I haven't had the change to put my MSI 5080 Shadow (basically a plastic Ventus 3X) through it's paces but I have been concerned about buying the wrong model. I keep having thoughts between whether it's good enough, will perform well enough, cool well enough, etc. I was pretty adamant with myself that I wasn't going to spend more than £1000, which limited me to the FE or base models. I'm coming from a 3080 FE, which sounded like a jet when it was at 80C with the fans at 100%. This MSI 5080 is significantly quieter with the fans at 100%. Despite not being able to increase the power limit higher than 100%, I am going to increase the clocks (+400 on the core and +1000 on the memory will be my first try) and also reduce the power draw by about 8-10% (this appears to keep the card at the same OC clocks while drawing 30W less).