XFX 5700 DD Ultra

kayone · 22 Nov 2019 at 14:10

Anyone have any experience/own one of these? Ive seen it's an updated version of the cooler which got slaughtered by Gamers Nexus, so intrigued as to how this performs. Over at TechSpot they have chose this particular model to flash to the XT BIOS and seems to perform great. Looks to be very well priced also at Sub £300.

Any comments/experience?

Gibbo · 22 Nov 2019 at 14:23

We don't sell XFX for a reason, I won't say why.

You can get MSI for same price from here which is a superior brand, better warranty and generally better quality:

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RusstheDroog · 22 Nov 2019 at 15:26

Gibbo said:
We don't sell XFX for a reason, I won't say why.

You can get MSI for same price from here which is a superior brand, better warranty and generally better quality:

@Gibbo, never gone AMD before and i'm seriously considering the 5700 reference blower with the Asus cash back bringing it down to £250. I've had Nvidia reference cards before and the noise didnt bother me, but would you recommend this over the 5700 reference type? Or go Asus and save 50 quid?

Cheers.

Gibbo · 22 Nov 2019 at 15:50

RusstheDroog said:
@Gibbo, never gone AMD before and i'm seriously considering the 5700 reference blower with the Asus cash back bringing it down to £250. I've had Nvidia reference cards before and the noise didnt bother me, but would you recommend this over the 5700 reference type? Or go Asus and save 50 quid?

Cheers.

If noise don't really bother you, save £50 as long as your happy to go through the cashback claiming process, to get that £65 back to make it the £249.

Freddie1980 · 22 Nov 2019 at 17:31

RusstheDroog said:
@Gibbo, never gone AMD before and i'm seriously considering the 5700 reference blower with the Asus cash back bringing it down to £250. I've had Nvidia reference cards before and the noise didnt bother me, but would you recommend this over the 5700 reference type? Or go Asus and save 50 quid?

Cheers.

A lot of people have been able to reduce noise, temps and increase performance by undervolting the card. Be sure to check in the 5700/5700XT owners thread in the graphics forum!

kayone · 22 Nov 2019 at 20:38

Back on topic.. anyone used the XFX dd ultra?

Minstadave · 22 Nov 2019 at 21:16

Gibbo said:
We don't sell XFX for a reason, I won't say why

Do you want to show us where the XFX man touched you on a doll?

RusstheDroog · 25 Nov 2019 at 14:36

Freddie1980 said:
A lot of people have been able to reduce noise, temps and increase performance by undervolting the card. Be sure to check in the 5700/5700XT owners thread in the graphics forum!

Thanks for the advice, going to pull the trigger on the 5700 in the next few days.

keybaud · 26 Nov 2019 at 22:49

kayone said:
Back on topic.. anyone used the XFX dd ultra?

I haven't used a DD, but I did have a Thicc II. The XFX cards are OK, but the board components are the cheapest of all 5700 card manufacturers. They fixed the cooling on the newer versions, hence they are 'OK' and not 'bad'. Having said this, I had one of the bad cards and I got decent performance out of it by undervolting and increasing the fan speed. I returned it due to the early driver problemms, not because of the card itself.

R33mba · 16 Jan 2020 at 17:46

I have xfx 5700 card..She is pretty loud in load, I wouldn't say it has coilmain issues, it's just sound of fans and I think air blowing that's pretty loud..When I start rdr2 she immediately turn on the fans..I haven't noticed high teps after playing rdr2..It shows 78c..but my case doesnt have good air flow..

Should I sell her and buy other brand? Like MSI? if she is more quieter??

mikeyw85 · 17 Jan 2020 at 17:37

OK, i'll try make the same post again without mentioning a competitors name, (who actually isn't a competitor anyway) to try not get the post deleted.

I previously had an RX570 that was rock solid stable. Recently got an RX5700 DD and have had some issues...

Battlefield 1 froze pc on launching it. Fixed by swapping to DX12 (which isnt great)
Some other games like BF5 have crahed to desktop.
I have had the entire PC freeze while not even playing a game.

Not sure how much of this is to blame on the 5700, but I had no problems before. However, over time it seems to be getting better.

R33mba · 17 Jan 2020 at 18:14

I wasn't even able to run my BF1 coz he didnt recognize my gpu

mikeyw85 · 18 Jan 2020 at 08:22

My mistake, it was BF5 that locks up at launch. Fixed that last night though by creating a user.cfg file in the games diectory with fairly default settings and DX11. Works now, and doesn't lock on launching.

The game still crashed to desktop after a few minutes. I read somewhere that lowering RAM speed can fix this. I have Corsair 3600 C18 stuff that i dropped to 3400mhz, and since then i was able to play a game with no crash. Needs further testing though. Wierd because no other game, benchmark or memtest has a problem at 3600mhz.

Panos · 18 Jan 2020 at 09:15

mikeyw85 said:
OK, i'll try make the same post again without mentioning a competitors name, (who actually isn't a competitor anyway) to try not get the post deleted.

I previously had an RX570 that was rock solid stable. Recently got an RX5700 DD and have had some issues...

Battlefield 1 froze pc on launching it. Fixed by swapping to DX12 (which isnt great)
Some other games like BF5 have crahed to desktop.
I have had the entire PC freeze while not even playing a game.

Not sure how much of this is to blame on the 5700, but I had no problems before. However, over time it seems to be getting better.

Use DDU in windows safe mode and set DDU to delete the AMD folder. Then install 20.1.2

What you describe also has to do with power. I hope you do not use splitters/daisy chains and you use 2 power cables from the PSU to GPU.

mikeyw85 · 18 Jan 2020 at 10:14

Panos said:
Use DDU in windows safe mode and set DDU to delete the AMD folder. Then install 20.1.2

What you describe also has to do with power. I hope you do not use splitters/daisy chains and you use 2 power cables from the PSU to GPU.

i'm 90% certain i didn't daisy chain.

PSU is an EVGA SuperNova 750 G1+ 750W, so i'd think it would be fine unless it was faulty.

Panos · 18 Jan 2020 at 10:56

mikeyw85 said:
i'm 90% certain i didn't daisy chain.

PSU is an EVGA SuperNova 750 G1+ 750W, so i'd think it would be fine unless it was faulty.

Open the case and have a look then. You should have 2 power cables running from the PSU to the GPU without splitters.

mikeyw85 · 18 Jan 2020 at 12:29

Panos said:
Open the case and have a look then. You should have 2 power cables running from the PSU to the GPU without splitters.

I will when i'm back from work tonight. When i built the PC i only needed one, for an RX570. But I'm certain I had the forethought to put another cable in for whenever I upgraded.

Jacky60 · 18 Jan 2020 at 21:32

kayone said:
Anyone have any experience/own one of these? Ive seen it's an updated version of the cooler which got slaughtered by Gamers Nexus, so intrigued as to how this performs. Over at TechSpot they have chose this particular model to flash to the XT BIOS and seems to perform great. Looks to be very well priced also at Sub £300.

Any comments/experience?

I've only ever had one XFX card. It was gimped on the memory (can't remember which model, maybe 4870) but they'd cheaped out on the components so it performed about 15% below the reference model. I was really annoyed when I discovered this so NEVER again. If you want a card that offers the cheapest components you can get away with fitting on a graphics card XFX are the best choice!

heatonpkmassive · 18 Jan 2020 at 21:50

I've always avoided XFX.

kayone · 19 Jan 2020 at 05:22

Jacky60 said:
I've only ever had one XFX card. It was gimped on the memory (can't remember which model, maybe 4870) but they'd cheaped out on the components so it performed about 15% below the reference model. I was really annoyed when I discovered this so NEVER again. If you want a card that offers the cheapest components you can get away with fitting on a graphics card XFX are the best choice!

Thanks for the feedback. I went ahead and bought it when the bay had the 20% off a competitor. The card is really great actually and following the guide as mentioned in the OP where they flash the same model to an XT, I'm seeing the card surpass XT frequency at 70% fan curve. Actually really impressed with it.