MSI GeForce RTX 3060 VENTUS 2X 12G OC Gaming Graphics Card - 12GB GDDR6, 1807 MHz, PCI Express Gen 4, 192-bit, 3x DP (v1.4), HDMI 2.1 (Supports 4K)

Excellent graphic card for its generation and value for money. Considering there are way more exspensive one,s that arent much better well recomend the msi geforce rtx 3050 ..

I mostly use the PC for photo-editing but hadn't connected Photoshop actions like "Photomerge" failing with my graphics set-up. However, as soon as this card went in its power and dedicated graphics memory meant that Photoshop ran smoothly again. Very happy.This came to light because my long in the tooth PC had been adequate until I recently bought a new screen whose resolution was beyond the capabilities of my integrated Intel Graphics. I hadn't known this would be the case, to be honest I hadn't even realised that HDMI had been superceded by DP.I did wonder whether a new computer was the solution and whether a graphics card would be a waste of money as I'd end up giving in to a new PC anyway, but this card was reasonably priced, wasn't too big to fit into anything but a gaming computer's case and seemed quite powerful, plus all the reviews said it was quiet.And so it has proved, and best yet, while it comes with instructions on how to find and install drivers, while I was reading those instructions Windows found and installed the necessary drivers itself!

All my games are now working really well.

Bought this for my i5 9600 low profile desktop. By no means the most powerful but great for most games at 1080p. Good refresh for a cheap build.

Card quality - Its a nice looking card and well built, looks great in a set-up However, after around a year of use the card just died and for the price I was really disappointed in this as i’ve never experienced a card dying on me before. The seller was fantastic tho and even after a year they accepted a return for a refund. Ended up buying a different card with the money and gifting it to my dad for his new pc which he loves :)Playability- Games run smooth, good frame rates, grpahics on games looks good too.Fit - Really easy to install and take out for when transporting your pc.Graphics quality - Quality is as expected for 3060 card, roughly 120fps on high settings on fortnite with no issues.Stability - Unfortunately with mine dying after a year I can’t say this would last longer. Maybe I just got an unlucky card but it was great while it was running ! and with the support being great I expect they don’t have this happening often.Power Consumption - Unsure really, i typically use eco mode on my psu so I can’t say for sure what the power consumption is like on other psu’s.

So I picked this GPU up to add a nice upgrade to my Dell 7070 small form factor PC. Having spent many hours trawling Reddit and YouTube I settled with the RTX 3050 6GB low profile. This PC is mainly used for Lightroom exports and light photoshop work and I needed something to speed up some the AI features and aid with photoshops more graphical intensive tasks.Anyway, this fit perfectly, although the 16 channel PCIE slot sits too close to the Optiplex PSU so you’re only able to put this in the 8 channel lane. This will reduce performance slightly. See attached photo with my trying the card in my other build, but using a 16 channel PCIE lane it’s able to perform for efficiently.Anyway, on a few basic benchmarks this card was able to perform to a suitable level. It will run games like Fortnite at about 100fps, although this is not what I intended to use it for.Unfortunately due to the layout inside an Optiplex case the fans sit about 2cm away from the top of the PSU so you’ll find the fans spinning up pretty fast to try and cool the GPU down, with it hitting about 65c on a few occasions whilst gaming.As far at GPU options currently for these types of systems you’ll struggle to find much better in a low profile card and it does exactly what I want it to.It is tiny, with a photo of my Gigabyte RTX 3060 12gb OC next to it for comparison.Anyway, if you’re not expecting earth shattering performance but need decent bang for buck and capable GPU for a small form factor PC, then this should definitely be a contender.I would note that if your system will fit a full sized card, they’re generally abit cheaper in a like for like comparison and you’ll get better performance with higher RAM configurations and better cooling. So this is only worth it for a small system with limited case room.

There are sooo many graphics cards out there with the RTX3060 chip. I chose this for my lads PC upgrade Christmas 2023.Couple of notes - two fan cards run quieter than 1 fan. Probably 3 even quieter, but start to get big then.Memory size and type do vary, so pick the best within a price range.The price point of this card was good.My lads PC is an old generation i9. This card does so much of the 'heavy lifting' of gaming graphics work that we did not need a processor upgrade (this year at least)8 months on and he is still very impressed with it.Hard to compare quality of MSI versus, say, Gigabyte or Ventus or any other packagers of the Nvidia chip. Much of a muchness, I expect.I think it was a good choice and good price but you can always pay more to get something better.

Easy to fit and a whole lot better than the on board graphics. Photo Software that glitched and was temperamental now works fine