1080p stutter free gaming
926929
I chose to go with the 270x after reading good reviews about it and seeing some impressive benchmarks. I must say I am quite impressed and glad I chose this card. It works a treat and I'm finally able to play shadow of mordor with decent graphics and fluid fps. I recommend to anyone whose building a pc for single 1080p monitor gaming.
4964879
29MAR2014 Update
Runs Goat Simulator great on medium settings.
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I originally purchased an XFX HD 6450 1GB card to upgrade from my Intel integrated G45 graphics. I wanted to play casual games in my living room, but didn't want a card with a loud fan or something that would require me to upgrade my power supply (300W).

I was disappointed with the 3D performance from the HD 6450 (still couldn't play Gone Home on anything above Low settings) and ended up returning it and purchasing the Asus GT 630 2GB. The price difference after rebate was only about $20. Benchmarking with FurMark v1.13 (1366x768, 2x Anti-Aliasing) the integrated Intel graphics scored 24 points with a 0 FPS average, the XFX HD 6450 scored 100 points with a 1 FPS average, and the Asus GT 630 scored 412 points with a 6 FPS average. I am now able to play Gone Home at maximum settings with no stuttering or lag, and even 2D games are noticeably snappier. The GT 630 runs stable and cool (sub 50C) even under stress testing.

If you need the lowest cost PCIe card for your HTPC and have no interest in games then the HD 6450 is a great card. However, if you have any interest in using the card for gaming then I would recommend staying away from the HD 6450 and paying the 50% premium for the GT 630 as the HD 6450 provides very little performance benefit over 4 year old integrated graphics.
4298791
I recently built myself a new gaming pc and bought this card to power up my Acer XB271HU monitor, which is a 1440p g sync monitor and you need more horsepower to run games on it. Every single game so far runs beautifully and for the first time in my life I am able to properly experience gameplay without any screen tearing and at ultra settings, at 1440p too. I'm not really a tech guy so I don't have benchmarks and all that, but I have been playing Doom, Witcher 3 and Total War: Warhammer all at ultra settings and it is like a treat for my eyes. I did use asus tweak to try and oc my card, was able to get 2011 MHz but didn't want to go for more as I'm new to the oc arena and theres a lot I don't know but don't want to know about oc. I'm already very satisfied with the quality it has given me.

I got my package on time and brand new for USD$679, if I remember correctly. For those of you who can afford it, this is definitely a worthwhile purchase. At the time of writing, I'm only waiting to play Mafia 3 and battlefield 1!
2931000
Wow...

What can I say.

I upgraded from a reference Sapphire AMD 7970.

What a difference! On my AMD 7970 I played BF4 at 1080p, using all ultra, with 2xMSAA and no HBAO and medium lighting and got 60fps.

With this, I play with 4xMSAA, SSAO, and ultra lighting and get over 120 fps on 64-player servers.

Dynamic Super Resolution lets me play games in 4k (then downscales to 1080p). Check out what Medal of Honor 2010 looks like: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gOBJScYkY6A

All in all, this thing is amazing. It also never goes over 70c when playing games.

I tried Star Citizen and it gets to 3.6GB Vram, and at 1080p plays at 60fps locked. Its beautiful.

If you are on the fence about this card, GET IT.
4267639
Great value, I wanted a cheep card that would improve the video quality of my Dell Inspiron 3847, the on board graphics of this computer were not that good. The card was easy to install, and rapidly improved the graphics quality of Skyrim. Google Earth also preforms better, with less lags.
I'm not 100% sure on this one, but I participate in a distributed computing research project (SETI at Home) where my computer processes packets of Data for the University of California at Berkeley, I the data packets seem to go faster after installing the GPU.
206980
runs smooth , fast, no hardware conflicts, overclocks amd 8359 easily
319993
Runs great. Fans are silent.

This GPU can run Witcher 3 (came with free download code) on ultra with hair settings turned off at 1080 resolution.
1601120
Didn't work with windows xp 32 bit, and 4 gigs of ram PC with an old one core Intel processor (choppy video and Hauppauge program crashed over and over).  After upgrading to Windows 7 64bit and 8 gigs of ram with a new $120 AMD 8 core processor, it worked perfectly, though I still can't use too much of the CPU while recording or the first 2-10 minutes of the video will be missing for some reason.  Gaming or downloading large files seems to make this happen, while it records instantly if I'm not doing either or both of those things.

To record DVR programs, there were no instructions, and never found any on the interweb, so this is how it works... For PS3 or DVR/cable the HDMI out from the DVR/PS3 goes into the HDMI in of the Hauppauge, then the composite cables (included in the Hauppauge box) go out of the PVR and the USB goes into your PC.  Set the video quality on the main Hauppauge screen on very high (14 mb/s and set to constant video quality).  Then click on the advanced tab at the bottom of the main screen and choose the highest bitrate for your audio, and make sure to switch the default setting from MPEG to AAC audio or your audio will be off from the video file by about a half second - which is really annoying and increased delay if it's longer than 45 minutes. Also in the Advanced Settings on the Hauppauge program main screen, and change your video output to one setting lower than your source quality, and change the frame rate to 30 fps.  This is how you get rid of the low quality horizontal lined videos even though a 30 min program is 2.5 gigs.  It took me days to figure this out.  So if your video input is 1080i like mine, record at 940 and 30 fps and the quality will stay the same as what you're watching.  Keeping your settings at video source and fps source results in horizontal lines that destroy the quality of the video and no program can fix that issue.

Now use the free program Smart Cutter to edit out the commercials (now you'll have a 2 gig video for a 30 min program).  Then use another free program called Handbrake (go to Filehippo.com) to shrink the video without losing any video quality (I use medium speed on the "optimize video" setting), leave all other settings at default.  Now you should have around a 200-300 MB file size for your edited 23 min program and the video quality is 720p or higher.  Around 550 MB for an hour long show that you've edited down to 47 minutes and the picture quality is great on a 47" HD screen.

I can't believe there isn't a youtube video or thread with these instructions out there, and I looked for weeks.  Bam!  Done and done!  You are welcome.
1667931
Upgraded from Radeon HD 5770 Sapphire to this bad boy.  Works great with Civ 6 which I play most often.  Likely need to upgrade my AMD processor and ASUS mobo next.
3564189
So im going to just guess that the temp sensor is off on my unit, catalyst control center never spins up the fan to anywhere near max, and the screen will start to twitch and eventually it crashes the system. I have to go in and manually set my fan speed to 80-100% to prevent this. Other than that, runs crysis warhead at max detail at 1920x1200 , pretty happy about that.

Update: taking off 2 more stars, even after upping the fan speed, still had graphic glitches, i had to UNDERCLOCK my memory 100mhz to make it stop. Terrible. I think i got a 6850 in disguise here. Maybe I got unlucky here, but still, do some testing before you put something out for sale.
4941921
Most glorious upgrade you can do to your gaming pc without having to spend an arm and a leg. Giant performance jump, my Arma 3 and BF1 load times are pretty much nonexistant. If you're on the fence, buy it.
4701745
Fast, fluid graphics.  I'm not a gamer, but it's more than enough for me.
The fans are a little noise, very noticeable in a quit room, but not irritating.
Just use the AMD driver, the MSI software disk is irritating and constantly natters during power up.
1219432
Bought this computer 8 months ago and am still amazed at the performance. I have 20 high quality games on steam, and the only one that doesn't work without any lag is "Sniper Elite 3" the rest of them (DayZ, Black Ops, Rodnia, Fallout 3, Overgrowth, etc) work very smoothly.
1979984
Running a travel Micro build, with AMD dual graphics, and PCI-e 3.0. Runs street fighter V, heavenly...On 720p settings.
431698
Simple break down:

No coil whine on mine.
Super fast 4k no issue on any AAA title.
Lighting is cool, although I really couldn't care less about that kind of stuff.

If you're looking at a 1080, I would suggest this one. I waited since they came out to get one to see what issues they would have.  I know some people have complined about coil whine at high FPS, but mine has none. I have tested it on a 3840x2160 tv and 3440x1440 monitor and it is flawless.  If you have a 1920x1080 I wouldn't get one though, I could still run everything with a pair of 4GB 760s just fine.  It wasn't until I upgraded my tv and monitor that things started to slow down and get choppy.
548790
Problem: 4 year old video card (Asus Radeon 3450) very laggy on videos, almost unwatchable. Windows Experience score 3.4 (graphics). The 3450 was purchased to run two 20" monitors. This was fine until upgrading one of the monitors to an HD 24 inch monitor which was more than the old card could drive.

The base PC, a 5 year old Dell Vostro 200 only has a 250W power supply, and it's low profile.

This card succeeded in smoothing out video (youtube is still slightly jerky, but I notice this on other machines a lot newer, none of them high-end though). Winscore is now 4.5.

I was able to connect using the HDMI and DVI outputs only, making the d-sub (VGA) output redundant (useful if you don't want to waste another slot in a low profile machine).

I have not tried audio over HDMI so I don't know if there are any issues with this.

Installation: First uninstalled the 3450 drivers and the machine reverted to EGA display on one monitor.
Hardware installation was easy, the machine rebooted to EGA. I installed the included software (it had a higher version driver than available on Asus's website). Software installation was slow on my machine (about 5 minutes). Reboot and no display. It defaulted to the HDMI display, and it was set for the old DVI cable. d'oh. Set the monitor to HDMI input and hey presto, but only about 85% of the monitor was filled. About 15 minutes rummage around the driver settings I found HDMI scaling settings (they're hidden under advanced settings). Set this to zero and hey presto, but the image was kinda washed out. Rummage rummage and adjust brightness and contrast in the driver settings and it looks very good.

Testdrive: Winscore up to 4.3 from 3.4. Ok good so far. Youtube 1080P watchable but jerky. Increase clock speeds for gpu and memory and display goes wonky, cut it back. Winscore now 4.5 and youtube less jerky. Other video plays smoothly (windows media DVDs and HD video). Go Pro Studio editing previews are smoother too (they would freeze often with the old card). What is it with youtube?

Visit AMD's website and let it upgrade the driver beyond what ASUS had. They downloaded some crapware in the process (raptr) that was easily uninstalled, but there was no opt-in option. Driver seems the same as Asus's version. Should've stayed with that.

The software reports it runs at a toasty 70C. That's to be expected. The 3450 ran hotter I think.

Base system: 5 year old Dell Vostro 200, 3GB RAM, Intel 6550 Core 2, Win7 64bit Premium. 20" Dell and 24" Asus monitors.
4840505
I am very happy with this card. I'd be happier if I had the money to buy a GTX 295, but I'm not Bill Gates' son ha ha ha. Anyway this GTX 260 (superclocked)can smoothly run any game I throw to it. It is an excellent choice if you can't afford a high end graphic card. Give it a try and you won't be disappointed