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(More customer reviews)When you hold this card in your hands, you know that you're getting a well built product. Unfortunately I had to go through 2 RMA's to get the "right" card. The first one was DOA, card would crash as Windows 7 64-bit loaded up. The second card was great.. except one of the fans were making horrible clicking noises. Third one works like a charm!..*knock on wood* I've only had it up and running for about 2 hours but there were no signs of artifacting or any other quality control issues. I have the card on the "Silent" operation mode and although its definitely not silent, it was noticeably quieter than when the fan profile was set on "Performance". Even on "Silent", the card has not gone over 63C in SoCal ambient temperatures, which is really good.. but we'll see how this card holds up during the summer.
I have the card running with a SeaSonic SI2-II 430W, and it works flawlessly. I have stress tested the card for about half an hour with the newest version of MSI Kombuster, and ran 5 passes of Unigine's Heaven benchmark with no problems. I'm very satisfied with the FPS I'm getting in Crysis Warhead, Dirt 2, F1 2010, Black Ops.. I could keep going on and on, basically it plays everything I want it to at max settings. And for reference I have this with an Intel E8400 at 4.0Ghz and 4GB of ram, so I'm definitely happy with the new life this card has given my, I guess you could say aging system compared to these new Intel and AMD offerings.
For this price range you should also be considering the Nvidia 560GTX, however I wanted something that was relatively quiet and low-powered, because the rest of my computer is fairly quiet in an Antec Solo case w/ Nexus Fans, and I've only got a 430 watt unit, and the 560GTX uses more power, especially when overclocked. Anyway I highly recommend this MSI card, as the quality is amazing, so amazing that I stuck with it after it gave me problems twice because I knew once I got a working unit I'd be completely satisfied, and I am which reflects my 5-star rating!
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