Pros: Major upgrade from an 8800GT. Fit in my Antec 300 case with an inch+ to spare. It's about 10.25" long. My 500 Watt power supply and E8400 (Stock 3.0 GHz) handle it fine. I don't see any bottle necks with my CPU at stock speed as some have suggested on various forums.

Cons: None.

Overall Review: If you make the move from Nvidia make sure you uninstall the drivers and then use a program such as Driver Sweeper to remove any other Nvidia files that are left behind. Some people forget to do this and wonder why they have stuttering problems. Go to the Ati website and use the latest driver. Don't bother with the installation CD.

Pros: I did a lot of performance benchmark and price research on graphic cards before I finally made the decision to purchase this Sapphire ATI/AMD Radeon 5870. Newegg offers a great price for this great performing graphic card. I'm very happy with my choice. I find this card to be quiet, especially at idle temperature speeds. Everyone will experience different temperatures and fan speeds depending on their case fans and room temperature, but here are mine... IDLE(just reading a web page) = 38 C and the card's fan is only at 21%, which means it's virtually silent! LOAD(peak temps playing Bad Company 2 at 1920x1200 with ALL options cranked ALL the way up) = 74 C at 51% fan speed. I am very happy with these numbers. I had no problems with drivers for this card. They installed easily and everything is working perfectly. I've been playing movies and doing hardcore gaming and everything works great. No crashes, no glitches, everything just works.

Cons: There are no heatsinks on the RAM chips on this card, but with the style of cooler this card uses, they really aren't needed. The 5870 series of cards are long, though this particular Sapphire designed card is actually almost 1" shorter than some 5870 cards. The length of this board(including the thickness of the backplate) = 10 1/8 inches. The length of the board, backplate, and plastic housing(which sticks out a little) = 10 7/16 inches. The housing is curved and doesn't extend to the edges of the card, so this extra bit of length usually won't be an issue. The two PCIe power connectors are a little hard to plug in, but as long as you don't have a harddrive directly infront of the card, it's not a problem. It's thought that ATI/AMD graphic drivers can be problematic, but I haven't had any problems with the drivers for this card.

Overall Review: For reference... I have an intel i5-750(2.6GHz) CPU, 4 gigs of RAM, this Sapphire 5870 vidcard, a 1920x1200 monitor, a 650w powersupply, I'm running Windows 7 64bit, and using the AMD 10.11 Catalyst graphic card drivers. This card is giving me great quality and performance. Windows desktop has great color, contrast, and sharpness. Text looks perfect. Pictures and movies are excellent. As for 3D... Games like Bad Company 2 and Left 4 Dead 2 and others, look absolutely awesome and play smooth!

Pros: -Fast -Fast -Did I mention it's fast? -Fits in my CM 690 2 Advanced case with the lower HDD cage in use. -Annihilates all my old DX9 games with the Cat settings forced to max and forced on as well as max forced Temporal AA in ATI tray Tools. -Excellent active heatsink -Automatically clocks down during low activity to save power.

Cons: -May not fit in some smaller cases, be sure to measure before you buy this monster.

Overall Review: -Maxes out @ 75c in FurMark and idles @ 56c -Some say this new Blue PCB, which is non-reference uses a few cheaper parts. This isn't a problem for those who run stock clocks like me (for now), but from the reviews I've seen this card usually tops out at about 925/1300. -Along with my Phenom II X4 965 and 4GB of DDR3 I get 18686 in 3DMark06. -Can't wait to grab some good DX10 and DX11 games and see how this card performs.

Pros: Wow, this card is amazing! Their are so many things I love about this card. I upgraded from 2 HIS 4870's in crossfire. This card murders those cards hands down! I play Bad Company 2 and the maps would take very long to load. I thought that was normal. Now, with this card, the maps load 3 times faster, no joke! I'm the first person in spawn! An other thing I love about this card is how quite and cool it is. Even when I set the fan to 50% I can't hear it make a sound. Even when I set the card to 65% while gaming it sounds very light. My temps stay very low. It idles at 37C (fan set to 45%) and just above 60C (fan set to 65%) while gaming. Overclocking... Some people on here said this wouldn't overclock. I don't seem to have a problem with overclocking at all. I'm running the ATI Overdrive, My GPU Clock is set to 900MHz and 1225MHz Memory Clock. I've played Bad Company 2 for 3 hour's straight without any problem what so ever!

Cons: Cons................. I guess it might not be the best looking but, who really cares :/

Overall Review: In Windows 7 System Rating, this card scored a 7.8. My i7 920 overclocked to 3.7GHz scored a 7.6... and my 4870's in Crossfire scored 7.5. So you know this thing is a beast! I ran the stress test in Counter-Strike Source, maxed everything out, set fps_max 1000 and got 593 average FPS! I thought that was funny haha. Bad Company 2 Runs amazing. Everything maxed out and and still get killers FPS. Trust me, if you are thinking of buying this card and are debating it for what ever reason, TRUST ME, GET THIS CARD! Its worth every penny. I was feeling bad spending this much money on a video card. All that guilt went right out the window in less then a day. Have no fear's CPU: i7 920 Case: Cosmos S Heatsink: CoolerMaster N520 GPU: SAPPHIRE 100281-3SR Radeon HD 5870 <3

Pros: ATI 5870 - Amazing Performance Fantastic cooler - ~10-15 degrees C cooler than my other 5870s with the stock "box" cooler.

Cons: The 2x 6pin power connectors are on the front of the card, rather than the side...which can make it a little tight. The power cables butup right against the backs of my HDDs. More of a minor inconvenience than a con.

Overall Review: The cooler alone makes this card worth buying over the other 5870s. As mentioned above, this card runs double digits cooler (C) than the other 5870's I've owned. In addition, the cooler is slightly thinner, giving it better cooling in a crossfire configuration.

Pros: Very fast, quiet and stable card...

Cons: None yet

Overall Review: Maybe ATI had issues with previous cards/drivers, but I have not seen any with this one. I even installed CCC (the ATI control panel) hoping it would not crash or have issues with my games as reading around the net would suggest, but I've had no issues with the latest drivers (10.9 as of now)

Pros: DX11, great GPU, quiet,and runs at lower temp then reference card

Cons: Not stable with any amount of overclock, frequent grey screen or lockup issues in games.

Overall Review: as long as you don't mess with it's clock speeds it will work just fine

Pros: -Runs all current games at max settings. -Fairly quiet. -Fit well in an Antec 1200. Wasn't too much longer than my GTX260(s). -Paired with a Core I7-930 - handily outperforms my old twin GTX260/E8500 system. This is true of both multithreaded games (BC2) where the chip affords an advantage, to be sure, but even single threaded apps run significantly better with these cards where the GPU's are essentially going head to head.

Cons: -I've heard it doesn't overclock terribly well. My most demanding game (Bad Company 2) runs around 75FPS at 1920x1200 with 16X AF and 8X AA at stock (with a huge CPU overclock) ..so I don't really have a desire to test it. -I had gone from a 7950GTX to an 8800GTS-320, to Twin GTX 260s. Prior to those three GPUS I owned a 9800 Pro. As such I hadn't used ATI drivers in some time. They have improved dramatically but are still fairly barebones compared to NVIDIAs. Despite that, they ge the job done.

Overall Review: -Couldn't be happier. Somewhere down the road I may add a second for Crossfire, but I don't know of any games coming down the pipeline that will test this card too much at the resolution I play at.