Top positive review
5.0 out of 5 starsLOVE THESE CARDS!!!!
Reviewed in the United States on April 23, 2012
I bought two of these amazing cards for my SLI setup. They are 10.5" and fit in my mid size case nicely (NZXT Guardian 921). These cards run every game I have on ultra setting, anything fully maxed out with 60fps or higher(Skyrim, The Witcher 2, Crysis 2, Starcraft2, etc)! Even running one of these will handle anything I throw at it on ultra with a minimum of 30fps. If you thought games looked good before you will be blown away by these things! One feature that I really like about these cards is that they suck the air from inside the case and push it right out of the case. Some cards have cooling that sucks air from the case and puts in back in the case which can heat not only the cards up, but the rest of your computers components if you don't have a lot of air movement. One thing I notice that should be placed in the directions is that the POST test should be done with only one card. I tried with both at the same time and my POST test failed so I took everything apart and found out that the motherboard couldn't detect 2 cards for the POST. So What I did was boot up the computer with one card, installed my operating system, installed the card drivers and then put the other card in. Then everything was detected and worked just fine! Hopefully that saves somebody the hours of hassle to troubleshoot their parts like I had to. Otherwise these things are hands down AMAZING!
I have had the EVGA GTX 570's in SLI for almost a year now. I have run them for hours and hours. I have even had them overclocked for the last 6 months and they still run as if they were new. I have yet to see one problem with these cards! I am unbelievably satisfied with durability of EVGA products! (5-28-13)
Update! 9-26-12
I have had these cards for some time now and I wanted to write an update on how well they have performed. I have had ZERO problems with these cards and have played HUNDREDS of hours of games. Not old games that don't push the cards, I am talking highly graphical demanding games such as the witcher 2, metro 2033, skyrim, starcraft 2, battlefield 3, crysis 1 and 2, and more running fully maxed out for hours and hours at a time. I am 100% happy with these cards and I am confident they will hold up for future graphical demanding games!
Update! 2-22-13
Still using my GTX 570 SLI setup. I got Crysis 3 and have been playing the game since 2-19-13. For those who don't know, Crysis 3 is suppose to be the ultimate test of PC performance. I will have to say this game does put these cards through their paces. This is the first game I have run into that the frame rates drop below 60 FPS. Regardless, I still get between 40 and 61 FPS with an average of about 51 FPS. These frame rates are with the game fully maxed out at 1080p. Those are really amazing results considering the high performance recommendations for this game are SLI configurations, Nvidia GTX 680/Radeon 7970 or higher. I continue to have ZERO problems and I am STILL Extremely happy that I made the decision to buy these cards!
Update! 5-28-13
Played through all of Metro Last Light. These cards run this game at nearly it's full potential. There is a graphical option on Metro LL that is called SSAA (super-sampling anti-aliasing) The options allow this to be set at 4X to max it out. That's where these cards cant run much more than 30-35 FPS. Otherwise they run this game everything maxed but the SSAA which I have set to 2X. With this setting you still get a respectable 45-61 FPS. The game is beautiful and pretty scary, I would highly recommend buying it!
Rig:
NZXT Guardian 921 Case (5 fans)
Asus p8z68v-pro/gen3 motherboard
Intel i7 2600k CPU
Corsair vengance 8GB ram 1600mhz
Seagate barracuda 2TB 7200 rpm hdd
Thermaltake Water 2.0 Pro CPU Cooler
Cooler master silent pro gold 1200W power supply
EVGA GTX 570 sli
Asus cd/dvd rw disk drive
