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Don't want to watch this in case he doesn't like the one that I got... (or more accurately it doesn't do well compared to the others)
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The Radeon RX9070XT / RX9070 Owners Thread
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To be fair there are no stinkers and with a little bit of tuning the thermals can be much better.
Did you try going into BIOS through the windows settings?Had a look in bios and can't see any option for Boot Delay.
Will try this later. (did not work for me)
Can't see any additional drivers.
Thanks for the response guys.
I am on the latest bios and Windows is up to date barring the 24H2 update.
Sorry for the late reply, Virgin Media went down.
Is your BIOS up-to-date? Sorry if you already mentioned that. But apart from that, it can't be anything "driver" as you aren't booted into the OS at that point.Question for you guys.
Have just noticed i have no option screen to enter bios on first boot up, is this normal with a AMD GPU?
When i had the 3080 installed i always had the option to press delete to enter bios etc, now with the 9070 XT it is black screen until Windows loads.
Everything seems to work ok and i can enter bios if i mash the delete key during the black screen.
So it has to be an initialisation problem where the output isn't recognised fast enough. The motherboard isn't in any sort of Legacy/CSM mode is it? As mentioned, a POST delay might help during boot. Does changing from DP or HDMI make a difference?Sapphire Pulse scoring the hottest on average GPU temps, compared to the other models... damn. Thought it'd be at least a bit cooler than some of the models.
FWIW, I have a Pulse 9070 and I do get around those temperatures too, so seems right on first glance.
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Well VR turned out to be a bit of a nightmare, but I'm up and running now eventually. Turns out I required an obscure Beta firmware for the Reverb G1 before it would display anything on the 9070xt. Was pulling my hair out, uninstalling / reinstalling drivers, dual booting a clean install of Win11 to verify it wasn't windows etc. etc.
Only by chance did I find the one post on Reddit that had a link to the Beta firmware that HP never bothered to roll into the released FW.
All good now, and VR is silky smooth in DCS on the setting I'd normally only use in 2d.
All in all, despite the above, I'm delighted with the 9070xt
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That was just one chart thought wasn't it? I wouldn't worry, in general it looks like there's nothing to worry about for any card. And the Pulse has a lower fan speed than a lot of the others on there. Check out the noise normalised chart - the 9070XT Pulse is joint 3rd coolest in that metric.
The Sapphire Pulse is among the quietest cards out there. It's insane how quiet it is, especially the 3-fan XT variant. Gamers Nexus made a video, which demonstrated it quite well. The temps are well within spec and you don't have to worry. If you want even lower temps, you can simply set the fan curve to be more aggressive. It's relatively conservative out of the box, prioritizing the card's signature silence. You have plenty of headroom to ramp those fans up and still keep the card relatively quiet. Gamers Nexus even noted there's headroom to ramp up the RPMs on those fans and still keep under the noise floor of the case fans and CPU cooler.
So, yeah, you don't have to worry with the Pulse. It's operating normally and as intended, within temperature limits that are well within spec. Operating it on stock, out of the box settings is perfectly fine. If you'd like even lower temps - you have plenty of acoustic headroom on those fans. Plus - undervolting! Something which you should be doing to the card anyway. You can drop the temperatures without sacrificing performance this way.
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My pure is silent, even in gaming. Only if I set RPM manually 2000+ it's louder
Yeah, my Pulse is quiet and cool and I do have an undervolt applied. I was just curious as to how it ranked against the other models.
Yeah, just about any card would get louder if you make it exceed 2000 RPM. Few cards do, though. Inno3D non-OC (different cooler than OC) 5080, perhaps. The 9070s and 9070XTs generally have quite good coolers and don't need to go anywhere near those RPMs usually, though.
Think i have everything up to date except Windows 11 is still on 23H2.Is your BIOS up-to-date? Sorry if you already mentioned that. But apart from that, it can't be anything "driver" as you aren't booted into the OS at that point.
Bios is set to UEFI, but i can't find anything about a Post Delay. I did try 60 seconds Timeout in msconfig, but that did not do anything either.
Only got a DP cable, but i have ordered a HDMI v2.1 cable to try.
Good luck. At least it works but just annoying not to have that output during POST.
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For me it's on the Boot tab of the BIOS on my ASRock X670E PG Lightning, labelled "Setup Prompt Timeout" - it defaults to one second (which is not enough to see the option to enter the BIOS, in my experience on AMD cards).
Have contacted MSI to see if they can add this feature to a new bios.
Got to mash the DEL key which i did not have to do before with a Nvidia GPU, so want the same with the AMD GPU.
Think it's a OCD type thing.
Lower fan speeds and lower clocks due to slightly lower power levels on the Pulse.
If you look at the noise normalised (apples to apples) comparisons, then the Pulse and Pure were almost identical. In fact, the Pulse beat the Pure in normalised memory temps. They were both near the best when everything was normalised.
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