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6700 XT Owners Thread

calken said:
From those that have been watching closely, does there appear to be more stock of the 6700xt like AMD suggested? I was hoping for a 6800/6800XT to replace my Vega 64LC but I think I've all but given up on that idea.
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I think Gibbo said they was a due a substantial drop in April


but would assume they need to save a chunk of them for new system builds
 
I take it back, my 6700xt fighter has got coil whine during gaming. It's fairly noticeable when it does it. Hmm. Need more testing I think.
 
jaybee said:
I take it back, my 6700xt fighter has got coil whine during gaming. It's fairly noticeable when it does it. Hmm. Need more testing I think.
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What is the FPS when you get coil whine? In well over 20 years of PC gaming every GPU I have ever owned does coil whine when going over a few hundred FPS, some a touch better than others but all do it. My 6700XT Fighter does coil wine if I let it run free (as does my 3080 FE), but set it to run at 140Hz on my 144Hz 1080p monitor and coil whine is not noticeable over normal PC noise.
 
ICDP said:
What is the FPS when you get coil whine? In well over 20 years of PC gaming every GPU I have ever owned does coil whine when going over a few hundred FPS, some a touch better than others but all do it. My 6700XT Fighter does coil wine if I let it run free (as does my 3080 FE), but set it to run at 140Hz on my 144Hz 1080p monitor and coil whine is not noticeable over normal PC noise.
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So to take advantaged of variable refresh you mean to say set an FPS limit or cap to below the maximum refresh mode of the monitor? I think my son's setup which uses the 6700xt has a monitor that does 165hz. How do I set the FPS cap globally? AMD software?
 
Yes, if you go to your monitor/display tab in the drivers it gives you an FPS cap option. Also ensure you have Freesync enabled if it has it. It is worth remembering that anything over your monitors native Hz is wasted frames as by definitions a 165 Hz monitor cannot physically display more than 165 FPS. All you get going over that FPS is tearing and marginally reduced input lag.

Mildly unrelated anecdote alert :)

I have a friend who swore he could tell the difference visually between a 60 FPS and 120 FPS monitor. I was able to demonstrate using an FPS at very low settings that what he was feeling was reduced input lag rather than seeing the actual higher FPS. When he used the mouse to test he was pretty much 100% success in picking if I had set 60Hz or 120Hz with VSYC. When I stood him in front of the monitor while I ontrolled the mouse, his success rate was pretty much just pure chance at guessing right.
 
music4mybumhole said:
Recently got a MSI 6700XT Mech and although it's far quieter than my old RX 580, does anyone know of any impending waterblocks?
Always wanted to wait until I had a good enough card to warrant it, so now thinking about a loop.
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Interesting. I've gone from a Nitro+ 580 to a Nitro+ 6700XT and the latter is considerably louder.
 
ICDP said:
Yes, if you go to your monitor/display tab in the drivers it gives you an FPS cap option. Also ensure you have Freesync enabled if it has it. It is worth remembering that anything over your monitors native Hz is wasted frames as by definitions a 165 Hz monitor cannot physically display more than 165 FPS. All you get going over that FPS is tearing and marginally reduced input lag.

Mildly unrelated anecdote alert :)

I have a friend who swore he could tell the difference visually between a 60 FPS and 120 FPS monitor. I was able to demonstrate using an FPS at very low settings that what he was feeling was reduced input lag rather than seeing the actual higher FPS. When he used the mouse to test he was pretty much 100% success in picking if I had set 60Hz or 120Hz with VSYC. When I stood him in front of the monitor while I ontrolled the mouse, his success rate was pretty much just pure chance at guessing right.
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60 vs 120 I can tell across a room when my son moves the mouse on windows desktop easily. Inside a game...dunno.
 
I find a PC runs much quieter and cooler if I use an FPS cap below the monitors refresh rate. It means a GPU in many cases is not constantly pushed to it's limits unless it absolutely has too for competitive gaming for example.
 
Does it have to be below or can it be bang on? I tried setting to 165 limit earlier and did not seem to make a difference. The "whine" is actually quite bad and seems to be a deeper pitch than I originally noticed.
 
nutsnut said:
Mine can, what games do you play.

Also, mines apparantely number one in the word for 6700XT and 3900x?

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Interesting...

What is your GPU OC’d too?

Mine is stable at max core/max boost/max memory basically the highest settings wattman will allow for everything and the highest I’ve got is 12887 (GPU score) my cpu is ofc much lower than yours (3600XT) haha.
 
R3v4n said:
Interesting...

What is your GPU OC’d too?

Mine is stable at max core/max boost/max memory basically the highest settings wattman will allow for everything and the highest I’ve got is 12887 (GPU score) my cpu is ofc much lower than yours (3600XT) haha.
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Max on the power slider, 2900mhz on the core, 2150 on the memory. I've not tried anything higher yet, but have 50mhz to play with. It will hold high 2700 to low 2800 on games and benchmarks.
 
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