XFX Radeon HD 5770 (Juniper XT) 1GB GDDR5 PCI Express 2.1 x16 CrossFireX Support Video Card HD-577A-ZNFC

Pros: Fast as a 4870, but way smaller and more energy efficient. Similar price to a GTX 260, but better performance. The obvious DX11 and Eyefinity and DDR5 ram. Overclocks well and the fan is quiet while still providing good temps. It also looks great and blows the hot air out the back. Free Battleforge if you care (read free is good)

Cons: XFX has overpriced their card compared to others. Don't include the game if you are going to charge more. Beta drivers still.

Overall Review: This replaced a 4850 in an ITX Lan rig. I expected this card to be longer than the 4850 (also from XFX) but it is actually about an inch or so shorter including the shroud length on the 5770. The best part is that the new card is a decent amount faster, uses less power, and has more features than the 4850. Great card.

Pros: Eye-infinity, DX11, low power consumption, high core clock, can be oced like mad, dual dvi + hdmi ports, great cooler, runs cool..etc... Basically runs anything I throw at it at max or near max at 1680x1050 - Modern Warfare 2 - Bad Company 2 Beta - Bioshock - TF2 - Mass Effect - Mirror's Edge

Cons: When you are using dual dvi, theres an issue with the drivers where overclocking will cause the 2D core clock to go to 157MHz. This causes screen flickering and tearing on one or both of the monitors you use. I've looked up fixes and tried to use a custom profile on Catalyst + MSI Afterburner but to no avail. Hopefully ATI will come out with a fix in the next driver release

Overall Review: Win7 Professional 64-bit AMD Phenom II 955 @ 3.515 GHz Arctic Cooling 64 Freezer Pro 2x2GB G.Skill Pi Black @ 4-4-4-12 timings, 800MHz GIGABYTE GA-MA785GM-US2H Mobo XFX ATI Radeon HD5770 at stock clocks Corsair 450VX - 450W PSU 1x640GB, 1x500GB WD Caviar Black Antec 900 (edition 1) Case 2x Acer 20" LCD Monitors

Pros: Works as intended "Future-proof" solution for early adopters looking for DX11 Quiet card

Cons: A big one (read this and "Other thoughts"): This card is in my new build under W7 64 and is constantly crashing. Like others, I'll get screen artifacts first (usually checkerboxes), unresponsiveness for a few seconds, then a single-color screen, and finally my desktop returns with a message from the system tray saying that W7 has recovered from unresponsive ATI drivers. This happens once every five to ten minutes as long as the system is on. I have a ticket with XFX and they are aware of the issue: "We are teaming with ATI and think that we will have some new information that may help with your problem in the next couple of days." As anyone can see, this is not only my problem, as indicated by other reviewers here. With that said, there IS an odd workaround to prevent the card from crashing. The workaround to prevent the card from crashing is to play any game that would utilize the card. (continued below)

Overall Review: It seems the card only crashes when its not being utilized. I never have a crash while playing a game, only when I'm doing non-gaming tasks like going to a website or typing a paper. To make those basic tasks bearable, I run a game for maybe ten minutes and leave it open in the background while I switch to whatever else I want to do. If I don't leave the game idle for more than half an hour (click back into it and play for a few once in a while), the card won't crash. Great excuse to game over writing a term paper? You decide. At the very least, it's proof that the card WORKS when it has to (and quite well, as you'd expect of a newer generation card), but for some reason doesn't work when it doesn't have to. I have faith in XFX and am waiting for working drivers, but as of this writing, CCC 9.12 (and hotfix) isn't cutting it. As long as the card can run games and my core i5-720 can tolerate one in the background (which it obviously can), I'll live until better drivers.

Pros: DirectX 11 is amazing. When this card works it works well.

Cons: I bought this card as part of a new PC build. After assembly the PC would end up freezing and crashing after ~15 mins of game play. I tried every software fix to no avail. Dump codes told me that the problem was a hardware issure, so I decided to RMA the card. Tthe 2nd card had the same exact problem. XFX told me that the card was flawed, but after more questioning they said the problem was unrelated. So continued to replace EVERY OTHER PART and the problem continued. I had several experts check out the PC for me and NO ONE could come up with a solution. So I swapped out the card for an nVidia 460gtx and now my PC runs AMAZINGLY well! -Thanks for the headache ATI!

Overall Review: Specs: Antec TruePower TP-750 Power Supply AMD Phenom II X4 945 Denub 3.0GHz CPU G.SKILL Ripjaws 4GB 4GBRL Memory ASUS M4A79XTD EVO Motherboard I build many custom gaming computers for friends and family, so I have had quite a lot of experience with troubleshooting PC problems. I have personally owned 12+ gaming rigs and I have only gone with an ATI card 2x. BOTH of those cards gave me such a headache. I will stick with nVidia from now on for sure.

Pros: Fast enough to run all my games at max quality with good frame rates. Quiet. Moderate price. DirectX 11 support.

Cons: Drivers weren't so good.

Overall Review: When I initially got this, I was using the official 9.10 drivers and had problems with random crashing/lockups in several of my games. After a week of futile tweaking (testing heat, settings and drivers), ATI released the 9.11 drivers. I installed these, and used a driver cleaner tool to make sure they were cleanly loaded. Since then, my computer has been very stable, not a single crash.

Pros: Easy to install. DX11 capable Cheap on the wallet by most standards. Can OC through the Catalyst Control Center program. AMD really hit one out of the park with the new drivers. Fairly quiet and cool running as well. At 59c, I'm running 50% fan and can't even hear it over my other fans which are also running at 50 to 70% speed. Double Lifetime Warranty. Just make sure you register it within 30 days or you only get a 2 or 3 year warranty. Not certain on the exact length of the shortened warranty but if you don't sit on your hands you shouldn't lose the DLW. Don't procrastinate! Get Er Done!

Cons: Drivers used to be the number 1 gripe from all ATi owners. I'd have to say with the new Drivers AMD launched, that went down to the bottom of my list. So much so that it doesn't even lose an egg. My only issue I have now is the loss of the 2nd Crossfire connection. Instead of the usual two connections XFX has skimped here and only given one connection. It's not THAT big a deal since the best performance comes in a pair and not from 3 and 4 cards. You can still run multiple monitors using the large scale desktop spread. The problem lies within that if you want to run 3 you can't unless you can find a triple link ribbon. And I'm not certain they make those for ATi/AMD cards. I guess some people have had issues with the Flux Residue when they've called in for warranty. But I think that's easily explainable and see no reason the company could legitimately deny any claim over it. Just make sure you register your card. If you don't then you assume the liability. That is standard anywhere.

Overall Review: It plays everything I throw at it on Ultimate/Hardcore/Maximum specs and never bogs down. I play S.T.A.L.K.E.R. CoP mostly but I also play Hitman: Blood Money which is an NVidia based game and it plays like I had a PhysX card installed. Which I do not. I'm sure a good part of this has to do with AMDs' multithread(it's named something else now) driver which if I understand correctly takes part of the load that the GPU used to labor over and sends it through the unused Cores in your CPU and then sends it through the GPU to finish the product on your screen. Allowing the GPU to work smoother without fuss. Not entirely certain, but I'll be reading up on that to be sure. My system =-=-= Asus DVD-RW optical 955 BE(lapped) Crosshair IV Formula 8 GB AMD Edition Dominators HX 850w Corsair H50 Cooler in Push/Pull Exhaust setup(lapped) Shin-Etsu G751 paste XFX HD 5770 Juniper XT(stock cooler) Shin-Etsu G751 (2)Hitachi 1 TB drives in RAID0 1 Yate Loon 140 3 YL 120s' 3 Cooler Master 20

Pros: fantastic graphics card, yes its not the best out there but for a mid range gaming rig it works fantastic in for the price

Cons: not a single one

Pros: This is one of the best performance to price graphics cards that I could find. I am an avid gamer, but can't afford to buy new computer equipment all the time. I have been very impressed with the quality and FPS that this card can put out. I liked this card in particular because of the cooling it has. It blows all the hot air out the back of the computer case as opposed to the other version which blows hot air around inside your case.

Cons: None!

Overall Review: I'm running this with a dual 20" monitors I7-860 (not OC) ASUS P7P55D Pro 2gb X 4 Corsair XM3 1600 4 WD Caviar Black 640GB I would recommend this to my friends, in fact some of them went out and bought two.