PowerColor Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition DirectX 11 AX7870 2GBD5-2DH 2GB 256-Bit GDDR5 PCI Express 3.0 x16 HDCP Ready CrossFireX Support Video Card

Pros: Great quality video card for those who want to stay just below the high end gaming cards. I use this card to play many games and have yet to see any trouble. For the price you pay you get a great card which performs above expectations.

Cons: The card does tend to spoil up when under high demand and make moderate noise. This is to be expected when you have a high demand bearing on card. It's just a mild issue. Most gamers wear headphones and wont even hear it.

Overall Review: All and all, it is a great card for under the $300 range. The card seems to almost fall into the shadow of the GTX 660 ti. Very close but not quite the same as the GTX. I would recommend this card for those who don't want to spend over $300 on cards. Best card for the price.

Pros: +Very Powerful for it's TDP, size and price range +Smaller than my old card +affordable +ton of memory for this price range (BF3 uses like 1280mb) +Hard to get it above 60*C +Maxes every game i have at 1080p with playable fps +several adapters included

Cons: -Sounds like a 747 as soon as any load hits, and that's after adjusting the fan profile in afterburner -no tacky case badge

Overall Review: I upgraded from a gtx 260 core 216 55nm revision to this card. This new card uses only 3 more watts of power (174 vs 171) so it was essentially identical in that concern, is almost an inch shorter, and destroys the old card in any game. Ive seen comparisons where this card performs between a gtx 570 and 580 of yesteryear, closer to a 580, and Ive even seen it beat a 580 if overclocked. The 7xxx series in general is a smash hit. Knocks the socks off of nvidia's current generation as well as AMD's previous. For instance, this car trashes the 6970, the previous top single gpu card from AMD even tho this card is an entire tier under it. (remember the 6870 was a tier below the 5870 and the 5870 was slightly more powerful). It maxes out all the games I have, including BF3, MOH Warfighter, Crysis 1 and 2, etc all with very playable framerates, the lowest being crysis 1 running at around 40 fps. That sounds low but its surprisingly smooth for crysis 1. This is on my 1920x1080p monitor. No reason to look any further other than for enthusiast builders. If i ever feel like my setup is underpowered, i'll buy another one and run crossfire. Specs: ASRock 870 Extreme3 R2.0 (AM3+) Phenom II X6 3.0ghz, 3.4 turbo 8 GB DDR3 1600 Dual channel This Card Far from an enthusiast rig, but everything seems to mesh for a great gaming experience

Pros: Very fast - good frame rates @ 1920x1080 with max details in all games I've tried. Very cool at idle, relatively cool under load.

Cons: Annoyingly loud - would be a 5 egg card otherwise. It sounds like a vacuum cleaner when it cranks up past 33% fan speed. At 70% it sounds like a dirt bike. The fan speed is usually 30-40% and will probably never get to 70% with today's games, but anything past 33% is distracting.

Overall Review: This card is so loud I'm considering purchasing a different card with a better fan. It's that distracting.

Pros: Very well priced, chews through any game thrown at it.

Cons: None.

Overall Review: It's not any louder than most of my other 7xxx series cards. Would you rather have a no good non-reference cooler throwing heat all over the place? It's not like this is a geforce FX 5800 ultra... The noise is MINIMAL.

Pros: Very fasy, energy efficient, absolutely wrecks every game I have tried on it. Cheapest one available, exhausts the heat out the back of the case. Rivals the GTX 580 in some games, for $100 less.

Cons: I can see why every other manufacturer uses a non-reference cooler, this thing gets pretty loud. That alright though, I just turn my speakers up.

Overall Review: Phenom 2 x4 955 8GB DDR3 1600 990XA-UD3 This wonderful card 128GB Crucial m4 Who needs intel for playing games? This setup breezes through every game I have tried so far, at well above 60fps.

Pros: Impressive speeds & overclocks to 1.2ghz easily.

Cons: The fan sounds like a jet engine. It is fairly tolerable at stock speeds by forcing the fan down to 35% with Afterburner - but barely. My machine was silent in a HAF932 case and an overclocked 1ghz HD6870. This fan might be powerful.. but jeez!

Pros: Attractive Price Stunning Performance Looks Great In Case Blower Style

Cons: None that i can think of...

Overall Review: I bought this for my first build because it was on sale and it had the best price/performance at the time. Looking back, i would have bought two to put in X-Fire because they discontinued them and they are great cards. I play BF4 on Ultra in 1080p with no problems at around 60fps average. It is a great card.

Pros: No Problems

Cons: No Problems