MSI Gaming Radeon RX 570 256-bit 8GB GDRR5 DirectX 12 VR Ready CFX Graphcis Card

This my opinion of this msi Rx 550 Lp card. i have a dell 780 desktop with 255W PSU. You will only need one slot, but have room for the dual fan.That is why its like a 2 slot card. Thankfully it fits,and work i my system. my previous card was a GT 1030,and it was fast,and a great card,but it let me down at times with the games freezing,and stuttering at times with my system,and lack features like ansel,or anything to make it a GTX. I also realized that i will never be able to get a GTX 1050 in my system which has 112 GBs cause of its design has to have two pci slots,and i got no pci slots left. This Rx 550 also has 112 gbs,and not as fast, but it performs superb,and smooth and fluid. i run it without chill or the frtc so it can be its fastest. i tried a comparsion on my system with its rival GT 1030. To me even though it has a slower boost clock it runs smooth,and and faster on most games including aaa games on high or max settings then the gt 1030.besides you do not really notice anything but smoother running games.Its already factory overclocked,and if i overclock it i get only a few more fps. so i do not use it. It also has better visuals,and brighter colors,and the crimson relive software is great cause you have control of everything on the card,and even overclock with amd wattman. I play action,fps,simulations,flight,and others and its performance is amazing during game play,and also esports play them too. i am not knocking the gt 1030 cause its a great card too, but i think this rx 550 is better. But brought it for performance in all games with high,max and ultra settings at 1080p,and my media experience is all hd. which is crystal clear,and sharp. the crimson relive software give you everything to make a true RX card. One thing I know if struggles gaming during play I have not seen it yet. Train sim 2017,and fsx run smooth with ultra settings.i mention this games cause they are graphically demanding,and they use to freeze for a brief moment,and now they do not. I also love the dual fans keeps my card cool even with a heavy load during are gameplay,and they quiet too. the main thing about the dual fans is a better cooling overall. 112 gbs is better then 48 gbs,,and that equals better game play,and overall performance which is what i was looking for. i am happy with this card,and recommend it.

Just wanted to let other potential buyers know that I bought the MSI Gaming Radeon RX 570 256-bit 8GB GDRR5 version but was a little worried it wouldn't work with my old Mac Pro since Mac OS was not listed as compatible. I know the RX 580 works but is nearly double the price of the 570 with relatively similar specs (and the 570 is way better than my stock GPU from 2010!)I received the card, plugged it in and used 1 auxiliary power port on the mother board (which is the same setup as the original Radeon graphics card) and it powered up fine, no drivers needed, and no issues whatsoever.Because this card isn't made for Mac you won't see the boot screen so keep your original card in case you ever need that, but otherwise this worked great.You will also need to purchase an 8pin to mini-6pin cable to connect into the power on the motherboard.I don't do any gaming but do a fair bit of Garage Band and iMovie, as well as some graphics intensive video production. This card handles it fine and is good value for the money.I wish it had two HDMI ports as I had to buy a DisplayPort to HDMI adapter but the output is crisp and clean either way.Highly recommend if you are a Mac Pro user wanting to upgrade at a lower cost.

MSI Radeon RX-580 8GB Graphics AdapterHDMi audio clipping problem solved!Apparently, according to the GPU or graphics display adapter industry, the only reason to purchase a costly display graphics adapter, or video card, for a desktop PC is because one plans on becoming a mindless video gaming zombie, like my adult neighbor, who I believe has given up real life for gaming. What if somebody does not play video games, and has no plans to do so, but still needs a good GPU? Take someone like myself. I use a self-made powerful AMD Quad Core 4 GHZ home theater PC as my music and video server in my home theater room. In it I have loaded my entire music library in lossless audio – thousands of albums and collections in just about all musical categories. I also keep my music video and film libraries in same server. In order to enjoy all of this, one needs solid video and sound performance from a PC video card with HDMI output in the 1080P (Blu-ray) and 4K (2160 x 3840) resolution ranges. The video card has to also output at least 8 channels of high definition audio up to 24 bit 192 kHz for surround sound music (such as a Blu-ray audio disc) or Blu-ray movie running Dolby Digital Plus, DTS, or HD Master Audio. The HDMI video and audio combined signals are then fed into an audio processor with HDMI inputs – like a Yamaha CX-A5000 or any receiver with HDMI inputs for BD players or other playback devices.The problem I experienced playing music through my older NVidia GeForce 210 4gb HDMI card was that when playing music in random mode, where one audio track follows the next without fading effect or pause, the beginning of each song got clipped by as much as 2 seconds. This issue also occurred when manually playing one track at a time – you press play or enter on a track and the first second or two of the track would get clipped. As you might expect, this issue was unsettling. After hundreds of hours researching this peculiar issue, I learned that others in audiophile land were experiencing similar issues when playing music from a PC via a GPU with HDMI going into a receiver or processor. One solution I learned from a Foobar 2000 user (the audio media player of choice for audiophiles) was to insert digital silence into the HDMI audio stream to fool the receiver, or processor, to detect audio and not cut out the streaming signal from the PC to the processor. I was given to understand that the PC GPU apparently does not naturally send out a digital silence signal that would keep the HDMI audio stream open between each device long enough to not clip the beginning of each song. The net effect is that the HDMI “handshake” between the PC and processor was dropped thereby causing the audio cut out problem. That is, every time a new song starts, the “handshake” has to reinitialize, thereby leading to the clipping problem. The silent one to two second gap in between songs was effectively interpreted by the GPU as no signal at all, thereby dropping the HDMI handshake –if only for a few milliseconds.I know! Exhausting, right? Henceforth, enter my new MSI Radeon RX580 GPU with 8 GB of RAM with its rather fast processor even at default settings without overclocking. This seemed like overkill for my purposes, music listening and watching movies on a PC. However, as I predicted, it solved the audio clipping issue! Bank! Over and done! Now songs playing at random play flawlessly from one to the next without clipping. The way I figure it, is that the RX580 GPU simply works faster, much, much faster, than my older video card in terms of how it processes audio and video.Luckily, the Foobar 2000 community is creative and a user created a fix, or patch, to at least solve the audio clipping issue while operating inside the Foobar environment through the older NVidia GPU. And, indeed the patch works fine. However, if one were to play a song using, say, VLC Media player, then the clipping problem persisted.The MSI RX580 has effectively corrected the Sound clipping problem. I am unsure whether the issue is corrected in real time or whether it is merely the fact that this new GPU is superior in every way to my previous NVidia 210 GeForce 4gb card. Moreover, connected via HDMi to my Yamaha CX-A5000 11 channel processor the RX580 Radeon card renders glorious HD audio performance. Music of any sort, classical, jazz, rock, comes to life regardless whether I play it in stereo through a Dolby Pro Logic II music matrix or whether I listen to straight no processing quadraphonic recording from lossless FLAC. Music is now much more nuanced and full of texture – very much unlike the opaque audio I was hearing from the old video card. Is it the 8 GB of DDR5 RAM at 256 bit processing? Is it the overall faster processing of data as a gaming video card? I remain unsure! All I do know, however, is that what I hear is truly magical audio performance.