PowerColor Fighter AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT Gaming Graphics Card with 12GB GDDR6 Memory, Powered by AMD RDNA 2, Raytracing, PCI Express 4.0, HDMI 2.1, AMD Infinity Cache

I was pleasantly surprised to see this card run MSFS2020 with totally usable refresh rates.I'm new to AMD Video cards and not fully familiar with Adrenaline SW setup yet. First use today.This 6700XT seems to work really well with V-Sync On(No tearing), limited to max monitor refresh rate. It MSFS2020 Detects a Max Dell monitor refresh rate of 60HZ instead of 75Hz it's capable of.I (think) I got MSFS2020 to even use FSR2.0 successfully. I thought MSFS only supported DLSS so far. A Pleasant surprise.The Best thing is the price. $309 for a used item that looks like brand new. It worked really well on a $129 R5-Matisse-3600+Asus-MB combo from Microcenter. 3600 does not seem to bottleneck the GPU at 1440p as the GPU is 99% busy on Ultra settings.6700XT max power is 185W normal, and 200W while overclocked. R5 3600 Max CPU Package was 75W.My 10 year old OCZ PSU had two cables: 1 x 8 and 1x6. Perfect for this card. Did not have 2 x 8pin cables as on other GPU models.I've only used this 6700xT a couple of hours now. It worked so well I wanted to share the good news ASAP.Unigine Heaven 4.0 results in photo. Not sure how it compares to other 6700XT models as was not able to easily find the results online. Please share where to find them if you know.This PC is naturally slower than than my 12600K with Asus TUF 3080 12GB PC but while flying, I can't really tell the difference, unless over a city with a lot of buildings (like New York), all while consuming much less power (~275W) than the 3080 alone (354W).This is totally an underrated card, esp. that newer games do not work well with cards that have less memory than the 12G on this 6700XT.Card Temp around 76C while gaming. Junction max temp got up to 99C. I changed the FAN profile in MSI Afterburner to make the fans run more aggressively (they got louder but no problem with music from simulator). Max GPU Junction Temp then dropped below 95C. With FSR2.0, the max GPU utilization drops significantly below 99%.This GPU looks like a keeper. Will let my son put it thru its paces next using Minecraft max settings on 1440P, minus Ray Tracing, which he prefers not to use even on the 3080 12GB.

(Will update review if anything changes)First and foremost. Yes, the cooler on this thing is absolutely enough. Just make sure to have some airflow and not death valley like ambient temps. Also important to note is this card has a 186w power limit. From my internet searches it seems like about 1/3 or so of 6700xt models have this wattage limit. This doesn't effect performance at all if you compare it to other cheaper models without the watt limit.Now for my personal thoughts:I'd say it gets a little loud. According to multiple monitoring softwares, the fans go up to 3200 rpm during unlocked fps gaming. This does keep the temps around 67-74c (88-92c junc temp) though so its not the worst tradeoff. But if you have open back headphones like i do, you'll hear your pc the entire gaming session just whirring away. But thankfully it is not loud enough to be picked up on even sensitive microphones like mine. I love the aesthetics of the cooler design. It fits well in a non rgb minimalist build.My only possible complaint is I may have issues with the drivers. You might have heard about the February drivers bricking windows, thankfully i avoided that, but one thing that hasn't been fixed with the 6700xt specifically is display corruption when using multiple monitors. Users have been complaining about this for a while, and i suspect its not going to be fixed anytime soon as AMD kinda neglects their small driver team. I'm hoping this is just monitor issues as I'm replacing my current one with a new 1440p monitor. Will find out within the next couple of days once it arrives and i can play around with it for a bit.Overall an awesome card. I hope to have many great gaming sessions with this thing. Not sure how long ill be able to get decent 1440p performance, but at least for now its a very competent option in the gpu market