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The Radeon RX9070XT / RX9070 Owners Thread

Just unboxed my new Gigabyte Gaming OC 9070XT, moving from a 3080FE. Always underwhelmed by the lack of anything else inside GPU boxes, no sticker, booklet just an anti-stat bag, no fanfare & having to stare at it while it acclimatises to room temp from 'its freezing in the post van'.

Rocking a 13 year old Corsair AX760 that I thought should be OK (some light research had taken place) but with the GB box suggesting 850w minimum I just wanted to check if anyone had any anything similar and had issues? CPU is a 9900X with Noctua D-15, 32GB Ram and a couple of M2 drives and 3x 120mm case fans.

Thanks
 
kirbrot said:
Just unboxed my new Gigabyte Gaming OC 9070XT, moving from a 3080FE. Always underwhelmed by the lack of anything else inside GPU boxes, no sticker, booklet just an anti-stat bag, no fanfare & having to stare at it while it acclimatises to room temp from 'its freezing in the post van'.

Rocking a 13 year old Corsair AX760 that I thought should be OK (some light research had taken place) but with the GB box suggesting 850w minimum I just wanted to check if anyone had any anything similar and had issues? CPU is a 9900X with Noctua D-15, 32GB Ram and a couple of M2 drives and 3x 120mm case fans.

Thanks
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I'm using a Sapphire 9070XT 16GB with Corsair 750W. Two NVME, Two ssd, souncard, 9 fans. No issues. 7700 overclocked
 
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anyone getting the CSM message on boot? I tried turning it off but then the mobo wouldn't see the boot drive. can i just ignore this or am i missing out on performance with it on?
 
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kirbrot said:
Just unboxed my new Gigabyte Gaming OC 9070XT, moving from a 3080FE. Always underwhelmed by the lack of anything else inside GPU boxes, no sticker, booklet just an anti-stat bag, no fanfare & having to stare at it while it acclimatises to room temp from 'its freezing in the post van'.

Rocking a 13 year old Corsair AX760 that I thought should be OK (some light research had taken place) but with the GB box suggesting 850w minimum I just wanted to check if anyone had any anything similar and had issues? CPU is a 9900X with Noctua D-15, 32GB Ram and a couple of M2 drives and 3x 120mm case fans.

Thanks
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I had the same power supply as you for 10 years (AX760) but i had to change it when i upgraded to RTX 3080 at the time.
Power Supply are "loosing" maximum power output overtime. Mine was causing random crashes when i installed my RTX 3080 and while gaming, when i changed it crashes were gone.
So be careful, 13 years for a power supply that will be pushed to near maximum power isn't safe, you may not have issues but if you have some unexplicated crashes you should change it.

Moreover power supply give maximum efficiency at 50% load and have worse power efficiency at low and very high load.
 
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Aresias said:
I had the same power supply as you for 10 years (AX760) but i had to change it when i upgraded to RTX 3080 at the time.
Power Supply are "loosing" maximum power output overtime. Mine was causing random crashes when i installed my RTX 3080 and while gaming, when i changed it crashes were gone.
So be careful, 13 years for a power supply that will be pushed to near maximum power isn't safe, you may not have issues but if you have some unexplicated crashes you should change it.

Moreover power supply give maximum efficiency at 50% load and have worse power efficiency at low and very high load.
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It’s been good with the 3080, i’ll see if I can get some monitoring setup. Better safe than sorry.
 
kirbrot said:
Better safe than sorry.
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Safe would be a new unit mate, power supply capacitors age over time and 13 years is long past its warranty.

It was a great quality unit in its day and were it to give up, I strongly doubt it would take any other components with it due to its original good quality.

If you are going to use it, factor in a replacement in the coming months. The power supply is the beating heart of your system and you need to know it's up to the job.
 
Had to test my son's Xmas present in my rig...
...before I pull it apart, bugger the warranty, stick a Barrow block on it, drain and dismantle his current rig, stick all the gubbins in his new case and try not to mess up my first hard tube loop...

...wish me luck.
 
RedMogg said:
Had to test my son's Xmas present in my rig...
...before I pull it apart, bugger the warranty, stick a Barrow block on it, drain and dismantle his current rig, stick all the gubbins in his new case and try not to mess up my first hard tube loop...

...wish me luck.
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It's an awesome card, I've been landed with mine since swapping from a RTX 4070. runs nice and cool and quiet and performs amazing mine goes up to 3380mhz without doing any tuning at all. enjoy the gpu mate
 
Lee Charles said:
It's an awesome card, I've been landed with mine since swapping from a RTX 4070. runs nice and cool and quiet and performs amazing mine goes up to 3380mhz without doing any tuning at all. enjoy the gpu mate
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We're now a household with 3 Nitro cards - 7800XT in mine, 9060XT in my youngest's and the 9070XT that'll go in my son's.

Middle daughter has a 5700XT Red Devil (custom painted white & pink), but is perfectly happy with her rig as-is, so long as it runs Krita, Roblox and her singing production suite (I did splurge on a decent Shure mic & XLR interface).
 
baritonejohann said:
anyone getting the CSM message on boot? I tried turning it off but then the mobo wouldn't see the boot drive. can i just ignore this or am i missing out on performance with it on?
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This is to do with AMD SAM. (Smart access memory) You will be losing some performance. How much I have no idea. To get you sorted you would need your C drive partition converted to GPT. You can then turn off CSM which is to do with old BIOS compatability mode. Now I heartily recommend you make a full backup before you do this just incase anything goes horribly wrong.
 
eeii said:
This is to do with AMD SAM. (Smart access memory) You will be losing some performance. How much I have no idea. To get you sorted you would need your C drive partition converted to GPT. You can then turn off CSM which is to do with old BIOS compatability mode. Now I heartily recommend you make a full backup before you do this just incase anything goes horribly wrong.
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This is invaluable thank you.
 
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