PowerColor 5700xt.

[TheRedBarron]

Im building a pc andam looking at a power color 5700xt i was wondering if its a good card as i could not find much about the particular model just the red dragon and red devil variants.

 

PCPartPicker Part List

Type	Item	Price
CPU	AMD Ryzen 5 3600 3.6 GHz 6-Core Processor	$174.15 @ Amazon
Motherboard	MSI B450 Gaming Plus MAX ATX AM4 Motherboard
Memory	G.Skill Ripjaws V 16 GB (2 x 8 GB) DDR4-3600 Memory	$79.99 @ Newegg
Storage	Crucial P1 1 TB M.2-2280 NVME Solid State Drive	$119.99 @ Newegg
Video Card	PowerColor Radeon RX 5700 XT 8 GB Video Card
Case	Cougar MX330 ATX Mid Tower Case	$42.98 @ Newegg
Power Supply	EVGA GD (2019) 500 W 80+ Gold Certified ATX Power Supply	$69.94 @ ModMyMods
	Prices include shipping, taxes, rebates, and discounts
	Total	$487.05
	Generated by PCPartPicker 2020-04-25 13:26 EDT-0400

 

[Mister Woof]

powercolor makes great cards. i don't see the cooler rated on the list 

but my guess is that it is decent. i wouldn't spend too much on a fancy cooler for the 5700xt, or else you end up getting too close to the cost of a 2070 super.

[redskin]

Power Color is not the only one but one of the two better 5700XT Radeon!

[Mister Woof]

28 minutes ago, redskin said:

Power Color is not the only one but one of the two better 5700XT Radeon!

for AMD GPUs i've been VERY satisfied with Sapphire and XFX.

 

and Powercolor I think fits in with this group.

[redskin]

 

15 minutes ago, Mister Woof said:

for AMD GPUs i've been VERY satisfied with Sapphire and XFX.

 

and Powercolor I think fits in with this group.

Powercolor & Sapphire

[Mister Woof]

4 minutes ago, redskin said:

 

Powercolor & Sapphire

My Sapphire Vega 64 performs pretty dang well for a blower reference card. It's too bad watercooling is so expensive on it, i think it would have made a great candidate.

[AndyHeard]

I just made an account specifically to give you my feedback with the PowerColor 5700 XT Red Dragon. I got it for an ITX build, going into the ASRock Phantom Gaming ITX, and so far I've had 3 of them die on me. They will work for a week or so, then while idle, I'll lose display output, and not be able to get it back, after which the PC won't even post. If I put another GPU in, then the pc runs fine.

 

The fact that this has happened 3 times, had made me think that there was an issue with either the motherboard, or the GPU design itself. I've had a replacement motherboard, and still had a failure on it, leading me to believe that there's something inherently wrong with the Red Dragon, or something about this combination of motherboard and GPU that bricks them.

 

No one at PowerColor or ASRock has any explanation for this, so I've abandoned them and going with Nvidia. It could be specific to my setup, but it's a word of warning.