ASUS ROG Strix GeForce GTX 1660 Super Advanced 6GB Edition GDDR6 HDMI 2.0 DP 1.4 Gaming Graphics Card

Four years later Still going strong. Handles my VR apps META Quest 2 very well when using Quest Link.

I've been building systems for myself and family/friends since 2001, and I love this card. ASUS is always the top-tier manufacturer for performance and quality in mobos and graphics cards. I bought one of these to replace a GTX 960 - a card that I didn't consider slow to begin with. The 1660 Super is quiet and efficient for daily use, powerful for gaming, and and incredibly good at data crunching. I do several distributed computing projects through BOINC, and this card does amazing at a reasonable price point. I added a second 1660 Super several weeks later, and actually had to reduce the clock on both of the cards -not because they couldn't handle it (They had no problem running 24-7 under full load at factory OC speeds), but because it was overheating my room and triggering high fan speeds. I was able to use the ASUS software to throttle the cards using thermal limits to great effect. Surprisingly, even at the lowest limits I could apply, it hardly slowed down the computing power on these cards. I'm quite impressed with the ability and silence of the cooling package on these cards given just how hard I have been pushing them.SLI may not be a cost-effective or power-efficient solution for gaming anymore, but having several cards with lots of fast GDDR ram and high CUDA core count reaps amazing rewards for data crunching. That said, this card has no problem gaming at max settings either. I did game it before and after adding the second card, but did not collect any data. It didn't seem to make a difference since it was able to operate smoothly at max settings in 4K with the single card. If your case simply isn't large enough to fit a monstrous 3-fan RTX 20xx series card, then You won't have to feel bad about this as a compromise.

This, like all ASUS products, is an excellent, well made, graphics/video "card" with Display Port and HDMI output capability, and Turing shaders. For our rig, it replaced an older model GTX-770 ASUS NVIDIA-based GPU card that had limited 2GB graphics memory. When editing videos, this card is stable and has little or no stuttering or lag time issues synchronizing audio and video during editing playbacks. Those issues plagued the earlier GTX-770 card in our Haswell processor desktop design.The cards are both very quiet in use, despite of massive heatsinks and mutliple fans, so they're "silent partners" in use. And the dual Display Port and HDMI outputs of the GTX 1660 are easily adaptable for DVI and VGA conversions with inexpensive, simple adapters.Included instructions and User Support are sometimes the weak point with some ASUS products, and this card has minimal directions for proper installation. However, on the ASUS website there are several monitor and setting software apps. to enhance card performance. And if the motherboard in the desktop supports a 64 bit Operating System, at least a single PCI Express Dual Width x16 slot, 450 Watts minimum power supply, and at least 8GB RAM, this GTX 1660 card is an excellent addition for gaming or video editing.B.T.W. NVIDIA now has 2 distinct drivers available for their GTX series video cards: one for Gaming, and one for Studio applications. And both seem to be updated regularly for both new games, and better studio use!BOTTOM LINE: If you need a gaming or studio graphics card that won't break the bank, this is an excellent choice!

I've had the card a few months. TLDR? Great card It's quiet when I game. When I say quiet, I mean, I don't know my computer is on really with my headset off. It is SILENT, or at max load, whisper quiet for a spell here and there. It's great to look at. I believe it's using LESS power than my older card. Easy to install, changing the colors if you have other ASUS stuff is nifty, but you can match the colors pretty closely with a bit of effort. I personally play a lot of Overwatch. The gsync and all the bells and whistles really shine during the chaotic, ultimate filled fights. I can really make a play when my screen isn't a blur. At 1440p, I usually run around 85 fps on all ultra settings. My monitor goes up to 144 fps, but I don't usually try and hit that mark frankly. I have a screen shot of how hot the card gets with 144 fps. Fiddling with the settings, I can easily hit 200fps on high settings! Again, personally, I turn things a bit DOWN on my graphics and resolution, to make sure things stay nice and cool, and nothing jumps on screen.So far a great card. I did short my motherboard installing it, but that was completely my fault :)