BFG Tech GeForce GTX 285 1GB GDDR3 PCI Express 2.0 x16 SLI Support Graphics Card BFGEGTX2851024OCFUBE

Pros: Very fast, fairly quiet, reasonably priced. Runs icy cool once you get it set up right. Overall I'm very pleased with this card.

Cons: Fan speed issue. Tried various driver sets but the fan speed was constantly locked at 40%. Temps would go well into the 80's and games would artifact and lock up within minutes. Found a solution for this but still had to ding it one egg for the frustration.

Overall Review: Used EVGA's Precision Tuner to lock the fan speed at 80% full time. Card is only moderately louder now, and it's barely noticable over my case fans. Played Crysis at max settings for a couple hours using this fix and the card never went over 62 degrees.

Pros: HDMI audio pass through with S/PDIF two pin connector. Good design for cooling. One driver fits all with Nvidia.

If you don't have a 8800 already then it's a great card.

Cons: I ran 3Dmark 06 before I removed my BFG 8800 GTX 768Mb OC and the ran the exact same test again after putting this card in. The results were almost identical. The 285 was just a little higher. I pulled out the 285 and put the 8800 back in and re-ran the benchmark and it got even closer to the same score as the 285. I packed up the 285 to send it back then when to the Newegg site to file an RMA and then noticed "VGA Replacement Only Return Policy". So I just spent almost $400 for the same card I've had for over 2 years. Sweet!

Overall Review: Maybe stop thinking everyone is going to buy a bunch of expensive gamer video cards and link them up (SLI/Crossfire) and start thinking multi core. Nvidia and AMD have been getting no where for the last couple years. Adding another GPU (295)? Um again multicore is probably going to be the answer. Look at the motherboard CPU industry... killing me! No more buying a new gamer card every year I guess. I guess it's Craigslist for my new 285.