This card seemed to have some bad reviews both on amazon and newegg but most are on complaints of DOA cards that once again is not a review! You need a working card to do a proper review and although D.O.A. cards still occur it's part of technology so just accept it and send it back for a new card under the 3 year Asus warranty or Amazons 30 day return/replace policy.
I only buy AMD Radeon video cards because Nvidia really over prices their GPU's, chipsets, and power supplies by at least 30 % and I'm not over paying for video cards no matter who produces them.
I wanted to get a good card that plays well at 1920x1080p and will still play my Military Flight Simulators and F.P.S. games without any issues. The Asus RX 570 was plenty fast enough for gaming and even scored a 71% in 3DMark which is great for a 8 year old system still running a i5 2500k CPU.
I do not over clock my CPU or my GPU because I want stability over speed. Over-clocking really helped out back in the past with the 66 MHZ bus on the intel PII's that ran at 333 MHZ. These hit perfectly on a 100 MHZ bus giving me a rock stable CPU running at 500 MHZ back when intel didn't even have a 500 MHZ CPU on the market!
But that was then and now a days the intel CPU's are being milked for all intel can get while they change their socket sizes so your forced to buy a new board as well.
This Asus RX-570 is well built even though it's plastic and rather light this limits sag issues so it's a plus not a negative. I bought it for the double ball bearing fans and 8 gig of DDR5! I waited a year for the prices to get back to normal from the minors and this card is well worth the money and then some. For only $162 this 570 with 8 gig of onboard ram is really great!
I don't recommend using the Asus software that comes with the card as it's very buggy and the Radeon settings can be set just fine without any additional software.
Asus Expedition RX-570_8 GIG video card Update:
I have been using the new card for almost a full month and it runs great with both Windows 7 Pro and Windows 10 Pro 64 bit O/S's
I recently went back to Win 7 Pro over Win 10 Pro because Win 10 Pro would not run 2 of my favorite Military Sims, well they would load and I could finish a mission but then the game crashes and that's with the updates to get them to run at all. Win 7 Pro just runs games better than Windows 10, when it comes to compatibility, but is still a good Operating System for most all new games.
Windows 10 Pro gets bad reviews across the board and I find it to be a excellent O/S with only Linix's latest being more stable and of course free.
O.K. back to the new video card. I can't find any flaw with this card at all. It lacks a blackplate but is really light weight and a great closed loop heat pipe system, along with the great, real, ball bearing fans, that are so quiet I can't even hear them while I'm gaming are a good combo.
I only needed a good video card with 4 gig of ram and was looking at a RX-560, but this Asus card and it's 8 gig of DDR5 gave my system and game performance a great boost and was well worth the weight not to over pay.
I was reluctant to buy this given the the small quantity of reviews and the negative nature of them. However, I have always been impressed by Asus products so I decided to lean on the brand reputation and make the purchase. I had no hiccups in the installation of this video card. I installed it in my computer along withthe AMD radeon drivers.(19.4.2) I also installed the Asus GPU tweaker II software. Because of the negative reviews I wanted to stress test the card right away to make sure I didn't have a dud. I ran Furmark for an hour and it had no problems. I did find that it was throttling the clock speed down to about 900mhz during the stress test. I had to turn up the power limit in GPU tweaker to get it to hold the max clock speed under load. Overall I think it is a good product, it works and performs as expected for a mid level graphics card.
Feature Product
- 1254 MHz boost clock for 7% performance improvement over the reference
- 144-Hour Test Passed and Top Games Tested for best compatibility
- DirectCU II with patented wing-blade fans on 0db fan technology delivers 30% cooler and 3X quieter performance contact with direct-GPU contact heat pipes
- Auto-extreme Manufacturing Technology delivers premium quality and reliability with aerospace-grade Super Alloy Power II components
- GPU Tweak II makes monitoring performance easier than ever, featuring FanConnect II for GPU temperature sensing
Description
The ASUS Expedition RX 570 8GB OC Edition graphics card is built for non-stop durability and non-stop action. Game cooler and quieter with a 7% performance boost over reference with DirectCU II direct-GPU contact heat pipes. GPU Tweak II and FanConnect II enable intuitive system monitoring and cooling performance.
