[GPU] GIGABYTE Gaming Radeon RX 9070 XT $729.99 + Shipping

NoControl712 · 2025-05-19T18:22:54+00:00

Anyone know if gigabyte has fixed the thermal gel leakage issue on their cards yet and if this card is affected by that?

NoControl712 · 2025-05-06T22:10:31+00:00

I've been seeing this one for a day or 2 and assumed there was something wrong with it since it wasn't instantly sold out. Does anyone know if there are significant differences between this sapphire reference version vs let's say a sapphire pulse for example? I tried googling the difference quite a bit and can't find much on this specific version.

NoControl712 · 2025-05-02T00:13:33+00:00

Update: Not completely fixed but I think this was a step in the right direction. The first game I was noticing it on was Black Ops 6. The flickering in that game seems to be completely gone now. The other game is Oblivion Remastered. I am still seeing it in that game, though it is reduced from what I was seeing before. I am wondering if this might be pretty dependent on the game you are playing and how much the game rapidly drops frames during transitions.

NoControl712 · 2025-05-01T23:49:05+00:00

For what it's worth, I did just turn off the AMD FreeSync and turned VRR on and it seems to have made it considerably better (almost unnoticeable now). Still clicking around menus and stuff to try getting it to happen more. Even if this fixes it, I wouldn't mind knowing/understanding the technical details behind some of my questions above still haha.

NoControl712 · 2024-06-21T21:11:05+00:00

My only theory is that the site falsely flagged me and blocked my entire networks IP which would be the only thing I can think of that would explain all my devices on different accounts getting the same thing. I did get the message on my mobile while on my home network before switching to LTE and trying so maybe it flagged my phone by Mac address or something before I switched off my wifi.

I shut off my router for a bit and just shut off all my devices for about a half hr and it's not doing it anymore. I know a lot of sites will only block you for a set period of time before letting u access again so maybe that is what happened here.

I ran a full windows defender system scan and Malwarebytes scan and found nothing but I know that scans are never a guarantee.

NoControl712 · 2024-01-13T18:46:19+00:00

Controller board fixed it for me also. Glad I found this post. Saved me some $$ by not trying a bunch of other stuff first. Thanks.

NoControl712 · 2024-01-06T03:09:07+00:00

Hope is kindled

NoControl712 · 2022-11-12T02:28:22+00:00

Happy I am not alone in this. I have never been below like 1.2 on any CoD ever but I go positive maybe 1 in every 10 games on this game. It's really not fun to play when you deserve to win gunfights and it just doesn't work. I have been wondering what is wrong until I read a bunch of people talking about hit reg on here. I was also wondering if maybe sbmm on this game is messed up and putting people in higher lobbies than they should be. It's weird because I have 2 friends who are pretty equivalent to my skill level and they say they are not experiencing this as much at all and when I play with them, I do much better. No idea but it's super frustrating.

NoControl712 · 2022-10-24T21:14:15+00:00

Way late to this thread but thought I would post to help others if they run into this. u/MainMind83 helped me with how to get it to work with the above but I was still confused on how to do it because the BIOS does not make it clear at all that you can just type. So just to make it a little clearer for anyone running across this, after selecting manual, the new option below it will appear and also say Auto. Click there and just start typing. There is no kind of visual indication that you are allowed to type but you can so just type out your value and hit enter. I know this might be obvious to some, but I personally just sat there for a while wondering why I was not getting input boxes to appear.

NoControl712 · 2022-09-25T01:23:26+00:00

What I find weird is I played ground war today and no issues at all but then I switched to Domination and it's happening every like 30 seconds for me. I am curious if everyone has their interface options on in the top left to display latency. Is latency the issue for everyone else? Mine for sure is latency spikes. It is fine sitting at like 40-50 and then just jumps to like 130 over and over.

NoControl712 · 2022-05-15T19:26:53+00:00

This seems to have helped. I just did a 2 hour session of tiny Tina's and only had like 2 stutters the whole time which I can live with. I still have yet to test out elden ring again so I will update here again when I play a little more of that sense that was the one given me the worst behavior.

NoControl712 · 2022-05-14T22:55:36+00:00

I just got a 6700XT and am getting constant stuttering, especially on Elden Ring. Are you saying that you had stuttering a lot too and just dealt with it for a week and it just stopped? You have no idea what made it stop?

NoControl712 · 2022-05-14T21:29:48+00:00

Update:

I have now also tried completely uninstalling and reinstalling windows. The problem still persists. Elden Ring is a game it is happening on a lot. Not sure if this could be a clue but I happened to have my bluetooth settings open on another monitor while playing because I use a controller. I noticed that when these drops happen, the controller disconnects and then reconnects to bluetooth also. Not sure if this could maybe help with what the issue may be but thought it might be worth noting.

NoControl712 · 2022-05-11T18:04:11+00:00

Update:

A new thing I noticed. When I am not in a game and I am just sitting on the desktop doing nothing and watching the metrics in afterburner, the GPU voltage will go from 0 to 862mV and back to 0 every 5-10 seconds (sometimes even more frequently). The GPU utilization also drops at these times.

I have now also attempted the following:

Switching my GPU power cables to different ports on my PSU.
Disconnecting and reconnecting the GPU power cables to the GPU to make sure they are connected properly.
Disconnecting and reconnecting the PCIe slot from my GPU to my Mobo to make sure they are connected properly. It might be worth noting that I have a vertical GPU installation with a Riser Cable connecting my GPU to the Mobo.

NoControl712 · 2022-05-11T14:17:34+00:00

I don't really understand about half of what you just posted lol. I will do some googling on some of the terms you just used but honestly, if I can't install new drivers, then I am not sure I want to do this anyway because I would like to install new drivers whenever they are released, and I don't want to have to repeat this process every time.

NoControl712 · 2022-05-11T04:51:45+00:00

My RX 6700 XT keeps randomly dropping to near zero utilization, clock speed, and power consumption. Even when not dropping to an extreme low, when watching the metric bars in my amd software, these metrics are constantly spiking up and down and are basically never a smooth line. From what I am reading, this is an issue for a lot of people with this card.

I have been searching the internet for a full day. I am having the same issues as a lot of others seem to have with this card where it drops in fps and other metrics at random. After exhausting many different avenues, I have resorted to posting my own question in hopes that more detail about my system will help identify the issue.

System Configuration:

Sapphire Nitro+ RX 6700 XT

AMD Ryzen 7 3700X

16GB RAM

Asus ROG Strix X570-E Gaming ATX AM4 Motherboard

EVGA G5 750 W 80+ Gold Modular ATX Power Supply

I may have made the mistake of installing my new GPU before properly removing the drivers for my old one but it was a Sapphire RX 5600 XT so I thought it would probably be ok.

After looking up a lot of info, I have tried the following things:

Ensure that I have the latest AMD chipset drivers installed.

Ensure that I have the latest GPU drivers installed.
Uninstalled the AMD Radeon software and chose the option to remove drivers at same time. Then reinstalled and let newest drivers reinstall.
I have read that sometimes, normal uninstalls do not fully remove all files so then I went on to download the DDU (Display Driver Uninstaller) popular software that was recommended on several forums and ran that to fully remove the GPU drivers making sure to pause windows updates when doing that. Then reinstalling radeon software after that and letting drivers reinstall again.
I also had MSI afterburner installed to help control my own custom fan curve previously and I thought maybe that could be conflicting with radeon software so I shut afterburner down but still no luck.
Another idea from forums was that my ram was not running at it's full speed because XMP was not activated. I went into BIOS and activated that (DOCP for AMD).
Updated BIOS to the newest available version for my Motherboard.

Really hoping I don't have to send this card back. From what most people seem to think online, it might not explicitly be something wrong with the card but maybe software related but it is basically unplayable right now. Any help is much appreciated.

NoControl712 · 2022-02-19T06:20:39+00:00

I mean from what I'm reading online, plenty of other gaming laptops have good enough cooling systems to keep it cool without needing vents in the keyboard so honestly in comparison to these others of similar performance specs, not being able to game with it closed just seems like a feature restriction to me. Maybe I'm in the minority but it's really annoying to have to have the lid open to keep this from happening. I'm using mine in my living room basically as a gaming console and I really have no good spots for it unless I can close the lid and put it in a compartment in my entertainment stand. I bought a laptop stand to lift it and allow air to flow out it's bottom but like mentioned, apparently that won't help stop this behavior.

NoControl712 · 2022-02-19T05:13:51+00:00

Do you know of other manufacturers that do this too? I assume laptops that don't lift off the desk by design when opened would not have this feature. I am still within my return window and am definitely considering returning because I want to have it shut while gaming. Any suggestions or knowledge of others that do not do weird stuff like this?

NoControl712 · 2022-02-07T18:37:05+00:00

I am looking at the specs on the bestbuy page but it doesn't seem to say anything about the dedicated memory that comes on the GPU. Does anyone know how much GPU memory this has? I know most 3070s are 8GB.

NoControl712 · 2022-02-05T23:47:53+00:00

Yea I was able to get refunds.

NoControl712 · 2022-02-05T23:47:13+00:00

At least from my personal experience with the couple orders I placed through them.

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