiet at lower fan speeds, and it's not hot at the same time. ATI obliterated NVIDIA with this one, great buy.

Cons: Fan speeds up to 100% on power-up, very loud. It slows down right away, though, so no big deal.

Overall Review: 4870 X2 came out, best single card out there performance-wise...

Pros: Price, Power, Polygons and the strict Diamond standards. Really folks this is perfectly priced at launch and even now. This is mainstream gpu's at its best far better than any 450-800 single gpu high end card.

Cons: Don't hate the GPU hate the Game.

Overall Review: Flawless operation and works well with my 790X board. Huge increase in my overall game performance, allowing for better AA and AF support. I used to ride the green wave of big N but now I'm cruising on the blood red tide of ATI (trademark). ATI delivers one of the best cards since my 9800PRO back in 2003. Can't complain about the fan noise at 100% because with an Antec 1200 and all 6 fans maxed out I think a tiny GPU fan is hardly of any concern.

Pros: This card gives exceptional performance. Even Crysis runs at about 50-60 frames per second on High if you can believe it. Also, considering the performance, it doesn't eat too much power, nor is it very large. No official drivers yet, but I haven't had any problems with it performance or function-wise

Cons: This card runs hot. The hotfix helps a little, but I still suggest using the profile fix. At 75% fan speed the card runs at about 55 degrees C under load.

Overall Review: nVidia must be feeling the squeeze a little with the release of these cards. To top it off, there are more versions of it set to come out soon, including the 4870X2 which should easily outdo the GTX 280 for a similar price

Pros: This thing is smokin fast! I bought it to replace my 8800gtx, and it blows that card out of the water! Plus after adjusting the fan speed by creating a new profile, I clocked it to 790/1900 with out any problems. I bet I could go even higher if the catalyst software would let me! (790's the max)

Cons: Make sure you adjust the fan speed. People aren't exaggerating about this, once I changed it to run at 70 percent instead of a measley 17 percent, (or whatever it comes from the factory at) I couldn't believe it when it went from 80 C at idle down to 50 C at idle almost instantly. They need to fix that...

Overall Review: AN awsome card, twice as fast as the 8800 GTX I paid over twice the amount of money for. The prices on graphics cards were getting ridiculous. ATI really helped us out! The ATI card doesn't do Physx yet, and I sold my ageia card along with my 8800 to pay for this, but I'm getting the PCI express version of the ageia card today, so now I'll have the best of both worlds. ATI and Havok, as well as ageia physx... Good times!

Pros: Upped my FPS in Age Of Conan. Turned the shadows back on to 'high' and 'everything', and it looks great! No jerkyness and no major loss of FPS. Had that off on my 8800GT because it wasn't smooth as I'd like. I paired this with an E8400. BF2 just sits at 99 or 100 and doesn't go down. Probably need vertical synce turned on.

Cons: Hot! Put your hand next to the rear vent after playing for a few hours and you'll see. But it's venting out the back so who cares.

Overall Review: Nice upgrade from my 8800GT, and a great price for performance IMO. AOC looks awesome.

Pros: BEst card i have ever owned, I used to be an nivida fan but no moreee. I can play crysis max settings with easseeee.

Cons: Heat can be a issue, have 4 fans and its still up there

Overall Review: amazinggg

Pros: i ordered these cards over the weekend and my goodness, i had little hassle installing them in crossfirex and i cant say how much of an improvement it is over my old 1950XTX, hasn't lagged at anything I've thrown at it and i was expecting the power requirements to be a little higher, but it worked out ok. very fast cards and i would recommend them to any gaming enthusiast

Cons: bulky, but still fit in my Alienware case. It runs hot... very hot. I've recorded it at 82 C at its peak so far.

Overall Review: manual kinda tricked me a bit.. said that there was a 750 Watt requirement to run these cards in crossfire.. guess they where wrong..