Pros: Firstly, quickly disregard the terrible reviews from those *bleep* above or below this review. Now that, that's settled. This card is a amazing as long as you throw away the driver disc that comes packaged with the gpu, for the love of *** DO NOT use it. This card runs unbelievably cool and quiet. I ran Battlefield 4 for a half an hour in ultra settings in 1920x1080 (1080p) and this card stayed at 40 degrees in room temperature conditions which means that there is ample room for overclocking (not that it needs to be since the stock speeds are insane as it is) but for enthusiasts, like myself, this will appeal to you. The R7 260x can handle any modern game you can throw at it in high or ultra settings. If you want to game on a budget then your search ends here.

Cons: The driver that comes packaged (*shutters*) that thing needs to be disposed of in the hottest fire that you have readily available. Other reviewers might be *bleep* for not downloading the latest drivers straight from AMD before providing their critique but they are not kidding when it comes to that driver.

Overall Review: To put your mind at further ease about this card I am actually a CompTIA A+ & Cisco CCNA certified desktop pc technician, so I do know what I am talking about. So if you're still on the fence then I hope my brief comments can provide some clarity.

Pros: First off, ignore the reviews for this card dated on 11/15 and earlier because they were done before AMD updated the driver. All the new AMD cards had bad reviews until the update. Coming from an Nvidia Geforce 8400GS this is a major improvement. I've been able to play most games at maximum or near maximum settings between 30-60fps at 1080p on a 42" TV. I haven't noticed the fan noise, but my cpu's fan sounds like a Super Apache. I haven't heard it when my cpu's fan stops. The card's temp varies between 35-40C idle and about 65-70C during heavy gaming (Far Cry 3 Blood Dragons, Very High with shadows lowered). I've increased the gpu and memory frequencies by 25mhz from the cards stock and haven't had any extra heat generated or artifacts, though I really don't feel like I need to overclock it any. The MSI Afterburner Remote app is really handy. It's nice to be able to see my system's current status or overclock the card from my phone.

Cons: Didn't come with a new motherboard and a 2nd for Crossfire. My PC's motherboard sucks.... Seriously though, it ships with a bad driver and requires the latest beta from AMD to function properly, but other than that I really don't have any. My Geforce before last had a similar driver issue, it happens. I didn't expect to be able to get every game set to max at 1080p with this card, but it does play games with higher settings than you'll ever get with a console and some games are able to be maxed out.

Overall Review: Download the latest beta driver from AMD directly. It is much better than the one shipped on disk with the card. I got this card because it was cheap, the Afterburner Remote sounded neat (it is), and it supports Crossfire for when I upgrade my motherboard. If you're on a budget and need a good card, this or any of the AMD R7 260X cards are a good choice. I'll be getting a second around February......provided I get my motherboard around January.

Pros: Very quickly, quietly and stays cool, runs all games very well at high settings, ultra Battlefield 4 1366x768 everything running 40-49 fps WOOOW

Cons: The drivers are disgusting, at first I did not work the card, I thought return it for a refund, but just out drivers 13.12 and the performance improved too, all faults display driver is sorted and games run great but is even so much trouble not work well from the beginning, even so, is not the fault of the card, but AMD has bad driver support.

Overall Review: I really thought return the card had already generated code for RMA but installing the new drivers and an opportunity to be delighted to see the great performance offered by this card, I am very happy with my purchase, and with the quality that I always MSI given in their products

Pros: -quiet -cool -affordable -reasonable performance -bundled games -overlocks well

Cons: technology is somewhat obsolete in light of more recent AMD offerings - the R7 265 offers a better price/performance ratio, IMO, for this class of card (despite being more expensive than the 260x).

Overall Review: I managed to overclock my core to 1230 without touching the voltage. The card is surprisingly capable for what it is - Witcher 2 in 1080p runs quite well on Medium, and passably (30-45fps) on High with AA turned off! Games like Skyrim and Dishonored run fantastic on Ultra settings. Works well enough with Linux, although I had an issue the other day where, having previously run the official AMD Catalyst drivers for this card, upon running some Ubuntu updates my desktop stopped displaying. Little annoyances, but this is probably more of a Linux issue than anything. Afterburner is great for OC. I used it with Unigine Heaven to tweak the card. I didn't touch the voltages, just wanted to see what could be achieved "safely", and wound up with a really high stable clock rate. Very impressed on that front with this card. But... as mentioned in my cons, with a 128-bit memory bus and other chipset limitations, you can't expect too much from this card. I suspect if you bought it now, you would definitely be interested in buying another card by the end of next year. I can't imagine things like Witcher 3 etc will be kind to this hardware. Still, for sub 1OO prices that you can find this model at, it's hard to object at all - a great entry into a performance card for a budget build, and certainly all older games are fair game at 1080p if you are flexibly on your graphics settings.

Pros: Runs all of my games at high settings and frame rates. I've been recently playing Bioshock Infinite on Very High settings and the FPS has never dove below 60 in gameplay and spends most of its time in the 120+ area. Great with rendering 3D effects in either Cinema 4D or After Effects element 3D plugin. Plays older (and some of my favorite) games like Fallout New Vegas and Portal at totally maxed setting peeking over 300 fps. Runs intense games like Battlefield 4 at standard settings at well over 60 fps.

Cons: You get MUCH more than what you pay for

Pros: - Works as advertised - Fast enough to play most games at good resolutions - Good value for the money (I paid $130) - AMD Catalyst drivers worked just fine

Cons: - Couldn't use the included CD for drivers and software because too many reports it was bad - A little higher on the power usage than I would like

Overall Review: Running for 2 months now, I haven't had any hiccups or issues, the card is working great, so no heartburn over this purchase and I would do it again. I mostly play CS:GO native 1080p with majority of settings on high. I've played a few other 3D games and all work fine. Videos play fine, no issues. This card replaced a Radeon 6850 (the R260X is slightly shorter) that died after 3 years (I think I let too much dust accumulate and it overheated one time too many). It's plugged into an ASRock A780GMH motherboard with AMD Phenom II X3 720 CPU, 4GB G.Skill DDR2-1066, WD Black 640GB HD (all circa 2009) and running with Windows 7 64-bit.

Pros: Good card, plays many games at 1080p at good frame rates. Not terribly loud, at least in my case.

Cons: After gaming for 1-2 hours, I'm getting artifacts despite relatively low temps (below 60C). I tried a different, better-quality power supply above the recommended spec by AMD, and it still happens. I tried various drivers (including the 14.2 beta drivers), and it still happens. I pointed a case fan right at the card...

Pros: PRICE!

Cons: None, see below, unrelated to actual product.

Overall Review: Unrelated to the manufacturer, AMD drivers caused blue screen issues, although this is quite common in my experience.