Well, the cooler of the 7900 cards wasn't great but, other than the ones with the broken vapor chambers, it was "just fine". The reference cooler for the 7600 was also enough, so maybe this one will also be just ok.
If it makes the card cheaper, I don't see anything wrong with it, as long as it's able to keep the card cool and it's not too loud.

That MSI motherboard is stupidly expensive, even more so one that's nothing more than an updated design.

By the way, the handheld PC war will get hotter soon, literally:

The Ayaneo Kun has a mode that delivers near twice the power of the ROG Ally handheld gaming PC
https://www.pcgamer.com/the-ayaneo-kun-has-a-mode-that-delivers-near-twice-the-power-of-the-rog-ally-handheld-gaming-pc/
When the Ayaneo Kun was first revealed, it was the trackpads that initially drew me to it, but just ahead of the Indiegogo campaign launch tomorrow, September 5, it's the extreme gaming mode that's catching my eye.

The 54W mode is way beyond what we've seen from any gaming handheld before, launching the AMD Ryzen 7 7840U chip into uncharted territory. Especially given that AMD itself is only reporting a configurable TDP of up to 30W itself. That 30W limit is the furthest we've seen the Ryzen silicon pushed in a system like the ROG Ally, Lenovo Legion Go, or OneXFly, and should make it the most powerful handheld gaming PC around.

It's not just a mode you can only pick while docked and plugged into the mains, either. Ayaneo has told me that "yes, 54W is a lot, and can even be used unplugged, but it is more suitable for plugged use."

It has even provided an expected uptime for the 54W mode when you're running it on the battery and is predicting around 49 mins of game time. That's not a long time, admittedly, but still shows what that 75Wh battery can do. Yeah, 75Wh—it's a battery that wouldn't look out of place in a gaming laptop, and takes up almost 30% of the entire volume of the Kun device.

I can't imagine how hot will that thing get, or how hard it will be to hold it in your hands if you try that in handheld mode.

Are you actually gaining anything using FSR2 at 100% scaling? Accord to the HUB video they lost 6% performance and recommended to turn it off or use CAS if at 100% scaling.

The one thing I'm impressed with is how good this runs on my Linux build it runs with no issues at all straight ootb with performance about 10% lower than on Windows but it's using 20% less power on my Linux build so maybe I could get the performance back with some tweaks.

Yea but it rarely does make it cheaper is the issue. The reference designs are usually limited and aren't always the cheapest and worst of all is they hand out the reference coolers as giveaways and such. So does Nvidia but Nvidia's Founders Edition coolers perform just as well as top end AIB coolers so when you win one of those, you would actually want to keep it. If I gotten a 7900xtx starfield edition free for example, I'd rather sell it and buy a cooler that won't make my ears hurt.

It's kind of a shame because RDNA 2 reference coolers were pretty good and easily up there with Nvidias founders editions.

Consistency is fine, I don't notice frame drops due to the display matching my framerate.

Rest of my rig is a Ryzen 5950X and 128GB DDR4 3600, only the GPU is average as I don't game like I used to.

Definitely a 5~ fps performance gain with FSR2, nothing I would notice in gameplay due to the solid motion blur.

Did consider using FSR to take me from 1440P to 4k and then super sample it down, but haven't had time to play with things yet.

Either way, impressed with how light the game is on my hardware.

I SWEAR if Kait isn't anymore the main character again for Gears 6, I WILL... be sad.

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Today is one of those days where I really wish this site had a block button, and a proper one that actually does the job.

I want to know which of the male characters is

Are you talking about in Articles or in the forum?

Just in general. I've grown tired of running into the same people who don't want to move, no matter how hard I try to reason with them. That and I'm also tired of how the downvote system is abused into censoring one's say. 

I'd rather just block and move on, and never have to deal with X/Y person again.

I don't mind you guys in here because I still talk to you, but outside of this thread, I just realise it's pointless and tiring. People these days are far, far too vested in a company or a game so much that they warp their personality/life around it and will bat for it at any given chance, even though said game/company aren't human and do not really require defence of a random individual on the internet.