Pros: Increased my FPS expoentially. Game play is now so much more fun and the details pop. I'm now going to purchase a larger monitor and think about purchasing another to run SLI. Hey, at 55 years of age I still know how to have some fun!!!! WOO HOO

Cons: There are zero cons to an EVGA video card...

Overall Review: I've been purchasing EVGA video cards for many years. I can tell you from first hand experience that this company WILL back up their products. Their lifetime warranty is the best. Jacob and the rest of the EVGA crew are great when it comes to support and will work with you to resolve any issue you may have. I've never been burnt by their rebates and have always received prompt responses to my quesitons. Their support forums are bar-none the BEST! Call me an EVGA fanboi...I don't care. This is THE ONLY brand of video card that I will purchase.

Pros: Fast. Probably the best price/performance of the current Fermi offerings. EVGA support is simply the best in the industry. I don't do a lot of overclocking but I did tweak this up and play a little with EVGA's OC Scanner (free). There is a lot more under the hood then it says on the box. If your a tweaker and you have plenty of air flow in your case you can get a lot more out of these cards.

Cons: Price, heat and noise. Not as hot and noisy as the you many think but to keep the temp down the fan needs to be manually run at at least 65%-70%. Over 70% it really does start tp get noisy. Left on auto it gets pretty hot BUT it is within what Nvidia says is safe.

Overall Review: Before you buy any high end video card take a good look at your cooling and power supply. In my case I worked things so I have a 120mm fan bring air in the front and blowing right over the video card. Whatever you can do to keep the fan at 65% or lower on the card will really keep the noise down. Performance and quality are great, lost a star from me for heat, noise, and cost. Around $300 would have earned it 5 stars as would a better cooling solution. can't wait to see what will happen with newer future Firmi based cards.

Pros: I was one of the lucky ones to get it before the price jumped a bit. This card is amazing. Currently running two of these in SLI. The 5870/5970 will beat these in max FPS, but during load these keep the frames much smoother than the competition.

Cons: Young drivers. Not really a con, because they can only get better. The price jumped, but only 10 bucks. Having them already and seeing what they're capable of I'd have paid $400 for them.

Overall Review: I wouldn't believe the hype about heat. They run hot, but they're made to. If you're investing this much money in a GPU get a case with good airflow. In SLI these handle a 23% overclocks, handle like beasts and peak out at 83/74c for top and bottom. Thats over 20 degrees below max rating and only 65% fan.

Pros: AMAZING, OC'd like a dream (Using Koolance WB) DX11 is so great.

Cons: With the stock cooler it did run hot, about 85 degrees load, however a little bit of AS 5 and it went down 12 degrees under load with the stock cooler. So the stock TIM is terrible. Fan is loud above 70%

Overall Review: Buy this card

Pros: Very pleased with the performance of the card. I have been playing anything from BFBC2, Just Cause 2, Crysis and others at 1680x1050 at max settings and no slowdowns at all.

Cons: None

Overall Review: I was concern about my Corsair 550W but it seems to be handling it just fine. I am using a Koolance full cover water block with the video card, the rest of my system is also WC My system is: i5 750 @ 3.8GHz GTX 470 SC Asus P7P55D 4GB DD3 Ram

Pros: Excellent card outclasses my 2(X) EVGA 8800 GT. Twin EVGA 8800 GT in Vantage - 11000. 1 GTX 470 SC in vantage - 19500 (Core at 675mhz) 3dmark 06 24000 Currently running board at Core - 700mhz / Shader 1400mhz/ Memory 3500MHZ

Cons: My 8800gt's would run in the high 80's Celcius. My 470 gtx does as well. If you set your fan to 60 percent permanetely, you will have much lower temps, and a reasonable sound note that is no louder then the 8800 gt was. I think that the baseline comparison for temps is now lowered because of what ATI brought with the 5xxx series.

Overall Review: As a nvidia fanboy, the GTX4xx series has accomplished the goal they set out to attain...bringing the fastest single GPU to the market.

Pros: wonderful card even though the benefit might seem to be that its superclocked thats not really the benefit, its that its over voltaged by evga and evga warranties overclocking but not overvoltaging so to get this car overvoltaged from .95 to 1.025 is all the difference take this card and over clock the hell out of It. i got 825 on my core making 1650 on my Shader and 1826x2=3652 on my memory. Helped increase the games a real lot and really overclocks amazingly. I highly recommend this it also comes with a step up plan so if the 480 drops in price in the next 3 months you can step up to a 480 but only stock so not much room for overclocking. Plays crysis on very high all with 1920x1200 between 36-42 fps stably with my q9450 and get 17000 vantage score stock and over 20000 overclocked. I am very happy with this. Heat is not a problem when the fans are turned up at 80% its quiter them my 8800 gts and a tad louder at 100%. On stress tests overclocked max temp reached 97c but average is66c

Cons: While its architecture is its strength its raw power is kinda its weakness. Unlike ati 5000 series this thing doesn't throw in large fps numbers as much as I wanted it to. I mean it gets about 25% better then my 2 8800 gts 512 g92 cards sli'd but on the high end games its infinitely better and usually on max settings easily 200%-300% better on most games. For UT3 maxed I only get about 130 with a 8800 gts as a dedicated ppu which my old 2 would get about 100 fps. But in tougher games like crysis now I get over 30fps on very high over all antialising and antistrophisy maxed out sadly with both turned off I only get a 6fps gain. So its not a brute force gpu that will get those high fps in the weaker games easily but its core is 25mhz slower and shader is 400 mhz slower still with gddr5 its memory core is much faster giving it the consistancy on more difficult games.

Overall Review: still reached 300 fps on cod4 constantly which is impressive. I reccomend 2 of these if you want to play at max settings like me on all games for the future and past and still be able to compete in competitive lan parties.

Pros: Very nice upgrade from my PNY GTX 260. I can now play all my games cranked to highest settings, all running at 1920 x 1080 resolution, smooth as butter. I am now in BC2 fragging heaven! Does not run as hot as I was led to believe. Idling in the 40s C, heats up 80s C during gaming.

Cons: Can get loud when fan speed is cranked up, but this is just nitpicking... This is to be expected with any high end graphics card.

Overall Review: Not my first time buying eVGA and certainly not my last! Just make sure you have a well ventilated case and temps will not be an issue. Also this card is actually smaller in length than the GTX 260 I had been using. My system: i7 920 OC'd to 3.2GHz Noctua NH-U12P CPU Cooler Asus P6T Deluxe V2 Mobo Corsair Dominator 6gb 1600 Corsair 850HX 850w PSU Creative x-Fi Titanium sound card WD Caviar Black 1TB HDD LG SuperMultiBlue BluRay Drive Coolermaster Storm Scout Case