EVGA GeForce 8800 GTS 320MB GDDR3 PCI Express x16 SLI Support Video Card 320-P2-N811-AR

Pros: Still runs a great majority of games out there at 1920x1080 with medium or higher settings... absolutely incredible for a 4 year old graphics card that was < $300 when I bought it. I have done heavy gaming on this for almost 4 years now, frequently OC'ing it... it has given me 0 problems. Anything built on Unreal Engine 3 or the Source Engine - this card can still max out at 1080p (Borderlands/Mass Effect 2/HL2 ep 2/Team Fortress 2/Left 4 Dead/etc). Just don't turn AA on - AA completely cripples this card on any new-ish game. Runs Starcraft 2 at high settings nearly flawlessly.

Cons: Can't max out Crysis ;)

Overall Review: I can't believe the value that this card got me... Considering a sub-$300 price point in 2007, this is easily the best value I have ever seen on the market for a mid range graphics card. It has taken until 2011 for there to start being a lot of games out there that this card can't handle at max or near max settings (minus AA). I consider 30fps average the playable mark... I know that is too low for many people. I have this card paired with an AMD Athlon II x4 640 and 8 GB of DDR2 memory.

Pros: Simply too many to list in 1000 characters. I run this card at 1360x768 on my HDTV, and it can max any game I've thrown at it, including Need for Speed Carbon and Oblivion (system hogs, NFSC for no apparent reason, Oblivion for great graphics), running at 40+ frames /sec. That's with ALL settings and 16X Quality AA with 16x AF. (C2D E6600, 2GB Corsair XMS2 DDR2-800, P5N-E SLI 650i chipset MB) All other games are with the same results, but games like WoW simply make this card laugh and aren't worth mentioning. Surprisingly cool compared to what others said, put out less heat than my Pentium 4 3.06 GHz in my laptop. Note: If buying for DirectX 10, this probably IS a good card, despite what others say. The reason these cards are currently failing in DX10 games are because the games were built in DX9 and patched to DX10, without being optimized. Crysis is said to run "quite nicely" on a 7900gt (albeit in DX9), though I have no concerns about how this card will perform in DX10 environmets.

Cons: After a full 5 minutes of trying to think of ANY cons about this card. Any problems you may have can be tweaked with nTune and the nVidia Control Panel. This card is basically perfect.

Overall Review: If you need high resolution gaming, get the 640mb. For people who don't run 30" XHD displays at 2560x1600, this card is definitely adequate. Also, on my Sceptre HDTV I had a bit of a problem with Resolutions, the TV kept accepting the 1360x768 as 1920x1080 (interlaced), and scaling it down. If you have similar problems, download nTune and open the nVidia Control Panel, and go to Display -> Manage Custom Resolutions. Type in the proper resolution, the max refresh rate of your TV/Monitor (mine was 60), and bits per pixel (mine worked as 32). If that doesn't work, tweak the advanced settings until it does. For games that use AA + HDR, just set AA in nTune to override the application preferences. Then enable HDR in the games. nTune enables AA while the game enables HDR. This works in Oblivion, for example. The following parts are all compatible and fit with eachother: Core 2 Duo E6600, ASUS P5N-E SLi Mobo, Zalman CNPS9700, 8800GTS, Creative X-Fi Fatal1ty, Cooler Master Centurion 5 case.

Pros: Tremendous performance. Great overclocker. Very cool (51 degrees at idle. 56 degrees at load with 12% overclock). Fan is really quiet and has never spun up to full speed. Heat sink from back was warm-to-touch, so the card was indeed cool.

Cons: None at all. Best card that's been released in years.

Overall Review: I would say that this is an awesome card for the price, but I don't want to downplay the quality by scaling it to the price. This card is simply a beast. If you're considering an X1950XT, you're MUCH better off spending the extra $50 to get this card; especially if you're an overclocker. Pound-for-pound, this card pummels the X1950, plus it has hardware support for DX10 (Vista). The 8800 overclocks MUCH better than the XT. You can't squeeze much out of the XT, since they're clocked close to their max at factory. I was able to overclock this to 1.9 GHz mem/675 core. I got a 15,500 3dmark'05 and a 10,500 3dmark'05 on an E6400@2.93. Get this card. It's sick.

Pros: Good price, DX10, very overclockable, can run new games with all bells and whistles. Doom 3, Supreme Commander(with good resolution at decent frames(System HOG), HL2, CS:S, DOD:S, Sims 2. Ill try other games when I get them.

Cons: Right now there is no program that works with vista can adjust the fan setting in the 8800GTS. Driver support for Vista.

Overall Review: 320mb is fine if your gaming at resolutions 1440 or less. If you game with larger screens go with the 640mb but the 320mb suits me just fine. This card is great OCed it to (600/900) on stock cooler idle 55C, on heavy load max ive reached 75C with the overclock(with ATI tool searching for artifacts) when I play I usually get 65C. Some peeps have it even at (650/1000) but until I can adjust my fan speed I am going to leave it at (600/900).

Pros: There have been some statements about the 640MB version being better for higher resolutions, v/s this 320MB version of the 8800GTS. Of course, more RAM means the ability to quickly keep track of more pixels, but to keep that in perspective: My 320 GTS runs Supreme Commander (a known resource hog) on TWO 22" CRT's at 1280X1024 -- EACH -- simultaneously, all settings at MAX. That's like a 2560X1024 display -- & again, with ALL eye candy on, AA, AF, details settings, and so on. I think that's pretty good for a sub-three-bill card. 8481 in 3DMark06 while running plenty of other stuff in the background AND two monitors ! BTW, on an Asus A8N32-SLI Deluxe M/B, this didn't block my SATA ports in EITHER position.

Cons: Um ... it didn't install itself ? ... takes up more space than a weaker card ... produces more heat than a lesser card ... takes more power than a weaker card ? Well, a bigger mule eats more grain. No mystery there.

Overall Review: Disclaimers: This is when paired with an Opteron 165 running at 2.7GHz, 2GB of Mushkin DDR500, a pair of 160GB/16MB cache SATA2 hard drives in RAID0 running XP Pro w/ all its updates installed, & the latest SupCom patch. A SPIFFY TIP: I had the bright idea to mount this in the bottom of my SLI slots & cut a hole in the BOTTOM of my case the size of this card's intake fan, positioned directly below it. Now, my GTS pulls cool air into itself directly from the air under the case. Works perfectly, & the system temps in my Ultra Aluminus case are nearly the same as with only a 2MB PCI card installed !

Pros: This is a great card, Runs all my current games on very high settings with no trouble. (Half-life 2, Elder Scrolls Oblivion, Medieval 2 Total War, etc.) It also handles my 3d work apps like 3dstudio max just fine. I don't notice any slowdowns unless I populate huge seens with tons of geometry. Even then its not bad. Runs Vista Aero just fine. I think it gets a 5.9 rating for Graphics and Aero IIRC. Oh, and no problems installing it and Windows Vista even had the drivers for it from Nvidia in Windows update so I just had to do my critical updates to get the most up to date drivers for my Video Card Automatically. It also handles dual monitors flawlessly both at their highest native resolution. (IIRC its 1650 by 1080) oh, and no fits, no problems, no incompatability issues. Its been running fine for over a month.

Cons: I had to make a scene in max that went for 3 miles in all directions, and populated it with a forest of medium to high polly trees using an array to even make the card hiccup (and then I was rotating the scene fairly fast to get to the other side). Most people aren't going to make a scene that inefficiently, and game designs certainly don't. This is a good powerful card. When I installed it, I did have to bend the tabs just a little bit to get it to slide all the way in, Though that could have been a problem with my case just as well, but they visually looked a little bent and my other cards went in fine so I'll bank that the slender metal got bent a bit during packaging or something. Its really minor, just one of those things where if it isnt' going in easily right way, you have to stop and look and think rather than just push harder. That goes with any component really.

Overall Review: This card does everything I want it to do and more, and the price isn't that bad. Sure you can go more powerful, and its going to cost you through the nose, but you can go a heck of a lot wimpier, and not save much money at all. Its at a great price point per value. Also, if you haven't messed with these type of cards before, this thing is big. The pictures fool you because proportionately they look like other video cards, but realizing that they take up two slots instead of just one... They are as long as the full length of the motherboard. When you plug the power in, they're longer. If you plug two of them into your PCIx16 slots then congratulations you just turned the bottom half of your motherboard into one solid chunk of heat-producing airflow-restricting circuitry. Not that its bad, just be prepared. The boards look a lot bigger installed than they do on a pic on the internet.

Pros: Quite honestly I wasn't entirely sure how this card would stack up in practical applications when I decided to go with it over its significantly more expensive 640MB GTS/GTX counterparts. But now I am quite happy I did, not only did I save quite the pretty penny I also got 90% (+/-5% depending on the game) of the power. All I can say is don't bother with 640GTS/GTX it is just not worth it. Sure you get the bragging rights for the next few months while you have the fastest card etc.. but after that you will probably be very happy you saved yourself a few hundred bucks.

Cons: At first it tended to heat up a bit but once I made some minor adjustments to air flow, all was well.

Overall Review: I highly recommend getting some software to monitor the temperature for the first few weeks, and just make sure your case is running cool enough in stress situations. Your card temp should probably not be exceeding 80c and if you have your cooling worked out well (as I do now) you should be able to run at about 50c (+/- 5c depending on load).

Pros: Great Video Quality! Runs Call of Duty 4 with excellent frame rate and top notch physics.(without overclocking) That beast-of-a-fan on it really does it's job very well. Runs cooler than my old 7600. It is also very, very quiet. Plenty of head-room for overclocking. Fits in my ATX Mid-Tower case just fine.

Cons: None. (That aren't listed in the description.); sucks up a little extra power, takes-up 2 slots, etc.

Overall Review: For the price, there is no reason not to have this in your gaming rig. There are some better cards out there, but this card is sub-$300, cool, quiet, sli-ready, DirectX 10 compatible, and maintains a quality frame rate under load. I recommend this card to anyone and everyone. Great Job EVGA!