MSI N260GTX-T2D896-OCv4 GeForce GTX 260 896MB 448-bit DDR3 PCI Express 2.0 x16 HDCP Ready SLI Supported Video Card - Retail

Outstanding card for an outstanding price. Though on its debut it ran for a hot 300 or so depending on who you bought it from, where you'd get and when-- this card now goes for about the price the 8800GT's used to go for more than 2 years ago. Having done that exact type of upgrade (after my eVGA nVidia 8800GT quite literally fried on me) it was good incentive to finally make that leap into more quality standard upgrades-- meaning a replacement in PSU in preparation for it, and ultimately, the new video card.

ATI and nVidia have more recent generation cards (ATI's 5870's and nVidia's codename 'Fermi' GPU architecture coming along the way) but this card performs well over than anything my 8800GT was well over able to do. Those who say their 8800GT could perform just as nominally as this card must either be overclocking their machines (which I do not do) or have something else going on because I've tried everything I could throw at this card and nothing slows it down. I...Read more

I bought this card to play borderlands when it came out back in October, and even though the game was a POS the card is absolutely phenomenal. I am right now trying to tract down a second one so i can sli link them it is that good. GET ONE if you need a 1GB esc card.

I don't need to say how a 216-655mhz (core), 1408mhz (shader) and a 1050mhz (mem) are cool and do damn good in games. Not a problem til now, just don't use nvidia drivers, I'm using the ones in the cd and they're working just fine. I didn't oc it, because I don't need it, it's working flawless just the way it is.