Best Graphics Card Deals

First the review on the GTX 580 Ultra Classified. Already owning one of these and having wanted and additional two for my benchmark project. This graphics card is amazing it tears through games like BF3 like a hot knife through butter. I've even SLI'd it with a buddies Classified and together they get over 70 FPS on maxed out ULTRA settings on 5760x1080 (triple monitor)However Amazon really made me sad this weekend, read on:On Friday I ordered 2 GTX 580 Ultra's. Newegg however at the same time had the cards for $80 less than amazon. That's right $600 for these babies. I canceled my orders with amazon only to realize that I could not cancel one of my 2 cards ordered ( on two separate visa's) then realizing that newegg was not going to be able to deliver on Saturday anyhow I decided to just reorder the one card that had successfully canceled. This is were the sad day starts.Amazon apparently had put a pending charge on my card even though the order was canceled before it was "ready to ship" which is when Amazon normally charges you. Then through a bunch of hoops I ended up getting both the bank and amazon on the phone to figure this pending charge issue out as that specific card did not have enough limit left to place TWO charges for $700.Finally after 2 hours on the phone Amazon claimed that the authorization the bank had put through was satisfactory and that my graphics card would ship. I even have a confirmation email saying the payment was authorized and my card would…

This is the OEM version so it does not include the vented bracket which bolts on the back and holds it steady and in-line. The device passed all burn-in tests with flying colors and is an amazing piece of hardware. Just two of these (or one and a high end Nvidia Fermi video card), some good coding (explicit vectorization, good thread coding, etc.), a good Intel CPU and you can run as fast as an IBM Blue Gene/L or a Cray XT3. You're running with the big dogs using a PC. No more laying on the porch.

Nice looking unit, but it does not do $1,700 worth of work. I think a $700 Nvidia Graphics card would do just a good, as far as anybody could actually detect while rendering, or working in architectural design software. If you are doing video editing, an Nvidia GPU is a must, but try one of the less expensive models.

I have a custom RIG built from scratch, and have been gaming for over 10 yrs. Amazon usually blocks my posts due to their realistic fact based content, so i'll keep it short as not to waste too much of my time. I have a gaming RIG for high demand games, and a good friend whos business is 3D graphic rendering etc. He has the 580 and it rocks for less than 1/2 the price of this one. They are price gouging due to lack of availability, period. This card is downgraded and strangled from the factory for the wrong reasons one of which is actual design flaws, but last time I broke it down to the brass tax facts, my review, as stated above, was denied. So here are a few, and lets hope "they" will not block the truth this time, we'll see. They say they lower the core clock and the memory clock so the card will not heat up and or demand too much power to run, blah blah blah. This card is basically 2 580's combined into one GPU, except for the absence of double performance where it counts. This card seems to have turned into a bragging rights of " I have the limited edition 590" or something, who cares!?. So as for us real life gamers and GPU enthusiasts, this card is a waste of money due to the rediculous pp, and limited performance capabilities bc they are blocked. So why design, build, and sell a card that has a ton of potential, but you havnt worked out how to unleash it without possible over heating, loud operation noise, etc. Plus, why would you DOUBLE the performance…

The EVGA GTX 690 is going to be yet another great product from EVGA! From what Nvidia has talked about on Youtube and what you can find on their website and additionally when comparing the specs most review sites post, they all seem to agree that it runs a little cooler, a little quieter and at sometimes half the power then most other cards in the newest performance class, including TWO (yes 2!) Nvidia 680s in SLI. The GTX 690 is literally two cards built as one, so your motherboard will not have to do the work of actually running two cards in SLI. Before the 480 I have now (and the GTX 690 in the mail as we speak) I used the Nvidia 295 which was also two cards in one, and that similar hybrid card had some great performance suprises under the hood, most noteably "SLI on a single card." I never had any hardware conflicts or driver issues because of motherboards and SLI (which ATI has also had to deal with before).Probably my favorite part of this new video card from EVGA is that it's base price is only $999.99 and Nvidia plans on making these for a long time, which means that Amazon will be selling these for a long time, and at a lesser cost then running two 680s. Anyone who reads the numerous reviews for this card will note that just about every reviewer also makes this point, and it's another reason to buy them when Amazon gets them in stock! Some people DO seem to disagree about the price, however you have to remember that while you are paying $999.99 for a single…

This has been the most powerful single graphics card (though it is dual gpu) on the planet for over 2 years now. Everything about this card's performance points to this. Games will run flawlessly on any setting and 3d rendering is a joke of a task. Be warned, however, this is not an upgrade for your off-the-shelf system from (name of chain store here.) It requires a very well cooled case, as it generates a ton of heat, and will chew through all but the best of power supplies. This card is not an afterthought, but rather, you should plan your system around it. Follow this advice and you will be one happy gamer.

I am also responding to Benji's review.First of all, this is a special "limited edition" GTX 590 by EVGA, and comes with a bundle of cool stuff. EVGA's direct price for this is $730 (currently out of stock at their website) - only $30 more than list for a "normal" GTX 590.The secondary market price for this card is currently inflated due to limited availablility, and that's what you see here.This card is NOT being sold by Amazon (who generally does have competetive pricing) but by some third party "Googol shops" via Amazon marketplace. By the way, I'm always wary of marketplace sellers - especially the ones with goofy names - since a couple of them have turned out to be bogus on some of my orders.Again, you are looking at secondary market pricing here. This is not Amazon's fault - I could list the same product here for double list if I wanted to.Secondly, EVGA is one of the better graphics card brands. I've called them directly with questions and always spoke with a real person who was able to help me out. I've never had a problem with their products, but even if I had I'd still be covered by their lifetime warranty. Some of their motherboards can be irksome but their cards are top-notch. The GPU market is unforgiving - a bad manufacturer dies quickly.Finally, concerning performance - while Nvidia touts the GTX590 as the fastest graphics card on the planet, it isn't. Period. The HD6990 is toe-to-toe with the 590 on most benchmarks until you switch…

The good:The 3DSMAX and Maya benchmarks speak for themselves. Furthermore, game performance is excellent. This would be the ideal card for all game developers save for the following caveat.The bad:1. There is no professional 30" screen supporting both HDCP and display port.2. All display port -> dual link DVI adapters are highly problematic at best and totally nonfunctional at worst (for example, the Apple display port -> dual link DVI adapter is notorious garbage that has never worked one instant for anybody and never will; the only halfway functional one garbles DPMS, preventing operation at 2560x1600 after entering full screen DirectX modes in Windows).3. Console game development requires a screen supporting HDCP.4. The only 30" screen supporting both HDCP and display port is the Dell 3008WFP. This is a consumer screen that suffers from all sorts of brain damage (no powersave control, long resync times, questionable quality).For heaven's sake, ATI, going with display port only on a professional card is a mistake.DO NOT BUY THIS CARD IF YOUR DISPLAY REQUIRES DUAL LINK DVI.

The first impression when you see the box arrives is how big it is. After unboxing and looking at the piece, it get surprised of how big and heavy is the vcard and how is well constructed.Fans in default are very quiet and does well their job, the vcard runs cool.Overclocked it right away to 950MHz easily. Included software is very intuitive.Bought from Circuit City, was concerned about a comment here that said it came a used one... luckily i received a new on.

Very good deal, I must said stock idle temp for this card is very high, around 66c, for anyone that purchase this card, I highly recommend that you download the latest quadro driver from nvidia site uninstall your previous graphic driver, and install MSI Afterburner,(google it, first site on the page)set fan speed to user define by clicking on the icon next to the fan speed control, it lower my card idle temp to 48c, very nice software, must have for this card, well that's all my tips, enjoy this beast! happy working and gaming:) and dont forget to register your product at the PNY site(3 year warrranty)! XD

Here is a list of the games that you can't run on this graphics card.(may have to scroll down to see all. lol)

I ordered two of these late on 3/16 and they arrived on 3/22, well packaged with no apparent damage. Both boxes had what appeared to be the original clear plastic wrap and both security seals on each box were intact.When I opened the boxes I discovered something unusual. Both boxes were missing the hose clamps, barbs, and stop fittings. I contacted the vendor (through Amazon) and advised them of the situation and asked if they or EVGA would fix the problem. They responded, via email, that they had no extra units which they could cannibalize, otherwise, they would, and they referred me to Customer Service at EVGA. I contacted EVGA and within a couple of minutes they were sending out the missing parts (I had to email a copy of the invoice).So overall it worked out. Mistakes are made, that's part of life, but both the vendor and EVGA customer service combined to fix the problem (that and I haven't yet received all the materials for my build). For those that may wonder, the serial numbers of the two cards were three (3) numbers off.Thanks pcrush-outlet and EVGA for fixing the problem and 'grats to your customer service reps.

Is amazing! faster, im gorry about my update from 5600.. but yeah!! im feeling BIG DIFERENCE!.. some sites 5600 is high price compared with 5800!! is a big deal

Every game I have played runs smooth as butter! Never seen Crysis run so smooth with the settings cranked! Was expensive, but hopefully it will keep me running for a few more years!

Get this if you by chance are thinking of getting a Quadro 4000. the most underrated card but outperforms higher priced ones. Works very well with games as well. Houdini, Maya and 3ds max performance is breathtaking. Took me a month to decide b/w Q4000 and this card. So glad I went for this one. People giving bad reviews have no idea what professional cards are for.