This was an absolute must buy during the mining craze before the used market was tapped by miners and during the fallout afterwards. Why? This card is just a hotter version of both the 1060 6GB and the RX 580 for only 120-150. You couldn't find those two modern equivalents for that price whatsoever. The closest you could get would be a RX 560 or a 1050 Ti and those come with less VRAM and at least one or two tiers less performance. This was a no brainer. The card treated me well from 2015-2017 and again during my brief stint with Fortnite during the summer in 2018. If you can find this for less than 100 and only want a 1080p 60 FPS GPU, this is it.
I experienced none of the difficulty setting this card up as claimed in other reviews, and I have had no issues of any kind since installing it several months ago.
It is a noticeable upgrade over the 290, and outperforms the more expensive 970 I have installed on my other gaming PC. Cool, quiet, and fully DX12 compatible.