Is it worth a 10 per cent premium over cheaper cards? You just knew that everyone who produced the GeForce GTX 1060 6GB card would repurpose their coolers for the 3GB iteration that has come out recently. MSI goes down this path with the Gaming X GTX 1060 3GB priced at £225.

That sum is in keeping with the premium nature of the Gaming X line, representing the best that MSI has to offer. It's not what we'd call exclusive as the cooling is present on at least 18 other graphics cards. But why change a winning formula? Previous reviews have shown the Gaming X to be cool, quiet, refined and, well, just all-round good.

Gaming and Gaming X both share the same cooler, whose fans switch off at temperature below 60°C, but are differentiated by speeds. The review sample, designated X, runs at 1,569MHz core and 1,785MHz boost in standard, out-of-the-box 'gaming' mode, though you can increase the speeds a touch by hitting OC mode in the bundled MSI utility. Our sample was clocked in at the correct gaming speeds.