EVGA GeForce 7950GT DirectX 9 512-P2-N635-AR 512MB 256-Bit GDDR3 PCI Express x16 HDCP Ready SLI Support KO HDCP Video Card

Pros: The eVGA 7950GT provides excellent rendering performance for the power it consumes. And it's reasonably priced too. And it has decent build quality. My 7950GT provides noticable improvement over my 6800GT for HomeWorld2 Complex5.5 gameplay. What I like about the eVGA 7950GT is it has double the rendering performance, double the memory, for roughly the same power draw of the 6800GT (69W vs 60W). This card functions well with my 2-year old 420W Enermax Noisetaker Power supply using the supplied Molex-to-PCIe adapter. I had no problems installing downloaded nVidia 93.71 drivers.

Cons: Nothing significant. GPU runs a little hotter than I would care to see. Cooling fan is barely audible. Heatsink/Fan solution is adequate.

Overall Review: I am satisfied. The eVGA 7950GT is part of my 2007 upgrade which features an Intel DG965WM mobo, E6600 CPU, and 2GB Mushkin DDR2-800 1.8V Memory. Upgrade objective is achieve double performance, for the same (or less) cost of the upgraded component, while using the same or less power. The eVGA 7950GT meets these requirements for replacing the 6800GT. I finally purchased this card after reading reviews of recently released 8600GT/GTS cards. Performance (in my opinion) is disappointing and hardware reviews placed 7950GT performance well above 8600GT/GTS, but short of 8800GTS, for OpenGL and DX9 based games. I will not transition to Vista anytime soon. So I couldn't care less about DX10 capability. Comparable, or more capable offerings, such as ATI 1950XT or 8800 series, require too much power (>100W) and are larger than the 7950GT. I decided the eVGA 7950GT provideds best balance of performance, cost and power consumption.

Pros: i have this card paired with an asus p5b deluxe, 2 gigs of corsair xms2, and an E6600 core 2 duo (2.4). everything worked perfectly together. everything complimented each other very nicely.

Cons: runs a bit hot, but thats intel for ya. nothing to worry about.

Overall Review: great buy if youre looking to save some money by dodging the 8800 series (like me)

Pros: I bought this card with the intent of bringing my frame rate in World of Warcraft up from an average of 12 FPS in low settings, to -maybe- 40ish. This card really blew me away, as I'm getting 50-60 consistently at maxed out video settings. The card itself is very thin (makes me a happy camper, I was expecting a huge fan on this one given previous reviewers' noise complaints, but I don't hear anything honestly).

Cons: Runs a wee bit on the warm side.

Overall Review: I wasn't careful when reading the specs, I didn't realize it used DVI input instead of VGA. Fortunately, the card came with 2 converters that work flawlessly. Also, I experienced a slight bit of ghosting and visual lag before I installed the drivers. Once they were updated (used the CD), everything ran smoothly. 512 MB, and a name you can trust? Definitely worth the purchase.

Pros: Great speed, low noise, cool temperatures. This card handles everything I throw at it with ease. Call of Duty 2 @ 1280x1024 with Aniso/AA4x and all settings maxed out runs as smooth as silk. Even Oblivion has never looked better, and runs at much higher detail levels having upgraded from an ATI Radeon X850 XT. Was able to achieve a stable overclock of 589MHz core and 764 MHz memory (1528 DDR) using the Coolbits registry hack. I have a feeling I would be able to get more performance out of it with a different method of overclocking, but Coolbits won't allow me to raise it any higher and pass their internal "testing".

Cons: None, so far. Good quality piece of hardware. Only con I can think of is that it doesn't have DirectX 10 hardware support, but that's no fault of nVidia's or eVGA's; no hardware supports DX10 standards yet.

Overall Review: The eVGA cooler, oddly enough, sounds distinctly like someone on the other side of my house taking a shower (don't get me wrong, it's quiet; it's like a light wooshing noise). It was a little disconcerting the first time I heard it considering I was supposed to be alone in the house. I guess that's just a personal problem though =P

Pros: Upgraded from an EVGA 7800GT. This one runs much cooler, and better frame rates in HL2 and Quake4. Boxed with HitMan game. Register with EVGA for possibly 2 more games. Fast order processing and 2 day delivery by UPS. Mongo like NewEgg!!

Cons: None

Overall Review: I like ice cream, don't like wildboars or an axe in my foot, What?, not those kind of thoughts... sorry, never mind.

Pros: WOW! The quality is amazing! I've never seen anything like it. Runs HL2, CoD2, and Star Trek Legacy (a very demanding game) on everything set to highest; antialiasing set to 8x and anisotropic filtering set to 16x and it's the most amazing game I've ever seen in person, even compared to an xbox 360, etc. I'll probably post some pics later.

Cons: It's not an 8800?

Overall Review: A must buy! Games are not going to utilize DX10 for a year or so, and this is the best card you can possibly get for your money at this point in time.

Pros: The drivers worked. I say that's a pro because "the other guy"s drivers were awful and there was no support. NVidia is right on track. The card is faster, more stable, draws less power, and...well...does everything better than the competition's equivalent. The control panel is easy to navigate and offers useful information, it hasn't peaked 52C yet, with all settings maxxed on WoW (only at 1440x900 res), steady 60+ fps.

Cons: None yet. Not a single crash in the first 3 weeks of heavy use.

Overall Review: I love the fan. It only kicks on when the vid card is gearing up for heat. As soon as you are just idling through the internet again, it spins back down and is deathly quiet. Like I said above, I built this machine with no bias towards any manufacturer...but I have one now that I've had the hassles that come with poor support and development from the other guy. NVidia all the way now.

Pros: I purchased this card a second time to set-up my system for SLI. With only one of these cards, I could pull about 45+ FPS in BF2142 @ 1024x768, High Quality + 2AA settings with the carding hitting about 72C. With the second card I now hit 75+ FPS in BF2142 @ 1024x768, High Quality + 2AA settings with both cards reaching no more than 63C!

Cons: With two of these cards running in SLI-Mode, the temperature on each card goes down since the workload is shared. That's not the con. The con is that the fans on these cards are pretty small and the cards could run much cooler with only case funs if the cards had better cooling fans and heatsinks.

Overall Review: My system: Windows XP Pro x64 (4) WD Cavier 7200 160GB HD in RAID 5 configuration. 2 GB DDR2 RAM Asus M2N32-SLI Deluxe Mobo AMD AM2 X2 4200+ (65W) Processor (2) EVGA 7950GT 512MB 256-bit GDDR3 KO Video Cards Samsung SyncMaster 940BX System works fine using Win XP Pro x64, this OS is very stable with my configuration.