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RX 9000 series GPU Owners Club

Thank you guys. A follow up question: would you choose an 9070XT Hellhound or Pure?

On first glance the Hellhound is smaller (2.45 slots) vs 3 slots. The Hellhound also has 6 heatpipes vs 5. Is heatsink size more important than the number of heatpipes?
Hellhound also has 10 power phases and Pure has 8.
Both are 317W OC models.
At same price
 
pulcsi said:
Thank you guys. A follow up question: would you choose an 9070XT Hellhound or Pure?

On first glance the Hellhound is smaller (2.45 slots) vs 3 slots. The Hellhound also has 6 heatpipes vs 5. Is heatsink size more important than the number of heatpipes?
Hellhound also has 10 power phases and Pure has 8.
Both are 317W OC models.
At same price
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Both are great cards, what you choose is only a matter of taste.

To me personally, the smaller the better, that's why I have a Powercol Reaper.
 
AusWolf said:
To me personally, the smaller the better, that's why I have a Powercol Reaper.
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I thought that I've got small card :D, it's even 1mm shorter than Reaper xD
But then I looked on the images xD
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Kwadratowicz said:
I thought that I've got small card :D, it's even 1mm shorter than Reaper xD
But then I looked on the images xD
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Yep, the Reaper is the only truly dual slot 9070 XT out there. :)

I need that because I'm on micro-ATX and I've got an m.2 to nvme adapter in the slot below my GPU and two slim fans below that. But like I said, each to their own.
 
If not that I thought I would use dell xps 630 case to use with new gpu, I would go with bigger card, but now it's to late, My card is great, but I can't remove the stock fans without disassembling card itself -.-
So deshrouding needs to wait for the repasting of the gpu :).
 
pulcsi said:
Because I have the choice of going for Samsung vram, but Samsung may show the outer casing while Hynic might show the hotspot
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If you can choose, pick the brand you trust the most. For me I'd go with Hynix 85°C over Samsung 75°C. Pretty sure both are fine.
 
Funny thing, the coils are louder than fans on gigabyte 9070 xt, on stock settings.
 
Kwadratowicz said:
Funny thing, the coils are louder than fans on gigabyte 9070 xt, on stock settings.
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If you have another PSU, just try if the coil whine will go away.
 
Kwadratowicz said:
Funny thing, the coils are louder than fans on gigabyte 9070 xt, on stock settings.
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When it comes to my imaginary list of quality brands, Gigabyte isn't exactly on the top. Or the middle. Maybe that's just me.
 
Kwadratowicz said:
Funny thing, the coils are louder than fans on gigabyte 9070 xt, on stock settings.
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Coil whine is a lottery. Having said that my previous Gigabyte 4070 Ti Super Elite Master had some of the worst coil whine I've ever heard in my life. So bad I could hear it from the next room. It was driving me crazy and I couldn't fix it with software (fps caps, power limits) so I returned it. My current ASUS 9070 Prime is pleasantly quiet. You have to strain to hear the whine. I hope it stays that way.
 
Kwadratowicz said:
Funny thing, the coils are louder than fans on gigabyte 9070 xt, on stock settings.
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I set a frame cap to combat this. Most of the coil wind happen at very high fps.
 
Event Horizon said:
Coil whine is a lottery. Having said that my previous Gigabyte 4070 Ti Super Elite Master had some of the worst coil whine I've ever heard in my life. So bad I could hear it from the next room. It was driving me crazy and I couldn't fix it with software (fps caps, power limits) so I returned it. My current ASUS 9070 Prime is pleasantly quiet. You have to strain to hear the whine. I hope it stays that way.
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gigabyte seems to have the worst percentage rates of bad coil whine for mobo's and gpu's. I avoid them like the plague.

luckily my current sig rig has 0 coil whine of any kind, its quiet and runs ice cold thanks to the giant medieval heatsink.
 
AusWolf said:
When it comes to my imaginary list of quality brands, Gigabyte isn't exactly on the top. Or the middle. Maybe that's just me.
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It's not the best brand, but the fans are really quiet, and with headphones coils are not a problem.
I was playing PoE2 with cousin, and while playing in one room the coil whine was not noticeable, but alone I've got to quiet system :).
Space Lynx said:
gigabyte seems to have the worst percentage rates of bad coil whine for mobo's and gpu's. I avoid them like the plague.
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It can be, cause it's noticeable, but it was noticeable even with zotac gtx 1070 ti mini, but it was a lot less. (Maybe I'm just touchy about sound :) )
iSpeakVeryWell said:
I set a frame cap to combat this. Most of the coil wind happen at very high fps.
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For now I'm using everything xD, cause even if display is 75Hz why not go 350 fps :D.
Finally after changing cpu to 5700X the gpu is finally on it's full power :D.
And My linux system is down due to Arma 3 not working after changing cpu, and when I will make it run I will add 270W powercap, and 80-100 fps cap.
Event Horizon said:
Coil whine is a lottery.
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I'm thinking that after guarantee I will just let this card to be My test sample to make fun and mods :D.
And in case it's not a problem, I can still hear it, but it's a lot less.
 
Kwadratowicz said:
For now I'm using everything xD, cause even if display is 75Hz why not go 350 fps :D.
Finally after changing cpu to 5700X the gpu is finally on it's full power :D.
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A little coil wind never killed anybody! Enjoy your rig to the max! I know this feeling! :toast:
 
Jtuck9 said:
I've read that AMD will be announcing more FSR 4 partners at Computex but I wonder how things would have looked without something like Optiscaler...
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I don't use upscalers for now. Older games works just fine :), and AA titles are fine too :).
But i'm glad that optiscaler is working for ppl :), more stuff for gamers that works around the big tech company is good :).
 
Kwadratowicz said:
I don't use upscalers for now. Older games works just fine :), and AA titles are fine too :).
But i'm glad that optiscaler is working for ppl :), more stuff for gamers that works around the big tech company is good :).
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It would be interesting to see how much of a difference there would be if it was optimized by AMD versus being a mod.
 
Jtuck9 said:
It would be interesting to see how much of a difference there would be if it was optimized by AMD versus being a mod.
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I don't know if "optimize by AMD" is that great, I've got some inconsistency with drivers on windows, PoE2 while playing solo was ok, but playing 2 players it has crashed 2 times, and then worked ok.
and amd software is rubbish for me, cause even if I set something it can bugout and throw out of the window My settings, or even if I don't set anything it is still saying that there was a problem, and we are on stock settings, when the stock settings where on before the crash -.-
It's fun :banghead:
On windows all games works, but drivers are skechy, on linux not all games works, but drivers are rock solid :wtf:
 
Kwadratowicz said:
On windows all games works, but drivers are skechy, on linux not all games works, but drivers are rock solid :wtf:
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Sounds about right.

I'm enjoying the notion that Nvidia is getting a.i. to write their current drivers, hence the woes...

Techpowerup had that article about AMD pivoting to becoming a software company first, so interesting to see how things develop on that front.
 
Hi All,

Add me to the club please.

Gigabyte RX 9070 XT Elite, Purchased 26th March 2025.

Temps so far are similar to everyone else; limited testing due to other commitments.

It naturally boosts to 3100 core in Cyberpunk, Unigine Valley.

Snagged the card for £600 from Amazon :rockout:(think it got returned because original buyer did not like the slight buzz noise when fans start up / stop - I don't care about that - also waterblock :D)

Has anyone put a waterblock on a 9070 / XT yet?

I'm very interested in what a nice block will do to ram temps ;)

I'm waiting for the Alphacool block, still just Taichi listed so far from them...
 
Small update on the "hangingbyte" ^^, for now it looks like the thermal gel is problem only for nvidia users, I did not found info on amd cards from gigabyte that where "melting", and for now the blobs on my gigabyte are the same (checking it with eyes :) ), and I've heard only about 5080 and 5090 that has this problem, maybe amd cards are to low on power to "melt" itself :). Next update I will add around month :)
 
Could You post the cooler too? :D I love pics of coolers :) and tech :D
 
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