Money poorly spent

Card requires too much power/cooling than it's worth.

It runs everything you throw at under the highest settings without flinching, but is HIGHLY prone to overheating (even with 3 case fans) and is incredibly loud right before shutting itself off.

After doing some googling and forum trolling, it has become obvious to me that the 9800 cards are all having the same issues. Apparently the fans do not work properly and it is an issue which nvidia has yet to diagnose and fix.

This card should only be used in computers with a well done water cooling system. It runs too hot, it has huge fan flaws, and it demands a LOT of juice and room.

A shame to...because it makes everything so pretty...

PNY 9800GTX+ failed on first day

This GPU failed shortly after install, PNY refused to repair the card, even when I offered to pay for their support. Do not, under any circumstances, ever, for any reason at all, buy a PNY product. Best Buy has other great brands like ATI and BFG. There is no reason for you to spend money for a product that will not work.

great card

this is a great card, if your thinking about getting it just DO IT! the price for this card was great when i bought it, but now the GTX series is nearing around 190-200$ so it would probably be smarter to go with the gtx 260.

overall this card is great tho, never had any problems with it, PNY has been great (free lifetime warranty woo!). im sad to see that people would give this card a bad review because they cant figure out how to install a simple molex to pci adapter or dont have the sufficient power supply to run this beast, grow up kiddies.

Misleading Packaging

The package lists a molex-to-pcie adapter as included, but a note inside says it has not been included and PNY tech support will send one. However, when I called PNY tech support, they informed me that they would not send me an adapter because any power supply capable of supporting the card should have come with an adapter.

Great Card! Installation may give trouble for some

I am not going to touch the performance of this card in this review as this information is readily available in other reviews of this card. Suffice it to say that you should be very pleased. I would like to instead discuss the size of this card and installation. I have an Acer M5360 desktop and am upgrading from an ATI Radeon HD 2400 pro that came with it. This card as others have said is huge...suffice it to say that if the card was 1/4" longer...it would have not fit. I had to move two hard drives around and move my HDTV tuner card down a slot to give the GeForce 9800 GTX+ a little breathing room. But all in all it was a fairly easy install if you are used to getting in to the inards of your computer. I did have to replace the Power Supply with an Antec 500Watt that BB also sells. Total install time took about 30 minutes including the time of installing the new power supply and video card. With that all said...I wouldn't worry to much about the size of the card....I would just return  more