EVGA GeForce 8600 GTS DirectX 10 512-P2-N773-AR 512MB 128-Bit GDDR3 PCI Express x16 HDCP Ready SLI Support Video Card

Pros: Overall, not a terrible card for the money. It's quite good for high-def video decoding, substantially better than the 7900GT in my other workstation. The mild overclocking capability of this card isn't a huge pro, especially since the stock cooling isn't stellar, but it can potentially gain you a few fps. Has a few advanced shader capabilities, but this is nearly moot anyway due to the narrow memory path. It came with ETQW, which is actually a big plus for me since I was planning on buying it anyway thanks to native Linux support. And speaking of Linux, Nvidia's binary drivers worked perfectly with this card. I've seen no memory leaks, performance hiccups or anything else which might echo the complaints of Vista users about Nvidia's support for this card. Rock solid, which is what keeps me coming back to Nvidia.

Cons: Nvidia crippled this card quite thoroughly when they decided it'd have a 128-bit memory path. It struggles to stand toe-to-toe with the 7900GT, which is slightly less in cost. The 7950 actually outperforms it soundly on most benchmarks, and happens to be a much better overclocker as well, if that's your thing. For raw 3D performance, look elsewhere.

Overall Review: For solid 3D performance in this price range, your money would be better spent on one of the better-equipped 79xx cards. Their 256-bit memory path stomps all over the outmoded 128-bit memory buss of the 6800-series. And of course, if you have money to throw around, the 8800 series makes this card look pretty paltry indeed. If you're really into Hi-Def video though, the sacrifice in 3D performance vs the 79xx would probably be worth it to you, since it really is great for hi-def video decompression. Otherwise, this hard is pretty tough to recommend. DirectX 10 is mostly gimmick, no matter what any marketing campaigns say. It should come as no shock that this this card and its touted DX10 capabilities are more hollow marketing than actual benefit. It's all pretty moot for me anyway, since I don't even run Windows, but I'm simply suggesting that you'd do well to avoid swallowing the hype. Look at real world gaming benchmarks, not synthetic tests. They'll tell a totally different story.

Pros: This is a really nice card (evga never disappoints). The included Quake is a nice touch.

Cons: I wish I'd done a little more homework before purchasing - turns out that 512MB is overkill for this card. The 256MB is just right.

Overall Review: Next time I'll read a few more reviews before purchasing, but this is still a pretty good card.

Pros: Extremely impressed with this card. Was an upgrade from my mistaken choice of a 7600GS 512MB card. The difference between the two is amazing! This card hasn't slowed down on anything I've thrown at it. Unfortunately the rest of my machine restricts certain strain tests of the card but I hope to resolve that soon.

Cons: None.

Overall Review: If you haven't bought this card yet, then I don't know what you are waiting for. To have the ability to do a 1GB SLI with this card, I drool for one day being able to do that!

Pros: I bought it specifically to play BF2 at highest settings and I’m very happy with it.

Cons: Why use old style 4-pin Molex for power? Also PCI-E 6-pin to 4-pin Molex adapter cable is not working on this card.

Overall Review: I used a custom Y cable to combine two 12V@14A rails to meet power requirements :)

Pros: Running with a 1680x1050 res i can play Cod4 on max with above average framerates, yet to try UR3, crysis is on low/med for acceptable frames, no heating issues easy install, play probably w/e game u want on max settings

Cons: has a 4 pin molex connecter so make sure u got an extra male head, only 32 stream processors

Overall Review: This card isnt the best out there but it can really hold its own, throw in sli mode with these which i plan on doing and performance is what youll get, defiantly a great buy for the price tag

Pros: It works great with any and all of my games, i throw everything at it and run them well on high settings. It works wonderfully well with vista ultimate 64-bit, 5.9.

Cons: Tends to heat up a little, but then what doesn't?

Overall Review: I'm running Windows Vista Ultimate 64bit on an MSI K9N SLI Platinum, AMD Athlon 64 x2 5200+, 4gb Gskill, evga 8600GTS 512mb, WD Raptor 10000 150gb, WD 500gb, BFG 650w.

Pros: awesome video card runs all my games in high all ARMA,UT3 demo,company of heroes etc.this card is a huge update from my ati x1300

Cons: none yet

Pros: Very good video card. I first tried it with all of my DirectX8/9 games with no problems. I didn't want to write a review on this card until I played some DirectX 10 games, after all, that's what this card is built for. Very satisfied. I ran BioShock at almost full settings. I also hooked it up to my Olivia LCD Monitor with similar results. In summary, if you don't want to dish out $300-$500 you can spend $200+ and get this card. My rule of thumb is to get something mid-grade so you don’t punch yourself in the nuts when you realize you only get 2-4% performance out of something that’s top of the line.

Cons: As good as the video card has been to me, alas, it still cannot run Splinter Cell DA at full capacity without major glitches. I have to turn the settings down quite a bit. Disappointing, since my 7900GS could run at full settings with the only problem being performance.

Overall Review: System Specs: Asus M2N-E SLI NF500, AMD 64 x2 +4800, 2 GB Patriot DDR2 800, 2-250GB Seagate 3.0Gbps(RAID), 40 GB Maxtor IDE, EVGA Nvidia 8600GTS 512MB, Samsung 18x DVD Burner SATA, LaCie 16x DVD Burner IDE, APEVIA 520W Power Supply.