I am not much of a video game player. Otherwise I probably would have bought an ATI-Radeon. But I do a lot of 3D CGI graphics animation, HD video editing and multichannel Soft-synth music composition. This board has full support for 3D with up-to-date OpenGL drivers. Its drivers are also stereo-scopic ready for those of you who want to attach a 3D monitor some day. I have also been writing a compiler for a parallel programming language that I have been developing and the future of raw performance seems to be going in the direction of GPGPU. This board is suitable for all of these purposes (with 112 GPU cores) and is about the most powerful video card you can get that only takes up one card slot. This board is suitable for CUDA programming as well as OpenCL, both of which are supported by NVidia's SDK. For those of you who do buy this board, don't forget that it sucks enough power that it needs its own direct power connection and will put out a shrill whine if you fail to provide it with one. I could not be happier with this board for the price. It meets all of my expectations and more. I use this video board in a system with the following:
CoolerMaster HAF932 AMD Limited Edition "Red Dragon"
AMD Phenom II X4 955 Quad-core processor (3.2 GHz)
Gigabyte GA-MA790FXT-UD5P Motherboard (/w 8GB DDR3)
Microsoft Windows 7-64 Home Premium Edition
Antec EarthWatts 750 Watt ATX12v v2.3 Power Supply Unit
LG Blu-Ray Internal R/W Drive
Western Digital 500 GB PATA Drive (System Disk)
Western Digital Caviar Black 1 TB SATA (Data Disk)
I am delighted that my AMD Phenom II X4 955 only draws 55 Watts when the CPU is at 100% utilization doing heavy HD renders. Supposedly it is a 125W part but I have never seen it draw even half that. I do not over-clock, and that is probably why. Even though my whole system is pretty fully-loaded, it only draws about 260 Watts with everything hooked to it according to the APC UPS it is connected to. This does not jive with the reviewer who said you need at least a 400 W power supply. I have to ask him "What all do you have in you system?" He certainly didn't do his homework. Everyone should realize that the video card manufacturer can't predict what all you are going to load in your system.
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