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ASROCK 6900 XT NOW ONLY £689.99 (£649.99 FOR LOYAL FORUM MEMBERS)

ALXAndy said:
Because that reflects what OCUK had to pay to buy them in dude.

This is all about buying power. Where during C19 and mining OCUK would have had little, and had to buy what they could get.

IMO the Asrock cards were all too expensive. They were charging EVGA like premiums for their cards, which are not exactly class leading. And that was before C19, so I am not surprised they are stuck with more than any one else. Hence now OCUK have the buying power to buy them up cheap, and thus sell them cheap.
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Lol, yeah i get that (was just being provocative), but unless they have "sale or return" :p they'll never shift it at that price. It'll gather dust and take up valuable storage space :D
 
Question related to my purchase of the 6900XT:
After installing the adrenalin package it reported that Windows (11 pro) had overwritten the driver and Adrenalin was no longer available.
So i downloaded the driver only and installed it.
I've not been team read for years so know pretty much nothing about their software. I'm getting max FPS (144) that my monitor can handle in BF2042 on ultra, so i'm happy so far when my RTX2070 was giving me about 70.
just wondered if there is anything i should know about having the adrenalin software working and what to tweak if anything.
 
Not sure how it works on Windows 11 but you can do this a few ways.
  1. Download your latest AMD drivers and save to your PC.
  2. Uninstall the drivers and remove the GPU from device manager.
  3. Disconnect the internet
  4. Reboot
  5. Install the complete drivers you downloaded earlier
Or
  1. Click Start
  2. Type in: Device Install
  3. As you type you will be given an option to change the Device Installation Settings. Select this option.
  4. Click the No radio button and Save Changes.
This second option will stop your PC auto updating any device drivers from now on. So make sure you do regular driver/chipset updates.

Edit: I had to do the same thing to stop Windows auto installing the Nvidia core drivers as they would install without the Control Panel.
 
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ICDP said:
Not sure how it works on Windows 11 but you can do this a few ways.
  1. Download your latest AMD drivers and save to your PC.
  2. Uninstall the drivers and remove the GPU from device manager.
  3. Disconnect the internet
  4. Reboot
  5. Install the complete drivers you downloaded earlier
Or
  1. Click Start
  2. Type in: Device Install
  3. As you type you will be given an option to change the Device Installation Settings. Select this option.
  4. Click the No radio button and Save Changes.
This second option will stop your PC auto updating any device drivers from now on. So make sure you do regular driver/chipset updates.
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I'm an IT Manager of 17 years..................
..........and i never knew about the 2nd option! :confused:
I thank you sir! :D
 
Well my PSU finally arrived and my god I forgot how much of a pain in the butt it is to route cables everywhere, finally get the PSU installed and tested like 1 game, man the temps are pretty decent even though my utilization was at like 99%. Max wattage I saw spike up to 279 and max temp went to 66C, of course I could not play very much as I spent all my god damn evening installing everything.

Installing a new PSU, GPU and a new monitor took me way more time than I ever thought it would but I am happy it is finally done, could not get any real gaming done but I hope to monitor the new GPU tomorrow when I have some more time.
 
Shingyboy said:
Well my PSU finally arrived and my god I forgot how much of a pain in the butt it is to route cables everywhere, finally get the PSU installed and tested like 1 game, man the temps are pretty decent even though my utilization was at like 99%. Max wattage I saw spike up to 279 and max temp went to 66C, of course I could not play very much as I spent all my god damn evening installing everything.

Installing a new PSU, GPU and a new monitor took me way more time than I ever thought it would but I am happy it is finally done, could not get any real gaming done but I hope to monitor the new GPU tomorrow when I have some more time.
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I installed a new cooler for my 5800x3d the other day and it took me two hours to realise that my stock AMD backplate was in the motherboard box and the one I was trying to get to fit was the old cooler's backplate... The cooler (AK620) came with an Intel backplate. So I sat there for hours like a dummy wondering if they had forgotten to package certain screws/fixings. Also got a new PSU so know those feelings! Pretty much started from scratch but case a lot cleaner and tidier now.
 
What temperatures is everyone getting with their card? I peaked at 80C last night, with my 3x140mm intake fans running really low. My CPU didn't reach high enough temperature for them to kick in. I may adjust my fan profile - does anyone have good resource for this? I have a MSI B650 Tomahawk.
 
jonnymc4 said:
What temperatures is everyone getting with their card? I peaked at 80C last night, with my 3x140mm intake fans running really low. My CPU didn't reach high enough temperature for them to kick in. I may adjust my fan profile - does anyone have good resource for this? I have a MSI B650 Tomahawk.
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Was that the hotspot temp?
 
erazor51 said:
Was that the hotspot temp?
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Probably not the best gauge, I was just referring to the temperature in the Modern Warfare 2 ingame reading, so I didn't see the hotspot temperature. I haven't measured using any monitoring software per se. MSI Afterburner for this?
 
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Jordan Harley said:
Will these come back in stock at this price or has that ship sailed?
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Nope. I am speaking to Asrock asking if they have any stock in none EU regions they can pull for me but looking unlikely to me and they already said if they can they won't repeat the same price as the last batch.
 
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jonnymc4 said:
Probably not the best gauge, I was just referring to the temperature in the Modern Warfare 2 ingame reading, so I didn't see the hotspot temperature. I haven't measured using any monitoring software per se. MSI Afterburner for this?
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Banzai_Joe said:
I've not been team read for years so know pretty much nothing about their software. I'm getting max FPS (144) that my monitor can handle in BF2042 on ultra, so i'm happy so far when my RTX2070 was giving me about 70.
just wondered if there is anything i should know about having the adrenalin software working and what to tweak if anything.
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Windows shouldnt be overwriting your AMD driver. Download and install it again off AMD's website as the dashboard is much better than NV's/ Also its not your monitor that can "handle" its the GPU that does the work.
I think you are getting mixed up with hz and fps. hz and fps are two seperate things. :) eg 144hz is the refresh rate of the monitor - the GPU can still do >144fps depending on the game etc
 
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varkanoid said:
Windows shouldnt be overwriting your AMD driver. Download and install it again off AMD's website as the dashboard is much better than NV's/ Also its not your monitor that can "handle" its the GPU that does the work.
I think you are getting mixed up with hz and fps. hz and fps are two seperate things. :) eg 144hz is the refresh rate of the monitor - the GPU can still do >144fps depending on the game etc
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Preach Brotha!

P.S - This Microsoft tool is useful for hiding Windows Updates, including driver updates. https://www.majorgeeks.com/files/details/microsoft_show_or_hide_updates_troubleshooter.html
 
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Chezdon said:
I installed a new cooler for my 5800x3d the other day and it took me two hours to realise that my stock AMD backplate was in the motherboard box and the one I was trying to get to fit was the old cooler's backplate... The cooler (AK620) came with an Intel backplate. So I sat there for hours like a dummy wondering if they had forgotten to package certain screws/fixings. Also got a new PSU so know those feelings! Pretty much started from scratch but case a lot cleaner and tidier now.
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Yeah man it is a satisfying feeling now that it is all setup and stuff.
 
Had a bit of a nightmare installing 6900xt, new power supply and AIO as im a bit of a novice, had that heart attack moment when nothing worked but eventually worked out it was because i hadnt swapped some of the old power supply cables out but had just switched them over into new power supply. When i replaced the rest of the cables its all good and running smoothly so far.
 
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