MSI GeForce RTX 5070 12G SHADOW 2X OC Graphics Card, 12GB GDDR7, DPx3, HDMIx1, DLSS 4

For $500 it was a pretty big discount from other similar GPUs, works great, no issues with physical installation or drivers, takes up less space in my tower than my previous GPU, runs under 75C without me needing to manually increase fan settings - and the fans are super quiet as well - and overall was definitely worth me waiting for who knows how many months/years of avoiding $1000 graphics cards to be able to get this at the current price. 10/10 if my previous GPU wasn't failing when I bought this I would have waited until Black Friday sales, but I don't at all regret getting it for the price a month earlier and am very happy with it. If you're reading this before the end of 11/25 and thinking about getting a new video card, wait for sales and if you find one for under $500 and your budget is such that you can't afford more than that, if/when you see that deal, definitely go for it; you won't be disappointed.

Picked up for $449 with my employee discount, can't beat that for a 5070 RTX. Excellent overclocker was able to score a 33k GPU passmark score after the OC, cool and stable from a stock score of 29k. A 5070ti averages around 34k on passmark so pretty impressive. Destroys World of Warcraft at 1080p paired with a 9800x3d and MSI x670 Tomahawk motherboard. 300 fps at 1080p in outside zones and 120-180 fps in intensive raiding on max graphical with RT off.