MSI Radeon RX 480 DirectX 12 RX 480 ARMOR 8G OC 8GB 256-Bit GDDR5 PCI Express 3.0 x16 HDCP Ready CrossFireX Support Video Card

Pros: Great performance for the price. Current drivers for me (17.2.1) are much better.

Cons: None

Overall Review: Update To My 01-28-2017 Review : I’ve been holding out for a new Ryzen system to serve as a new HTPC/regular PC. Because of that, I worked at getting my RX 480 DirectX 12 RX 480 ARMOR 8G OC 8GB video card video card to work with my Windows 10 Pro, AMD A10 5800K, Asrock FM2A88X Extreme6+ MB HTPC. This system has an Asus VK278 1080P monitor and a Vizio E55-E1 55” 4K TV connected to the RX 480. The main objectives are upscaling blu-rays to 4K resolution on the 4K TV with MPC HC and madVR, and using either monitor for regular computing. Had been using the radeon-crimson-16.7.3-win10-64bit driver with fairly good success. Finally, trying non-whql-win10-64bit-radeon-software-crimson-relive-17.2.1 worked for me – but there’s a few things I had to do to make it work. 1. Plug all monitors into the RX 480 card. 2. Disable the on-board video in both the Asrock BIOS and Windows Device Manager. 3. If you’ve already blocked auto driver install in Windows Group Policy, unblock it. See the howToGeek website and search “How to Prevent Windows from Automatically Updating Specific Drivers” using the Windows Group Policy editor. 4. In Windows safe mode, completely uninstall the old AMD video driver with guru3d’s Display Driver Uninstaller. 5. Unplug your network connection to prevent Windows from auto-installing new driver from the web. 6. Reboot to normal Windows mode. 7. Block auto-install of updated AMD driver (refer to step 3 above) ONLY FOR THE ONBOARD VIDEO. Doing this will allow updates of the RX 480 driver. For some strange reason, Windows would keep installing the onboard video driver, even with onboard video disabled in both the BIOS and Device Driver! 8. Install Radeon-Crimson-17.2.1 -Win10-64Bit driver package or later (later hopefully works); ignore error message about incompatible video. This driver is NOT compatible with HD 7000 series onboard AMD APUs, but is compatible with the RX 400 series. 9. Reconnect your internet and reboot. Without blocking the on-board video driver, the driver would keep reinstalling and conflicting with the RX 480 driver! Then I would have frequent screen blanking and driver crashes. With the 17.2.1 driver I’m getting almost no screen blanking or driver crashes. If you have subsequent issues with the newer RX 480 drivers using your older AMD APU with non-compatible on-board graphics, revert to the previous workable RX 480 driver, and then block auto-install of newer RX 480 drivers the same way you did for the on-board graphics detailed above. MPC HC with madVR now delivers flawless 2160P upscaling of blu-ray or DVD videos (zero dropped, delayed, or repeated frames). With the proper TV calibration, codec, and filter settings, it's amazing how good the upscaled video looks.

Pros: We also have a tower running a gtx1080 with a 2K monitor. Running the 480 on a Freesync compatible monitor its hard to tell the difference. Super quiet, never gets over 40C even under heavy load.

Cons: A little big for smaller boxes, but worth finding the space.

Overall Review: Crisp, clean quality when using a Freesync compatible monitor. MAKE SURE you get a DisplayPort cable, since Freesync wont work over HDMI. For the last 4 or 5 years we've steered toward Nvidia only, but these newer Radeon cards and drivers are a winner. Highly recommended.

Pros: 8 GB of DDR5 video ram, smooth frame rates for all the latest games, can buy two for crossfire. Considering the price of two of these cards is still less then an GTX 1080, it's a great card for the money. TWO cards in crossfire are similar performance to a $600+ GTX 1080. Black and white to match my motherboard.

Cons: Should come with a back plate, but the cost would be more. At least offer it. Radeon drivers getting better, lets see how they continue to improve.

Overall Review: Running this in a MSI z170 Krait Gaming motherboard, i5 6600k @ 4.5ghz, 16GB G. Skill DDR4 3200mhz ram, Samsung EVO SSD, inside a Corsair Carbide 500r case. All games I've run so far on Ultra have managed 60+ FPS or more to include BF1, Shadow of Mordor Middle Earth, GTA 5, WoW Legion, SC 2, BF4, etc.

Pros: - Lots of Video Memory - Good cooling stock. - Works great, the perfect upgrade for my 3 year old PC. - Can play all games at high/ultra and maintain 60 FPS.

Cons: - The size is 25% larger than my last card, so you should check that it fits in your case.

Pros: Quiet, easy to use

Cons: None so far.

Pros: Performance is great, this Card is a huge leap from the previous one in my old pc I'm really glad I spent the extra money on this 8 gig card I'm able to play on ultra graphics with no issues, this card is really quiet even under a load I don't notice much of a sound, and it looks great which is another plus.

Cons: I don't have much to say for cons msi makes great products and I enjoy the quality they put into all of there products.

Pros: msi afterburner fans turn dont turn on until 70 degrees

Cons: none

Overall Review: before i bought this my build was a fx 6300, msi mobo, 12 gigs ddr3. and a r7 370 2 gb gpu. most of my games, especially ubisoft games could barely push 60 fps on high and i played most of my games on low. now with this card, i can max out all of my games at 60 fps. only games that are below are due to my cpu bottleneck

Pros: -Fast delivery (3 Days after I passed my order, I received it.) -Package well protected -Good prize

Cons: None