Asrock vs Powercolor RX 6600. Same price, which card?

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ElevenFingers

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I would like to buy one of the following cards to hold me over for the next 6-12 months. I want to upgrade from my GTX 970, but don't like any of the 16GB VRAM cards at current prices and want to put off buying one until later this year.

They are both 220 euros, which in my market seems to be the best bang for buck for a short-term holdover card.

ASRock Radeon RX 6600 Challenger D
Powercolor Fighter AMD Radeon RX 6600

Has anyone used either? Anything bad to say? I reckon their close to identical and maybe I'm overthinking the decision, but before I flip a coin I thought I'd ask here.
 
jordan12 said:
Always been a big fan of ASRock. Never an issue with any hardware I have purchased. My vote is ASRock.
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Thanks for the quick response.

I think the differences are mainly esthetic:

The ASRock is 7cm longer with more plastic and a backplate.
The Powercolor looks super basic, with no bells or whistles.
 
ElevenFingers said:
Thanks for the quick response.

I think the differences are mainly esthetic:

The ASRock is 7cm longer with more plastic and a backplate.
The Powercolor looks super basic, with no bells or whistles.
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No problem.

Then it sounds like either is fine. I can't see my hardware in my case, so I really never go for looks, but performance. And since they both are basically the same card/performance, I say either flip a coin, or pick the better looking card.
 
ElevenFingers said:
I would like to buy one of the following cards to hold me over for the next 6-12 months. I want to upgrade from my GTX 970, but don't like any of the 16GB VRAM cards at current prices and want to put off buying one until later this year.

They are both 220 euros, which in my market seems to be the best bang for buck for a short-term holdover card.

ASRock Radeon RX 6600 Challenger D
Powercolor Fighter AMD Radeon RX 6600

Has anyone used either? Anything bad to say? I reckon their close to identical and maybe I'm overthinking the decision, but before I flip a coin I thought I'd ask here.
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both are fine, just go with which ever you like more. i currently have a powercolor fighter RX6800, friends kid has a asrock challanger D 6700XT, and my fathers system has a gigabyte RX6800, and my previous card was a sapphire, lol. all of them are running just fine and since you're in europe you have way better buyer protection anyways. if a cards going to fail, it's going to fail regardless of who manufactured it.
 
Thanks!

I think I'll go with the Powercolor. The smaller form factor means I can build it into a smaller computer eventually and I kinda like the bare-bones no-frills look. Almost antithetical to most cards.
 
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