I ordered an open box eagle looking to save a few bucks and I wouldn't recommend it. There were several shipping delays and the outer box had been through the ringer with one end looking like it was kicked. The real issue was that the gpu was defective and in a major way. It gave a picture but made horrible noises while installing drivers that reminded me of a hard drive going bad and scratching the platter. I have seriously never heard a gpu make these noises before. But drivers installed so I figured I'd give it a light test with userbenchmark, which is not demanding at all. Well it didn't matter, the 6500xt was not recognized and the system showed as no Direct3d devices onboard. I have hands on experience with a 6500xt from a different manufacturer brand new and it ran this basic test just fine with no such pop up. So it couldn't even run a low demand test. It also made horrendous noises while just sitting, and not coil whine but something akin to the sounds of dying dial up connections of yesteryear. Due to that I didn't even dare trying to play a game as I was honestly concerned for the rest of the system.So it seems the Bestbuy open box team are only doing very basic function testing on the products going out the door. Bestbuy is great about returns so I returned the defective Eagle to my local bestbuy about an hour after it was delivered. If looking for a GPU of this performance level just buy a new one I guess.

If you want better than RX 580 performance on a budget, get this. If you want low power consumption but solid 1080p gaming, get this. If you want a small card to fit into a tight space, get this. If you want an excellent Gigabyte service warranty, get this. If you're using a processor/motherboard with PCIE 3.0 only, maybe look elsewhere (spend a little more on a 6600). I bought this on open box for just over 200 to run with my PCIE 4.0 3700X and I don't regret it.

I was using this in a super overpowered home theater PC. Initially I got a black screen because my motherboard pcie settings were set to Auto instead of pcie 3.0 which is what the motherboard was capable of. This GPU is a pcie 4.0 device so my motherboard was confused. After working that out, this card was cool quiet and specifically small for the home theater PC. I ended up returning it for two reasons, 1. It was in my home theater PC which I use to stream games on zoom with my friends(Jackbox) and that was not working turns out this card does not support video encoding so it failed me in that respect. 2. because I found a 3050 for $10 more with double the vram, and video encoding.

It was an awesome price during the gpu crysis now I would say it's good if you can get it for $150. Same fps as the Xbox series s but if you can get a PCIe 4.0 PC. Any older PC it performs like 4gb rx 480.

The price of this GPU is tempting. If you take the plunge make sure your motherboard's PCIe slot is Gen 4. Otherwise if you mount it in a Gen 3 slot, you will lose considerable performance. If you can afford a bit more, I highly recommend the RX 6600,