I do some extensive research regard bang for you buck in my choice of component for a major hardware upgrade to my old desktop machine and the Sapphire HD 7850 OC edition seem to warrant a closer look . I install this card on a new Gigabyte z68 motherboard along with a i5 2500k CPU , Coolermaster 212 + cooler and 8gb of Kingston Hyper x memory . the case be Micro ATX so I need a card that would perform well in a small case and the Sapphire do that and then some . it run quieter and cooler than any ati\/amd graphic card ive own , so quiet in fact that I have to double check to see if the fan be even run . even during game play I seldom hear the fan run on this card and temp at idle and under full load have be 26c and 58c respectively which I find impressive . im get excellent fp on every game ive throw at it and I haven , t see this card full potential yet . AMD Overdrive allow for even higher clock speed and it run stable even when max out which put its performance well into the range of card cost much more . judge by its performance at stock -lrb- which be already overclock -rrb- I doubt you would ever need more graphic power for some time to come . at about half the weight and only 2\/3 the size of my old 4890 it perform around twice twice as good . if you look at get the 7850 I highly recommend this Sapphire HD 7850 OC edition for its smaller form factor , higher clock speed and lower temp .