MSI GeForce GTX 570 (Fermi) N570GTX-M2D12D5 Video Card

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Bought this on boxing day, love it. Came with a few games, can max out just about every game and still get over 60 FPS.It was a huge upgrade over my 4870 512MB.It was ridiculously cool and quiet.

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An excellent card. What the reviews say are true. This new revised Fermi GF110 gpu does what Fermi was hyped to do in the first place. Now it runs cooler and draws less power on idle as well as under load. The boxing week sale was just the thing to get me to try it. Sold off my Xfired 5850's to pay for this and I'm glad I did.

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I had fan problems with my Radeon 5850, which had been performing quite well until recently, so I decided to get a new card. I was not that keen on getting a new card since I felt the 5850 was doing fine for most games I play. However, the price point on the MSI GTX 570 during the holiday sale (and the bundled package) made me go for it. I was hopeful, yet doubtful, that I would notice a significant increase in performance with the GTX 570. I was pleasantly surprised when I saw noticeable improvements when running a few games over the last few days. Metro 2033 and Lost Planet 2 are running significantly smoother than before. Other games also ran with some improvement noticed: Dawn of War II, Napoleon: Total War, Crysis (I have not tried extreme settings yet). Installation went without any problems: installed the card, installed the latest drivers and off I went. I have yet to try MSI's overclocking utility. The card runs silent. I can't really tell the difference when compared with the 5850, but maybe the GTX 570 is a little bit quieter, but barely. I was running an old Radeon 3850 while waiting for this card and it made me realize how quiet they have managed to make the new cards now (whether ATI or NVIDIA). I noticed that some people on forums complain about a high-pitched noise when running demanding games/apps. All new cards appear to do this. I can clearly hear it but, frankly, it's not a very loud noise (and it's completely unnoticeable when you have game sound/music running). A loud fan is much, much more annoying that this.The boxing day package I got included MAFIA II, HAWX II, a seven-hour trial of Starcraft 2 and 3dMark 11 (Advanced version). I was concerned when I received the card that there were no coupons for these promotions, but after checking the delivery status, I saw that NCIX was shipping those promo items separately. They got to me a day after the card. The three game promos involved going to Nvidia's website and punching in a promo code. MAFIA II was easiest, since it's done through Steam (which by now I think most gamers have already installed). HAWX II involved creating a UbiShop account and then downloading a utility to then download the game itself. The Starcraft 2 promo was not working as the link to Nvidia's website was re-directing me to the homepage for the new beta Geforce.com website. I fixed the issue by clicking the "don't show this intro screen again" box on Geforce.com and re-typing the url for the Starcraft 2 promo. You then get an email with another key, which you then use after creating a Battle.net account with Blizzard. It felt like a lot of hoops to go through to get all these games, but hey, it's free and Nvidia cannot control the method of delivery (the game companies do). 3dMark 11 was simply a question of downloading the basic package and then activating the Advanced functions by punching in the serial key provided on the coupon.In terms of cables, and apart from the other listed items, the card does come with a mini-HDMI to HDMI adaptor. This was a concern for me as the MSI website and the pictures I saw online did not seem to indicate that the adaptor was included. I have only had the card for two days, but so far everything has performed well, so I will give it 5 stars. If I hit any problems I may come to revise, but hopefully I won't need to!

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This is the first high-end card I have ever used. (I previously used 5770)It fits well inside Antec 300, runs cool in general. It was $300 during boxing day, so I don't regret my choice. I knew about 6950 flashing, but only for extra $20, this was definitely the way to go (PhyX, guranteed overclockability, etc)

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Recently ordered this sucker and it packs quite a punch from what I was able to test it. It runs very cool also on large loads, and DX11 support is always welcomed in my book.I bought this during a fantastic sale which came with about 100-150 dollars worth of software/games and a 20 dollar rebate to boot! Though, I've only been able to test this in my older system so the CPU I have is the bottleneck of this GPU at the moment, but I can bet any cash in my newer system this thing is gonna fly even more so.I don't regret buying this card at all, and so far it seems to run flawlessly. Originally only bought EVGA GPUs though I think I'll consider MSI more so now.

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i bought this on boxing day upgraded from msi 470 gtx to this one and i can tell theres a big difference compare to temperature my 470 hits 70-80 temps on full load when the fan is turnd up to 75-80 and its to loud specially on max,the 570 is pretty good its only 30-35 under load and 40-50 full load with the fan turnd up to 60 and it runs very fast,cnt wait to buy another 1 to run sli,i was gonna buy the 6970 but when i see some benchmark this thing is faster than 6970 as long as you dont run higher than 1080p!

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Went from a gtx 285 to this. I can't deny the performance boost...it's definitely fast...but not as significant as I had hoped for heheguess that's what SLI's for (:

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Awesome card. It was basically this or the 6970 as they compete, but this card was cheaper, and offered a bit more as far as extras go. Was a very easy purchase. Can't wait to get one for SLI.