MSI's new GeForce RTX 3060 GAMING X TRIO is in a funky spot...do you get the RTX 3070? Probably. It's a great card nonetheless, a worthy successor to the popular GTX 1060.

MSI has put a lot of expensive hardware on this card. While a lot of it hasn’t made it a faster card, it’s one of the best looking graphics cards, and it’s exquisitely engineered too. It’s got so many features to provide more stable voltages, lower temperatures, lower noise levels and well, that’s exactly what it does.

With only 62°C under load, the card is the coolest RTX 3060 we've tested today. It's also the quietest, by far, at 30 dBA, which is basically whisper-quiet.

MSI has used the same shroud design across all of its RTX 30-series Gaming X Trio graphics cards, meaning this RTX 3060 is as big as the company's flagship RTX 3090. It might sound slightly ludicrous considering one is rated for just 170W while the other can draw 370W, but it does mean the RTX 3060 Gaming X Trio is ridiculously cool and quiet.