NinjaMicro FreeSpeed Pro

I have a love/hate relationship with this card. I like the small size, the layout of the dipswitches, and the instructions are the best I've seen so far. They even tell you which way to mount the card which is good for the untechnically-minded (but like the others, it's fairly logical as to which way it goes which is good). The thing that counteracts these good things though is the really horrid positioning of the power connector. It faces the rear of the case, which means your power cable has to reach that extra bit around the corner. For a lot of people it won't really matter but it took some juggling with my power connectors to do it, the one I had used for all previous overclocking cards would not reach it. And even now it seems to exert slightly more forward pressure on the CPU than the others because of it, I will have another go at re-routing the cables later on to see if I can get rid of this. But this definitely is a major drawback to this otherwise well-designed card. Maybe they thought that by facing the connector away it would take the power cables away from the heat sink thus increasing airflow. This could be the case but I haven't noticed any temperature differences in my CPU. The unit also features a small LED to let you know when it has power - similar to the power LED on many ATX motherboards, it prevents you damaging anything in an absent-minded moment.

The other major advantage of this unit is that it is available in Australia, from PCIndex.com.au. However, it is a little more expensive than most of the others.