Sapphire RX 5700 XT Nitro+ PCB & VRM Quality Analysis
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Date: 2020-05-06
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equisetum
I got the Nitro+ myself and it is a damn awsome card. After I fixed my own fan curve on a Furmark test I get 74 and the hotspot around 91. Vram runs around 74. These are some impressive temps, and the card is really silent at the same time. I had a Red Devil for 3 days, and the card is also very impressive (basicly the same as the Nitro, but the industrial looks of the Sapphire are better for me than the aggresive devilish kind. That is a matter of taste I suppose, so if you like Devil more, it's also a great choice for a high end 5700 XT model. If you want cheaper, go with Pulse, or Red Dragon, I wanted to pay those extra bucks to get the max out of the aircolled card (and some awsome RGB; ) If u want to go for water cooling, the ref card seems the way to go, but to be honest, what would be the purpose of that? 5% power gain?
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I got the Nitro+ myself and it is a damn awsome card. After I fixed my own fan curve on a Furmark test I get 74 and the hotspot around 91. Vram runs around 74. These are some impressive temps, and the card is really silent at the same time. I had a Red Devil for 3 days, and the card is also very impressive (basicly the same as the Nitro, but the industrial looks of the Sapphire are better for me than the aggresive devilish kind. That is a matter of taste I suppose, so if you like Devil more, it's also a great choice for a high end 5700 XT model. If you want cheaper, go with Pulse, or Red Dragon, I wanted to pay those extra bucks to get the max out of the aircolled card (and some awsome RGB; ) If u want to go for water cooling, the ref card seems the way to go, but to be honest, what would be the purpose of that? 5% power gain?
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Krucial
Bought a Nitro+ a day before this video was uploaded, cut my case up with a dremel to fit it in too. Coolers amazing, looks amazing, very low temps and can run ridiculously high clocks. After watching this I initially suffered all the ragrets and thought I'd should've gone with the Red Devil for the better PCB/best of both worlds. but tbh I'll never be slapping a watercooling block on it, so now I'm just telling myself for reassurance; are the beefier VRM's really necessary, the Nitro+ looks better, cools better and comes with 3yrs warranty (not 2 in case of the Red Devil) so bleh xD Awesome content though guys - Keep it coming!
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Bought a Nitro+ a day before this video was uploaded, cut my case up with a dremel to fit it in too. Coolers amazing, looks amazing, very low temps and can run ridiculously high clocks. After watching this I initially suffered all the ragrets and thought I'd should've gone with the Red Devil for the better PCB/best of both worlds. but tbh I'll never be slapping a watercooling block on it, so now I'm just telling myself for reassurance; are the beefier VRM's really necessary, the Nitro+ looks better, cools better and comes with 3yrs warranty (not 2 in case of the Red Devil) so bleh xD Awesome content though guys - Keep it coming!
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Bokyu
hi i love your videos! but if you make so much videos about the 5700 / 5700xt pls make one about their driver aswell, right now there are big issues, for example there are quiet a lot of ppl where the amdkmdap (aka displaydriver) just stops working and you have annoying blackscreens ranging form every few hours to every few minutes! would love to hear you talking about this, and letting more ppl know that if this issue dont get fixed a 5700/5700xt (even with a great price to performance ratio) is not the way to go. esp for ppl that are waiting for parts and have no retrun window anymore.
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hi i love your videos! but if you make so much videos about the 5700 / 5700xt pls make one about their driver aswell, right now there are big issues, for example there are quiet a lot of ppl where the amdkmdap (aka displaydriver) just stops working and you have annoying blackscreens ranging form every few hours to every few minutes! would love to hear you talking about this, and letting more ppl know that if this issue dont get fixed a 5700/5700xt (even with a great price to performance ratio) is not the way to go. esp for ppl that are waiting for parts and have no retrun window anymore.
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markus98sb
I'm a repair guy and I think fuses are really important bc. if a phase blows and shorts 12v to gnd it cold destroy/burn the pcb and send 12v to all sort of thing. So from a repair perspective they are really helping. I had a 1060 where he owner tried to watercool the VRMs and shorted a ceramic cap and all I had to do was to change the fuse. Without the fuse it would probably damage the PCB. An other point is that could also kill your PSU (if it's cheap enough) and kill other parts of your pc. Otherwise is your video really interresting.
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I'm a repair guy and I think fuses are really important bc. if a phase blows and shorts 12v to gnd it cold destroy/burn the pcb and send 12v to all sort of thing. So from a repair perspective they are really helping. I had a 1060 where he owner tried to watercool the VRMs and shorted a ceramic cap and all I had to do was to change the fuse. Without the fuse it would probably damage the PCB. An other point is that could also kill your PSU (if it's cheap enough) and kill other parts of your pc. Otherwise is your video really interresting.
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OriginalLoLRandom
I couldn't see any info about it on their website, so I guess I'll ask my question here. Does this card utilize '0dB' technology like the Strix does? I. E does the fans not spin when it's under a certain temperature? (I believe it's when it's below 50c on the Strix) I'm not even sure how audible it would be without it, but I have a Strix model right now, and I'm pleased with how silent it is. Not an RX 5700 XT Strix, but a GTX 1070 Strix. Just to clarify.
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I couldn't see any info about it on their website, so I guess I'll ask my question here. Does this card utilize '0dB' technology like the Strix does? I. E does the fans not spin when it's under a certain temperature? (I believe it's when it's below 50c on the Strix) I'm not even sure how audible it would be without it, but I have a Strix model right now, and I'm pleased with how silent it is. Not an RX 5700 XT Strix, but a GTX 1070 Strix. Just to clarify.
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Akif
Is the additional cost of AlPol caps worth the savings of blower cooler? After all those reviews, does GN still thinks blower was a cost saving choice or as the AMD stated, for reliability. As I see it from BZ's comments that AMD targeted their initial price and didn't care about the cost that much but they had to decrease because of the Super series and partners deal with the new lower prices in their own ways(like MSI saving from half thermal pads: )
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Is the additional cost of AlPol caps worth the savings of blower cooler? After all those reviews, does GN still thinks blower was a cost saving choice or as the AMD stated, for reliability. As I see it from BZ's comments that AMD targeted their initial price and didn't care about the cost that much but they had to decrease because of the Super series and partners deal with the new lower prices in their own ways(like MSI saving from half thermal pads: )
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Michael
Lol xfx, hey guys quit talking about our card. posts entire breakdown of all the parts. TL; DR maaaybe don't overclock this card. Just to be safe. For the retail price of these new GPUs in 2019 you can find an used 1080ti that performs a bit better. I have the EVGA 1080ti SC2 black and have yet to overclock it, don't need it yet. Best card for the money, even when it was new. If you don't need RTX I still recommend it
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Lol xfx, hey guys quit talking about our card. posts entire breakdown of all the parts. TL; DR maaaybe don't overclock this card. Just to be safe. For the retail price of these new GPUs in 2019 you can find an used 1080ti that performs a bit better. I have the EVGA 1080ti SC2 black and have yet to overclock it, don't need it yet. Best card for the money, even when it was new. If you don't need RTX I still recommend it
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Wrex
The Ryzen 5 2600 is currently sitting at such a good price, I couldn't resist anymore. So, I decided to finally say goodbye to my i7 2600. The cheapest 16GB kit of 3000MHz RAM that's listed on MSI B450 Tomahawk Max compatibility list has no heatsinks. it's G. Skill Aegis 16GB DDR4 CL16 (F4-3000C16D-16GISB. Do RAM heatsinks even matter? I just wanna OC that kit to 3200MHz and maybe tighten the timings a little bit.
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The Ryzen 5 2600 is currently sitting at such a good price, I couldn't resist anymore. So, I decided to finally say goodbye to my i7 2600. The cheapest 16GB kit of 3000MHz RAM that's listed on MSI B450 Tomahawk Max compatibility list has no heatsinks. it's G. Skill Aegis 16GB DDR4 CL16 (F4-3000C16D-16GISB. Do RAM heatsinks even matter? I just wanna OC that kit to 3200MHz and maybe tighten the timings a little bit.
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Tjoala
Halfway through the video and he's barely covered the pointless fuses and hasn't got past the phases yet. Stop rambling so much about pointless stuff such as the 290x and other older cards, it's irrelevant. Discuss the card at hand and get on with it. I used to enjoy Buildzoid's analysis, but he's gotten considerably worse with his tangents.
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Halfway through the video and he's barely covered the pointless fuses and hasn't got past the phases yet. Stop rambling so much about pointless stuff such as the 290x and other older cards, it's irrelevant. Discuss the card at hand and get on with it. I used to enjoy Buildzoid's analysis, but he's gotten considerably worse with his tangents.
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Austin-lee
Ok can someone explain this to me? I don't really understand most of the stuff that's said in the video, but the review that GN did for this card made it seem like it was one of the best 5700xt cards but a lot of people in the comments on this video are saying it's not that good after watching this video? What's wrong with it?
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Ok can someone explain this to me? I don't really understand most of the stuff that's said in the video, but the review that GN did for this card made it seem like it was one of the best 5700xt cards but a lot of people in the comments on this video are saying it's not that good after watching this video? What's wrong with it?
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