MSI GeForce GTX 960 DirectX 12 GTX 960 GAMING 4G 4GB 128-Bit GDDR5 PCI Express 3.0 x16 HDCP Ready SLI Support ATX Video Card

Pros: Very quiet even with fans turned up high for comparison my Noctua 80mm on the cpu is louder than the gpu fans on high. MSI gaming app is pretty cool with preset clock profiles for the gpu,LED effects customizer and monitor color profile selection for gaming. Videos are on youtube now with people showing you that 4gb of Vram on the GTX960 is critical to running GTA5,Farcry 4,shadow of mordor at maxed out 1080p settings the vram usage is always around 3GB except SOMD it was consuming 4022mb of Vram roughly. in the 3 benchmark videos i saw the gameplay was smooth and hitting around 50-60fps. most review sites routinely state their hitting 1,500mhz on the core for overclocks thats pretty nice and does translate into free performance at stock voltages. gains will vary between titles. i can play anything on the market at great settings and with the gpu being DX12 ready the future feels not so overwhelming for now. Running it off my corsair CX430watt psu no problems what so ever. DSR tech from nvidia makes skyrim look amazing at 1440p ultra settings on my AOC 1920x1080 monitor A core i3 haswell 4150 is good enough to push this card and run the latest titles nice and smooth.

Cons: people still dont understand this card and how its compression/memory engine is better, all they see is 128bit bus and jump on the roll your eyes bandwagon. 4GB wont give any GPU instant FPS increases thats not the point of Vram, Its their in a large enough quantity to be able to load all the games assets for the gpu to process WITHOUT having to offload the games data to system memory which adds a latency penalty when that data is then needed causing game stutters or complete freezes for a few secs until it gets done playing catch up. no different then the windows OS needing X amount of ram to load programs and features without Thrashing the page file to death with R/W requests until the hard drive explodes. thats why i spent the extra 39$ and got this 4gb card and it was worth it. no point spending almost another $100 on a GTX970 when the 960 overclocked is nipping at it heels in benchmarks. Did not come with case badge swag? gamers like their stickers MSI . :-) honestly i dont see any cons, the card is top of its game, i knew what i was getting into and buying,

Pros: Great Card for the $$ - If your looking for a budget card to play any sort of game get this.

Cons: Not as powerful and the 980!!

Overall Review: When i opened my shipping box the video card manufacturers box was severely dented the product seems to work fine and i saw no damage to it. However the shipping box was NOT damaged so someone at the warehouse purposely put a damaged product out for shipping!! This really did frustrate me...

Pros: Performance is amazing, it performs extremely well while being overclocked thanks to it being a 4gb card. And hardly ever needs to run the fans more than 30% during any game play that I have thrown at it in ultra settings. Noise levels aren't that bad either, during an intense game of BF4 I took off my headset and muted the sound to hear the fans of the video card and could only hear the front fan of my case, which isn't even all that loud.

Cons: It is a little bit big in size, but if you have a case that can handle it you should have no problems installing and running it in your system.

Overall Review: Going from a MSI GTX 650 2gb to a MSI GTX 960 4gb has blown my mind. And as always, I have never had a problem with any of MSI products and I am a very satisfied customer.

Pros: This card is a beast. I'm currently running The Witcher 3 at high settings at 1080p with 50-60 fps! I didn't think this little card could do anything like that until I ran it in SLI, but a stand-alone set up with this card should be able to demolish any game at 1080p. Also, I'm getting over 60 fps on Dragon Age: Inquisiton with settings maxed. This card is a decent little overclocker, too. At stock voltage, I'm running about 1,550 Mhz in game (Core clock) and memory is right around the 7950 Mhz mark. I can't wait to get another, just to see what this little beast can do in SLI.

Cons: I'd like to see the price come down a bit, but at $240, it's still very much worth it.

Overall Review: Buy this card. I upgraded from a 4gb version of a 680 and I'm actually seeing performance gains. And this card runs COLD. Overclocked, running for hours in the most graphically demanding games in existence, I've never seen this card tip over 65 degrees. And that's with about 35% fan speed. This card is almost silent, and has a miniscule TDP of only 120 watts. If you're only playing at 1080p, get this card. It's worth every penny.

Pros: Power efficient! - Works with older computers with 400W+ power supplies, using only 120 watts - 10 more than a GTX 650 Ti 1GB card. Very quiet - Variable speed fans; each is independent and only come on when the video card is being heavily used. ( Very easy to install, as it replaced the aforementioned GTX 650 Ti 1GB. Didn't even need to remove or install a video driver, since they were both NVidia cards. Excellent low cost, high performance video card.

Cons: None for me at all. Some will need to consider the size of their computer case to see if the MSI GTX 960 4GB will fit (those with small or medium cases), and that they have at least a 6 pin connector from the power supply for it (most power supplies have at least that). It comes with a 6 pin to 8 pin adapter. The card, itself, has an 8 pin connector. Luckily, my power supply did have a 6+2 pin connector, so I didn't need the adapter.

Overall Review: Great video card for those with older computers who want to be able to play their games on max or very high settings without buying a new computer. Just check that computer case and power supply are both large enough, in size and wattage, respectively. The cost is affordable at around $190-200 for a GTX 960 2GB and about $240 for the 4GB version, and it requires a minimum 400W or better power supply. The GTX 970 4GB card is at least $100 more and requires a 500W or higher, something many older pre-built computers do not have. To give you an idea of the computer this went into, this is my computer: 2009 model Dell 435T XPS with a first generation Core i7 940 cpu @ 2.93 GHz, 6GB DDR3 RAM, 475W power supply with the only upgrades being a Samsung 840 Pro 256GB SSD replacing the hard drive and the MSI GTX 960 4GB video card replacing the prior GTX 650 Ti 1GB, a previous upgrade.

Pros: Very easy to install Runs everything on Ultra with no FPS issues Runs cool and quiet

Cons: Nothing really. Just minor whines about routing power cables around it.

Overall Review: It's a big card so make sure you have room for it, but it went into my off the shelf HP ENVY 700 Series case with ease. Power cords can be an irritant if you don't route them around a bit. Going from Intel HD Graphics to this was like stepping into paradise.

Pros: For a mid range card I highly recommend this one. It runs cool and quiet without much need for additional case fans. Gaming performance was good and it overclocked well.

Cons: No cons except that my drivers keep crashing because nvidia rolls out so many updates.

Pros: I am able to run almost all of my games on ultra with 60+ fps. Card runs super quiet and the fans rarely spin up. You really can't beat this card for its price and performance.

Cons: none so far.

Overall Review: This card is pretty big.