EVGA 015-P3-1580-AR GeForce GTX 580 (Fermi) 1536MB 384-bit GDDR5 PCI Express 2.0 x16 HDCP Ready SLI Support Video Card

Pros: A powerful card, games never looked better.

Cons: This $480 card died on me after less than 6 months of use. The GPU burnt out (as it seems to do for many owners) leaving a basic vga port that'll boot into Safe Made but the Nvidia drivers kill it every time.
I personally know two other owners (purchased theirs based on my initial recommendation) one had it die like mine, the other burnt out completely. Almost five hundred dollars for a season of gaming?

Other Thoughts: Because I travel for work and my primary rig stays home it had passed the warranty (of course) when I discovered too late the problem.
nVidia makes some good cards/products, just not this one in my opinion. Or my friends opinions. Or many others who've bought this card assuming it was of similar quality to EVGA's other products.

Pros: I went from a GTX480 to this card, which isn't a huge leap, but I gave my 480 to a family member. The temperatures stay much lower with this card (usually 39c vs. 46c on the 480). Overall, this card is responsive and suits my needs perfectly. So far so good!

Cons: None so far! Although I do kind of miss the awesome looking heat pipes coming out of the 480 :-)

Other Thoughts: So far I've had good luck with EVGA cards on my past three builds.

Pros: I use GeForces for WORK (business), not games - CAD/design, Engineering; since Autodesk who makes Inventor (& AutoCad) switched 3D API's from OpenGL to DirectX. Also though "Solidworks" still relying on increasingly archaic OpenGL - a mistake, it runs fine on this card if you're skillful with settings. The benefit? GeForces cost several times less than Quadros, yet deliver better performance at little loss in accuracy and no loss for most worksttaions. An equiavlent fps Quadro costs $1600+, if not $3000
I've invested enormous time in reseacrhing professional application of GeForces, after everyone is fed up with "workstation grade" cards costing asmuch as a used car.
Get this card for 3CAD work, definitely if based on DirectX, but OpenGL also fine.

Cons: None, except people who believe "newer is always better".
nVidia needs to advertise new 600-series cards honestly, admitting their floating-point processors are INFERIOR to this older 580GTX - new 680GTX or any 600's may deliver faster FPS, but inferior compute ability, meaning: LESS ACCURATE, not so useful for Design, CAD, etc. pro applications

Other Thoughts: GET THIS CARD for 3D CAD if your CAD relies on DirectX, and EVEN if OpenGL as this card supports OGL 4.1 (along with DX11). Do NOT waste money on "professional workstation" cards unless you design some bridges with tens of $Million liability.
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Do NOT waste money on "new" 680GTX or any new 600-series for 3D CAD, Work, etc - surprisingly, it was discovered nVidia deliberately dumbed down new 600-series (incl. 680GTX) making them even more game-oriented & less professional. The new 600-series speeds up thru FPS even faster than 500's and why? Because they're even more crude, inaccurate. The 580GTX is very accurate, with ray tracing, etc. - strong compute ability, 680GTX is more of a toy than work with its Floating-Point math inferior to 580GTX. Crazy but true.
Clearly with new 600-series nVidia is trying to further separate "game cards" i.e. useless for serious stuff like Adobe, Design, art, engineering, from "professional" ('Quadros").
SO... I waited for this 580GTX to come back in stock desperately!, once Newegg notified me I grabbed it imemdiately, prices worlwide are higher than Newegg & was out of stock here (Newegg) for afew days I panicked, because alternative 680GTX is just not as good.
it's like old car is better than new, I know hard to believe - but true. 580 is better for work than 680.

Pros: This is an amazing video card. Pick a game, turn all of the settings to max, and enjoy.

Cons: This card runs incredibly hot if you're not careful. I am not sure if it is airflow in my case or a defunct card... My HDMI port stopped working after 5 months of use, and is finally unable to game after one year of use. Was hoping for a longer life out of an EVGA product.

Pros: i like this card, had one for over a year

Cons: bought a second to put in SLi, but they never gave me an SLi bridge. Why advertise a card as SLi ready and don't include an SLi bridge? In either package at that too. TERRIBLE

Manufacturer Response:

Hello,

We do not ship this product with an SLI bridge as most SLI compatible motherboards come with the respective SLI bridges that match the boards layout. I apologize for the inconvenience. Please contact us at 888-881-3842 for assistance with this matter.

Thank you,
Brandon B

Pros: perfict

Cons: na

Pros: I've had this card for almost 3 years, and it's been free of problems and is still able to deliver above average performance on the latest games at the highest settings. The direction NVIDIA seems to have headed with its newest 600 line makes it all the stronger; if there's exceptions to "newer is always better" in the world of computer components, this card makes a strong one with the GTX 680. The 580s still beat 680s in some benchmarking, and have almost double the 64-bit math performance of the 680s (which opted for SLIGHTLY better 32-bit performance, to better gear toward the mainstream), while games are starting to catch on to 64-bit. The performance these cards deliver is still only marginally lower (~5% loss), overall, than NVIDIA's equivalent cards from the 600 line (though that doesn't say as much good about the 580 as bad about the 680).

Cons: This edition's biggest drawback is the 1.5 GB of VRAM; these days, 2 GB should be the minimum. By now, all the augmented editions, like the 3 GB, are discontinued.

Pros: I have 3 of these in sli on a g1 assassin x58 mobo
everything runs optimal awesome cards ;)

Cons: none

Pros: Sheer muscle and horsepower.

Cons: It's what they don't tell you. This card is equipped with a power limiter. This will throttle the GPU the instant you run Furmark. It's not supposed to do that in games, but who knows. Google GTX 580 throttling.

Other Thoughts: The true TDP of this card may be as high as 350 watts. I think GPU manufacturers shoud stick with the best of each generation. Newer doesnt mean better. I compared this card directly with a brand new GTX 680. In some tests, this beat the 680. I think Nvidia should have kept making the 3gb version of this model and simply refined the chip to compete with the hd 7970. We really don't need new cards every year.

Pros: Great card, handles everything I throw at it. Runs relatively quiet, solid construction, does everything I want. Have had this card for a year now, absolutely love it.

Cons: Does not come with the mini hdmi adapter as stated by newegg. Did not know this until I tried to hook it up to a new TV I had. Kind of a pain, but can be dealt with.