The card was delivered very promptly. It's a very nice card for the money. The drivers on the included disc did not run on my Windows Pro 7 64bit machine. That was a bit anoying, but the drivers from the MSI website worked fine and were no doubt more up to date. The live Update 5 utility from MSI does not play well with others - so I uninstalled it after running it since it would cause me to have to click another box at every boot.
The graphics are great and it should last a while. The card is very quiet. I had to move my hard drive because the card is very long - really tight fit. I have a mid tower. Just bad luck that the drive was in line with the PCIE slot, but not hard to fix. Could be a problem if you have a lot of components in your smallish case.
This may sound like a lot of trouble, but after the hell I went through with my last graphics card installation (ATI) this was nothing to complain about.
This card is heavy,, but doesn't sag at all. Very solidly built. I expect it to hold up well. And it is very fast. My machine seems about 4 times faster at some tasks now. I do a lot of demanding 3D CAD work and this made a big difference in the CAD performance. Renders are much faster. Impressive performance for the price range. Windows Experience now shows my hard drive as the slowest component. It had been the onboard graphics before. The graphics are now rated at 7.3 I believe. The overall is 7.8 on an AMD Phenom quad core with 8 gigs of RAM.
Update - 081611 - The card has been running great. Have learned that the MSI drivers are usually what you want. The standard Nvidia drivers do not always work well with this card. I recently updated the Nvidia driver to the latest one for the chip and had to go back to the MSI site and download their latest driver which is not as new, but much more stable! This is a very high quality card and they have specifically designed it for overclocking, so I'm guessing they have some proprietary circuitry. Windows will want to upgrade the Nvidia drivers, though, so you have to watch out for that and NOT do it. IT may just be a problem with the new Nvidia driver, but the difference was pretty serious. My CAD program, which is clearly not the best, would not function properly with the newest Nvidia drivers, but the MSI ones work perfectly and are stable, as far as I can tell. Don't let this put you off of this card, though. It's really a great card and runs fast and very cool. Very well built, too.
Update July 2013 - Still going strong. I had my motherboard die on me - NOT the fault of the graphics card! - CPU was toast, but this card survived and is still running great. I had to take my toasted machine to a shop to get it fixed and the guys at the computer shop were pretty blown away with the card and the AMD Phenom chip. They said it was a smoking fast machine considering what it was. Computer techs do not usually say these things about mid level cards... They were quite impressed. I will keep buying MSI, but my advice about running the MSI drivers still holds - get the drivers from the MSI site not the Microsoft update. It takes MSI a little while to update their drivers, but they are rock solid so far.
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