Are you ready to purchase a new monitor that has a better resolution than 1080p? Hopefully you are, PC gaming is being brought to a new level. For years mainstream gamers have been tied to a 1080p monitor due to the fact that mainstream video cards didn't perform well enough to generate the frames...

Ability to Overclock; Comes with backplate; Low Power Consumption; 120W Gaming TDP; Price Point; Performance; Lit Dragon Claws on Shroud; Low Overall Temperatures; Barely Audible Fan Noise; RGB LED; Well Thought Out Gaming APP

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Aesthetically speaking, the MSI GTX 1060 Gaming X is sublime and I instantly fell in love with its extraordinary design. As previously mentioned, it's quite easy to feel lackadaisical about products sporting a red and black colour scheme mainly due to the quantity of components opting for this...

Attractive RGB illumination; Exceptional memory overclocking; Gorgeous aesthetics; Impressive factory overclock; Low power consumption; Military Class 4 components; Stunning build quality; Superb thermals; Unbelievably quiet

£70 more expensive than the reference RX 480

Its been around 15 years since I last built my own PC and it feels like a decade. When I got down to choosing a graphics card, I didn't want to break the bank but wanted

Great performance for the price you pay; VR-Ready; Easy overclocking; MSI software means easy further tuning; Great looking graphics card; RGB LED effect; Runs cool; Little to no noise

Premium you pay for the Gaming X range

With the release of the GTX 1060 the world is going wild as the bar for mid-range gaming has been brought up once again. Ushering a new benchmark for graphic cards at its price range, reaching performances that were only capable in high-end graphic cards in the past.

Performance; Twin Frozr VI; Backplate

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MSI are well-known within the computer tech industry as a dedicated graphics partner to both AMD and NVIDIA. Their portfolio of expertise reaches into motherboards and has recently even featured peripherals too.

+ Attractive to the eye; + Customisable LED lighting; + Comes with factory overclock; + Low-noise; + Effective cooling; + Overclocks even further; + Good performance; + DirectX 12 ready; + 3 years' warranty; + 2 year XSplit license

The asking price of £300 for this card is undoubtedly steep given that GTX 1060 pricing starts at £230 – that's a 30 percent increase. Clearly, MSI is asking a lot of its customers and the GTX 1060 Gaming X, much like the GTX 1060 Strix OC, is not positioned as a bang per buck card.

Nvidia started by making an excellent performing GPU with the GTX 1060. MSI further improves the graphics card by adding the excellent cooling performance of the Twin Frozr. If you want a great gaming card that can handle 1080p, the Gaming X is a great choice. No SLI though! qq

Excellent Everything! Performance, Build Quality, Aesthetics, Overclocking, Cooling, etc; Huge fan of what Nvidia is doing with Fast Sync

No SLI!?! =

As you might expect, the MSI GTX 1060 Gaming X 6G is going to outperform a card that comes with lower baseline core clock speeds, even if they are at the top end of the Gaming App range of speeds by default.

Factory overclocked; Twin Frozr VI cooling; Low to no noise; VR Ready; Gaming App; Pricing; MSI Gaming APP

SLI not supported