Pros: This chip is quite impressive, being that it's essentially a 7930 with massive overclocking potential it can be pretty difficult to take issue with this card's performance or value. However the team who designed the chip at powercolor may have been a little bit rushed or nonchalant when addressing some of the finer details of the Tahiti Core. Overall it is fast, surprisingly quiet and cool, and was ridiculously well priced, this is a hard card to beat.

Cons: The chip is shipped 20% power shy of being truly stable and over-volted by nearly a full .2 v, on top of this the chip has become notorious for simply ignoring programs such as afterburner, trixx, or any other card-customization utility, in favor of doing its' own thing. For many owners this unfortunately entails constant throttling between the "normal" 925 clock speed and the "boosted" 975, killing performance and dramatically increasing the load temperature of the card. The reality is that for a fair number of owners out there the only solution will be to flash the bios with updated clock, watt, and voltage settings, which honestly isn't very difficult or time consuming and once performed can dramatically lower temps, power consumption, and thankfully decibels; whilst simultaneously increasing the performance of the chip by a wide margin. All things considered this is still a great card, and though I fail to understand how Powercolor managed to be so far off the mark with their own hardware, it isn't really difficult for more experienced user's to resolve any issues that crop up.

Overall Review: What in the world were the people at Powercolor thinking and or doing when they came up with the stock settings and dynamic clock adjustment profiles for this card?

Pros: Might work alright for a little while

Cons: I was mistaken in my previous rating of this product and have provided it with a 1 star to balance it out. It just doesn't do what it says it does, and if it does not for very long.