EVGA GeForce GTX 960 02G-P4-2966-KR 2GB SSC GAMING w/ACX 2.0+, Whisper Silent Cooling Graphics Card

Pros: I'm honestly surprised it runs so cool (25c-50c).... coolest thing in my mATX tower (SilverStone SST-PS07B )... just feels wrong lol... other then that its exactly has I expected it to be. Thank you EVGA for offering a solidly built 960. Hopefully it lasts me quite some time =)

Cons: The only fair con for this card would be relating to the amount of memory and bandwidth equipped on all current 960s... Right now that's not an issue if you use the intended 1080p resolution this thing was built for... in the relatively near future however... it may become an issue.

Overall Review: I've been waiting for the GTX 960 to finally be rolled out by NVIDIA since my 560TI decided to up and die on me last year... Around that time AMD's R9 285 rolled out and I was really tempted to pick it up. The 960 was to follow up soon afterwards so I decided to wait since it would be its direct competition. Due to the success of the 970 NVIDIA pushed it back to this year... Was the wait worth it? I'd say so... Maxwell chips are so frigging efficient! Not much of a performance difference from the 285 obviously lol... This is not a card to please people looking for every last FPS. It's built to run games at 1080p has efficiently has possible and fill in that price gap for those that want a good card with all the bells and whistles without spending $300+ for a new card. So pretty much the people upgrading from the GTX600 series down. Now... I'm sure a lot of you don't care that the advances in technology with this generation of cards focuses more on efficiency rather then raw power and there are indeed better performance/price ratio cards out there for you to buy. But, I personally am more interested in a durable card that is worth my hard earned money and will still be able to run any game well at my monitor's resolution. If you really need more performance... the other Maxwells like the 970 and 980 will be more tempting for you. Just be aware of the issue with the 970's memory design. I rather like that this card has its own chip rather then a "cutdown" version like the 970 has... tho... it's still a great card. If you have something like the 770 then obviously this is not the card for you. Do your research people =P So this card is pretty much built for me lol especially coming from the 560TI and my Haswell's built in HD4600. Speaking of... getting rid of those Intel drivers was a major pain... was having issues with black screens logging into windows due to it thinking I had multiple monitors n such. If you happen to be coming from that situation make sure to give priority to the card in bios and to run something like "Display Driver Uninstaller" to clean your Intel drivers in safemode before you use this card or you'll get a good scare lol. One last thing... The fans are off till it gets to 60c or so... which I'm not comfortable with. You have two options if your like me: flip the bios switch on the card to the more aggressive fan profile or set your own fan curve with EVGA's PrecisionX or similar OC software. I went for the latter because I wanted a smooth fan curve. Even tho these fans are louder then other designs due to the bearing design (which is also more reliable btw)... you won't hear them when its running at 10%-50% which is the range my card goes through from idle-load. Unless you OC heavily the cooler on this card is complete overkill so I just want the extra wind for that nice front plate that cools the rest of the card. Wellp... ran out of room so I hope the experience with my purchase was useful for you lol

Pros: GeForce GTX 960 was released this last Tuesday. I ordered mine on Tuesday night and had it delivered on Friday. I got the EVGA SuperClocked ACX (Advanced Cooling Extreme) version with 2 GB video memory. I was previously running a GTX 460 SuperClocked with 768 Mb of RAM. It was a decent card and still able to handle most of my games. Newer games off Steam like Natural Selection and Orion would not run due to having less than 1 GB of video memory. I also could not run the Skyrim high res texture pack. I could run Crysis 2 on high settings at 1280 x 780 or so. The single fan was reasonably quiet. This new GTX has a lower memory bandwidth (only 128 bit vs. 192 bit for the other card), however, nVidea has touted that the efficiency of the Maxwell chip makes up for the lower bandwidth. I cannot disagree with that sentiment. The 960 optimized all of my games through the GeForce Experience program and is running all of my games at 1920x1080 or greater. This is where it gets weird. I have a 1920x1080 monitor, but some games, like Skyrim and DOTA, will actually render at 2500x1700, then scale down to 1920x1080 to try to capture the detail of an even higher resolution monitor. This Dynamic Super Resolution worked beautifully on Skyrim. Everything looked crisp with enough haze on distant objects to give depth to the field of view. I did experience one frame rate drop when approaching a waterfall, but that was only after four hours of running Skyrim at 1.5x my native resolution with everything maxed on the HD texture pack. The card looks clean and fit easily in my micro ATX TX-381 case after moving some SATA cables out of the way. I would say that the dual fans cool well, but at this point, I do not think they have even had to spin up. This version of the EVGA GTX 960 has a small switch to operate in standard BIOS, which will only spin up the fans over 60* C or so, or performance BIOS, which keeps the fans on for extreme cooling. StarCraft II: Heart of the Swarm, Crysis 2, nor Skyrim even got the card hot enough to necessitate the fans. The triple-heatpipe heatsink seems to be cooling well enough with the air from my 120 mm intake fan blowing across it without needing its own two fans! I have only had the card for a day, but it has already exceeded my expectations.

Cons: I have no complaints with the design of the GTX 960 yet. This is a really well designed card!

Pros: Replacing a EVGA GTX 460SE with this 960 is a big improvement for me. I was after the less power consumption more than anything. Runs cool, but I dont run super intense games. I only play Minecraft with Misas texture pack. Never drops below 60FPS. I skipped the install disc all together and went straight to the website. Registered the product and downloaded the latest driver. Works like a charm. The EVGA PrecisionX 16 software is very nice. Look for it on their website if you get this card or the higher level ones.

Cons: The price, but that will come down soon enough, I simply got tech envy hahaha Thanks alot NewEgg :P Selling your stuff good on Facebook ads.

Overall Review: I really like the metal badge, screams quality vs a sticker that you normally get. You get a cheesy poster too!

Pros: I can run AAA games from 2014 at high quality graphics level with little slow down, and 1080 60fps video with no glitching.

Cons: Minecraft, but it always has trouble when trying to run HD textures and realistic shaders. Maybe I just need to change the settings.

Overall Review: I don't know how this graphics card compares with others on the market now, but I've been using it for over a year, around 8 hours a day, and it still works flawlessly.

Pros: Great price for so much power, really is the sweet spot for price/performance. This card is primarily used for the folding@home project, with some gaming as well. This card runs about 170k-200k ppd for folding@home. The main game I play is MechWarriorOnline which is on the Crysis engine, no other games have been tested yet. MWO runs on HIGH with 1920x1080 at 85-100FPS depending on map and number of mechs and weapons fire on screen. Crysis does use the CPU a lot as well, I am using an i7 4770k with no overclock yet on a ASUS Z87 Deluxe with 8GB of Corsair Vengeance at 1600.

Cons: Not really a strong Con, but something to note. I did not install any control software for the card initially, just let it run in default at first to break it in. The primary use of this card is for the folding@home project with Stanford, so it was running at 100% load for days on end. I thought the fan was amazingly quiet, assuming that it would automatically adjust for load and temp. Turns out it does not. At full load the fan was locked at it's lowest setting. The card was still under 80c but there's no reason for that. Installed the control software from EVGA and set the fan to 70% speed (at 100% speed it sounds like a jet turbine but it does put the card at 35c or so at full stress load LOL).

Pros: For $200, this is an outstanding card! I upgraded to this from my last-generation EVGA 1GB GeForce 650 TI SSC, which I sold to a coworker to play League of Legends with - and which I also never had any problem whatsoever with. Loving EVGA products. This card smacks it out of the park with almost anything I've thrown at it so far - it runs Crysis 3 at maximum detail (except Medium shadows, which barely makes any difference in appearance) at a steady 50-70fps. And the card stays cool on top of that! My System: -Gigabyte GA-H61MA-D3v Motherboard -Core i5 3570K 2.4GHz/3.8GHz Turbo, Ivy Bridge -8GB 1333MHz G.SKILL Ripjaws DDR3 RAM -ThermalTake TR2 700Watt PSU -Triple monitors - two 23" PC monitors and one 42" LCD TV

Cons: Big huge card that likely won't fit in anything less than a mid-tower, but once you reach this performance level, no card is gonna be much smaller, so I don't think you can really even call this a "con," it's just a side-effect of having a lot of graphics horsepower. The only real complaint I have is its relatively small (for modern memory-hungry games anway) 2GB memory size. Although it plays Far Cry 3 and Crysis 3 GREAT, Far Cry 4 stutters a lot on ultra-high settings, and when I load up the original Crysis with all the awesome graphics mods like Hi-Res Foliage, Rygel's Hi-Def Textures, and Crysis Expanded, the memory promptly maxes out and the game slows down drastically (17-28fps) when viewing extremely long distances/high polygon-counts. This is due to the textures eating up all the VRAM. Vanilla Crysis still runs liquid-smooth like butter, but if you're into ultra-hi-def mods and textures and stuff, or you want to play the brand-new high-end games on Ultra High settings get a 4GB card.

Overall Review: If you're looking for a good, fast, relatively cheap card to play the latest games on, this is the one. If you're a total graphics-maniac like myself who makes a hobby of pushing your system to its limits for fun, or if you want to game at higher resolutions than 1080p, then go get a 4GB card instead, as 2GB is a bit of a low limit for ultra-high-end detail/texture settings nowadays. Some other reviewers seem to complain about fan noise, but his is a very quiet card. It's not silent, but not anywhere near loud enough to really get on your nerves. Great card overall!

Pros: I upgraded from a Gigabyte GTX 660 and I do not regret it, I over clocked this card slightly and even though there is a 128 bit bus, Maxwell allowed color compression, which in turn makes the bus width not as relevant in this case, preparing myself to SLI these bad boys

Cons: 2 GB VRAM, not too bad though

Pros: Paid 220.00 wit a back-plate in 2015.

Cons: Why is newegg charging 480.00 for the same card two years later??!!!