I upgrade my old gtx 570 to this baby, and I can tell you - this is the beast! I dont care about 3.5 gb gold from something, it doesnt matter becouse while you are playing on 1920x1080 ultra settings. For example Splinter Cell Blacklist on ultra settings, max out everything run smoothly and nice. Card is very very silent Am I playing or just browsing Silence is the same, I can not Even That I-have manual Such a powerfull GPU. Temperature is idle (browsing, watching youtubes and so on) around 30 degrees, while playing - 59-62 degrees. Thats brilliant :). I really recommend this card to everyone Who want-have silence, power and low temperature In Their boxes. The best ever card from Nvidia. I orderded on February 27th and got version 1.1. No problem corner or something. Everything is good. About icts size - I've got HAF922 box and get in it very nice, After I plugged it in I've got about 2 cm free space for HDD cages :). Its a little bit bigger than my old gtx 570 from evga.