Pros: Xlt Image quality in 2D & 3D. Fast GPU. OC w ATiTool to 865/1150 with no issues or artifacts but pulled back to 850/1100 to ensure no probs in fast action gaming. Card was slightly tight fit, but did fit. I like that it is Ultra Durable with excellent and very quiet Zalman fan cooling solution.

Cons: Not GDDR4?, True it is GDDR3, but don't let that stop you from buying this card. I get scores and frame rates that are same as GDDR4 counterparts. 8800gt cards all use GDDR3 w. no adverse affects on games. GDDR4 is not truly needed for games at this point, though it would be a nice to have. The graphics core clocks/256 bit+ are far more important. This is a great card.

Overall Review: Experienced black screen betw Win splash and Welcom screen at first. Found that this is common for 3000 series using DVI. Found 3 step fix. 1st, Ensure all previous vid drivers are 100% removed. Step 2 - ATI 8.1 Catalyst or newer installed. Finally, Go to Control Panel, select Admin Tools, click on Services, find Ati Hotkey Poller, once there, change Startup type to Manual. Click OK. That fixed it for me, now card works better than any card I have ever owned.

Pros: It is an RV670 core running at ~775MHz, ergo it is one of the 3870 cores. What most people don't know is that a core that runs at 668 (the 3850s) is a lower quality core that couldn't stably run at 775, thus why the cards are practically the same. It comes with DDR3 that can easily be OC'd to 1000MHz if you have proper cooling--might need some RAM sinks on this to get there.

Cons: Has lower memory speeds, but on an ATI card, you're not liable to notice a difference anyway, as they have a low number of ROPs and the RAM speed only tends to matter if you run high levels of AA or AF, which go through the ROPs... and we're now going in circles.

Overall Review: Great card for the price, doubly so when you consider that it comes with a $30 Zalman fan already attached. I haven't bothered testing yet, but I'm almost positive that, with a slight voltage increase, this card could do 850 core and keep a load temp of under 70. I doubt it will remain stable if you try pushing to 900, but it could likely handle it temperature-wise.

Pros: At first I believed this card suffered from the messed up fan speed bios, and I was worried about it running hot. But after a lot of testing with crysis and other tools. This card is really quiet and the very max I have seen was 70c after hours of Crysis gaming, mind you this is with a 860 core and 1000 mem overclock. Crysis All High 1280x1024 Timedemo results on a x2 3800 2.6ghz cpu/2gb ddr500 ram got me 34 overall avg fps

Cons: The price drop right after I bought it. It was cheap to begin with before the price drop, So it wasn't much of an issue. I just wish I would have known. No ram heatsinks can be an issue for some as well, but for me I jerry rigged my stock cpu heatsink fan to blow directly onto the ram chips.

Overall Review: the competition came out with their new card and not much benchmarks are out yet. I would wait and see how they compete with each other before pulling the trigger.

Pros: Very quiet and very cool running card. The hottest I've gotten it to is 62C. That was while running Crysis on High settings with 2XAA. I was able to overclock the GPU to 855Mhz and the memory to 1040Mhz and run Crysis on the previous mentioned specs and get an average of about 20FPS, dipping down to 14FPS at times. I'd say for the price of this card it's worth it. I also read a review on this card with the GDDR3 RAM and it performed the same as the GDDR4 3870's. The review also showed that this card ran about 20C cooler than everything else.

Cons: I'm a little worried that there is no heat sinks on the RAM. I'm gonna probably try and buy some after market sinks. I'm mad that AMD announced a price drop for all 3870's this week. Right after I buy this!

Overall Review: I've read that two 3870's crossfired perform just as good as the new 3870X2's. Which would make since, the 3870X2's are almost the same thing as 2 3870's crossfired. But with the price drop of the 3870's it's looking pretty tempting to buy another one. My rig has an AMD Phenom 9600, 4 gigs of OCZ Gold PC6400, and 74GB WD 10K HD.

Pros: Overall I would say that this is a pretty good card with good gpu cooling. It's also at a pretty good price considering there are hd 3850's being sold for the same price.

Cons: The gddr3 isn't a bonus, but it doesn't really take much away from the performance of the card (about 100-200 points in 3dmark06 SM2 and SM3 tests). The only real problem is the lack of memory cooling which will limit any overclocking attempts.

Overall Review: This card seems to be pretty much the same as a standard hd 3870, and a small overclock of about 30mhz on the core will give almost the same, if not a slightly higher, score on 3dmark06 SM2 and SM3 tests.

Pros: Bought two of these, and so far they run great. Installation was easy with no problems at all. Price. Much better in-game graphics. Upgraded from a 1950Pro 512 and games are a whole new experiance. Also can run these on a 550 watt power supply.

Cons: None yet.

Overall Review: AMD X2 6400+ Black Box. 2 HD 3870 vid cards. ECS KA3 MVP Motherboard. Mushkin 2GB (2 x 1GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 800. Antec NeoPower 650 watt power supply. SoundBlaster X-Fi XtremeGamer Fatal1ty sound card. CMStacker 830 Case.

Pros: Good value. Cheaper than 8800 GT. Equal in performance to other HD3870's. Catalyst software was great.

Cons: Not superior to 8800 GT. HDMI driver overwrites High Definition onboard drivers.

Overall Review: Rig = E2200 @ 2.475GHz, 945GC uATX mobo, 2 GB Adata DDR2-5400 @ 524 MHz, Corsair VX450 PSU, WD 160 GB HDD. GV-RX387512H @ 780/950(Default): 3DMark06 9004 = SM2.0 3903 + SM3.0 4430 + CPU 2037 GV-RX387512H @ 860/1050(Max Overclock): 3DMark06 9297 = SM2.0 4031 + SM3.0 4680 + CPU 2034 3DMark06 was used at all default settings and resolution.

Pros: Excellent value. Aftermarket cooler is much quiter then reference. I was a little worried by the fact that the cooler doesn't cover the memory chips, but i have not had any problems. The memory chips are underneath the heatsink. So low profile memory heatsinks could be used and would take advantage of the fan moving air over them. I mainly play CSS. I'm running at 1920x1080P with everything cranked to the max. I get 134FPS. Supports HDMI audio without the need for another soundcard. This is your soundcard!

Cons: Does not include DVI to HDMI adaptor. Not, ATI uses a proprietary pin configuration to allow audio to transmit through the DVI port. A standard DVI to HDMI converter will allow Video to transfer fine, but not Audio. If you want audio you will need Item #: N82E16814999009 . Search google for "Realtek ATI HDMI Audio" This along with Catalyst 8.5 or later are required to allow audio output.