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Enjoy mate.My Sapphire Pulse 9070XT should be here tomorrow
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Enjoy mate.My Sapphire Pulse 9070XT should be here tomorrow
Crazy how “naked” GPUs look with none of the casing and covers on…..!1.) Power Color
2.) XT
3.) Reaper
4.) 11/03/25
Decided to bodge some water cooling on my card today. If any one is interested, I've taken some pictures of the PCB for the Reaper, and my questionable attempt at hybrid air/water cooling my card:
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When taking it apart, I did notice that the memory thermal pads don't seem like they are getting squished against the stock cooler, might explain why this model seems to run a couple of degrees warmer than others. Some thermal putty would probably be a good swap to improve performance a bit.
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Impressive, but how are you keeping the temps so low! My Aorus Elite hits 62 to 63 degrees at stock settings, hell even Time Spy Extreme with locked 100% fan speed is averaging 50 degrees at stock, tempted to return it as it feels a bit too warm for such an expensive 9070 XT Variant9070 XT Aorus Elite
Time Spy Extreme
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I scored 14 645 in Time Spy Extreme
Intel Core i5 processor 14600K, AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT x 1, 65536 MB, 64-bit Windows 11}www.3dmark.com
Steel Nomad
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I scored 8 020 in Steel Nomad
Intel Core i5 processor 14600K, AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT x 1, 65536 MB, 64-bit Windows 11}www.3dmark.com
Currently it's the highest scoring 9070 on 3D Mark in all the graphics apart from Fire Strike, where the framerate is so high my CPU is holding it back.Fair play this seems like a great score with that CPU!
That's a fearsome looking inside of a Dalek you have there!Crazy how “naked” GPUs look with none of the casing and covers on…..!
I think it's just the smaller heatsink and fans, if I speed the fans up the temps come down. You can see where the screw holes are how much the pads are squished.Crazy how “naked” GPUs look with none of the casing and covers on…..!
Did you use DDU to remove the previous Nvidia drivers?Just installed new 9070XT and having a problem with displayed graphics.
After installation everything is kinda too bright, letters are "glowing" with white glow around, like too contrasty.
Tried so many things, nothing helps.
Previous card was nvidia, which was fine when worked just before installation.
This deserves it's own thread!1.) Power Color
2.) XT
3.) Reaper
4.) 11/03/25
Decided to bodge some water cooling on my card today. If any one is interested, I've taken some pictures of the PCB for the Reaper, and my questionable attempt at hybrid air/water cooling my card:
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imgur.com
Discover the magic of the internet at Imgur, a community powered entertainment destination. Lift your spirits with funny jokes, trending memes, entertaining gifs, inspiring stories, viral videos, and so much more from users.imgur.com
When taking it apart, I did notice that the memory thermal pads don't seem like they are getting squished against the stock cooler, might explain why this model seems to run a couple of degrees warmer than others. Some thermal putty would probably be a good swap to improve performance a bit.
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Yes, first time not, but now I did and issue is still here.Did you use DDU to remove the previous Nvidia drivers?
Compact & bijouFinally managed to get my new build done with the XT Pulse tonight.
There were a few moments where I didn't think everything was going to fit, but got there in the end lol
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what case is all that sitting in ?Compact & bijou![]()
what case is all that sitting in ?