The Radeon RX 6800 (XT) Owners Thread.

[henson0115]

baffles me that amazon let people get away with this, i mean surely its not that hard to track the original purchaser....

 

[ALXAndy]

baffles me that amazon let people get away with this, i mean surely its not that hard to track the original purchaser....

Sometimes it isn't them. Scammers will buy things, and return it, supposedly unopened and unused back to them and they will send it out to someone else. It's common on there, especially with CPUs. Many people bought Ryzen and actually got a manky old AM2 Athlon.

They (I am not mentioning them by name) don't check things properly. I used to buy from their warehouse all of the time. Mostly because it was cheap AF, and any risk was negated by a small pain in sending it back if it hadn't been tested properly etc. Then they clocked onto it, and now the warehouse prices are only about 3% less than buying new. And you still take that risk, so it's not even worth it.

I bought my 6800XT from OCUK. It was IMO a stellar bargain. £728. Now I know that's only about £100 less than a new one (it was B grade, but had all of the peel off crap on it) but it was the type of card that made it far more attractive to me. It's the Strix, meaning it has the 240 rad on. And this was absolutely essential because the case I bought for £400 (and am not replacing because it's bloody gorgeous) can only take water cooled parts. I wanted a rig that was reliable for my home rig, so I put AIOs in it. Meaning I either needed a 240 AIO cooled GPU or I spend over £200 on putting one under water. So in ways I literally deduct that £200 off the cost of the GPU and all of a sudden I have bought a 6800XT for £528. The fastest XT there is.

Ironically the very next day a 3080 seahorse or whatever came up for £750, but I am wary of 10gb of VRAM. And besides, in what I play and wanted it for (PUBG, so UE) the 6800XT is quite a clip faster than the 3080 too.

 

[henson0115]

Sometimes it isn't them. Scammers will buy things, and return it, supposedly unopened and unused back to them and they will send it out to someone else. It's common on there, especially with CPUs. Many people bought Ryzen and actually got a manky old AM2 Athlon.

They (I am not mentioning them by name) don't check things properly. I used to buy from their warehouse all of the time. Mostly because it was cheap AF, and any risk was negated by a small pain in sending it back if it hadn't been tested properly etc. Then they clocked onto it, and now the warehouse prices are only about 3% less than buying new. And you still take that risk, so it's not even worth it.

I bought my 6800XT from OCUK. It was IMO a stellar bargain. £728. Now I know that's only about £100 less than a new one (it was B grade, but had all of the peel off crap on it) but it was the type of card that made it far more attractive to me. It's the Strix, meaning it has the 240 rad on. And this was absolutely essential because the case I bought for £400 (and am not replacing because it's bloody gorgeous) can only take water cooled parts. I wanted a rig that was reliable for my home rig, so I put AIOs in it. Meaning I either needed a 240 AIO cooled GPU or I spend over £200 on putting one under water. So in ways I literally deduct that £200 off the cost of the GPU and all of a sudden I have bought a 6800XT for £528. The fastest XT there is.

Ironically the very next day a 3080 seahorse or whatever came up for £750, but I am wary of 10gb of VRAM. And besides, in what I play and wanted it for (PUBG, so UE) the 6800XT is quite a clip faster than the 3080 too.

i get how they do it, what i don't get is amazon is clearly losing money and id have thought it would be in there interest to put better measures in place to stop and track the original purchaser.

 

[ALXAndy]

i get how they do it, what i don't get is amazon is clearly losing money and id have thought it would be in there interest to put better measures in place to stop and track the original purchaser.

Too much money involved. I'm sure Bezos doesn't give a toss the money he has. That's why it's so easy to get away with, if you are that way inclined.

America especially are, or used to be, incredibly gullible when it comes to stuff like that. Like when I went over for 3 months to see if I liked it (I ended up moving out there) I walked into a Blockbuster store to open an account. I said "I have an account in the UK" and he tells me to show him my card. Scanned it in and let me rent out anything I liked. I mean, if I was a ahole I could have rented a PS2, Xbox etc and just done a bunk.

I also noticed that on game consoles they had no anti tamper sticker on the box. Classic my less than moral friends used to do was walk into Currys, buy a Playstation, go out to the car, remove the controller and take it back and get another one. Easy free way to get a second controller for nothing. That was in the 90s, and companies soon wised up to it and put seals on. But in the US? no seals at all.

I would imagine they have wised up a lot since 2002. However, like I said if you have a poor moral compass there are still plenty of ways to get something for nothing.

I stick to OCUK. Have done for about 10 years now. I have had one bad B grade item (a monitor with lines down it) and they sent DPD back the next morning to collect it.

 

[Kaapstad]

Bargain 6800XT Strix.

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The Roll of Honour.

Date 09/06/2022, Make Asus Strix LC 6800 XT, ALXAndy, Link
Date 08/09/2021, Make Asus TUF 6800 XT, KNiVES, Link
Date 31/07/2021, Make Asus TUF 6800 XT, Cyrus Leander, Link
Date 28/07/2021, Make Asus Strix LC 6800 XT, martian1, Link
Date 25/07/2021, Make Asus TUF 6800 XT, Nghtmare, Link
Date 19/07/2021, Make PowerColor Red Devil 6800 XT, AmDaMan, Link
Date 17/07/2021, Make MSI Gaming X Trio 6800, Quixote, Link
Date 07/07/2021, Make AMD Reference 6800, LtMatt, Link
Date 23/04/2021, Make Sapphire Nitro+ 6800 XT, iniaes, Link
Date 26/03/2021, Make PowerColor Red Dragon 6800 XT, Stanners, Link
Date 24/03/2021, Make XFX Merc 319 6800 XT, rare, Link
Date 24/03/2021, Make ASRock Taichi 6800 XT, Space Monkey, Link
Date 23/03/2021, Make Sapphire Nitro+ 6800 XT, Legionaire68, Link
Date 22/03/2021, Make XFX Merc 319 6800 XT, MANFACE, Link
Date 13/03/2021, Make AMD Reference 6800, t2na, Link
Date 09/03/2021, Make MSI Gaming X Trio 6800 XT, Buffalo2102, Link
Date 09/03/2021, Make Sapphire Nitro+ 6800 XT, Vince, Link
Date 08/03/2021, Make XFX QICK 319 6800, oweneades, Link
Date 24/02/2021, Make Gigabyte Aorus Master 6800 XT, Grandmaster Fap!, Link
Date 12/02/2021, Make Sapphire Nitro+ 6800 XT, Kirby Wurm, Link
Date 12/02/2021, Make AMD Reference 6800, old gamer, Link
Date 12/02/2021, Make Sapphire Nitro+ 6800 XT, IainTKD, Link
Date 11/02/2021, Make Sapphire Nitro+ 6800 XT, T1Cybernetic, Link
Date 11/02/2021, Make Sapphire Nitro+ 6800 XT, Johnny Silverhand, Link
Date 10/02/2021, Make Sapphire Nitro+ 6800 XT, PzR Slim, Link
Date 10/02/2021, Make AMD Reference 6800, Harlequin, Link
Date 08/02/2021, Make Sapphire Nitro+ 6800 XT, im4gine3, Link
Date 08/02/2021, Make Sapphire Nitro+ 6800 XT, mattyc123, Link
Date 06/02/2021, Make Sapphire Nitro+ 6800, leemk, Link
Date 04/02/2021, Make AMD Reference 6800, Mike_P, Link
Date 02/02/2021, Make Sapphire Nitro+ 6800 XT, Scoobynuts, Link
Date 02/02/2021, Make Sapphire Pulse 6800, Aztec2Step, Link
Date 01/02/2021, Make Sapphire Nitro+ 6800 XT, atomixers, Link
Date 01/02/2021, Make Gigabyte Gaming 6800 XT, philo-sofa, Link
Date 01/02/2021, Make Sapphire Nitro+ 6800 XT, Vegeta, Link
Date 30/01/2021, Make Sapphire Nitro+ 6800 XT, Jimbo, Link
Date 29/01/2021, Make Sapphire Nitro+ 6800, Johnny Silverhand, Link
Date 29/01/2021, Make PowerColor Red Devil 6800 XT, roger_37, Link
Date 27/01/2021, Make Sapphire Nitro+ 6800 XT, Unreal22, Link
Date 27/01/2021, Make Sapphire Nitro+ 6800 XT, Davinnicus, Link
Date 27/01/2021, Make PowerColor Red Devil 6800 XT, Satchfanuk, Link
Date 27/01/2021, Make MSI Gaming X Trio 6800, welshrat, Link
Date 26/01/2021, Make AMD Reference 6800, Figo, Link
Date 21/01/2021, Make XFX Merc 319 6800 XT, w00dy85, Link
Date 13/01/2021, Make PowerColor Red Devil 6800 XT, Vimes, Link
Date 13/01/2021, Make PowerColor Red Devil 6800 XT, bimbleuk, Link
Date 11/01/2021, Make AMD Reference 6800 XT, Shilz, Link
Date 08/01/2021, Make AMD Reference 6800, faceman123, Link
Date 04/01/2021, Make Sapphire Nitro+ 6800 XT, KentMan, Link
Date 04/01/2021, Make Sapphire Nitro+ 6800 XT, sparkymark75, Link
Date 23/12/2020, Make AMD Reference 6800, Metalface Mark, Link
Date 23/12/2020, Make PowerColor Fighter 6800, MattBoxer, Link
Date 17/12/2020, Make AMD Reference 6800 XT, smellster, Link
Date 17/12/2020, Make XFX Merc 319 6800 XT, Sad Panda, Link
Date 16/12/2020, Make Sapphire Nitro+ 6800 XT, MaDMaX**, Link
Date 16/12/2020, Make XFX Merc 319 6800 XT, Apache14, Link
Date 14/12/2020, Make AMD Reference 6800 XT, Kangaxx, Link
Date 13/12/2020, Make AMD Reference 6800, Rezident, Link
Date 12/12/2020, Make AMD Reference 6800, Bonjour, Link
Date 11/12/2020, Make AMD Reference 6800, gettothechopper, Link
Date 11/12/2020, Make AMD Reference 6800, silk300, Link
Date 10/12/2020, Make AMD Reference 6800, rolypolyman, Link
Date 10/12/2020, Make AMD Reference 6800, Haggisman, Link
Date 07/12/2020, Make AMD Reference 6800, DynamicOCUK, Link
Date 05/12/2020, Make AMD Reference 6800, Jumper118, Link
Date 27/11/2020, Make AMD Reference 6800, TripleT, Link
Date 27/11/2020, Make AMD Reference 6800, Phat-Bud, Link
Date 27/11/2020, Make AMD Reference 6800, Shuflie, Link
Date 27/11/2020, Make AMD Reference 6800, Heofz, Link
Date 27/11/2020, Make AMD Reference 6800, Kill_Phil, Link
Date 26/11/2020, Make AMD Reference 6800 XT, LtMatt, Link
Date 25/11/2020, Make AMD Reference 6800 XT, Glanza, Link
Date 24/11/2020, Make AMD Reference 6800, sweenEire, Link
Date 24/11/2020, Make AMD Reference 6800 XT, BogEyes, Link
Date 23/11/2020, Make AMD Reference 6800, Milo01, Link
Date 23/11/2020, Make AMD Reference 6800, Sgt_Pepper, Link
Date 23/11/2020, Make AMD Reference 6800, BigJack, Link
Date 22/11/2020, Make AMD Reference 6800, phawk, Link
Date 22/11/2020, Make AMD Reference 6800, AfrogoatST, Link
Date 22/11/2020, Make AMD Reference 6800 XT, JCLDJB, Link
Date 21/11/2020, Make AMD Reference 6800, Darren_uk, Link
Date 20/11/2020, Make AMD Reference 6800 XT, dante6491, Link
Date 19/11/2020, Make AMD Reference 6800 XT, Rastan007, Link
Date 19/11/2020, Make AMD Reference 6800 XT, Gears, Link
Date 19/11/2020, Make AMD Reference 6800 XT, Chrisola, Link
Date 19/11/2020, Make AMD Reference 6800 XT, montymint, Link
Date 19/11/2020, Make AMD Reference 6800 XT, almoststew1990, Link
Date 19/11/2020, Make AMD Reference 6800, lovelyhead, Link




To get on the Roll of Honour all you have to do is post a pic with your user name on it of your Radeon RX 6800 (XT).​

 

[Gerard]

baffles me that amazon let people get away with this, i mean surely its not that hard to track the original purchaser....

Happened me one time as well, bought a 980ti strix and it was a geforce 580 or something in the box. They refunded it no bother but it was obviously a return they sold on as new.

 

[Confused Stu]

£589 and £659 now for 6800 and 6800 XT on OcUK.

And a 6800 XT ordered!

Cheers Gibbo. I've been keeping an eye on 3080's creeping under £800 here over the past couple of weeks to replace my 1080Ti, but this price was just too good to say no to.

 

[queeg]

And a 6800 XT ordered!

Cheers Gibbo. I've been keeping an eye on 3080's creeping under £800 here over the past couple of weeks to replace my 1080Ti, but this price was just too good to say no to.

i couldnt resist that deal either its going to replace a 5700xt ordered a waterblock to put on it too

 

[Retikulan]

Happened me one time as well, bought a 980ti strix and it was a geforce 580 or something in the box. They refunded it no bother but it was obviously a return they sold on as new.

Happened to me a few years ago. I bought a 500GB Crucial SSD from Amazon but when I opened it what I actually got was a 14 year old 80gb laptop IDE drive. That's why I tend to buy my gear from OCUK now, and now I'm eyeing up one of those 6800s at £589 that Gibbo mentioned. Damn you Gibbo

 

[Dave85]

I still despise my 6800xt due to the AMD CSGO issue. Other than that its not bad but performance is limited by my cpu big time on fortnite etc 3600x.

 

[Troezar]

I still despise my 6800xt due to the AMD CSGO issue. Other than that its not bad but performance is limited by my cpu big time on fortnite etc 3600x.

You could probably drop in a 5600X for not a lot after selling your 3600X.

 

[ALXAndy]

I still despise my 6800xt due to the AMD CSGO issue. Other than that its not bad but performance is limited by my cpu big time on fortnite etc 3600x.

In a way I am glad that prices have sucked for so long. Mostly because I never usually bother upgrading my CPU for ages. I got so bored last year though that I moved my 3950x into my machine at my mother's and bought a 12700KF with a cheap Gigabyte DDR4 board. Bloody hell, what a difference. Even at 1440p on a 2080Ti.

That has left me in good stead and I am glad I was patient on a GPU upgrade.

 

[Burtoner]

So I just managed to get myself a 6800xt, upgrading from a nvidia 970, my current monitors run at 1080p 144hz, but all 3 use DP cables, the 6800xt has 2x DP 1x HDMI and 1x USB-C
Can I use a USB-C to DP connector to get 3rd monitor running?

 

[LtMatt]

So I just managed to get myself a 6800xt, upgrading from a nvidia 970, my current monitors run at 1080p 144hz, but all 3 use DP cables, the 6800xt has 2x DP 1x HDMI and 1x USB-C
Can I use a USB-C to DP connector to get 3rd monitor running?

Maybe. No guarantee with these unverified adapters, but in theory it should work.

 

[mumpy]

Hi guys I just bought the Sapphire RX6800XT Nitro + and it seems to have issues running Density coming from a gtx 1080 ti which ran D2 a lot better. Am I missing something?
Thanks for any help.

 

[Troezar]

Hi guys I just bought the Sapphire RX6800XT Nitro + and it seems to have issues running Density coming from a gtx 1080 ti which ran D2 a lot better. Am I missing something?
Thanks for any help.

Cleared out the old Nvidia drivers fully? If you have a spare drive try it on a fresh install to see how it runs.

 

[Sumanji]

Destiny 2 works great on my 6900XT - would do as @Troezar suggests and clear out Nvidia drivers using something like DDU - https://www.guru3d.com/files-details/display-driver-uninstaller-download.html

 

[mumpy]

Thanks guys I did use DDU when I switched to the 6800, I am now re downloading Destiny on a different drive to see if that helps.

 

[mumpy]

Re downing and installed on a different drive did not improve my fps drops to 43-71 at 3440x1440, any suggestions?

 

[eeii]

Check your temps and GPU utilisation with the overlay or Msi after burner to see exactly what is going on. I would also check your display settings to make windows has correctly set your monitor type.