MSI GeForce GTX 580 (Fermi) DirectX 11 N580GTX Twin Frozr II/OC 1536MB 384-Bit GDDR5 PCI Express 2.0 x16 HDCP Ready SLI Support Video Card

Pros: 38c idle 67c load,AfterBurner software for raising voltage,MSI forums, Stalker COP at 1920x1080 all full/high settings running as close to butter as can be,comes with 3dMark adv 11,looks great in my Raven 2ew,nice retail box and 6to8 adapter.

Cons: Price,having to research to figure out whats wrong and how to fix it (semi fun actually, now that it's fixed). No free (current) game?,500 for a card and no game ? feel bad for the one egg since it's running great now not to mention Newegg's badassness....but

Overall Review: Easy fix, get the latest MSI After Burner program and up the core voltage in AB, some say 1020-5 I'm running smooth and fast at 1038,822,1645,2138. Nvid FW 266.58 / vid bios:70.10.17.00.01/Seasonic 700w/GA EX58-UD3R/3x2g Mem/i7 920/WD 1T BLK

Pros: This card replaces, two quadro FX 4600s which are great cards, for CAD work, but not for gaming. I ran crysis on those cards, but at the low 12-15 FPS. This card gave me a lot of trouble when I first installed it. Though it was fine for my 1900 x 1200 display setting, it crashed on any games such as crysis and just cause 2. Thanks to Renegades review which included the solution, of manually setting GPU voltage to 1.1v everything is now fine. I never ran across this solution on any forums in three weeks of searching. My card now runs Crysis at 60 FPS and 79 deg C. Everything maxed out and beautiful. I now feel confident I can spend the extra cash to buy Crysis 2.

Cons: MSI should have been knowledgable about this important voltage modification. I would love to have given it 5 stars. My MB is a Gigabyte and I copmpared their 580 to MSIs. I would have bought theirs, but I had very bad experiences with their customer service. I decided to try MSI and though I am not impressed with their cusomer service, I don't find it to be crippled like Gigabytes.

Overall Review: Thanks to Renegade I am happy, happy, happy. MB = Gigabyte EX58 UD5 with Award F12 CPU = Intel I7 920 Memory = Corsair XMS3 2G DDR 1333 Triple Channel X 6 = 12G VGA = MSI Twin Frozer GTX 580 running @810Mhz GPU V 1050 Thermatake Kandalf Super Tower VA9000BWS OS drive = Patriot Inferno SSD 60G PSU = Antec 1200w Hi current Pro

Pros: Runs nice & cool even under heavy, long hours of gaming. Temps never exceed 62c - idles around 27 to 30c. Very quiet, even when fan speeds pick up - idles silently. Will play anything I throw at it, at max settings, Black-Ops etc. Definitely happy with this card!

Cons: Absolutely NONE!

Overall Review: I've been buying MSI cards since the inception of the twin frozr design, this should be industry standard as it makes for the coolest running fan cooled cards on the planet. NEVER had a bad MSI product! Make sure you have a power supply that can handle it. It's not MSI's fault if YOU fail to do your homework or just listen to some dude who says he "knows"... Most people are just parrots repeating what they hear, never doing any objective research on their own. Don't be that guy/gal! Also learn how to maximize the card by tweaking the NVIDIA control panel before you whine and moan like an ignoramus.

Pros: I had EVGA GTX 580 SC and returned it to get this, what a difference!!! This card looks better, runs cooler and quieter. Idle 36c load 70c at 70% fan speed compaired to EVGA idle 42c load 78c at 85% fan speed. Card is factory clocked at 823Mhz but u can easly push it over 850Mhz not even touching the voltage. Maybe it doesnt run 19c cooler as advertised or who knows if u let the fan run at 85% Point is at 70% fan speed its really nice and quiet!!!

Cons: Only I can think of is 3 years warranty wheres EVGA offers lifetime.

Pros: 1- TwinFrozr II fans are undeniable, they are very efficient, so it permit high level of overclock. 2- Design of TwinFrozr still enough slim that you still have a lot of space in your case unlike its direct rival DirectCU II of ASUS. So it help for the overall air flow of your case. 3- Packaging 4- Price

Cons: 1- The fans are a little bit noisy...

Overall Review: If you're not an anti-sound freak this card is the maybe the best deal that you may got for a GTX 580. But keep in mind that if you aim silence, you should go for a case that got an isolant to prevent sound or buying the DirectCU II of ASUS that is, its direct rival. Here's my config for those who wants to compared in which kind of machine i was having with this Video Card: CPU: Intel i7 2600K CPU Fan/Heatsink: Arctic Cooling Freezer 13 Limited Edition Motherboard: ASRock Z68 Extreme3 Gen3 Memory (RAM): G.SKILL Ripjaws X Series 8Gb (2 x 4Gb) F3-12800CL8D-8GBXM - 1600 mhz - CAS8 8-8-8-24 - 1.5V Video card: MSI N580GTX Twin Frozr II 1536 GDDR5 SSD: Patriot Pyro PP120GS25SSDR - 120 Gb, Write: 515 Mb/sec Read: 550 Mb/sec, 85 000 IOPS, SATA 3, Seeking time: less than 0.1ms Hard Drive: Western Digital Caviar Black - 1 Tb - 64 Mb of cache - 7200 RPM - SATA 3 Bluray/DVDWriter: ASUS Black BC-12B1ST Power Supply: SeaSonic X Series X-850 Gold Case: NZXT H2 White

Pros: Fastest single-GPU card on the market. Looks and runs cool. Not too loud.

Cons: Should have bough off Newegg.

Overall Review: Do not listen to the reviews that said this card isn't the fastest or is only 50% faster than the GTX 460. This card is the fastest card on the market (single GPU; this excludes cards such as the HD 5970, HD 6990, and GHTX 590). It is true that this card is about twice as fast as the GTX 460, but this card is still the better buy if you want a high-end card. Logistically speaking GTX 460 SLI would be faster than a single GTX 580. If you do some research on this comparison, you can see why the GTX 580 is a better buy. First off, you aren't limited to 768MB/1GB of VRAM. Second, at higher resolutions with AA, the GTX 580 will offer better and smoother gameplay. And lastly, this card has a longer life span. If games become too demanding, you can SLI up to 4 cards. With the GTX 460, you can only do 2-way SLI, thus limiting you for future upgrades.

Pros: Fast, quieter than competition, wicked fast frame rates, makes you want to own two.

Cons: Dumps air into case. Had to clean up wiring to address heat issues. Had to RMA first one. Did the bios update to correct voltages. A few days in and I started to get artifacts in BC2 and during benchmarks. MSI offers a refurb replacement. New Egg stepped in and allowed the RMA a few days past 30.

Overall Review: Haven't had a need to update bios, seems to work fine. If it isn't broken don't fix it. New Egg has some of the best customer service I have ever seen.

Pros: What can I say. I'm very happy with this card. Runs anything that I throw at it.

Cons: The only weird thing that I can think of to add here is that this card is advertised with a core clock of 800 and mine seems to be 822... Not really a con but it is funny that the advertised clock speed is lower than the actual. I've had this card for a while now and I've been keeping an eye on it here at Newegg and so far they haven't changed the spec.

Overall Review: Getting another one of these to run in 2-way SLI. As an aside... It really amazes me as to what slides by as a review here on this site. It seems like someone asking for money and who obviously doesn't own the product being reviewed would kind of throw up a red flag to Newegg...