Although this card's price point is quite steep for most I think it's well worth it especially if you have a rig that compliments it well. Make sure though that you have enough room in your case to fit it because this thing is massive compared to average graphics cards. It's about 13 inches long and about 2.5 inches thick and it was pretty tight getting it into a full tower! (mainly due to my tower having trays for harddrives and such) Thermals seem to be exceptional, about 32 degrees celsius at idle with fans OFF at ambient (room) of 20 degrees celsius just using the massive heatsink alone to cool it. Under full load it's around 58 Celsius at about 78% fan speed with my fan curve settings. I use the fan curve in MSI afterburner to have it at minimum of 30% fan speed which brings it down to 27-30 at idle. The RGB lighting is fully controllable and beautiful with a ton of profiles in "MSI Mystic Light" which you can download online. Coming from a GTX 970 this card more than doubled my framerate on pretty much any game at 1440p and maxes graphics settings on almost any game with ease. I can finally take advantage of my 144hz monitor. Overall I believe this card is worth it if you can afford it and may hopefully come down in price a bit once the 30xx series comes out (maybe wishful thinking lol). So far I've had no issues that people had with the card right around 2018-2019 and I think it's because most of the issues have been ironed out by now (fingers crossed) but I will absolutly update the review if I do. So if the review stays good then that means I've had no issues.