ASUS Geforce GTX470 PCI-E 2.0 1280 MB DDR5 Graphics Card ENGTX470/2DI/1280MD5

I had bought two Diamond ATI 5850 video cards to run in crossfire mode. While the performance was great the quality of the cards wasen't. One of the two cards immediately broke down within three months and shortly after returning it to Amazon.com for a refund the second card started giving me trouble. So I returned that card as well. Their customer service is non-existent. They don't respond to your customer support emails and never answer the phone when you call their customer service 800 number. So beware. Never buy Diamond video cards. So I decided to return to nVidia and I have no regrets. I decided to go with Asus since I've had too many Evga cards fail on me in the past. I have found that Evga doesn't have good quality cards. Anyway this Asus card rocks. It runs everything at max settings as I expected it would. nVidia still needs to tune their drivers but the card runs rock solid under Windows 7 32bit and Vista 32bit. Yes I used it in both operating systems. I...Read more

this product is totally worth it.i play "just released" games on highest details,smooth and easy,it eats everything you throw at it.I never tried overclocking though,but i read so many reviews saying it overclocks great.installing new drivers gives you power of changing clocks,voltages and memory...So far,and its been 3 weeks,this card runs like a charm.i am so happy that i bought it...remember about getting a at least 550W power supply.i got 650W,550W is minimum for this card :)

From a cost/performance perspective, you don't need anything beyond 2x460GTX, or it's ATI equivalent 2x6850, to have a great experince @1920x1080.
However, if you want/need more power, two of these are probably what you should get, specially considering the recent price drop in reaction to ATI 6xxx release.
Anyway, great card, powerful and scales very well in SLI.
1 inch or so shorter than my previou 8800 Ultra and extremely silent at idle.
Under load, two different scenarios.
If I just think about playing Metro 2033, fans speed up all the way and then some, producing a loud noise. It's funny because even if I am not actually playing the game, just waiting for it to finish loading, fans get very loud.
Playing Black Ops, on the other way, is very silent, with all settings maxed out @1920x1080.
Don't know, maybe Nvidia's help to build Metro was no that good.
About heat, well, it's hot. Make sure you have a good case (I have a HAF 932 and...Read more