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The Radeon RX9070XT / RX9070 Owners Thread

3. Save your stable OC as a profile. You can then set individual games to use their own OC profile. Or set a standard global profile. (Points 1 and 2 above are important to ensure the profile is applied on startup).
this one is super handy as well, I found that my OC was stable in every game I played aside from one - so just set a more reserved OC for that title via Adrenalin and never really put too much thought into it outside of that!

Unsure if it’s available on NVCP but per game OC settings / profiles is such a great feature of Adrenalin.
 
Nitro arrived but its a proper screamer. Its louder than the GPU fans under load. Tried setting VSYNCH to even a low 60 FPS but it screams. My case is at desk level with 3 Rads and tuned for silence so the thing stands out. Even the wife and daughter said they wouldn't be able to put up with that. So it will be going back. Luckily from the forest so there will be zero hassle.

How are people finding the coil whine on the Nitro’s? Is it worth trying another?

My 3080 does exhibit some coil whine but not to this extent.
I’m only hearing coil whine at high frame rates, like over 120 fps. It’s not that loud, quieter than my old card and I only notice it during benchmarks usually because there is no sound.
 
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No worries. Some other tips

1. Turn off CSM and Fast Boot in your BIOS boot section

2. Disable PCI power savings in your Windows power settings.

3. Save your stable OC as a profile. You can then set individual games to use their own OC profile. Or set a standard global profile. (Points 1 and 2 above are important to ensure the profile is applied on startup).

4. Disable driver updates in your Windows update settings. This prevents Windows installing older drivers.
Grand thanks again, I’m not a mad Overclocker as I’m too old for all this tweaking (50 years young) so a stable clock is fine in all cases, undervolting sound good for a cooler running card and less power etc, one question is point 4. A bit risky if there is a MS security patch release, thanks again though :D
 
I can see some of you really enjoy the minutia of over-clocking, good luck to you.
I just pressed the efficency button and left it there. Works in all my games, no crashes, maybe 2-3% fps difference, doubt most will notice.
 
3. Save your stable OC as a profile. You can then set individual games to use their own OC profile. Or set a standard global profile. (Points 1 and 2 above are important to ensure the profile is applied on startup).
Thanks for highlighting this point - my approach has up to now been to develop a one-size-fit-all OC profile that works for all of the benchmarks / stress-tests that I use in its development. While on the "safe" side it's definitely leaving some FPS on the table for particular games that don't stress the GPU in the same ways.
 
I would also add to take your time and make one change at a time. To see what difference it makes. Goes without saying a large gin and tonic helps. Getting 3d mark scores is very addictive. However if you want a good game overclock you will have to start from scratch. As others have said what will work in one game may not work on others.
 
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I can see some of you really enjoy the minutia of over-clocking, good luck to you.
I just pressed the efficency button and left it there. Works in all my games, no crashes, maybe 2-3% fps difference, doubt most will notice.
I used to love squeezing every last drop of performance and doing all the overclocking, now I can't even be bothered to lift it off defaults, lol. I used to at least raise power limit, but gave up after it reset if a game ever crashed (it was my system memory OC at the time). Plus power is expensive, I must be getting old :rolleyes:
 
I used to love squeezing every last drop of performance and doing all the overclocking, now I can't even be bothered to lift it off defaults, lol. I used to at least raise power limit, but gave up after it reset if a game ever crashed (it was my system memory OC at the time). Plus power is expensive, I must be getting old :rolleyes:
Exactly my sentiments, I just want a stable machine to game now!
 
I’m only hearing coil whine at high frame rates, like over 120 fps. It’s not that loud, quieter than my old card and I only notice it during benchmarks usually because there is no sound.
Thanks for the reply. I’m going to give it another go today. I have a Phanteks NV9 and when I quickly tried it last night it was with the glass removed. After removing and putting the 3080 back in and putting all back together. I did notice the coil whine more on my 3080 in the enclosed case. So may be it isn’t that bad. It was late last night and I really shouldn’t have started doing the install.
 
Yeah likewise BUT the defaults these days are awful, high Vcores and temps
At minimum everyone should at least undervolt their new kit to get the temps down
Temp really isn't an issue on the Nitro. And I really cba to make sure it is stable, recheck it every so often because of silicon degredation etc. I realise a mild undervolt is no issue, but it's so much less hassle when installing drivers and stuff for it just to be default :P

The only tweaks I do on my PC now is load XMP profile and set my fan profiles. Oh and disable as much as I can in Windows ofc.
 
That was handy! Glad you managed to pinpoint the source of the noise.

I've just built an SFF pc with the Gaming OC and opted for a Corsair SF850 (2024 version). Really pleased with the PSU (& card) so far.
legend, thanks i’ll try this!
 
Nitro arrived but its a proper screamer. Its louder than the GPU fans under load. Tried setting VSYNCH to even a low 60 FPS but it screams. My case is at desk level with 3 Rads and tuned for silence so the thing stands out. Even the wife and daughter said they wouldn't be able to put up with that. So it will be going back. Luckily from the forest so there will be zero hassle.

How are people finding the coil whine on the Nitro’s? Is it worth trying another?

My 3080 does exhibit some coil whine but not to this extent.
My card is silent in use. Am hearing nothing
 
Trying to update all my games that support RT to give a whirl. The RX 6800 XT always felt like a bit of a tease for what could be with RT. Despite being double the RT performance of a PS5, PC games never seem to be as well optimised, the lowest RT settings often are still higher than the consoles get.

So far on my list I've got:

Cyberpunk 2077
Witcher 3
GTA V Enhanced
Hogwarts Legacy
Control
Watch Dogs Legion

Any I have missed that have got a nice implementation to try?
 
Trying to update all my games that support RT to give a whirl. The RX 6800 XT always felt like a bit of a tease for what could be with RT. Despite being double the RT performance of a PS5, PC games never seem to be as well optimised, the lowest RT settings often are still higher than the consoles get.

Nice ! Interested in your results.
Are there any in game benchmarks that we can run ?

I have GTA V(e) and C2077 btw
 
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