Pros: Fast card since it is factory overclocked, meets stock GTX 570. Quiet: the card's fan is limited at 75%.

Cons: Gets really hot. Because the fan is limited to 75%, it gets too hot (but stays quiet if you like that). It is also showing serious signs of degradation.

Overall Review: Since the fan is limited at 75%, temps under a full gaming load from BF3 can get into high 90°C. I have edited the card's bios to unlock the fan to 95% (100% too loud, no cooling difference). At 95% speed the temp rarely gets above 80°C. The fun part: I can tell that the GPU is degrading because it will crash with voltages and clocks that used to be stable. I have proof because a stock 560 Ti has a clock speed of 822 Mhz at .950 volts; my card used to be able to do that just fine, now in order for my card to run stable at that speed I have to use a voltage of .975. It is also starting to cause my computer to blue screen after about 12 hours of sitting idle. One more thing: if like your temps to be lower, I have noticed a temperature drop of about 7°C when disabling V-sync and Triple-Buffering.

Pros: Easier to use then Windows 7 once you get it all set up the way you like it.

Cons: Low software support for gamers Applications like MSI Afterburner and ASUS AI Suite are not compatible with 8 NO Safe mode

Overall Review: With there being no safe mode natively you can add it, but every time you boot there is a screen where you can choose the operating system (Normal or Safe Mode). I added safe mode when i first got Windows 8 installed, after about 2 weeks I added a new GPU and Windows would blue screen when logging in. So I went into the safe mode that I added manually got into safe mode for about 5 min. then it locked up. Restarted Blue screen in about 5 sec. of starting, so I installed 7 on a second HDD moved all my files off of 8 only to find out that half of my files had been corrupted and randomly fragmented across my HDD.