This is a great card and read up review elsewhere and here also to get this. I am one of the last buyers and I am completely satisfied with this product.

Basically "MSI / ZOTAC / Saphire / XFX" are all names associated with a basic architecture from AMD. So they are all the same or almost the same. Its just the hardware specs. that differ and one has to be careful.

As regards to scepticism over AMD, I would say they have gone way ahead thanks to ATi acquisition.

Overall I am happy with the product so far. It runs cool and does not get very hot even while playing games. My purpose was to extend the life of my PC and have an old motherboard with PCI 1.1. I had no issues in running this card which is ideally made for PCI 3.

I have tried a couple of older games. With 4 GB ram and an Intel E6750 with this card I can run the original crysis at all settings high.

I suppose latest games would run at 1650*1080 with medium settings though I have not bench m...

Graphics core of this new card runs with 512 processors and at 800 MHz, down from 830 MHz of the overclocked 1 GB version, but the memory (128-bit interface) has been brought down from 4500 MHz to 1600 MHz. The dual-slot cooling component integrates a 70 mm fan...

Generally speaking, the higher the resolution, the more memory needed by the graphics. Now RAM speed does influence the gaming speed. I think, @ 1920x1080, I would rather have 1 GB of faster(DDR5) ram than 2 GB of slower(DDR3) ram.