Upgrade for MSI Radeon RX 6500 XT MECH 2X 4GB OC GPU

[Ben97]

Hi.

This was my initial thread regarding my current card, and I was wanting to try and make it quieter, but spending money on that would be less beneficial than just buying a new and better card:

https://forums.overclockers.co.uk/t...cards-quieter-and-cooling-solutions.18957693/

I'm finding that some games I play can't really play that smooth on higher details, so I can certainly see a benefit to upgrading the card now.

However, I do have some important factors to consider.

Noise is one of them. Spending money on a card for it to be reasonably quiet over its performance is actually priority for me. The current MSI card I have is not quiet at all when on 30% RPM when i have my case fans low, which is the minimum the AMD software lets you go. I very much dislike the 0 rpm option as that it fixed at 50 degrees and it is incredibly annoying when the temperature fluctuates as that temperature as it cuts and clicks in and out and sounds like a failing mechanical hard drive. My previous card (gtx1650 - need to stay away from nvidia now - had loads of driver issues) seemed to have a much lower RPM, and the blades would not spin below 33% rpm, but this was not audible. This is basically what I am targeting - a much lower RPM than my MSI card has.

The fans and card itself are both pretty small, and make an annoying high-pitched whine which is rather irritating. I have learned to tolerate it by fixing the RPM at a certain percentage for all games i play so it never changes and i can learn to ignore it, but my old 1650 was quieter probably because it had larger fans that span slower. My 6500 xt at the fan speed I have it at seems to run at about 60 degrees as i now have them running at 60% when gaming.

I'm a bit more relaxed about spending more on a card now, so i think I could spend £300 - £350 ish. Based on the last time i made a big step up on cards from 2GB to 4GB of memory, that wasn't really that much. I'm wondering if I would be better off spending more and going for a 10GB card rather than an 8GB. I just need to work out the RPM as I want them to be much lower than my card as well as having larger fans. What are the best sites to use for comparisons?


https://www.overclockers.co.uk/sapp...ddr6-pci-express-graphics-card-gx-3a1-sp.html

This is one of the cards I am considering but I can't find the RPM figueres anywhere.

Then for less, maybe the ASRock Radeon RX 6600 Challenger D 8GB.


Any help would be appreciated.


Many thanks.

 

[rare]

The 6700 is a good card but I seem to recall that particular card isn’t that quite. Although ever so slightly outside of your budget the 3060Ti FE is still a great card and it’s very very quiet in my experience.

 

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

The only problem is the RX6700 produces more heat,which needs to be expelled from the case,and your case has limited airflow looking at other thread.
So that means the cases fans,PSUs fan and CPU fan will run hotter. Even though I would normally recommend the RX6700,the RX6600 is incredibly efficient.The RX6600 series is also very efficient if undervolted:

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[Ben97]

The 6700 is a good card but I seem to recall that particular card isn’t that quite. Although ever so slightly outside of your budget the 3060Ti FE is still a great card and it’s very very quiet in my experience.

Is the 3060Ti FE an Nvidia card? To me it looks like it is.

 

[Ben97]

The only problem is the RX6700 produces more heat,which needs to be expelled from the case,and your case has limited airflow looking at other thread.
So that means the cases fans,PSUs fan and CPU fan will run hotter. Even though I would normally recommend the RX6700,the RX6600 is incredibly efficient.The RX6600 series is also very efficient if undervolted:

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Useful to know.

I have to say that my nvidia EVGA GTX-1650 seemed to run about 8 - 10 degrees warmer on average than my current card, despite being bigger and having larger fans. That is one positive about the 6500 XT - it does seem to run very cool which is impressive for it's compact size. But I find the noise of the fans really irritating at times. At sertain speeds it sounds like an engine idling and doesn't make a consistent sound despite being fixed at a speed.

My case is very compact and does have limited air flow. However, the two extractor fans (140mm 1600 rpm and 120mm 1000rpm) are both very effective and they draw in a large quantity of cool air directly under the graphics card.

If you still reccomend the 6600, are there any specific models you reccomend? I like the design of the ASRock model i mentioned and I've found a good deal on that one and it looks to have a very large heatsync and large fans. As I mentioned before, I would want the max RPM to be much lower than my current card, so that 30% rpm is extremelly quiet and not really audible. I am presumming that because my card has smaller fans, they spin a lot faster. This card is another one that I can't find out the fan speed.

 

[Ben97]

After doing more testing with my card, it seems that the minimum RPM my fans can go in windows is 2190 at 30%. That is most certainly not slow or quiet. The maximum RPM when briefly putting the fans to 100% is 4725. I would guess that this is much higher than the average card?

Rather than just doubling the memory, I'm now tempted to get at least 10GB.

I'm most tempted by these two:


PowerColor Radeon RX 6700 Fighter 10GB GDDR6 PCI-Express Graphics Card
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Sapphire Radeon RX 6700 Gaming OC 10GB GDDR6 PCI-Express Graphics Card
Order Sapphire Radeon RX 6700 Gaming OC 10GB GDDR6 PCI-Express Graphics Card now online and benefit from fast delivery.
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What I want to know most is the maximum RPM of the fans, as I want the minimum (30% in the case of what AMD software allows) to be significantly less than MSI 6500 XT. My previous Nvidia card EVGA GTX1650 was more or less inaudible at 33% which was the lowest I could set it to before the fans would start to click on and off. This was around 1100RPM from what I remember.
The percentage seems rather inaccurate though as 50% is 3128 which I don't think is half of 4725. Am I measuing this stuff wrong and the calculations are done differently?



I personally think the fan speed on the 6500XT is severely overkill. I run them at just over half way (58%) when gaming to the point where the card struggles a little at times, but it only seems to get to around 65 degrees when my case fans are running hard. I can't imagine much need for them to go much faster than this.

Am happy for some suggestions about suitable 12GB cards too as black Friday is coming up, but I want to try and keep it under £400.