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The Radeon RX 6800 (XT) Owners Thread.

Quick question please peeps, is there any difference between the 6800XT that you can buy directly from the manufacturer and the 6800XTs from AIBs, I've some odd comments hinting at there is but just wanted to check for sure?

Sorry if this has been covered before?

:)
 
Space Monkey said:
Quick question please peeps, is there any difference between the 6800XT that you can buy directly from the manufacturer and the 6800XTs from AIBs, I've some odd comments hinting at there is but just wanted to check for sure?

Sorry if this has been covered before?

:)
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A higher TDP on the AIB model 6800 XTs over the AMD reference design. Other than that, no difference.
 
LtMatt said:
A higher TDP on the AIB model 6800 XTs over the AMD reference design. Other than that, no difference.
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Hi Matt,

Excellent, so the AIBs are the one to go for then?

What's the best custom card on OCUK at the moment, build quality, cooling, low noise etc... I've not had chance to look into AMDs yet?

Hope you're well mate?
 
Space Monkey said:
Hi Matt,

Excellent, so the AIBs are the one to go for then?

What's the best custom card on OCUK at the moment, build quality, cooling, low noise etc... I've not had chance to look into AMDs yet?

Hope you're well mate?
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Yep all good thanks mate.

Well, i think the AMD MBA board is hard to beat on looks personally, it's a beast. It's also super quiet, even with the fan RPM increased 10% over the stock settings.

If you want the extra few percent though, an AIB model would be best. Not that many reviews out yet, but i really like the look of the XFX Merc, it sure is pretty.

Looks to be the best so far, but as i said not much to go on atm. XFX RX 6800 XT Speedster Merc 319 Review, Power, Thermals, Overclocking & Gaming - YouTube
 
LtMatt said:
Yep all good thanks mate.

Well, i think the AMD MBA board is hard to beat on looks personally, it's a beast. It's also super quiet, even with the fan RPM increased 10% over the stock settings.

If you want the extra few percent though, an AIB model would be best. Not that many reviews out yet, but i really like the look of the XFX Merc, it sure is pretty.

Looks to be the best so far, but as i said not much to go on atm. XFX RX 6800 XT Speedster Merc 319 Review, Power, Thermals, Overclocking & Gaming - YouTube
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The Merc does look nice :)

At the moment I'm looking at OCUK to supply the card I don't think they do the Merc?

Strix, Taichi, Nitro, Red Devil LTD Ed. any good?
 
Space Monkey said:
The Merc does look nice :)

At the moment I'm looking at OCUK to supply the card I don't think they do the Merc?

Strix, Taichi, Nitro, Red Devil LTD Ed. any good?
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Hardware uboxed say the Merc is better than the Nitro and the Red Devil. The others have not been reviewed yet AFAIK.
 
Red Devil is the highest quality built. If you like the design, some think it is ugly.

Here is a review:

And here is the quality analysis from buildzoid:
 
LtMatt said:
Another Merc review here from Igors Lab looks to be a great card, fair play to XFX after their 5700 efforts.
XFX RX 6800 XT Merc 319 16 GB Review - Heavyweight and ultra silent | igor´sLAB
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I had the XFX Ghost 7970 GHz in crossfire.
They were a good pair of cards in there day.
The new XFX 6800XT looks like it is well built and a solid card.
If I could only get one, or any, for that matter.
What happened to your LC Vega64's @LtMatt ?. Mine is still hanging in there.
The upgrade itch is strong though.
 
After battling with unrecoverable BSODs (WHEA Uncorrectable Errors) during driver installs and an inability to shutdown without pulling the power, I appear to have finally got my new 6800 behaving. It's taken about 15 hours of trial and error, including what I imagine is 25+ clean windows installs, infinite restores, testing with multiple hardware configurations/bios versions/chipset and driver versions.

In the end I had to modify the driver installer to exclude AMD Link Xinput Emulation driver (cause of BSODs I think) and AMD Navi UCSI Driver (prevented machine shutting down). The latter I'm not overly concerned about at the moment as I don't need the USB-C output, but I've no idea what I'm missing without the AMD Link Xinput Emulation driver. Any ideas beyond the fluff AMD put on their website?

AMD Link
  • Brand new AMD Link Xinput Emulation driver (AMDXE), which will improve compatibility with current and future games. This gets installed the first time game streaming starts with AMD Link and will appear as a new Xbox 360 controller in Device Manager.
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I appreciate this is new tech, but a pretty awful experience so far. Let's hope gaming and stress testing doesn't find even more problems. :p
 
s-p said:
After battling with unrecoverable BSODs (WHEA Uncorrectable Errors) during driver installs and an inability to shutdown without pulling the power, I appear to have finally got my new 6800 behaving. It's taken about 15 hours of trial and error, including what I imagine is 25+ clean windows installs, infinite restores, testing with multiple hardware configurations/bios versions/chipset and driver versions.

In the end I had to modify the driver installer to exclude AMD Link Xinput Emulation driver (cause of BSODs I think) and AMD Navi UCSI Driver (prevented machine shutting down). The latter I'm not overly concerned about at the moment as I don't need the USB-C output, but I've no idea what I'm missing without the AMD Link Xinput Emulation driver. Any ideas beyond the fluff AMD put on their website?


I appreciate this is new tech, but a pretty awful experience so far. Let's hope gaming and stress testing doesn't find even more problems. :p
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Interesting this is similar behaviour as what I was seeing with New drivers and Vega. I used safe mode to install after many attenpts and black screen and repairs or restores etc. Interesting ive also setup and link but not really used it. Looks like you dug deeper than me though, prior to the 6800 drivers this behaviour never happened. I noticed on reboot after a black screen all sorts of PCI and other devices installing drivers, did you also suffer this?
 
I will say it now, the Asus Strix OC will be in a Tier of 1 but the Sapphire Nitro OC+ will have some special sauce in there to keep the benchmarks fairly even.

The Red Devil probably has the strongest cooler but i am not sure the PCB+VRM is as good.
 
Besty said:
I will say it now, the Asus Strix OC will be in a Tier of 1 but the Sapphire Nitro OC+ will have some special sauce in there to keep the benchmarks fairly even.

The Red Devil probably has the strongest cooler but i am not sure the PCB+VRM is as good.
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Asus strix oc will have a hilarious price tag when it actually becomes available im sure.
 
Gerard said:
Asus strix oc will have a hilarious price tag when it actually becomes available im sure.
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Yes it probably will that said, from the 2080 onwards Asus have been quietly out-engineering EVGA and for the 3000 series the Strix OC is now the gold standard.

People are willing to pay extra for the FTW3 Ultras and they are not as good as the Strix OC.

On that basis we are very lucky that Asus will provide AMD technology parity with the Nvidia range.

Sapphire will have a say with the Toxic, Asrock with the OC Formula, its possible Galax will also provide a Hall of fame but the Strix OC looks like the card to beat.
 
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