Also, try undervolting while overclocking, you'll likely be able to squeeze out more performance for the wattage you get. Undervolting gets more life and stability from a high end card, and can reduce coil whining since you are reducing voltage. By bringing down the mV to maybe 100 units down, you can squeeze a couple of more percentage out. And if the newer chiplets are that efficient, you could get massive undervolting results perhaps?
@@JCustom it's key to over clocking core with AMD, 6000 and 7000 series cards. You might notice that the card is lowering ram clocks during gaming if you don't under clock the core. It's simply managing the power budget between the GPU and ram and finding the best balance for your card
I enjoy your rants and the format of the video, feels very organic rather than scripted. Would be nice to hear what your favourite and least favourite products of 2022 were
The power limited cards mainly have to do with the AMD Reference cards. Seems as though the AIB partner cards have that limiter removed out of the box along with better thermals.
After watching game nexus's review of 7900xtx, I was pretty worried about the coil whining. Your card seems to be alright and quiet. Still waiting for my 7900xtx, hope it does not have significant noise🤣
I know it's too much to ask, but would you be able to provide a PIN Layout for the PINOUT FAN connector on the XT? I could find nothing online and am desperate to deshroud.
Think I got myself a 7900 xtx today. I'm running an itx build in the meshlicious so reference card is great for that. Also in Canada AIB cards are around $200 more and all restock of reference cards seem to be $200 over the Canadian msrp of $1399. The one I got is sapphire reference at $1449. Currently have a 4080 I may be returning. I'm very much undecided but 90% of my PC use is warzone. All the single player games I'm interested in I just play on the ps5 on my OLED. Will get roughly $400 back if I return the 4080 and keep the 7900 xtx.
Using soft pads(Gelid Extreme) right thickness for VRAM is 2mm and for VRM 1,5mm? Or was your 2mm a bit too thick and GPU didn't make perfect contact as in the end of the video delta goes pretty high...?
@@JCustom i tried 1,5mm pads on VRAM couple of weeks ago and they were too thick, changed back to original putty and get with PTM7950 15C better junction than with 1,5mm Gelid extreme pads.
Why do you need an OC guide for this? Set the clockspeed to 3GHz and slowly decrease the voltage until it freezes - then add 20mV and test it in games.
With the XTX being constantly out of stock, I tried convicting myself to buy a XT. But it's so apart that the XTX is a wild better card and easily worth $200-$300 more than the XT I'm going to stick to my guns and just wait for a XTX to be in stock.
Loud the moment it starts up past 50-60%. For the 2 aib variants I have it maintains a lower temp without ever going over 50% fan. These coolers go straight to 80-100% within 5 mins.
I suggest testing a bunch of games under specific kinds of loads... Rather than just raytracing and the typical testing that Nvidia wants people to use it for, try for the unusual setups that people might do with their cards for gaming in more complex games. For instance streaming tests to see how it fares in different format.
The reference version is way better in many ITX builds. like NZXT h1 case or such. Also the power draw is around 300 watts on reference . the tuf version is prob around 350. . so many 3 slot cards out there. ew
