- Bought this as my GPU for my new PC, built expressly to play Battlefield 3. It works like a charm. Game plays smooth as butter on the highest graphics settings. Installation is trivially easy.
- The unit is silent under no graphical load, but as soon as something shows up on the screen (movie, video game, or complex mouse movements) then the thing starts making a high-pitch buzzing noise. It's terribly loud during higher loads like video games; much louder than all of the cooling fans and noticeable over game audio. It sounds like electrical arcs; I read on EVGA forums that it's a condition called "coil-whine"... whatever that means. Either way, Amazon is currently in the process of accepting my return and I'm going to give a new, non-super clocked version of the 570 a try. Side note: I had a Corsair 850w PSU hooked up to this thing.UPDATE:I received a non-super clocked version…
- GEForce GTX 570 Superclocked with 797 MHz core clock
- PCI Express 2.0
- 1280 MB 320-bit 0.5ns GDDR5 memory
- 3900 MHz memory clock and 1594 MHz shader clock
- NVIDIA 2-way and 3-way SLI ready
- 1280 MB 320-bit 05ns GDDR5 memory
- PCI Express 20
