Pros: At the time I purchased it, it was the least expensive Radeon 7850 I could find. I needed one for my media PC and the price was right. It's a nice small card, and a bit smaller than the Radeon 6850 it replaced, and is a bit smaller than the GTX660 in my other Media PC. So it's a good sized card. While the HSF is very basic, it does the job. The fan isn't loud and is a bit quieter than the 6850 it replaced. I'm very happy to find a card in this price-range with 2GB of RAM. I was cross-shopping with Geforce GTX650 Ti w/Boost, and they performed close enough to each other that on board memory became the deciding factor. Most GTX650 Ti w/Boost! in this price range only offer 1GB of RAM, which pushed me to this card. I'm glad I did get this card as when I compared it to my GTX660 they ran pretty close to each other in overall performance and this card was quite a bit cheaper. On performance alone I recommend this card.

Cons: Not too many issues, I did find the HSF to be a little cheap. It's basically a piece of finned aluminum with a plastic shroud. As I said in my Pros, it does the job, however I found Overclocking limited. In comparison to my old HIS Radeon 6850(which had a copper heatpipe from the base to the aluminum fins) this is a really cheap solution. While Pitcarin runs a bit cooler than Barts, I wish I could get this to perform like a 7870 via overclocking (I was able to get my old HIS 6850 pretty close to 6870 levels). Those aren't the reasons I knocked an egg. While I have not had an issue with HIS cards and never had to deal with an RMA, a friend of mine had his HIS 6850 go bad and I tried helping him RMA it but the process is very convoluted and confusing. We gave up. After having good RMA experiences with other vendors I found this disappointing. Just to re-iterate I've never had any issues with their cards, but I've had very easy times with Asus, MSI and EVGA cards if they went bad. It was about a year ago, so I'm unsure if HIS improved their RMA process, but I hope they did because I've had good experiences with their cards.

Overall Review: I have this card running with a Core i3 2120 and 8GB of RAM on a Micro-ATX EVGA P67 board. While my GTX 660 is tied to a Core i5 2500k and 16GB of RAM. Playing games across both machines I found them to perform very similarly to each other and considering the fact that it's an i3 vs an i5 it's impressive that this card tied to the weaker CPU performs very close to the GTX660. If the price is right when you look at this card don't hesitate to pull the trigger as chances are you'll likely not need to RMA it and it's the best bang for buck you can get (at least when I bought it).

Pros: Looking online at a variety of benchmarks for upper end range cards this one fell in the top 10% of all cards at any price range so I went with it and it has been fantastic. Im running this on a X79 Extreme6 ASRROCK with a i7-3820 quad Ocd to 4.3ghz on H70 cooler 16 GIG DDR3 and an SSD 120GIG and when playing Crysis on 8X AA, 1280 x 900 max detail it posts an average of 85 FPS and frequently runs over 100FPS. RUNS COOL - I have a temperature probe shoved and press against the heat sink inside and it rarely gets above 45c and the fans which are on auto have yet to spin up to a speed where I can hear them with the case either open or closed. I'd be curious to see what the card could post if in Crossfire especially since my board can do dual PCI16x but honestly with just one and games like Crysis and Modern Warfare playing 80 FPS + almost perfectly what more can one ask for ? note - Im sure that even more performance can be extracted from this card with even a modest overc

Cons: Hard to come up with any cons for this card and Im a cynic by nature. The build of it is a bit on the flimsy side as compared to other HIS brand cards Ive purchased but then again how often will you actually physically handle it ? Be aware that few CPUs support PCIx3.0 (even many Core I7s ) but that isnt the cards fault at all - just be aware of this. The tail end of the card supports only a single DVI connection which may pose a problem for some. looking for dual monitors. It does offer 2 mini Display ports and a single HDMI and DVI so pick your poison.

Overall Review: It seems to me that for years and no matter what year it may be - the sweet spot for video cards seems to be around $220 to 250 each. You can pay more at any given time but you may only get a marginal increase of speed in general. Certainly throwing down $550 for the top of the line in any brand will bring smiles but who can really tell the difference of 70FPS in crysis and 100fps all the time - is it worth the money ?

Pros: Has taken anything I have thrown at it. For the cost, I couldn't be any happier.

Cons: Nothing to date.

Pros: one of the cheapest 7850s stock voltage @ 1.138 easily overclocked to 1200 core 1350 memory (default is 860 core 1200 memory) 3dmark11 graphics score: 6359 Fan is completely silent till 50% and bearable at 100% max temp(furmark) @ 75C while room temperature at 24/25C if you do a bad overclock the system will restart on default clock speeds

Cons: none

Overall Review: you'll void warranty if you remove the stock heatsink Video Ram doesn't have cooling on them

Pros: Price was just right, it might be even lower by the time you read this. Easy installation. Ran Skryim on Ultra High Quality out of the box. Plenty of room for overclocking if you need to. Only uses 1 PCI-E power cable. Very good packaging. Looks good

Cons: None

Overall Review: There are so many options for the 7850, and they're all pretty good. Yet this one caught my eye because of the price, while maintaining top quality. I have had no real issues with it so far, and its been pretty silent even when gaming. I look forward to some quality gaming with this card.

Pros: I paired this card with an i7-3960x and scored a 26,000 on 3Dmark06 and P6300 on 3Dmark11. Impressive scores for a sub $200 card

Cons: I only had this card for a few hours before boxing it back up and returning it. It's a great card for gaming but I also need it to perform well in 3D Studio Max OpenGL viewports. I've done this for years with desktop cards and they have performed well enough for what I need. However, this video card is severely crippled in a 3D Studio OpenGL viewport. Maybe it's a new type of optimization with HD 7000 series cards but I find interesting that in a 3-4 million polygon scene, an HD 6670 has twice the frame rate as this HD 7850. I'm use to a certain level of crippled performance by using a desktop card instead professional card in exchange for more powerful hardware, but this time it's far more crippling than I'm willing to accept, so I returned it.

Overall Review: I only knocked off one egg because it's still a great video card for gaming. If you are using it for just that purpose, I highly recommend it. However, If you want to run an OpenGL viewport in professional graphics program, you may want to look elsewhere.

Pros: -Fast! (BF3 maxed in 1680x1050 -no AA Deferred- on Caspian Border gives me a lowest of 31fps) -Very affordable for the power -Low power consumption -Very quiet

Cons: -A few annoying driver issues -The card's power (in beefy games) seemed to drop a bit suddenly after a while, but that's probably just because I'm using a fairly old PSU.

Overall Review: I was looking for a good graphics card in the ~$250 range, and I found this (It was $239 when I bought it about 5 months ago). I researched this card and compared it to others with the prices for over a week and declared this the winner. The minimum PSU requirement is 500w, and the card only needs to be plugged in by 1 6-pin power cable, and I have a 600w PSU. The hardware and software installations were very easy and fast, and I was almost instantly satisfied with the performance, coming from an HD 5770. However, there are a few annoying driver issues. While simply browsing the web every other day or so, the computer will freeze for a few seconds, go black, and then come back with "Display driver has crashed and has recovered." The problem is much worse for video rendering Minecraft. It ALWAYS happens a few minutes after starting to render a video in Sony Vegas or playing Minecraft. Also when it happens, both programs NEED to be restarted. Besides that, it's a great card for the $

Pros: Got the card on Black Friday for a great price. Thanks newegg. This cad has lots of room for overclocking. I messed around with the settings but decided just to leave it at stock settings because it performs just fine on stock settings. Used it on my son's gaming rig and it plays everything like BF3, Crysis2, MW3 on max settings. This card is a beast. Outperforms my 5770.

Cons: None so far.

Overall Review: My sons build outperforms my fist gen i7 build. Sons build: i5 3570 HIS Radeon HD 7850 2GB MSI Z77A-GD80 16GB G.Skill ripjaw ddr3 1600 (4x4GB) Corsair 650w psu Coolermaster Hyper 212 evo cpu cooler Corsair 400R ATX MIdtower