Pros: - This is the first ATI card I have ever purchased and it is freakin BEAST! Both in Performance and Size. - Crysis benchmarks are off the charts. - In Fallout 3 at ultra settings and 1680x1050 resolution it doesnt even flinch. - The 4870, stock, outperforms any other card at the sub $250 price range... and this one is built for overclocking.. and it is overclocked out of the box! - This is the best air cooling I have ever seen on a GPU. It is good enough to be able to push the mem and core clock on this card to get within 95%-100% of the performance of an Nvidia 260 which costs an extra $150.

Cons: Big and Loud... but I will not dock points. See below.

Overall Review: Everyone who is docking ratings here because of size and noise please consider the fact that THIS CARD IS BUILT FOR OVERCLOCKING. Fan noise: Lok's review was on the money. If you manually control the fan and switch from 30% at Idle and 60% at full-load then you will not have any temperature problems.. READ: but you must have good airflow in your case. In my case I can push the card to full load and never get the core temp over 65 C. I recommend using a tool like 'Riva - Tuner' which lets you assign hotkeys to set the fan to a specific rev %. Size: This thing is BIG because the cooling system is much more involved than any I have seen. I have not tried setting this card up in Cross-Fire so I cannot speak to the impact of having two cards. What I can say is that if I wanted to overclock this with my own GPU cooling it would be much more involved that what HIS did.

Pros: I had a pair of 4850s running in cross-fire prior to this (they died). This single card is comparable to that setup. I get an average of 55 FPS on FarCry 2 with everything maxed at 1920x1200. As far as cooling goes, I don't see any problems with it. I haven't seen it go above 50C at load and it idles at around 38C.

Cons: I'm considering buying another one.

Overall Review: I have it overclocked a little further than stock. Comes configured at 770/1000 and auto-tune set it at 780/1050 and I think its best not to push it any further than that. The overclocking range is 770-790/1000-1100. It is pretty big and I don't see it fitting easily into anything other than a full tower; this isn't a con, it's just an observation. Running the fan at 100% isn't any noisier than the rest of my fans. The fact that it's UV reactive shouldn't be a buying point for anyone because you can't even see it when it's upsiade down in your case.

Pros: This card does everything a 4870 should and more. The answer to "neat ... but does it play Crysis" is a "yes!". Overclocked out of the box and I took it up to 800mhz/core and 1100mhz/mem with ease. Looks great and affordable.

Cons: The default fan tables keep this card at 70C, and though it is silent, the fan is barely moving and it will heat up the rest of your case. The large heat pipes work great and will happily burn your hand or cables that stray too close. The fan spins up based on gpu usage and other factors, not just temp -- so looking at all in a shooter gives you a huge framerate and the gpu spins the fan up to an annoying level and it isn't constant (so it is loud for a few seconds, then quiet again when you look away from the wall). Manually controlling the fan or resetting the fan tables in CCC to 30% when idle and 50% when maxed helped a lot. It is still quiet and it idles at 40C and is 60C when gpu is maxed, making my only complaint go away.

Pros: Well clicked optimal settings in crysis (not warhead) and it put everything to high detail. Ran nice and smooth. But I wanted to see this in very high detail since I came from an 8600gt. Well as most of you know, the game is beautiful in very high detail. But I was surprised at the fps I was getting. Was 31 most of the time in the jungle. But hit a low of 17 when overlooking the ocean in the beginning. "First Light" But still seemed very smooth. The 8600 showed 18fps there on mostly medium and some low. But runs smoothly and very playable on very high 64bit so I'm very happy. Oh and as far as noise goes, I can't hear it over my Antec 1200.

Cons: Not sure. Haven't played too long with it yet. But I'm sure it'll get pretty hot. It was warm after about 2 hours on crysis but not hot. Not hot at all. So really no cons just yet.

Overall Review: I remember wanting to see crysis in very high when I had my 8600gt. Lol it was like a 3 frames per minute. Sometimes I thought my computer froze but it was just loading the next frame. :P Antec 1200 Phenom 9950BE (not over clocked) 4gb 800 OCZ Reaper Ram Windows Vista 64

Pros: These are the BEST of all the 4870-4890's out to date. I have had 4890's of multiple different manufacturers and they seem to run "OK" compared to these. The cooling on these cards is awesome! Pulls the air right the hell out of the case where it belongs, more than I can say about some of the other manufacturers out there. They are a little noisy at times but the new drivers will allow for you to adjust the fans from the control panel if it bothers you that much. Me, I'd rather have a cooler card that lasts a little longer than the quiet one that gets so hot the solder starts to run.

Cons: This is the end of the road for the 4800 series cards but these will last a while until they get the price down on the 5800's.

Overall Review: I don't regret buying these even on the event horizon of the 5800 launch.

Pros: Great Card! Strong, solid performance. No problems so far.

Cons: the fan is louder than I'd like. When my computer idles I can't really hear it, but as soon as I start up a game, the fan kicks in to high gear and whines away. Not too bothersome, but it's noticeable.

Overall Review: I hate spring, my seasonal allergies are kicking in. My eyes itch and I've been blowing my nose all day. =(

Pros: Update: I wrote the very first review. Previously I was irritated over the fact that the stickers on the video cards were placed wrong. Well, I notified HIS and they sent me replacements right away! Awesome customer service!

Cons: None!

Overall Review: Best 4870 on the market!

Pros: For the first 3 to 4 months the card was outstanding. Silent, fast, able to handle everything I threw at it. Then suddenly a clicking noise started to occurred....

Cons: It was rare at first, then as time went on it became more frequent and louder. Eventually a loud whirring sound that I immediately turned off my pc to further investigate it. I blew a little bit of dust out of the card but it didn't help 8/10 times the whirring and clicking sound occurred. It was coming from the video card's fan. It wasn't loose, it was seeded properly, and the fan didn't touch or scrape any of the plastic. I contacted HiS to get an RMA (since it has been less than a year) and 2 weeks later they told me to flash the video card. They gave me the link to do the flash and I did. The flash throttled down the fan to about 1400 rpm. Which caused the temperature of the card to increase to 79 degrees celisus (no longer Ice Cool...). Which of course increases case temperatures and more. Now my card is experiencing the same issue other ATI and Nvidia card owners experience with vista. Error atikmdag invalid parameter in eventviewer. See the next sectio

Overall Review: The video card while playing with dual monitors commonly does the following when playing games: 1. Start up game on one monitor (Left 4 Dead and others). 2. Messenger on the other monitor. 3. Start playing for a bit. Switch to the other monitor and randomly the video card powers the dvi connectors on it off. 4. Locks up my system (using Windows 7) and causes the video card fan to spin at over 3000 rpm. 5. Must manually power off machine. After hours of googling searching I read that this is an ATI Refresh something (don't remember the name) and sometimes people's card would re-enable the DVI ports. With the ICEQ 4+ the dvi ports were never re-enable. One week ago, I contacted HiS again for a RMA I have not received a response back yet. In short: This card is Excellent while it last but if you have a hardware issue with it...then imo you are sort of luck. I'm looking for a new video card to crossfire with this one, so I won't feel like I wasted my money on it.