My Asus Matrix 5870 Platinum taught me the hard lesson that just cause something is expensive, doesn't mean its going to be better.
I got the Matrix card thinking it will be the king of OCing but in reality even the cheaper retail XFX cards typically out do it on air. Plus the iTracker 2 software (The heart and soul of the cards functionality) really limits the card, its super buggy and support stats that you must use the drivers from their site for it to work correctly. The thing is those drivers are almost always outdated. So without iTracker 2 you can't change the volts that would lead to higher clocks. The card is still doing me great for any game I choose to play, but it turned out to be far less than I anticipated and served as a well deserved rude awakening.
