Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

Man... where to start? run on: i5 4690, 8gb of DDR3 1600, Z97 chipset motherboard. Nothing overclocked (unless you count the factory overclock on this card) It's quiet, it's fast, and it is really gotta be the best bang for the buck in this price range. It benchmarks well against the Radeon R9 280x for about the same price, and half of the power usage. Yes, it won't stack up against the 970, and even two of these in SLI won't beat a 980 because 2gb plus 2gb doesn't equal 4gb in this scenario. But really, for the price, this will play anything decently at 1080p. If I had a 4k monitor, I would have had to seriously consider going up to a much more expensive card... but considering that at the time of this review, I can only assume they make 4k monitors out of pure Unicorn tears, that probably isn't going to come up any time soon. Install was easy, though it is a tight squeeze in a standard mid tower case. I had to move one of my hard drives to a lower bay to give the card enough clearance. I bought this as overkill to play the not terribly graphics intensive Guild Wars 2, which looks beautiful. Ultra settings with everything maxed got me an average of 84FPS. I had to frame limit it to 60. I have yet to dip below that 60 that I notice, including with lots of action on screen. This thing isn't even trying hard. Fans have only come on intermittently. The benchmarks indicate that pretty much nothing currently out will give it a great deal of trouble at 1080p. I think this is going to work out for quite some time for me. And it runs so cool that it will probably last for ages.