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The Radeon RX 6900/6950 XT Owners Thread.

Hi everyone,
After ordering a 3080 way back in September and no sign of anything possibly being delivered in the near future, I cancelled my pre-order with OCUK. I'm now looking at buying a 6900XT given that surprisingly there are some in stock on the site. My question is should i go for the reference card style from PowerColor or Sapphire or spend an extra couple of hundred on the Sapphire Nitro+ OC? I'm not intending to do any overclocking. I've seen in some posts that users have complained of coil whine - if anyone here owns the Nitro+OC, have they experienced anything similar?
 
bionicfinger said:
Hi everyone,
After ordering a 3080 way back in September and no sign of anything possibly being delivered in the near future, I cancelled my pre-order with OCUK. I'm now looking at buying a 6900XT given that surprisingly there are some in stock on the site. My question is should i go for the reference card style from PowerColor or Sapphire or spend an extra couple of hundred on the Sapphire Nitro+ OC? I'm not intending to do any overclocking. I've seen in some posts that users have complained of coil whine - if anyone here owns the Nitro+OC, have they experienced anything similar?
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Based on what you are planning to do, I would go for this and save the extra money. https://www.overclockers.co.uk/sapp...ddr6-pci-express-graphics-card-gx-39e-sp.html
 
wookiee87 said:
my cards arrived

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so far set a 2650mhz core clock and in games i see just under 2400mhz and the card draws 294w, in 3dmark i see clocks just over 2300mhz range, waiting on the ek block so i can cool it down more and maybe stabalise the clocks and get close to 2500mhz overall :)

ram 3d mark earlier and got https://www.3dmark.com/spy/17815613

cpu 17006
gpu 19140

overall 18,786

not my final run, when i do i'll post in the timespy thread, jsut getting a feel for the card atm
 
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muziqaz said:
Ooh, it heats up. When folding it gets really hot :D obviously on majority of games it is half asleep :D
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I did some folding for a while last year on my 5700 XT although I don't recall the temps at the time. I would have thought folding was similar to mining though and if that is the case, then you can turn the core clock right down as it's the memory bandwidth that provides the computing power. I've been mining a bit with my card and with the memory slider maxed out but with the clocks turned down to 1400 Mhz, my fans are running at 36% and a temp of 59 degrees with 100% GPU utilisation. You may not need to pushing your card so hard to be perform the folding?

I can't say I've ever noticed the fans making a noise and I've been playing demanding games like Cyberpunk or RDR2 and SOTTR at 4K ultrawide. I've also left the side of my Phanteks case off as it has a window but the pillar blocks my view of the end of the card (which looks awesome) and my new ARGB RAM. :D Still can't hear anything from the card.
 
bionicfinger said:
Hi everyone,
After ordering a 3080 way back in September and no sign of anything possibly being delivered in the near future, I cancelled my pre-order with OCUK. I'm now looking at buying a 6900XT given that surprisingly there are some in stock on the site. My question is should i go for the reference card style from PowerColor or Sapphire or spend an extra couple of hundred on the Sapphire Nitro+ OC? I'm not intending to do any overclocking. I've seen in some posts that users have complained of coil whine - if anyone here owns the Nitro+OC, have they experienced anything similar?
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No coil whine on Red Devil.
 
So I got the Linkup 4.0 riser installed.
Its a little longer than needed so it overlaps itself and pushes the card out of square slightly. Might have to have another attempt another day and tidy it up.

But for now I'm back up to PCIe X 16 4.0 (Showing in Gpu-Z)


upload a photo to google image search
 
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Ok so I'm going to expose my ignorance here and admit that I thought that the metal stand things bundled with my Red Devil card were for supporting the card given it's size and weight when mounted horizontally. I've since started to suspect that this is a kit for mounting vertically but there no real instructions for illustrations to that effect that I saw in the box. Can anyone enlighten me?
 
heartburnron said:
Ok so I'm going to expose my ignorance here and admit that I thought that the metal stand things bundled with my Red Devil card were for supporting the card given it's size and weight when mounted horizontally. I've since started to suspect that this is a kit for mounting vertically but there no real instructions for illustrations to that effect that I saw in the box. Can anyone enlighten me?
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No idea mate but @Too Tall might know.
 
After being ousted in one system by a 3090FE she deserved to have her own and has her place in a rig as colourful as she is.

Need to swap the stock AMD cooler for the white arctic Freezer 34 eSports duo when it comes but it's able to do its thing again

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LtMatt said:
Try disabling compatibility support module (CSM) under the Boot menu in the BIOS.
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done this, no change. I still have to clear CMOS to get into bios and that sometimes throws up a GPU error on the post code thing. Might try a new MB bios or just reflash with the same one.

it’s weird. I tried smashing delete, I’ve tried holding shift when I select restart in windows and choosing boot into bios. My monitor (Samsung G9 49inch) doesn’t even turn on until windows log in screen.

Still not running 240hz either as it feels like it’s at 60hz when I select it. Strange. Don’t blame AMD on that one because Nvidia has the same issues.

In other news I might buy a water block for it tomorrow, even though the reference cooler is miles better than the Vega56 blower!
 
Overlag said:
done this, no change. I still have to clear CMOS to get into bios and that sometimes throws up a GPU error on the post code thing. Might try a new MB bios or just reflash with the same one.

it’s weird. I tried smashing delete, I’ve tried holding shift when I select restart in windows and choosing boot into bios. My monitor (Samsung G9 49inch) doesn’t even turn on until windows log in screen.

Still not running 240hz either as it feels like it’s at 60hz when I select it. Strange. Don’t blame AMD on that one because Nvidia has the same issues.

In other news I might buy a water block for it tomorrow, even though the reference cooler is miles better than the Vega56 blower!
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Try the latest BIOS.

Check the monitor OSD, disable FreeSync and then make sure it is set to 240HZ. You can only change refresh rate with FreeSync disabled via OSD. I have the previous version of that monitor the CRG90 so I assume it will be similar.
 
heartburnron said:
Ok so I'm going to expose my ignorance here and admit that I thought that the metal stand things bundled with my Red Devil card were for supporting the card given it's size and weight when mounted horizontally. I've since started to suspect that this is a kit for mounting vertically but there no real instructions for illustrations to that effect that I saw in the box. Can anyone enlighten me?
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LtMatt said:
No idea mate but @Too Tall might know.
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I didn't use the stand that came with mine.

I've just used a off cut from my hard tubing. It's less visible.
 
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