gpu choice

[JohnLee19869]

Hi just built my first pc build and seems to work so far but you never know, but i have not bought my gpu yet and need to sort it out, looking at the 9070 xt but unsure which one to go for and pretty much narrowed it down to either:
1. Sapphire pure £600 but 2 pcies only.
2. XFX Mercury OC £640 plus depending on options like white or black, but the £640 is third party through amazon. 3 pcies
3. Powercolor Red Devil OC £688,3 pcies but minimum spec says 900w psu
4. Powercolor Hellhound OC £600 but a lower class powercolor model.

my thoughts are i need to decide if the pure and the hellhound being only 2 connector pcies makes a difference, if the 3 pcies ones are worth paying the extra £40-£90 extra, if to buy now or wait till closer to black friday, plus i worry about the coil whine possibilities, never paid this much for a gpu so need to get it right.

current pc build spec :
amd 9700x
msi b850 edge ti
corsair 850w psu
64 gb ram

want to game at 1440p at a pretty good standard.

[filpo]

1 hour ago, JohnLee19869 said:

Hi just built my first pc build and seems to work so far but you never know, but i have not bought my gpu yet and need to sort it out, looking at the 9070 xt but unsure which one to go for and pretty much narrowed it down to either:
1. Sapphire pure £600 but 2 pcies only.
2. XFX Mercury OC £640 plus depending on options like white or black, but the £640 is third party through amazon. 3 pcies
3. Powercolor Red Devil OC £688,3 pcies but minimum spec says 900w psu
4. Powercolor Hellhound OC £600 but a lower class powercolor model.

my thoughts are i need to decide if the pure and the hellhound being only 2 connector pcies makes a difference, if the 3 pcies ones are worth paying the extra £40-£90 extra, if to buy now or wait till closer to black friday, plus i worry about the coil whine possibilities, never paid this much for a gpu so need to get it right.

current pc build spec :
amd 9700x
msi b850 edge ti
corsair 850w psu
64 gb ram

want to game at 1440p at a pretty good standard.

Save £45 and get this https://uk.pcpartpicker.com/product/T7RnTW/xfx-swift-radeon-rx-9070-xt-16-gb-video-card-rx-97tswf3b9

Performance will be essentially the same on all of them, some are OC'ed out of the box slightly, but you can do that yourself (and it's quite easy after a quick youtube video) so don't pay extra for that. The 3 PCIe's vs the 2 may be because of this or because they're specific versions for overclocking (but performance should be very similar out of the box, maybe the OC versions get 5% more performance but at the cost of more power costing you more)

1 hour ago, JohnLee19869 said:

my thoughts are i need to decide if the pure and the hellhound being only 2 connector pcies makes a difference, if the 3 pcies ones are worth paying the extra £40-£90 extra, if to buy now or wait till closer to black friday, plus i worry about the coil whine possibilities, never paid this much for a gpu so need to get it right.

Prices MAY decrease for Black friday, but they're so low I kind of doubt it, but then again, we've seen how low RAM prices CAN get so maybe wait until then. Worst case scenario is it stays at the same price

[Ha-Satan]

Unless you're planning to do a big manual overclock yourself, you really don't gain much from the extra PCIe cable on the "OC" models.

 

I have honestly gotten to the point where I prefer the models with fewer connectors, because they have broader PSU compatibility.

[JohnLee19869]

ok thanks for the replies, anybody got any experiences of any of the models and any thoughts about coil whine as i have never had a gpu that was powerful in any way as my last gpu was and is the 1050 ti.

[DNooby]

I have the powercolor hellhound and am super happy with it, the mild overclock IMO is just right and doesn't start pushing diminishing returns. The fan curve that it comes with out of the box is very conservative, I bumpted it up a tad cause I rather keep things on the cooler side. I do still use the 0RPM mode, and for many games it stays 0RPM in my case.

It does have some coil whine under very high and specific loads ( I first noticed it on 3DMark Firestrike ), I've used it a for a decent variety of games now and only notice it on a select few and for those it's on specific areas of the game. From what I gather the coil whine is not isolated to the powercolor hellhound though, from what I've seen it's treated as a "lottery" for if you have it or not, though there are so many variables that come into play for it as well. Hard to say

 

I have a -10% power limit + undervolt + tweaked fan curve, runs better than stock, super stable, and cool as a cucumber. If I wanted I could push it to a +10% if I find a game where it struggles to get to 120FPS ( my current refresh rate ) but so far have not found that to be the case ( at 4k 120 )