RX 580 replacement

[rockit00]

@Octopuss, I don't see anything funny, but it must be the way you said something! @Chrispy, I'm in the USA. I like or have used AMD, Sapphire, HIS, Power Color, XFX (current RX580) and I don't get irritated with fan noise. Most of my AiO Desktops use Nvidia BGA GPU's. I prefer AMD for discrete GPU's also!

 

[Octopuss]

I haven't owned a Nvidia card since 2002 or something. I believe it was... Geforce Ti 4200 or something like that. I killed the poor thing by shortening it with a chain from nail clippers. Don't ask me how that happened, I have no damn idea, lol.

Anyway, I prefer to stay with an ecosystem I am familiar with, not necessarily because I feel it's better than anything else. But it's true I don't like Nvidia in general for various reasons I cannot verbalize, because it's a sum of stuff I read about the company over the years.
Oh and I hate their stupid Windows XP-like control panel (not that I am happy with the AMD control panel with its horribly "overmoderned" visuals either).

TL;DR: It's not about the products of either company, it's about sticking with what I prefer for various reasons that might not make clear sense in terms of performance or economics.

 

[Ruru]

I only disagree on the viability of 5700 XT because it's downlevel hardware and highly probable they have been abused by miners. Any "new" 5700 XT card today is refurbished and rebuilt from miner scrap, just like the RX 580s. Whatever extra spending to make up for a new, reputable brand RX 6600 is worth the peace of mind of having proper driver support, proper feature level support, that you're getting a new card that hasn't been used and abused + a full manufacturer warranty

Interesting, I didn't even know that they're reusing Navi chips already which are been toasted with toy money.

 

[Chrispy_]

Interesting, I didn't even know that they're reusing Navi chips already which are been toasted with toy money.

Its the VRAM or the memory VRMs that get toasted by mining, so they grab the working GPU die and dump it on the cheapest, nastiest, most minimal PCB they can make with the most basic cooler possible and sell it on as "new". It's shady, questionably-legal nonsense run by unscrupulous scavengers so don't expect high quality PCB design or anything fancy. "It'll probably work" is all the guarantee you'll probably get from the seller, so you'll need to leverage Amazon/Ebay/AliExpress customer service to get your money back if it breaks, and their relatively short returns/disputes window is likely the only warranty you're going to get with these "new" GPUs.

I'm in the USA. I like or have used AMD, Sapphire, HIS, Power Color, XFX (current RX580) and I don't get irritated with fan noise.

Then the Powercolor fighter should be fine. I've encountered one before and it was much noisier than the other 6600-series I've come across but it's still acceptable. IIRC there's a review of it here on TPU. The Biostar 6600XT is one that's infamous for being terrible (the cooler is so bad that it overheats even at max fan speed!) but Biostar didn't make a vanilla 6600 that I'm aware of.

 

[Dr. Dro]

Interesting, I didn't even know that they're reusing Navi chips already which are been toasted with toy money.

They are. Lots of them in the market here, mostly 5600 XT and 5700 XT. Not much of the non-XT 5700... but they usually come on the same PCB and with the same "cheap" cooling that you'll find in the "RX 580s"

 

[Octopuss]

Heh, and just as I bought this card, I remembered this article on TFTcentral about "IPS black" technology, and mentioning this Dell U2724D monitor. I looked it up, and it seems to tick all the boxes for me. Noone seems to have reliably measured response times though, so I'm afraid it wouldn't be very useful for gaming despite 120Hz (which is perfectly fine for me btw).

Looks like I was sent XFX instead of Powercolor.
The card looks to be brand new, there is not even any dust on the fans and the PCB. Solid backplate. Not bad.

However, there is the damn chewing gum on the memory chips, which OF COURSE aren't at the same height as the GPU, so I can't take it off and paste them just like the GPU.
Any suggestions, or shall I leave it be?

 

[Chrispy_]

However, there is the damn chewing gum on the memory chips, which OF COURSE aren't at the same height as the GPU, so I can't take it off and paste them just like the GPU.
Any suggestions, or shall I leave it be?

As long as the broken bits of each pad match up when you reattach the cooler after re-pasting, just leave them be.

You can buy replacement thermal pads easily enough but it's not like the memory on a 6600 gets hot in the first place, so as long as there's some half decent contact you'll be fine. If you can make out the details on one of the memory chips you can google the part number and see if XFX have used 16Gbps GDDR6 modules. If they have then you can just crank the memory overclocking slider all the way to the right in the driver, and it's still technically underclocked (IIRC the slider maxed out is 1900MHz or similar, and 16Gbps GDDR6 modules are rated to 2000MHz)

 

[eidairaman1]

Heh, and just as I bought this card, I remembered this article on TFTcentral about "IPS black" technology, and mentioning this Dell U2724D monitor. I looked it up, and it seems to tick all the boxes for me. Noone seems to have reliably measured response times though, so I'm afraid it wouldn't be very useful for gaming despite 120Hz (which is perfectly fine for me btw).

Looks like I was sent XFX instead of Powercolor.
The card looks to be brand new, there is not even any dust on the fans and the PCB. Solid backplate. Not bad.

However, there is the damn chewing gum on the memory chips, which OF COURSE aren't at the same height as the GPU, so I can't take it off and paste them just like the GPU.
Any suggestions, or shall I leave it be?

Thermal Right make Pads called Heilos,

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Honeywell ptm.

Have a gap gauge available and a calculator