Pros: - Easy-ish installation. - If it worked, it would have been reasonably priced. - The power supply I ordered at the same time is quite nice. - Awesome at displaying graphics for Minesweeper and/or Spider Solitaire.

Cons: - Officially died 1 year, 9 months, 24 days after receipt. Probably actually died 1 minute, 9 seconds, 24 milliseconds after receipt. - Donald Trump thinks that this is a good graphics card. - Every driver update involved an ever-changing series of trials in order to make your computer function again. Did you see the movie Cube? Like that. But worse.

Overall Review: Silliness aside, this card was a nightmare from the beginning. Within a couple of days of installation, I began having issues like this: i.imgur.com/INFJaVo.jpg. (Guild Wars 2, taken three days after installation.) I updated drivers and other AMD/MSI-suggested software, but it still took two or three days to get things working again. This process would repeat every three months or so. Out of nowhere, my computer would spazz, crash, and display images like the one above. I'd update software, I'd delete and reinstall drivers, and so forth. Every time it became a little bit more difficult to get up and running again. The time before this most recent (and final) incident involved several hours of a self-rebooting system and a lot of blue screens. Then, last night, after four or five self-shut downs, the MSI R9 270 that I've had for under two years ceased to work. I could turn on my computer, but there was never a display. I tried three different monitors (four, if you want to count a TV screen) and double checked all of those monitors on another computer with a healthy video card. I changed adapters four times. I tried HDMI inputs. I tried HDMI inputs using adapters. I double tested all of those on another computer. I ran my usual monitor (the one getting nothing from the card) through my work laptop. Nothing. Plugged directly into the motherboard and could finally get an image that allowed me to diagnose and get to the BIOS. I decided to yank the card. Only then could I get images and boot into Windows (7, if you're wondering). I uninstalled all AMD drivers. Turned the computer off. Plugged the MSI card back into the motherboard. And...nothing. Same as before. So, here I sit, friends again with the Intel HD Graphics 4000 that came with my computer. I've yet to start the refund/replacement procedure with either Newegg or MSI. Though the card should still be under warranty, I do not want a replacement. I'd prefer a refund, but I accept that that result is doubtful. This product has been nothing but frustration and I'd prefer to be out $180 than to put another possibly-frustrating product back into my computer. In exchange, I'm leaving this review. At this point, the card is old and, perhaps, there won't be many people buy it. (In fact, right now, it's out of stock.) Maybe, however, it will give someone that is researching cards enough pause to avoid buying from MSI all together. I'm not overly demanding of my graphics. I just want to throw healing spells around, have some fun, immerse, and not worry about tears and crashes and weird pixelation and so forth. I'm not overly loyal to either side of the Nvidia/AMD aisle. However, due to this card's failure, this is the first and last time I will ever knowingly buy an AMD product. Thanks for reading.