Pros: Perfect for top card in dual CrossfireX with any 7900 series GPU. This card will scale itself to match your 7950 or 7970 and run nice and cool while doubling the performance of a 7950 solo (up to double, but not always obviously). The card working at full GPU utilization (your 7900 whatever) will be on the bottom and stay cool and quiet because of the thermal advantages of its lower orientation. Let's face it, 2 7950s or 2 7970s are at least on paper enough FPS-pushing power to toss 30 fps out the window for low temps and avoid the issues that go along with a lot of excess heat--for most of us anyway. For 120Hz/FPS single display systems, this is almost overkill in my opinion, but YMMV. Will obviously depend heavily on AA settings and tessellation etc. I can report that the issue below about the 280x needing to be on the bottom PCI-E slot that I mentioned in my first review of this card (if it gets through the ether and is published), I solved that by using the CrossFire cable that came with the 7950 instead of the one from this card. I don't know what that's all about. (See cons) Temps for this card solo are very good. It is nearly silent with proper ventilation and assuming it's not 95F already in your choice of dwelling. There would be room for overclocking generally but I haven't touched the clocks on it. My speculation is that this card would run somewhat less than quiet along side another 280x at 100% GPU utilization on both. If you turn up the fans to 100% it's loud. It's not unpleasant whiney screachy loud in my specific installation, but just a lot of fan air woosh. While troubleshooting crossfire issues before I switched bridges, I did use the fans at 100% to try to avoid any sudden catastrophic heat problems. To me, having the ability to ramp the heck out of your cards fans when needed, and for them to do it on their own when things get out of hand temperature wise is a big Pro. Most of the time this card is silent and stays at 20% fan speed. Without manually setting it you are unlikely to ever hear more than 65%, which is starting to get loud. Blue LED is really a sweet little detail for such an affordable card. It looks exactly the color of a Sapphire. It's also defeatable if it offends your color scheme. My rig has a lot of deep red lighting and I really like the subtle contrast the one little blue accent makes. I think when I give my 7950 away for Christmas I'll grab a Vapor-X and put it on top of this one instead of the Frankenfire setup. But it'l be an upgrade for looks more than need of better performance.

Cons: The crossfire bridge that came with this 280x ended up costing me many hours of troubleshooting (I enjoy troubleshooting so it's no big deal). But yeah, the bridge, for whatever reason, and this sounds stupid but it's totally true--the bridge would only work if I put the 280x on the lower of my 2 x16/x8 PCI-E slots. I figured it was something else, because crossfire was working with the 7950 on the top. Thing is, really needed it the other way around for proper cooling. Eventually I tried the crossfire bridge that came with the 7950 and that works like a charm with the 280x up top where it belongs... Really weird issue. Threw the vile bridge in the trash but I'm not taking an egg off because I like the card so much and because I like figuring things out instead of just sending stuff back. Not sure how well this card would deal with being really bottled up next to an identical playmate in a tight crossfire configuration. When I had it on the bottom and the 7950 (which has a Gelid Icy Vision A on it - I highly recommend but its very large depth wise as opposed to the accelero which is very long) on top the temperatures were uncomfortable and difficult for my case to handle. Opening the case didn't help much. The cards were choking each other. The flip side of that is that this card is the thinnest of its type and perfect for top slot when you have a deeper card you need to work with in a crossfire match like I did. Likely to offer very little real-world performance premium over the plain-Jane 280 when it comes out later.

Overall Review: Again. This is a tweaked 7970 GHz (which has been discontinued and will slowly work its way towards sold out). Difference? These are pretty sure to be brand spankin' new and never opened despite what anyone leads you to believe. I much prefer to buy a newer SKU of a proven product and that's what this is. This model comes with no games bundle. The flipside of that is the net is swimming with gamecode deals from all of the Never Settle sales recently, so if you missed out on a worthwhile title like Tomb Raider you can certainly pick it up for less than what it's worth.

Pros: Black finish Modular Quiet

Cons: Makes my speakers pop on boot and coming out of sleep. Changing out PSU fixed issue. Nothing else would make it stop.

Overall Review: Maybe the shielding on mine is improper. I would probably not go with another of these.

Pros: Functions appropriately. Nvidia driver support is excellent. No blingy LEDs announcing bright this is a RTX 2070 Super on the side.

Cons: No backplate. No blingy LEDs announcing bright this is a RTX 2070 Super on the side.

Overall Review: Video cards are too expensive with too small profit margins to get any better value wise, so I think the situation just kind of is what it is.

Pros: Just absolutely gorgeous board. This was the last one before the look went sort of cartoonish. It supports Devil's Canyon.

Cons: Mine came with a backplate from an Asetek closed loop watercooler installed. First time I've seen something like that. Compared to the ROG heroVII this is a rather plain board in terms of feature set (it's supposed to be, but it could have been more anyway).

Pros: Good looking matte black PCB and finish. Lots of space for an air cooled Sli/Crossfire setup. Dual BIOS and PCIE graphics switches for diagnosing problems Tons and tons of features. Probably the best overclocking oriented board on the market.

Cons: Been a long time since I actually struggled with a motherboard install. First off, wifi module was loose in the box and had clearly been handled by someone. Wifi module is as hard to install as everyone says. There was another review up here about it, but it got taken down or something. *Delid die guard does not fit Devil's Canyon*. It fits original Haswell. This is a giant mess. I guess there was no way to know Intel put an extra row of components on the top of the chip compared to a 4770k but they did. Thus, the delid guard is rendered essentially useless. The install was so clunky, when I realized the backplate for the retention bracket wasn't stuck to the motherboard and I was going to have to hold the backplate in with one hand while trying to screw on the delid guard from the top with allen wrench keys I gave up. Not only that but the 3rd center screw doesn't even fit the delid guard itself. You have to have a spare retention bracket screw lying around to fasten it at the front of the cpu. Not good. Has an onboard super annoying and very bright blue LED that flickers along with the harddrive activity. If you disable it, the rest of the onbaord LEDs, which are subtle and useful go with it. All that is left is the pleasing yellow trail along the sound card PCB separation. I actually couldn't get the board working properly at all with my MSI 295x2, which doesn't work in crossfire on the ONLY game I wanted to play it with (FFXIV). It was a complete nightmare. Instructions say to install a single card in the 2nd PCIE slot, so I followed them... no video but it did POST. Eventually I swapped the card to the first slot (a pain for a dual GPU that has hoses sticking out of it) and it gave me video. Subsequent issues where half the time the BIOS wou...ld... ru...n... rea...lly... sl...ow after windows got installed led me to actually have to call MSI for customer support. Something I don't like doing. Makes me feel like I'm stupid. It was a nightmare trying to get the BIOS updated on this board. As it turns out that was because I had flipped off legacy USB support while trying everything to get the BIOS to behave. You can ONLY update the BIOS properly on these boards from the BIOS itself. This is common enough, but MSI makes a handy tool to do it from within windows... except it can't update the ME, whatever that is. Some sort of connection between windows and the UEFI BIOS. MSI CS actually told me to RMA the board. I continued trying to troubleshoot it on my own and got the BIOS and ME updated. Then when the cho....ppy BIOS thing kept happening, (mind you it was p95 stable in windows) I even tried to switch my 295x2 back to the second PCIE slot per the manuals instructions. After that I sent the board back to Newegg, who took care of me like they usually do. I love ordering from Newegg but this was a big mistake to buy on my part.

Overall Review: the X lights up white... looks nice but the whole board just has too many colors going on all over it. White leds, red reset button blue hdd flickering LED was really bad and then yellow highlights on the heatsinks. I was not expecting such a complete clashing of aesthetics and what seemed to me to be some sort of issue with my dual gpu graphics card while in the BIOS.

Pros: 4.5 eggs Samsung Super-PLS: Fantastic colors, very few defects, decent gamma. 100% pixel perfect/Almost no IPS "glow"/100% bleed free. No Pulse Width Modulation may offer better eye comfort. Effective controls for a good low light setting. Colors out of the box are not perfect, but they are very pleasing. Calibration with an x-rite i1 display Pro yielded excellent gamma, perfect color distribution, and a good deep black that was *mostly* uniform. OSD menu is fantastic, very deep, lots of features, but it is functional and fairly easy to navigate, I liked the gamma control. USB/software OSD control is a wonderful feature. Overdrive is worthwhile, but only to a point, the highest setting was too far. Speed is a possible issue here, but ghosting is absolutely minimal without the Overdrive too high. Dedicated gaming preset has less input lag. For light to moderate gaming this monitor is a fantastic choice. For office work and general use this is an outstanding value, offering good detail from white to black and without any big surprises anywhere on the massive array of pixels. The ergonomics are excellent: stand is very sturdy and bottom heavy but the panel itself is lightweight and easy to adjust. Tilt/swivel/height/portrait 90. Unaggressive matte coating did not present much crystalline effect and combined with the fine grain matte bezel (very nice finish) is very resistant to glare and reflection without taking away much clarity.

Cons: Strange dark "stain" in 1 corner on white. It's feint, brownish/yellowish. I guess I would call this PLS "glow". There is a *very* feint but much wider dispersing silver tinted glow to some of the other corners but it is hardly worth mentioning--it might as well just be slight glare. Contrast is not ideal. After calibration my unit hit 705:1, which surprised me a bit because the low end gamma and shading detail is quite good. I expected closer to 900:1. This is because the peak brightness is not nearly as high as the specifications indicate, while the absolute darkest the unit can go is better but still not ideal. Makes it a little difficult to see detail in content with bad lighting, for example--where a display like a modern AMVA really shines. All IPS derivative technologies suffer slightly from this, but some more than others, this guy is only about average in this respect among other 1440p IPS models. Gaming mode is limited in color/brightness controls (sadly it's *way* to bright). It's oretty good and heavy. Could use a handle built into the stand. Not fun or comfortable to move or set up.

Overall Review: USB hub, nice. Lots and lots of extras, but... it's just not fast enough to satisfy a gamer coming from a display like the Eizo Foris FG2421. For good colors and fast response and 120Hz it's that (with a lot of ghosting and weird uniformity quirks) or an imported bargain brand overclockable monitor. Well, at least Newegg sells those, as well. In short, if you want a 4.5 egg monitor with a little less oomph (speed), this is it. It's a nearly glow free, very high quality panel and the chassis is very well built. But if you are looking for fast pixel response and low input lag, there are some monitors that come direct from Korea that will be better for your (and my) needs.

Ordered a Tokina lens from this seller, was shipped from NY to TX in 2 bus days. Then I realized I made a mistake and got the wrong type of lens... 17th street photo responded to my rma request immediately. Will update.