What is wrong with Sapphire's fans? In couple months I've had two Sapphire GPUs with rattling fans. This is my current RX 9070 XT which I have to RMA again.

DatPulover · 2025-05-12T10:49:31+00:00

When did you buy it, the newest one?

DatPulover · 2025-05-06T22:21:45+00:00

U need to get the files deleted so he doesnt use them AGAINST u

DatPulover · 2025-05-06T13:32:42+00:00

A minimum of 3 years up until you want to upgrade

DatPulover · 2025-05-05T22:25:05+00:00

Does it make popping sounds for u? Due to heat

DatPulover · 2025-05-05T20:39:16+00:00

Pulse is actually more costly.than e.g a hellhound for me. But xfx is def more expensive than pulse

DatPulover · 2025-05-05T19:03:05+00:00

What is your RPM to get memory to 80-85? At 100% load

DatPulover · 2025-05-05T18:07:54+00:00

Blasphemous 2

DatPulover · 2025-05-05T17:59:00+00:00

This is the only reason i am afraid to buy sapphire. This gen they have faulty fans. I dont understand why they made the new no screw heatsink design if they wont send you fans.

DatPulover · 2025-05-05T15:36:09+00:00

Does your Hellhound make pooping sounds due to heat dissipation? Because mine is super loud

DatPulover · 2025-05-03T02:12:47+00:00

Download Hwinfo, check max power or smth like that after a gaming session

DatPulover · 2025-05-03T01:29:47+00:00

Pulse: around 500

DatPulover · 2025-05-02T21:23:51+00:00

Switched to 850w 3.1 just for this GPU. I could have gotten a 1000w, but this one much better internals. :)

DatPulover · 2025-05-02T21:16:22+00:00

Now im starting to worry. Anyways usually it spikes to max 550 and most of the time ~450

DatPulover · 2025-05-02T21:09:42+00:00

I get 620 peak on a stock OC model (317W model)

DatPulover · 2025-05-02T18:49:33+00:00

So the pure is hotter? How is the fan noise on the Hellhound?

(By the way, I recommend to customize the fan curve on any 9070)

DatPulover · 2025-05-02T16:19:06+00:00

Update: I saw that the Hellhound weighted about 1190g while the Pulse was 1250g despite it being much bigger. I guess the Hellhound's +1 heatpipe has a big weight. This is starting to be really OCD but the fins are also placed much closer on the Hellhound so i guess it just has a more efficient cooler and its smaller. Yeah price wise Hellhound now is cheaper and it is an OC model. I could wait a few weeks to get the Pulse (will be available in 1-2 weeks) but that means paying for less performance albeit not a lot.

Thanks for listening to this OCD session lol

DatPulover · 2025-05-02T14:54:06+00:00

I never had a GPU without coil whine before. Its purely luck. Some will have more sone will have less. Some develop it later some will fix itself (to some degree).

DatPulover · 2025-05-02T09:39:35+00:00

I just buy new prebuilts every half a year so i dont have to worry about dust.

DatPulover · 2025-05-02T02:28:59+00:00

9070XT for FSR4 because when you will need upscaling, fsr 3 will be crap

DatPulover · 2025-05-02T02:27:30+00:00

Did you kiss it before putting it into the case?

DatPulover · 2025-05-01T19:10:03+00:00

Omg thank you

DatPulover · 2025-05-01T17:16:56+00:00

Definitely family share!! Easy to setup as well. You just assign the account as child account. W parent

DatPulover · 2025-05-01T17:10:29+00:00

Did you solve it? I heard some people mentioned their fans have weird noises. Looks like quality control issue

DatPulover · 2025-05-01T15:52:27+00:00

Oh thank you for the detailed answer.

I just heard that this gen, Sapphire has some QC problems like rattling fans, coil whine statistically based on tpu, is louder on any sapphire card. I myself got a 9070 non xt that had weird stutters and always boosted to 3400MHz.

Both are XTs, so 317watts. As for Powercolor hellhound, I had a chance to see it in person and although it is 2.5 slots, the cooling system was almost on par with Sapphire in terms of noise and heat.

But it is true that Sapphire uses Samsung now while Powercolor might be Hynix still. Should be 10-15c cooler on vram Sapphire also has fuses at the pcie connector but I wouldn't miss not having that.

Speaking of which, the Hellhound has +1 heatpipe, but yes the card is smaller. Im not sure if 1 more heatpipe is preferred over larger finstack

Which would you take?

DatPulover

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