MSI GeForce GTX 550 Ti (Fermi) DirectX 11 N550GTX-Ti-M2D1GD5/OC 1GB 192-Bit GDDR5 PCI Express 2.0 x16 HDCP Ready SLI Support Video Card

Pros: 1:Card is stable when overclocked to 1014 and the fan db only raises slightly. 2:Scored a 2240 on 3d mark which is good for the card level and didn't rise above 50c under load. 3:Over all A decent entry level with dx11 support and a killer cooling and built in OC solution.

Cons: None that I've found

Overall Review: For those that are reporting fan noise: A: You can manually set the fan speed with the included MSI utility. B: If you overclock too high YES it's going to make noise. SYSTEM: Mainboard: ASUS P5G41-M LX2/GB CPU: Pentium(R) Dual-Core CPU E5800 @ 3.20GHz MEM: 4gb ddr2 800 Patriot Memory GPU: MSI GTX 550TI

Pros: I'm really impressed with this card for the price, i can run black ops maxed out and crysis warhead on high settings with about 30FBS at 1600x900 with anti lasing at 4x. Runs crysis 2 on max with all direct x 11 textures on at the same resolution. Looking for a inexpensive card with good graphics with good frame rights this card is good pick.

Cons: Lot of negative reviews about this car overheating, it runs warm but if you set the afterburner program fan control it well adjust the rpm based on temp, i get about 56 cel when playing graphic intense games like crysis 2, at the fan at max RPM, as long as you have good cooling in your case it should not be a problem

Overall Review: my specs: 730 watt power supply Phenom ll x4 3.2 gig 8 gig of ddr 2 Kingston hyperex 6400 4 80mm fans with 1 120mm cool-master three heat pipe cpu cooler

Pros: runs very well, several options with the Afterburner app. It also has a handy app for updating the card it self, no hunting for the correct driver updates only to find that Nvidia mislabeled them.

Cons: Not really a con all things being equal, but the fan does get a bit loud. However, it is not a sound like fingernails on a chalkboard so it does not bother me at all and is easy to ignore. The Black and Red theme is a bit annoying to me so I am going to paint the cover all black. Should look very nice when it is done.

Overall Review: Since this is not a "Bleeding Edge" card, all of the specs you might achieve on different games is not really as important as the fact that you can play all the games you want - Far Cry - whatever. This card will handle it all no matter what. If you want to find fault with the card, then pay more money for the latest-greatest. Otherwise, this card outperforms its price range. The Bang wins on the card, you win on the Bucks.

Pros: good value for the money

Cons: ONLY supports 2 monitors even though it has 3 outputs. Nothing on the manufacturer website or new egg site stated it supports only 2 monitors. :-(

Pros: Very FAST but quiet videocard. Raised my Win7 to 7.4 Fan usually idles along at 40% and GPU temp 29C for total silence. Great card for the price: under 90 bucks AR No bloatware installed using custom option, only the driver needed.

Cons: None at this price value.

Overall Review: Certainly not in the upper tier of the FASTEST and MOST EXPENSIVE video cards.

Pros: It's cheap? MSI afterburner is pretty slick. It is really easy to use and does a great job monitoring what exactly is going wrong when the card crashes.

Cons: I've had this for 2 months. FPS issues, artifacts, hardware lockups, blue screens, this card has it all. Regardless of driver version, the 3 games I play most often crash. TF2: The card locks up/has problems within 5 minutes usually. Sometimes only the textures go haywire, but usually it results in a driver-related BSOD. Chivalry Medieval Warfare: Driver related BSOD within 20 minutes or so. Quake Live: The game spends the first 15 minutes running at between 15 - 25 FPS on a cfg designed for speed, i.e. texture detail turned down to flat shades. Eventually it will get up to 125 FPS where it should be, until it eventually locks up and crashes. Sometimes I can go 45 minutes without a disaster. Latest drivers and BIOS make no difference. Afterburner indicates the GPU is spiking to 100% then crashing. bluescreenviewer indicates many, many driver related problems.

Overall Review: I went back to my old, dusty 8800 GTS

Pros: Fixed my issue with new system build. This card replaces an Radeon 5770 in my new system (3570K, Asus Z77 MB, 16GB Gskills RAM, HyperX SSD - Win7). ATI driver caused BSOD on boot up -- troubleshoot the hell out of it to no avail. ATI card worked fine on old AMD X4 955 system and new system only suffered BSOD on boot but would operate OK once in Windows OS. But BSOD was not acceptable on new sysem. I had to change NB PCIe to Gen. 1 (auto no video) using hdmi connection of Asus 23 lcd panel. Got rebate of $30 so less than $100 and benchmarks are comparable with 5770. Happy now.

Cons: Card is big. Had to change setting in UEFI for it to display properly.

Overall Review: Not sure why ATI card would not work without erroring on atikmpag.sys followed instructions for clean install -- disabled onboard video and lots of other "advice" -- no problems with Nvidia card -- I order 2 others (which were RMA back) --worth the price for the lack of errors alone.

Pros: This thing did everything I needed for the little over a year I had it.

Cons: Just randomly stopped working.

Overall Review: Will be contacting MSI since it still falls under the 3 year warranty hopefully will get it fixed.