The cheapest you could find it last year was £700. I grabbed one back in August for bday present because the V64 LC had delivery 1+ months :/
I havent regretted it tbh, even if I want to sell it and buy a Vega 64. (but I do not want the strix, and the others do not have waterblock for as none is reference PCB)
The Xtreme cooler is amazing, holds the card very well even on default no fan mode.
Personally using custom curve.
The only thing to note is that if it doesn't have the F3/F4 bios you have to upgrade it to that. There was an issue with the Boost 3.0 and F1/F2 bios, but after upgrading it the boost 3.0 auto overclocked to 2000.
And you shouldn't be scared to upgrade the bios on this card, is a doodle. Just load the included gigabyte software and click update. By far the easiest process, like upgrading motherboard bios.
If you want to improve the cooling further, some at OCNET had great success using Conductonaut. It drop the temps by 10C.
