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Used for: More than a year
Fast, cold, reliable
Loud RGB
No complaints at all beyond the disco on the side
Used for: Less than a month
1440p at maximum settings without ever hearing it work
First impressions are that the cooler is far larger than the chip needs, and that is entirely to the good. Everything I play at 1440p runs at well over 100fps with settings maxed, and while doing that the core sits at 60C with the fans at roughly 950rpm. With the case shut I genuinely cannot tell whether a game is running from the noise alone. The fans stop completely at the desktop. 16GB was the reason I chose this over the 12GB cards a tier down, and it has already justified itself in the two titles I play most. Twelve days in and nothing has given me pause. Very pleased so far.
Used for: 1–3 months
Does 1440p properly and does it quietly, with 16GB that means the texture slider is never the problem. Loses a star only for a control app I did not want.
Used for: 1–3 months
Undervolts extremely well and the cooler is generous
MSI Center is required for the lighting and is awful
At 925mV it holds stock clocks and pulls about 45W less, which takes the core down to 59C and the fans below 1000rpm. The cooler is clearly overspecified for the chip, which is the best kind of problem. The only irritation is having to install a heavy control suite if you want the lighting to do anything other than cycle.
Used for: 3–6 months
Cold, quiet, and 16GB at 1440p is the sweet spot
Everything at maximum settings, fans I cannot hear, and no coil whine of any kind. Very happy with it!
Used for: More than a year
Performance and thermals are both genuinely good
A fan started rattling and the RGB has half died
Started very well and has aged badly, which is why this is three stars rather than five. The card performs exactly as it should at 1440p and 4K with upscaling, and the cooler held the core at 62C for the first stretch of its life. Since then one fan has developed a click at low speeds and about a third of the lighting on the shroud no longer comes on at all. Neither fault stops it working and I am still using it daily. But at this price I expected the thing to be as good in year two as it was in week one, and it plainly is not.
Used for: Less than a month
Excellent at 1440p and the 16GB is the right amount
Coil whine straight out of the box, loud enough to hear across the room
Performance is everything the reviews promised and the cooler is quiet, so all my complaint is about one noise. There is a clear electrical buzz whenever frame rates run high, worst in menus and loading screens where nothing is capped. It is audible from about two metres with the side panel on. A global 141fps cap makes it much better and does not remove it. Three stars because on a card costing this much I should not be building my settings around a noise. Everything else about it is five star.
Used for: Less than a month
Silent at idle and 16GB covers everything at 1440p
Takes up three slots
Fans do not turn at all below 50C so the machine is silent for work, and under load they stay quiet enough to ignore. The only planning it needed was the slot beneath, which is now unusable!
Used for: More than a year
Fast and cold
Garish
Brilliant card, but the lighting is a lot to look at
Used for: More than a year
Has been fast and stable throughout, and the 16GB has aged well
Thermal paste seems to have dried out, with the hotspot delta climbing steadily
Long term this has been a good card with one worrying trend. When it was new the gap between core and hotspot was about ten degrees. It is now closer to twenty two, with the core at 64C and the hotspot touching 86C under the same workload in the same case. Nothing has changed except time and dust, and a thorough clean made no difference at all, so I assume the paste has dried. It still performs, it still holds its clocks, and 16GB means it is not short of memory for 1440p. Four stars, but I will be repasting it before next summer and I did not expect that.
Used for: More than a year
Still faultless
Software is bloated
No hardware faults at all. MSI Center can go in the bin though