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The Radeon RX 7900 XT(X) Owners Thread.

GoogalyMoogaly said:
Sapphire 7900XT Pulse.

I hear good things about the Nitro+ line but I'm guessing Pulse is their cheapo line. It doesn't "feel" quality, like something could snap at any minute (from memory it's been a while since I've actually handled it).
If I lower the voltage it's unstable, if I increase the max clocks it's unstable, if I leave it stock it runs hot.

It has 2 HDMI ports but they don't both work at the same time, so that feels pointless.
When I got it the memory wouldn't clock down at idle, so it ran warm at idle and it prevented the fan from entering zero-rpm mode. I believe this is now fixed with updated rivers (unless it's been re-broken again) but first impressions matter and that wasn't ideal.
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Surely you can RMA it.
 
Well I have to say this card is fantastic. "Played" some flight sim last night and at ultra quality 4k was getting 90 fps, whereas before at lower quality I was only getting 30 fps if lucky. Still not played all my games yet and will have more time next week when I'm off work. It's certainly a massive improvement over the 2080ti and not even tried flicking the switch over yet. Also nice and cool. I didn't have enough room in my case to fit the supporting bar so used something wedged under the rear end of the card for extra support. I might have to treat myself to a new case for my birthday, early next year.
 
eeii said:
All the ports should work at the same time. If some of them don’t work it’s broken.
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They might if I wasn't using the majority of the bandwidth on one port.
Is it a disappointing design? Yes.
Is it broken? I'm not sure it is.

What happens if I send it back and OcUK test it on a couple of 1080p monitors and it works fine and they send it back as not faulty?
 
GoogalyMoogaly said:
They might if I wasn't using the majority of the bandwidth on one port.
Is it a disappointing design? Yes.
Is it broken? I'm not sure it is.

What happens if I send it back and OcUK test it on a couple of 1080p monitors and it works fine and they send it back as not faulty?
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Easy way to find out set your res to 1080p on all the ports.
 
Tetras said:
It is, but I thought that limit was pretty high, not something I'd expect a regular monitor to exceed?
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From memory, when we've discussed it in this thread before it was that both monitors are 4k 144hz - so would exceed the available bandwidth from the HDMI ports.

The Radeon RX 7900 XT(X) Owners Thread.

Nope, nothing showing a driver crash. Checked the event log and there's nothing related either. I've already disabled windows fast boot when I was doing my 'try everything to find a fix' attempts... It's a proper peculiar one because I've just booted my PC now to have another look and this time...
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t2na said:
From memory, when we've discussed it in this thread before it was that both monitors are 4k 144hz - so would exceed the available bandwidth from the HDMI ports.

The Radeon RX 7900 XT(X) Owners Thread.

Nope, nothing showing a driver crash. Checked the event log and there's nothing related either. I've already disabled windows fast boot when I was doing my 'try everything to find a fix' attempts... It's a proper peculiar one because I've just booted my PC now to have another look and this time...
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You are correct.

I'm not sure how much bandwidth 4k 120/144hz takes and if there would be enough for a 1080p display (as I can't set them to a lower resolution if I can't see them and for some reason they seem to either display at full resolution/refresh or not at all rather than say display both at 4k 60hz or whatever).
 
Have you installed the monitor drivers and make sure you’re not using windows generic. All the monitors I have used even the super wide ones can display 1080p. The only other thing you could do is use a usb to hdmi adapter. I use them for work due to the crap work laptop I’ve been given the 4k ones work well for work stuff but are a bit more pricey.
 
eeii said:
Have you installed the monitor drivers and make sure you’re not using windows generic. All the monitors I have used even the super wide ones can display 1080p. The only other thing you could do is use a usb to hdmi adapter. I use them for work due to the crap work laptop I’ve been given the 4k ones work well for work stuff but are a bit more pricey.
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It can display 1080p, but it doesn't default to it.
Even if I get it working so it's doing 2 x 1080p or 2x 4k@60Hz, that doesn't help so it may as well not work. It's 2 x 4k @ 120/144hz or nothing.

I'm working around it by using a DisplayPort at the minute, but it's annoying.
 
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Hoping someone might be able to point me in the right direction. I originally ordered the 7900XTX Red Devil but everywhere is out of stock so I’m wondering who would be the better brand to go with?

I’ve been looking at the hellhound which seems to be popular but there’s also the sapphire nitro x and I’m unsure which way to turn.
 
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