XFX RX 5700 Xt Thicc III Ultra 8GB Boost Up to 2025MHz GDDR6 3xDP HDMI Graphics Card

After hearing of driver issues, I held out until they were fixed. I wanted a card that would do me good for awhile, and as I play on 1080p 144hz, I knew this would be the card. Some say it is overkill, perhaps they are right but if I ever go to 1440p I know I'm ready, monitors are expensive, especially 1440p 144hz!)You can feel quality when you hold it in your hand. Metal backplate, so it's stiff, a little heavy but it doesn't sag too bad, maybe a few degrees. Kinda gives me a Cadillac vibe with the grill.As a note, I use Proxmox as my host operating system, with a windows virtual machine with vfio to pass through the GPU and game. I have had to tinker to get it to work, but it is working with no issues, plenty of guides online.The performance has been nothing short of amazing, especially when you consider the price is $400. Zero blue screens or driver issues, junction temperature is staying at 70°C under full load, and the noise is acceptable. I personally don't care how loud a card is, *as long as the cooling if effective*. Changed the default can curves up much higher, starting at 40% at idle, going to 90% at 100°C. As such I've not seen this card go over 72°C. The fans at 100% are a bit loud, but it's not obnoxious. I am very happy with the cooler design and that XFX refreshed this card, and made it longer. I think that really helps with the temps. Even more pleasing as I am concerned about longevity, a bigger cooler keeps things colder and thus the heat stress at Bay.I had a 1660 super, but found frame rate in games to be lacking at times, which in turn had to lower detail levels. Ultra everything is a breeze for this card, I haven't gamed on PC in many years, so much so I am used to Xbox 360 graphics. The immersion and high refresh rate just make the experience so much better. Sure it's not a 2080, but I feel like I'm getting the performance of a 2070, very close to it (partner has one).I am impressed with the drivers and utilities. AMD has done a great job, with Nvidia, you have to get other utilities to do what AMD includes, like undervotling or fan curves. Room for improvement, but it has won me over so far.Buy with confidence, I love this card.Edit: I should mention those temperatures I listed were at MINIMUM case fan speed, I turned my fans up to max, (10x 140mm cheapo fans @1400rpm) and this card only hits 55C even with an over clock.

Scalps are grabbing up everything and it's hard to track good deals till I came across this 5700 XT. I am actually quite glad I was pushed to go a different direction then my usual Nvidia route. Radeon has come a long way and this card is perfect for my build. I have just about every game you can think of and this card plays max settings at 1080p, 1440p 60fps+. 4k at 40-45 fps max with a I5 6600k OC 4.2 and just 16GB 1866 DDR3.The only gripe i found out the hard way was this card will not show up till you upgrade to Win10. I was fortunate and had a home edition laying around but i was upset i had to let my Win 8.1 go. There was no driver associated with this card that would go past 17.01 blah blah. So I caved and upgraded to Win 10. Also i need to add the settings and features are so vast associated with this card I am amazed. This also came with Godfall and it plays perfect on 1440p maxed out. I don't care to go pass 60fps and just know this card will run max settings even when you aren't using it 100%.I set it to basically feed it power enough to make my games at least run 60fps and never over so I know this card if you want can exceed that count. Consider purchasing a pilar to help with GPU sag because this card is heavy and it will sag so best invest in one like in my photo that isnt that expensive to make sure your MB is safe and card is safe and level.*Update 11/22/20* Driver IssuesWell it took a few days of purchase for the drivers to become an obstacle. With my particular experience with the audio driver issue via connect HDMI to TV. While scouting online looking for a solution in the end there is none. The issue is and varied but mine was audio cuts off randomly and audio driver would just switch off. Utilizing DDU to clean uninstall and freshly put the newest recommended driver, it worked but then went right back to it. Did all the same troubleshooting as suggested online but nothing. Never had this issue with RTX or GTX if that.*Solution*The only way to break this endless cycle of audio issues was to plug via AUX cable into the MB and directly plug into my sound bar system. This locks and enables use of Realtek driver on the MB. Every since I have had no issue.On another note this card is amazing minus the audio issues. This can play 95% of my library 4k max 60fps+ while I can monitor my utilization is only at 70-85% this was set on purpose because I am using a I5 6600k on a Z170 MB. This card is future proof for awhile.*Noise & Heat*I can't hear the fans and they wont spin until it gets under heavy loads. The system is auto and works perfectly. XFX has come a long way from when I last had their card back in the day and I am glad I got the chance to try them out again.Heat is amazing, the highest I have monitored this was 74c this was under heavy loads. My CPU usually goes up to 47c. The power is not even that high and it will adjust accordingly but I have noticed it take as much as 230w which is nothing. I do need to mention I am not utilizing 100% too and don't need too either.