GECUBE Radeon X1950XT DirectX 9 HV195XTG3-E3 512MB 256-Bit GDDR3 PCI Express x16 HDCP Ready CrossFireX Support Video Card

Pros: This card will run Bioshock and other recent games at highest settings with a nice FPS. The stock cooler isn't louder than any of the other fans in my case.

Cons: As mentioned, this card is *big*. When I first installed the card, the fan made a horrid clicking sound when it spun up, which needed a bit of questionable tweaking to fix (a few screws loosened, and a bit of prying with a screwdriver).

Overall Review: The questionable tweaking seemed to have worked, leading to a quiet card.

Pros: This card is amazing... it can run anything I throw at it without a hitch, it only needed a new PSU and it began to show it's true potential.

Cons: It runs hot.... really really hot.... I had to buy a zalman V900 CU video card cooler just so I could play high end games without it shutting itself off due to heat.

Overall Review: Get some Artic Silver 5 and a better cooler and you'll be set.

Pros: fast, quite, great performance. This card has chewed up almost everything I've thrown at it. Upgraded from an older AGP format card and the difference is stunning, nice eye candy at relatively large resolutions. Best card you can get for the money right now, even if it isn't a true spec X1950 XT.

Cons: As other reviewers have said, this thing is HUGE. It gets pretty close to blocking two of my SATA ports on my motherboard, and I actually had to move the plugs from there to a different port because they would have gotten caught in the card's fan. I was lucky to have a large case because otherwise I could definitely see this getting in the way of some drives. I've also noticed it tends to run a little on the warm side, but not enough to be worrisome.

Overall Review: While it is large, it makes up for that in performance. The size also isn't all that much of concern if you have a decent sized mid-tower with a full size ATX board. It's not a deal breaker by any means.

Pros: This card can handle anything you through at it. Bioshock can handle and high settings with no lag, or video chopping. One sweet card and good price

Cons: HUGE, this card, is the biggest I've ever seen. had a 450 Power supply, and it wouldn't power the card. Had to purchase 650 wat PS. 500 PS would be the min to run the card

Overall Review: Great price, great performance. make sure you have a huge tower, and a big power supply

Pros: The 1950xt is undeniably the best performing card in its price range (w/rebate) this card is cheaper than most of the 1950pro cards and has 16 pipes vs 12 on the pro series and performs much higher tooo ! The crutch of the card was the fan/heatsink combination ,and this 1 has a very nice (and quite tooo) heatpipe design,which allows overclocking without 100% fan,which with reference ATI design is like a hairdryer (superloud) don't bother with DX10 cards yet,unless you got cash to blow,because this will run any new game worth playing at this time and most dx10 games are DX9 compatible(not ALL,but most) and DX10 is too buggy for now ! this will chew up a 8600 series card and spit it out ,no comparison at all much faster than a card that cost xx to a xxx dollars more!

Cons: absolutley none,for this price, its king of its class!

Overall Review: with a modern processor like a 3ghz P4 or AMD 3500+ and 1 gig of memory this card flys, turn up all the settings and enjoy your games the way you deserve! with a core2 or AMD x2 and more memory you'll be the envy of you buddies! 1600x1200 w/AA and AF are no sweat with this ! on most games ! BUY THIS AND YOU CAN"T GO WRONG ! VERY VERY NICE CARD !

Pros: Over all, it's a great card, especially for the money. I've always heard that ATI provided more for the money and I wasn't disappointed.

Cons: Its fan/heatsink combo doesn't keep up with the demand. After 5 minutes playing UT3, the heat sink is hot to the touch and had an impact on the game play (lllaaaagggg). I've also had problem with the fan hitting the plastic casing, but I overcame by loosening one of the casing's screws.

Overall Review: If considering this card, be sure to include a decent cooling system in the budget.

Pros: Fast for the money. Runs BioShock great and performs modestly with Crysis when set at 1240x1024.

Cons: This thing is just runs really hot and needs a better cooling device, it tops out at over 100C before crashing. To top it of this thing is huge, had to mode every case I tried to put this thing in.

Overall Review: I returned this card and got a much faster card from newegg.com which came out to be the same after considering it's rebate and this 1950XT would need a 3rd party cooler and 45minutes of my time to run properly. If nothing else this card has a bright future at boiling water.

Pros: very very very fast. excellent price, cooling works.

Cons: the fan was warped and rubbed onto the case making a very loud clicking noise. some users complain of its size but it fit perfect in my case

Overall Review: RMA'd for a new one.