Pros: Fairly quiet compared to my previous card -- HIS 4870 512MB card. What a difference the memory makes! I can run GRID at 1920*1200 with 8x AA with no slowdown. I couldn't do that with the HIS as it would get really slow with the other cars on-screen or in the drift events with all the smoke even at 2xAA so I normally would have turned down the resolution and keep the AA at 2x. (Comp's specs are posted in other thoughts)

Cons: Card goes bonkers when using CCC (Cat 8.12) and does NOT like its memory pushed past 900MHz at all -- with the default supposedly being 925MHz. It starts to flicker like crazy when viewing video or playing games. It really annoyed me for so long and I reformatted and reinstalled everything as a last resort after removing all traces of 8.12 (when I had the HIS) and reinstalling it fresh. My initial solution was to leave it at 900MHz and push the GPU clock to 790MHz. No more flickering, heh, but no OC... You know I wasn't satisfied. Fiddling around I tried Riv*Tun*r by chance and OCd the GPU clock and Memory Clock to 1000MHz and guess what: I've had no flickering since. I've pushed it further and still, it just doesn't cause any flickering - although I do get artifacts at the higher speeds and an eventual driver crash. I wish the fan would move more air since I'd prefer the card to stay well under 70C (60C would be optimal), but that does not happen even at 100% fanspe

Overall Review: I removed the fan/heatsink assembly and removed the thermal paste that was there and put some Arctic Silver and it helped a little with the heat transfer and temperature. My specs are Intel Q9450 @ 3.2Ghz, Asus P5Q, 4GBs G.Skill 1066 Memory, WD 300GB Velociraptor, Enermax modu82+ 525W PSU, Powercolor 4870 1GB @ 800Mhz GPU and 1000MHz Memory, and a few other unimportant things.

Pros: Runs cool. Almost single slot..

Cons: Unstable as ever. Past 750/900Mhz it's garbage. This card causes crazy instability with my system if it's pushed to 760Mhz. Oh sure, it'll make it past ATI's AutoTune, but if you stress it with something like FurMark or Codemasters' DiRt, prepare to have a driver crash or a serious error with reboot. I also own a powercolor pcs+ 4870 and while it does get warmer it doesn't crash until pushed to past 800/1100MHz. This card doesn't even have fan control capabilities, lol :( If you're not going to overclock, then go ahead and buy this card, for me, though, it's just not working the way I expected and so it's going to be RMA'd this week and replaced with another Powercolor. Oh, and it does not include a Crossfire bridge! :( You get what you paid for, I guess.

Overall Review: I've owned an HIS 512MB 4870 and it was pretty good! Don't get me wrong, HIS makes great cards, but for what I want to do -- overclock while using crossfire x -- this card doesn't fit the bill. I'd probably get one of their higher binned/clocked cards if they were as cheap as the PCS+, but that's not the case at the moment. My advice is to read the reviews carefully and stress test for stability so you don't end up with unexpected reboots, driver failures, etc..

Pros: With a RAID0 and several storage drives, 3 GPUs and an overclocked Core i7 920, this board had no issues in all the time it was in use. It was able to maintain stability in the heat of the tropics without ever missing a beat. BIOS is easy to navigate, packed with more options than one can shake a stick at.

Cons: None

Overall Review: Runs a bit warm.

Pros: Other than the Bluetooth not working, no other issues.

Cons: Like others say, the Bluetooth does not work.

Overall Review: Avoid if you want to use BT.

Pros: Best thing about the GTX680 is that they're very quiet. I'm particularly sensitive to fan noise and so I've got all low speed fans (800-900RPM Noiseblocker 140mm fans and they're off most times). In addition to being quiet, they're pretty powerful and gave me a nice boost in most games I play -- The Witcher 2, F1 2011, GTA4, Serious Sam 3, TES5 -- over 580s SLI. They get up to about 75-80C and the fan is pretty much silent. No ton of vacuum cleaner noise in The Witcher 2 like with the 580s and this is with the front fans off on my PC-X1000.

Cons: Well, they cost money, don't they? However, I sold my 580s for a decent amount of money and ended up spending about $300 to buy two GTX680s

Overall Review: I might get a 3rd card, but 2 pretty much hit 60FPS 90% of the time at 2560*1440.

Pros: Installation is dead simple if you have a nice workspace and place everything out and do inventory before you begin. Keeps my 5870 at about 34C idle and under 70C with Furmark running. Instructions are very clear. I don't think I saw a mispelled word or bad grammar or more importantly - any difficult-to-understand steps. It is fairly priced.

Cons: One of the heatsinks was roughly milled. It was pretty sharp as well, but went on all the same without fitting issues. The heatsink takes up more space than the stock, reference, 5870 heatsink/fan assembly. The caps that bolt down the heatsink/fan assembly stand off from the rear of the card. The thermal paste should have come in a tube with a fine point end to facilitate ease of use. Some of the components are very small and require you drop some paste on them. I used a toothpick to drop a little without making a dangerous mess on the circuits. (not sure if the paste conducts or not) The thermal pads are bad and one of the heatsinks didn't even stick - I had to buy some thermal pads and cut them out to fit. Not too big of a deal - if you take your time, but hey these things should not fall off when you go to place the card into your system.

Overall Review: It requires a bit more space, isn't silent at idle without the fan controller (I'm not going to use it) and you need to be careful dismantling your card and dropping these things on. Get some thermal pads in case the included ones do not stick. The price, to me, is just right. I ordered two of these VGA coolers from elsewhere for both of my 5870s and even after reading the horror stories was confident enough to try it out. TAKE YOUR TIME AND CLEAN YOUR CARD WELL.

Cablemod has never let me down and everything is properly packaged and shipped and delivered promptly. Their customer service is pretty fast too, although I did not contact via Newegg, but directly on their site. I would definitely continue to buy from, and recommend, them.