I am planing to buy the MSI rx 5700 xt gaming because I am looking for silence.
Please if anyone has something to say, anything in particular I should be aware of, so please do.
is it safer and wiser to go with the nitro instead ? long term support and so on..
Am I going to use the imac 17,1 as always or need to change it?
this is still related to the cpu and not gpu right ?
EDIT
If you are looking for SILENCE, you must build a water custom loop.
Even at absolutelly full load I almost forgot that I have something runing around me (absolutelly silent)
This AIB cards (not reference from AMD versions) has less vram amd vrm quality components and they are more expensive than reference version (around 100US or 800 brazilian reais for me, that is almost triple the price of a GPU water block, I looked for asus strix 3fan version and sapphire nitro+ 3fan version).
If I were you I would go with reference card and with the money saved I would start building the loop.
My temps at full load (heaven test 10min longer) with water loop on GPU and CPU (i9 9900ks):
CPU 50~60c (at load)
GPU 44~49c (at load)
GPU HOTSPOT 57~67c (at load)
GPU VRM 65~70 (at load)
GPU CLOCK 1950 without
Thermal throttling
My card is Power Color Radeon rx 5700 xt Reference Edition (single blower cooler version)
Temps at full load (running heaven on windows for 10minutes) with AIR cooler (high noise, fan curve not even at max rpm, can reach 4800rpm, absolutelly noisely)
below I will attach the GPU-Z Sensor Log of heaven at water cooler running benchmark test
(you can see at log that the gpu clock is running smooth over 1900mhz)
Temps runing Heaven for 10min longer at
water cooler
Water blocked with
Bykski reference block (thermal pads side)
Block installed (this block can handle the original backplace whitout any issue)
Old pic before change GPU water block
