EVGA GeForce GTX 260 Core 216 896-P3-1255-AR Video Card

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I bought one of this cards in exchange of my 8600GT in SLI and it works much better; WOW-factor is great for me, very happy with buy!

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After extensive research and comparisons amongst the 200 series cards, this is definitely the most powerful one per $. Will be purchasing shortly after I get my money back from the gts 250 I bought that was doa recently, but not from tiger.. Don't be fooled by the name gts 250, it is simply a less power hungry 9800gtx+(one 6 pin vs 2 also). The 260 and especially for the extra 10-20 dollars the 260 core 216 is possibly the best card at the 180-200$ price point. Runs all current games amazingly well for the mid level enthusiast. fits my uATX case after moving my HD.

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This card passes my WOW factor, i play crysis on high settings, (Q6700 OC to 3.0, 8 GB PC2 6400, RAID 0 8k S/C size) with 1440 x 900 and 2x AA running 30 fps. L4D with max settings runs at max 60 fps. Windows system rating is 5.9 on graphics. This card is a must!

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This is a fantastic card, the price is outstanding. The new 55 nanometer technology is amazing, it definitely preforms. In my set up, of an E7300 OCed to 3.3GHZ, 4GBs of RAM, OCZ700 PSU, ASUS P5QL-PRO board. I can run Age of Conan on Max Settings with out a problem.

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Well this card has worked great for me. It has worked great in the games I've played and it gets some good folding nubers as a bonus.I have only overclocked it to SCC levels and it made it there with no effort at all.Temps do run HOT under load but thats the same for most/all higher end GPU's so...I could've put price in as a weakness but I doubt NCIX or EVGA really wants to give them away for free so I guess you have to live with the price. I did mange to get a good pricematch so I can't complain.

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Thanks to NCIX for stocking these babies. I upgraded from a trusty 8800GT that I used since November '07. I was using a ThermalTake DuOrb for the 8800, but the stock cooler on this 260 is magnificent. I have it overclocked to 720/1484/1101 and the idle temp is 39-41. Even after an intense gaming session with Crysis, Mass Effect, GTA IV, etc. the load temps stay below 70. The fan speed is only at 50% and not even audible. I got a 3DMark Vantage score of about 13000 and that was with much lower clocks than the ones I'm using now.

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The perfect price point for this card should be $280 without MIR, Nvidia could sell a lot of these.On to the point.Upgrading from GTS 320, the thing I was looking for is relatively low power consumption and performance, and this card satisfies both.The neat thing about this card is its cooling profile. Using Rivatuner, the clocks: (core, shader, Vram)2d: 300, 100, 100low power 3d: 400, 800, 300gaming 3d: 576, 1242, 999Idle temp: 46C, ambiet temp: 40CLoad temp: ~56CThis card will run GRID at 1920x1200, with ultra setting, 16xQSCAA, without stuttering.The end of this card sit flush against the HDD bay in CM690. Though the PCI-e power is mounted on the side, so no problem there.My system spec:Phenom 9950 125wPatriot Extreme 2x2GB DDR2 800PC P & C 750W silencer quadCrosshair II (overrated, get a decent 790GX/790FX instead to save some money.)Case fans: two top mounted intake, one side intake, one front intake. All around 800RPM (Scythe 120mm)The gpu fan runs very quiet. This review was modfied by poster q 01-15-09 06:02 PM This review was modfied by poster @ 01-15-09 06:47 PM