ASRock Phantom Gaming D Radeon RX 6500 XT 4GB GDDR6 PCI Express 4.0 Video Card RX6500XT PGD 4GO

Pros: Runs every game flawlessly at 1440p. RE, Tomb Raider, Battlefield, Wolfenstein and Bioshock series are the kind of games I play and the card renders the newest ones beautifully and even perks up some of the older titles a little. Runs my Oculus Rift flawlessly as well. The fans stand at attention, spool up ultra quiet even under heavy load and come to a dead stop as soon as I log off of a game which are all huge pluses having an open air layout. Got it paired with a Seasonic Focus 850w power supply which more than handles the demand. Cons: It is large and heavy. I went from a 1080GTX (pictured above the 6800XT). Had to mount it vertically and have a wine cork under the 3rd fan to keep it level because it didn’t look right horizontal in the case with a card stand. Now for the ugly part but it is not the card’s fault, the price. $1500 out the door, taxes and all is about how much I spent on my last entire upgrade. Is it worth it? To me yeah but I’m a tech addict. If you have a good bit of life left on your old card I’d hold till mid 2022. Overall Review: Overall I’d recommend this card to anyone who has the change to spare and room in their case. If you’re on the fence and can wait, definitely do so. It’s a great card and is leaps and bounds above what I upgraded from.

Pros: Price(if you catch it on sale) Cons: Huge. Had to buy a gpu support arm for it and a larger case haha! My p300a mesh was to short to fit the card and my liquid cooler. Had to swap to Corsair 4000d air flow and did a glass side panel delete so I would have two metal panels. Overall Review: Great card! Runs fairly cool as long as your case is well vented. Mild overclock/under volt managed a 2550-2580core clock with 2100mhz memory clock very stable over the past few weeks zero issues. Stock boost clock claims 2340mhz on the core but I say a pretty regular 2400mhz out of the box. Overall the very easy overclock/undervolt in adrenaline with some fan tuning has met me roughly 10% on average in game fps. So I cant complain. Especially since I got this card on sale at extremely close to msrp. Meaning this card is probably one of the best values in this current market when you look at 3080,3080ti,and 3090 prices. This card packs a punch and at 1080p and 1440p out does the 3090! And at 4k with the overclock is on par! No brainer to me if youre shopping the high end right now! Have had the card going on a month no and zero issues. Its a power house. Specs 5600x 16gb ddr4 3600 cl14 6900xt Seasonic 850w gold psu

Pros: As advertised Cons: Didn’t last long (2 months of mild gaming) Overall Review: Card ran great for 2 months, then, today when I turned on my computer after getting off work, it started smoking. I’ve been in IT for a decade now and this certainly isn’t my first install, so I no it was nothing I did (having not been in the box since install) Attempted to go from nvidia to amd but this isn’t a good experience.

Pros: * Packaged very well * Card is very nice looking, decent brushed aluminum cooler, not flimsy AND an aluminum backplate. * One of the higher overclocked cards. *Actually INSTOCK at somewhere close to MSRP. Cons: *No leds I guess? Overall Review: Ok, so after reading reviews and seeing a ton of negitive content on these cards by people who don’t even own one or have seen one in action. I started digging through different specs and looked at the raw specs of the card and I saw a completely different picture. I bought 1 on release date for my younger brothers pc and tested it on my old 8300 8core system and its a lot faster than what people give it credit for even though its only a 4gb card, I tested it vs a rx460 4gb oc card and a rx570 4gb and this card beats both by a long shot. Forza 5 horizon runs great mostly high preset and pulls almost a consistent 100fps on a 24″ 1920×1080 monitor. Dropped it into my brothers 3700x ryzen build on a pcie 4 board and it gained even more frames. Pretty much tackles any game we have thrown at it 1080p with mid/high settings on either system. The thing people are missing with this card is infinity cache, gpu frequency and the dd6 ram speed those are the main points to this card that makes it shine, sure it only has 4pcie lanes and 64bit bus but the raw speed of the ram and infinity cache definitely make up for it. I have had so much fun with this card I ordered another one for myself and will probably order another one for my friends build. The biggest thing I noticed with reviews regarding this card is people keep comparing it to cards way out of its league, sure some older cards are faster, but also have double the ram and a wider bus, so its not even in the same ballpark. This card isn’t ment to compete with a 3060 but does hold its own, its ment to be a lower end budget card which until recently there hasn’t been much market in, this card is geared for the 90%ish of gamers who don’t need a top teir card to play indie games or csgo at 1080p. I am overly impressed with the card and would recommend if you need to upgrade from a low end card from 2-4years back(1030,1050 or rx 400s or rx 500s 4gb cards). I run a 6900xt and am still impressed by the size, powerdraw, and overall performance in games from this little guy. Don’t believe the negativity buy one and try it yourself.

Pros: None whatsoever DOA Cons: DOA used video card when I ordered new. Overall Review: No idea because cannot use. Newegg is getting in the habit of shipping dead or defective parts to fill orders