Am more than surprised by the performance of this card. Have you compared to its "big brother" - the GTX 295 - allowed to test and came very well out of this duel. Of course you should not overdo it, but graphics Pops like Crysis, Assassin's Creed 2, Fallout 3 or Far Cry 2 running very smooth at very high settings! Since I run frequently video editing and animation programs on my computer, the card comes when rendering extreme scenes into smaller dropouts, but that is really borderline and perfectly acceptable for a fair price. The card can be combined with the additional software overclock, but I will not have to rely on this feature for the foreseeable future. The volume does not drown my retrofitted (!) Fan, which is already "whisper" as advertised. Pay a few more years with this part of having fun and recommend buying for those who do not want to unnecessarily spend a lot of money for very small performance differences.