PowerColor has also silghtly bumped up the clock speeds on the PCS+ 5670, giving a 1-2% performance increase over the reference card, nothing spectacular but measurable. More interesting, however, is PowerColor's decision to use Samsung memory chips instead of Hynix, resulting in some good overclocking headroom of approximately 12% on average. This will help performance at 1280 resolution in particular, especially if you're running medium settings, as several modern games may prove a bit much at high visual quality settings. Nonetheless, the PCS+ can handle some good gaming on the cheap.

Really the only detraction here is that the cooler doesn't exhaust warm air outside the rear of the case, though this is just a minor issue because there isn't much heat produced to begin with. Beyond that, we know the performance will struggle if you expect to run modern games at 1680 resolution with the eye candy turned up, but that not unexpected for a card of this caliber.

The PowerColor PCS+ 5670 512MB is set to retail for approximately $100 USD, and with a minor bump in clock speed, some good overclocking headroom available, and running cool and quiet, this card is a very good budget gaming card for consumers who do only moderate gaming and may be looking for a good value upgrade in their performance.

Our thanks go to PowerColor for providing the PCS+ 5670 for this review.