Pros: Performance: This thing will run anything, max settings, 1080P+. Period. Overclocking: Running at 1.1GHz GPU & 1575MHz Mem. (Via AMD Overdrive) Power/Heat: Draws less power and produces less heat than the previous generation 6950 . Comparison: Cheaper than the GTX 680 / 7970. Runs on par with the 7970, easily, when overclocked. Handles HD+ multi-displays (Eyefinity) better then the GTX 680 at HD+ resolutions and at higher settings in many cases (more VRAM). It rips apart it's previous generation counterparts. System Specs: (No room in "Other Thoughts") AMD Phenom II X6 1090T @ 4.1GHz CPU Thermaltake Frio CPU Cooler ASUS Sabertooth 990FX MB 16GB A-Data DDR3 1600 XPG Gaming Series RAM Corsair HX850W Professional Series Modular PSU Cooler Master HAF 932 Black Steel Case 3x Acer G235H Displays This XFX Double D Radeon R7950 Black Edition VC

Cons: None. This card is powerful, can be overclocked to perform near and on par to the 7970 easily, and with the recent price drops is a steal. I paid full day one price for mine, and extra to have it shipped to me next day. I would happily do it again, it was worth every penny then, and it's an even more incredible deal now. Short of the day 1 driver problems that are common, I have had no other issues with this card at all. The driver issues I had on day 1, are no longer present. Running 12.4 drivers. Shut off Fraps, and I dare anyone to tell the difference in performance between this card and the GTX 680 or a 7970. Even on a single display. Not going to happen. This card is amazing for the price. FYI: I am not ripping on the GTX 680, it's a fantastic product. I am simply using it as a comparison since I have access to one and I have been very impressed how well this card held up to it, and even beat it in a few cases during my testing.

Overall Review: Sadly, I got mine via a different retailer, as Newegg did not have any available. I ordered day 1 and had it shipped to me next day air. Though I much prefer Newegg, the bright side is, I have been using this card for over 2 months now and can write a much more informed review here on the Egg. I am an avid gamer, I play all of the latest and greatest titles out there. Battlefield 3, Need For Speed The Run, Skyrim, Arkham City, Crysis 2 DX11 HD, Saints Row 3 DX11, and more. I like to max them all out. That being said. I recently starting running Eyefinity 3x displays. This card handles everything I throw at it and just keeps on going. Zero frame lag, anywhere. I have compared my card directly to a friends new GTX 680. This 7950 does better in games like BF3 in Eyefinity, and is within single digit frames of the GTX 680 in many other cases. Simply amazing. I also run overclocked as mentioned above, I have been running those numbers for over a month, stable & not a single is

Pros: Great card. Ran all my games (planetside 2, bf3, blacklight retribution, skyrim, eve online) at 70-250 fps with vsync off and straight out of the box. Great temps: 31 C at idle and 63 C full load, 67 C overclocked to 1 ghz. Can't be happier even with a 680 and will probably cf this baby in the future. This is seriously one, if not the best 7950 of all (along with the sapphire and msi.) 3 free games as well, and not bad ones at all ;)

Cons: Lack of registered gpu overclocking software, but can be solved with msi afterburner. Nothing worth knocking off an egg. Does not make me sandwhiches :P no other cons at all +1 to XFX

Overall Review: currently exploding with happiness

Pros: Performance is spot on with reviews minus a little for my slower processor (Q9550 @ 3.4). I overclocked it with CCC to 1000/5000 and benchmarked without issue. My 3dmark 11 score was 5980 (demo), and Skyrim looks sooo much better than my 8800GTS. Unigine heaven 2.5 bench (1280/1024 - 4x/16x etc) was at 56fps. There's a site out there showing 64fps with an i7@4.4ghz. So processor can make a huge difference. It's also a lot quieter than I was expecting. You can hear the fans slowly get louder, but it's probably not even as loud as my 8800 was.

Cons: A little bit of buyer's remorse for paying so much, but I know that I won't be buying another card for a few years anyway. Every game runs at ultra settings with no slow down at all.

Pros: I was hesitant to buy this card as it's over the $300 range. The most I've ever spent on a video card was $240, and that was back when the EVGA 460 1GB's had just come out. Seeing how this was the best bang for the buck (via reviews), I took a chance and bought this. XFX is known for their amazing customer support and warranty, along with build quality, so I chose this brand. The dual fans ensure that it'll stay cooler than other models of the 7950 cards. I was a bit of an Nvidia fanboy, seeing how they have Physx, CUDA, and 3D Vision, but I never really used that anyway. It was time to retire both of my 460's and get something newer without the flaky-ness of SLI or Crossfire. AMD's drivers aren't as nice as Nvidia's, but they do the job to get the card to run. I had no problems getting it set up to use. I overclock with MSI Afterburner and the card runs even better. As for performance, this card performs exceptionally well. I run Crysis 2, Battlefield 3, and Metro 2033 on the highest settings with a 24" 1920x1200 monitor. No framerate issues, no stuttering, no lag, no overheating. The fans don't get too loud (then again, I'm used to two 460's in SLI and wearing a headset). I can't wait for the price to drop on these in the future so I can pick up another one for Crossfire when the time comes. As an added bonus, I love how the card itself looks. White/silver case with red stripe on the top. It looks lovely in my Corsair 600D White. PS: Don't forget XFX's Double Lifetime Warranty. That means you can sell your card in the future and whoever buys it also has a lifetime warranty - that's a great selling feature.

Cons: Lacks Nvidia's features such as Physx, CUDA, and 3D Vision, but rarely any games use Physx and Cuda and my monitor can't do 3D. So really, there are no cons.

Overall Review: The 3 games it came with were Deus Ex: Human Revolution, Nexuiz, and Dirt: Showdown. I don't play these games, but I was able to activate them all on Steam and add value to my account.

Pros: excellent cooling solution that produces very little noise, even at high load - temperatures stable and low for the most part - performs extremely well with everything i throw at it, and it's often difficult to overload it - i can finally use D3Doverrider now and play everything at an acceptable framerate @ 1080p - also worth mentioning that it's got headroom for overclocking too, even though i won't need to. currently using: AMD Phenom II 970, 8gb GSkill Sniper DDR3, Asus Sabertooth 990FX, and now an intel 240gb 520 SSD.

Cons: i'm experiencing an odd anomaly where when my monitor goes to sleep after X amount of hours, if it's been asleep for too long it won't turn back on. i just get a no input message. hard rebooting the machine is the only way to get it back. latest drivers, reseated everything, cut psu, etc. it's not that big of a deal, but hopefully will get fixed with a driver update. it's a bit heavy, so make sure your case can hold this thing in place properly. especially if your PCI slots use the arms or tabs instead of screws for your cards. requires 2 PCI-e cables, but that's just the reality of GPU's these days.

Overall Review: i initially purchased this card a handful of months ago, but the unit i received was bluescreening randomly, as other reviews for this card (as well as 7970's) have mentioned as well. xfx refused to believe this is a 7900 issue, despite all of the evidence pointing to there being a high number of faulty 7900's across all manufacturers. i then swapped out my ram, and no change. bought a new PSU, and then motherboard and ram. still bluescreening, so i finally just went ahead and bought new CD-R, SSD, and a few other things to complete a new buiild. i got newegg to RMA the video card, and when i got the new one everything worked fine. it took an entirely new build to fix everything, even though all was fine before a simple switch from a 6850 to this. YIKES. xfx support is awesome, and newegg RMA'd this fast, so im chalking it up to a bad card. THIS TIME...

Pros: I have put everything I play on Ultra and have had no issues. I like the temperatures (those fans rock!). Was one of the best upgrades I have done in a long time!

Cons: This was out of stock for a long time -- not a con in terms of performance.

Overall Review: I waited for this model to come in. You basically get the same performance as a 7970, but at a much nicer price. I will be ordering more of these as soon as the price drops (if there are any left on the market!)

Pros: Fast - Incredibly blazing fast. Above average overclockability - Will perform at or close to a 7970 with a mild overclock. Even punches a GTX 680 in the face in a couple benchmarks.

Cons: Driver issues - The CCC 12.3 drivers from the AMD website would drop to blue screen after @5 min. Cleaning and dropping to the 8.921-111202a-129903E-ATI version included on the disk appears to have fixed the issue (fingers crossed).

Overall Review: I bought this card because Eyefinity is a bit more mature than Nvidia Surround. The driver issues caused a fun evening pulling my hair out, but still giving 5 eggs, b/c it's not XFX's fault. I'll wait till 12.4 comes out to try and update again.

Pros: This card handles everything on the highest settings on my 28" monitor. I love it.

Cons: Drivers are still a little iffy. I get some odd blanking on my desktop once in awhile, restart fixes it.

Overall Review: High price tag but probably worth it to get the lifetime warranty over the single-fan cards with the limited warranty.