MSI Radeon HD 3870 512MB GDDR4 PCI Express 2.0 x16 CrossFireX Support Video Card RX3870-T2D512E OC

Pros: Pretty. Plays COD4, Bioshock, The Witcher, Oblivion, Orange Box on high EVERYTHING at 1680x1050. With 2 of these in CF I can play Crysis on high everything at 1680x1050. That game looks PRETTY... Easily best bang for buck... Complaints about the fan? Read other thoughts

Cons: None... Other than it doesn't cost $5...

Overall Review: If you're worried about the fan being too loud, just download R1vaTun3r and edit the fan settings. You can fully customize the fan speeds, mine ramps up with the temp, and I can never hear it very loud, and my cards only hit 60 degrees under load. My specs: AMD 5000+ BE @ 3.2GHz, 2x1Gb Crucial Ballistix DDR2 1066 @ 5-5-5-15, 150Gb Raptor, 250Gb Barracuda, 2xMSI 3870 OC, Hanns.G 22" LCD @ 1680x1050, 12,333 3dMark06

Pros: Fast card, Ran COD4 with everything on high at max resolution my 22 Samsung can handle and no lag what so ever. Almost doubted the card, but got it due to it's support for dx 10.1, PCIE 2.0 and my board & mem supporting compatiblity for crossfire.

Cons: Can't say I have experienced any.

Overall Review: Coolermax 1000 case, 800w ps, 4GB Crucial Ballistix PC8500, Q6600 2.4 OC 2.9, 4 WD Raptors in Raid 0, Windows Vista Ultimate, MSI ATI 3870 X2 in Crossfire Mode, ASUS Maximus Formula.

Pros: Outstanding performance for a single card, runs everything maxed out, zero frame stuttering. COD4, BioShock, Orange Box, Q4, ETQW, all with every last bit of eye candy enabled at the highest resolution. ( I dont care about crysis - silly remake of farcry, that will bring the most high end hardware to its knees due to its third world programming. )

Cons: the fan is about 20 decibles louder than the rest of my system, making it audibly stand out. [msi just changed the product photos at their site in the last 3 days, they had a pic of just this card, the next day they had a pic of this and a newer revised card, and today they just have a pic of the revised card. (The rev. card has yellow dvi connectors, but the real difference I noticed is the way the fan shroud looks - it has longer and wider baffles on the facia of the card, most likely to reduce noise.)] As other have previously mentioned riva can help with the fan speed. this is not really a con as any user can remedy this without an Rma. (msi will probably release an updated driver/bios that will fix this, if enough people flag them on this)

Overall Review: NVIDA Fanboys, Please stop commenting on ATI cards... This card will slam every modern game other than crysis - just like NVIDIA cards. I didnt buy this to have a Benchmark competition, I bought this to enjoy gaming. If I wanted NVIDA I would have bought one. Everything full maxed out, smooth and no frame stuttering - commenting on a marginal performance gain in a benchmark, is not a Real World test.

Pros: wow what can i say, i bought this card being a bit skeptical about this new series. I always used nvidia GPUs but after seeing what this puppy can do alone, i may buy another and put it in crossfire. After i overclocked using the catalyst control center and setting the fan speed to 54%, i was able to clock it out to 885 mhz core clock, and 1390 memory clock. (original was 800 and 1126) I put crysis on high shaders and was able to get 30fps as an average, although i think my cpu bottlenecked in some intensive fights. Anyhow, its worth the buy if you over clock it, i was able to keep my temperature around 57C under load after i set the fan speed a tad higher. Also, the price of this card is an excellent compromise for mid grade gamers who want excellent performance.

Cons: a bit of tweaking to get all the performance out of it, but i do this for every card so i dont mind a bit. Riva tuner and CCC work wonders.

Overall Review: this card is well worth the buy, especially you oblivion lovers out there, i ran this in 1900x1200 with everything maxed, qarl's texture mod, and 4x anti aliasing with 50fps. Tweak it, the fan moves so much air if you set it higher.

Pros: Very fast for the price. Stays cool, can run any game out currently with ease. Crossfire these for extra ownage.

Cons: Fan gets a little noisy in my opinion when the powerplay feature activates during 3d apps. It's relatively quiet at idle. You can get a 3rd party program and tweak the fan settings. Also Age of Conan fails to use this cards GPU fully, resulting in lower FPS than this card should be getting. it's purely a coding issue and not the 3870's fault. Hopefully this is fixed soon. Just warning everyone so they know what to expect. So anyway no big cons.

Overall Review: I'm running two of these in crossfire with a 500watt Thermaltake power supply. Yes I like to live on the edge, I know what I'm doing, and this system runs great. However I would recommend getting a 600 or 650 watt for crossfire if you aren't sure about the power your system needs. Any more than that is overkill unless you have a ridiculous amount of hard drives and other extras. Look in to how much power your components use before you buy a PSU. Amd 64 x2 6000+ 3ghz MSI k9a platinum 3gigs Corsair XMS 800 2x MSI RX3870 Thermaltake Purepower 500

Pros: WOW,, for real,WOW!! You just cant beat the price/performance. I havent had a single bad experience with any game yet. Crysis is all at high settings and resolution except for shaders and AA. All other games are completely maxed out on a 22' LCD without a problem. I went from a 7950gt to this and it is truly like night and day. I cant tell you how much I am enjoying this new card. I am an avid gamer and love trying to push my system. I have mine overclocked at 860core and 1226mem. Just enough to pull off Crysis with the setting I stated. No heat issues with simple Riva*uner fan adjustments. Best bang for the buck, period.

Cons: It is a bit like a mini jet turbine engine. The default fan setting on mine was at 80% which was to lowed. I have mine overclocked with a custom fan setting at 67% and all temps are fine. Yes its a huge card so make sure you have space.

Overall Review: I did a lot of shopping around and did my homework. If you are looking for the best midrange card out there, you've found it. My system stats: AMD 5600x2, 4Gb G-Skill mem, ASUS 590 non-SLI, Antec 640w Power.

Pros: It has a Core Clock of 800MHZ. It runs very cool at the cost of noise.

Cons: The new bios these are shipping with have the fans set at 80%, and it is very loud. The prior bios had the fans run too slow and MSI overcompensated.

Overall Review: If your fan is loud it is not a defect. There are programs to manually control your fan speed or you can flash your bios to one that better suits your needs.

Pros: Im loving this card. Plays all my games with out a hicup. Consistent frame rates no dips or spikes. After at least 3 hours of gaming my card didnt go above 40C and i can not hear the fan at all. Source stress test of 273 fps. COD4 70-100. Bf2 hasnt dipped below 92. Need for speed pro street extremely smooth no fps on that yet. I have all these games settings on max.

Cons: Nothing

Overall Review: I use a full tower case it has 3 120mm and 2 80mm on a fan controller they are all set to low even with this card my pc is very quiet. My rig untill i get my cpu back from the egg. am2 6400x2 but have to use a 6000x2, 2gig of wintec ampx ddr2 800 very good stable ram, this card. Asus m2r32 mvp board, and a 880watt hiper ati certified powersupply.