ZOTAC ZT-90301-10M GeForce GTX 960 2 GB Graphics Card

I've been playing Elite:Dangerous on an old rig (think 5 years old, Core-2-Duo and an 8800GTS graphics card) and decided that the release of the GTX 960 was the push I needed to upgrade the graphics.The reason I went for the GTX 960 was because it is the first "sweet-spot" gaming card running on Nvidia's new Maxwell architecture. Up until now it's been top-end (i.e. £400) or the GTX 750Ti (£100) if you wanted Maxwell, so for me too expensive or a little underpowered. At £170 the GTX 960 is about what I paid for my old 8800GTS many years ago.What do I like about this card? Well, I've only played Elite:Dangerous with it, but I've got all the graphics options set to High (or Ultra where the setting goes that high) and my frame rate sits at 60fps pretty much solidly. I get drops down to 40fps in the demanding situations (i.e. in and around stations and in ring systems), but considering 30fps was considered the optimum when I used to play Battlefield 2, and with the 8800GTS I was dropping to 10fps at times... I'm not too bothered by 40fps.My monitor is an old school 1600x1200 with max refresh of 60Hz, so it's not pushing the card to higher resolutions (but it is more or less the same number of pixels as 1080p). I've also used the card with an Oculus Rift DK2 that I was loaned for a weekend, it did a fine job with the Rift too.One of the nice things is the silence. They aren't joking when they say that the fans only spin up when the card is stressed, the fan isn't spinning through menus and loading screens, and even when it does kick in it's quieter than my case fans.Overall - this is an awesome card for gaming on single screen at 1080p (E:D might be playable at 1440p with it if you accept lower fps).

It's great. Currently it's the sweet spot for 1080p gaming, no doubt. I've been using it since late-july; and I haven't had a problem yet. The cooler is great, it is a pretty small card. I have some benchmarks for you below:-------FC4-------Using custom settings on this game (high / ultra) I get a solid 50-60 fps. Brilliant.--------GtaV--------Runs pretty well. I can't max it out completely because that requires almost 8gb vram. But I can get some very high settings (almost max.) & about 40-60 fps.--------------SR3--------------Ultra settings it ran about 90fps. Of course this is incredible. Unfortunately the terrible optimisation of the game completely discredits the power of this card.-----------CS:GO-----------300fps, sometimes dips to 260-290 but of course - good.--------------Minecraft---------------I wouldn't usually benchmark a game like this. But I used shaders mod and it ran like butter.(If you don't know, 'shaders' is a graphics mod; which is more taxing on your card than bf4.)

Compact card easily fitted to my FM2-DGS motherboard in minutes to replace onboard AMD HD graphics on an A10 APU, requires 2 free molex adapters if you have an older power unit that only has molex, you can split molex on lower power running items using an adapter if required but you need 2 separate ones that run into the PSU. Default Target temp is 80C at 100% power which for me feels to hot to run the card at, so have to pull power back to 90% to get to 75C so keep this in mind if you thinking you want to over-clock this card. Fans are fairly quiet but you can certainly hear them. Purchased this card to play Project Cars running graphics at ultra settings for cars and background and combinations of high and medium for most other settings and running with 20 cars with no major problems with overheating or lag frame lag etc would recommend this card if your looking for a good value, compact card with good performance. Recommend completely removing any existing graphics drivers using a utility before installing. Card boots into VGA mode through DVI with no drivers installed and then download latest from NAVIDA. Easy install no issues.

Excellent value, no issues installing. In next to gtx750ti as dedicated physx, makes a difference in suppotted games. I plan on a second to sli. Great card, recommended!

Good Choice, but idk if all Gpus works like this: the fans are way to loud (for my taste)

Loving my new graphics card with auto over clock features

Did not come in the original box, but it was well wrapped. Did not have excessive wear and the fan bearings seemed to have little play in them. Delivery time was prompt.

Very basically, I built a pc for Project Cars and put this card in. After many hours tweaking the graphics I'm now getting solid 60fps even in thunderstorms with full grid of cars (of course not Le Mans 24hr as that track isn't well optimised). Running at 1080p.Anyway my settings are a mixture of medium to high, with medium shadows (!!). All my AA is done in Nvidia Inspector as there are more options and it performs better than in-game AA.The game looks amazing and is super smooth 99% of the time.As you may or may not know, PCars is one of the most demanding games out at the moment and this graphics card runs it really well. I do a basic overclock with the included software and the card runs very quiet and seems happy...as am I :)All in all, for me it was a very good purchase.