MSI - AMD Radeon RX 6900 XT GAMING Z TRIO 16G - GDDR6 - PCI Express 4.0 - Graphics Card - Black/Sliver

After 14 years I decided to build a new top tier PC, my buget was $4k and I ended up spending $4.5k. I've owned this card for about a month now and crashes randomly, to be exact it's happened 12 times as of now.. As soon as I installed it, I’ve updated to the lastest software. Also my case has extremely good cooling. Over price in this market, stutter while playing games and not acceptable for crashing so many times.. When working properly its nice.

Its a beast of a gpu, running it at upto 2750mhz, memory at 2150. Had issues with the original cooler overheating and shutting down the pc so I ditched it for a waterblock and its amazing since.

Best purchase, be sure to update bios. She’s packin some weight

I purchased this in February and have had quite the love / hate relationship with it since then. Pros: - It is extremely powerful and runs all of the games I have very well on high / max settings, even on my 49" utlrawide monitor (well, at first anyways, but more on that below) - It looks great inside of my case, and has lighting control via MSI's control software Cons: - It get EXTREMELY hot. Like. Up to 110 degrees hot, even when not overclocking but just running it on standard settings, depending of course on which game it is running. Anything that is 3D and graphically intense will cause the temperature on the card to skyrocket, usually within minutes of running said game (and this is with all three fans on the thing blowing at full blast AND all 6 case fans also blowing at full blast.) This makes it difficult to play anything at length, as I always worry that the card is going to overheat and thus fail or die way faster than it should given how expensive this card was. I have also tried numerous different things to get the card's temp to stay down, such as undervolting, reducing my screen's resolution / aspect ratio, etc. However, the whole point of buying cards like this is so that one does not have to do this kind of thing. If I wanted to run games at lower resolutions or smaller aspect ratios, I would have bought a cheaper card that essentially forces me to do this. Having to do this on AMD's flagship card so that it doesn't melt into slag is asinine. - AMD's software is such a pain, especially if one wants to adjust any of the stock settings. This is due to some sort of issue that has been around for years apparently, where any little thing that comes up on one's system causes AMD's software detection to "detect" a system failure and thereby reset all of the settings back to their default values (despite the system not actually failing at any point prior to this detection occurring.) Worse than this though is when it changes the values not to any sort of default setting, but just adjusts them to new values for reasons? No issue was detected with these changes, yet despite this the program will still just randomly change certain settings (such as the fan speed curve I set, which is probably the most annoying thing to change back.) When it's working, it works great. But having to constantly readjust settings for no good reason, and having to constantly worry about how hot the thing is getting due to running a 3D game for longer than five minutes is absolutely absurd. So sadly, for these reasons combined with the insane price this thing costs, I cannot recommend this card at this time.

Great performance really easy to setup once I got my pc all built together. Get great FPS in first person shoot games and on AAA games

I was going to give 3-4 stars as when I had it in my computer I had a lot of issues, but I did a build for my girlfriend (the exact same as my pc), and she has had zero issues and she really likes how the card performs, and it doesn't seem to be giving her any of the same issues.

This card is paired with a 5900X on MSI Gaming Edge WiFi running at stock settings - NO NEED TO OC THIS CARD. At first, I had driver issues and my pc kept shutting down, screen flickers, etc. I installed DDU to rid my system of previous Nvidia drivers with no success - still random shutdowns, screen flickers, and so on. I correctly had three separate 8-pin cables running from my new EVGA 1000W power supply so I was confident this was not a power issue. So, from there I backed up all my pc files and game data to a separate external drive. Afterwards, I made sure motherboard had latest BIOS update, completed a fresh install of Windows 10 Pro, installed AMD chipset and drivers from mobo manufacturer and WOW - everything works GREAT! Its important to install chipset and drivers from mobo manufacturer. At first, I installed from AMD but still some issues. After installing drivers and chipset from MSI, it runs smoothly. By the way, this is the second card I've owned - the first arrived with a bent backplate, I gave these guys another shot and so far NO disappointments. This card regularly runs 4k games at about 10-15 frames slower than 3090 but at half the cost! Also, make sure you have a strong enough power supply that can run 3 separate power cables from the psu to the card - no split cables, etc. Hope this helps - take care and happy gaming!

This card does great 1440P gaming. As for 4K it does alright. If you are planning to get a 4K monitor, I would suggest waiting for the next generation. But for my setup it will suit me fine for a few years. I would not pair this with anything less than a 5800X CPU or you will most likely be bottle necking the GPU. I don't know if the RGB is controllable from the motherboard. I know that Polychrome will not let me select the graphics card to sync it. If you have an AsRock Motherboard you will be stuck with the default rainbow color.