I Bought a 6900 XT Today!

I Bought a 6900 XT Today!

  • I bought a Radeon 6900 XT.

    Votes: 24 8.3%

  • I tried to buy a 6900 XT and failed.

    Votes: 65 22.5%

  • I was going to buy a 6900 XT but the price was too far over MSRP.

    Votes: 10 3.5%

  • I did not try to buy a 6900 XT at all.

    Votes: 190 65.7%
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FrgMstr

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JMCB said:
How are you guys liking your cards? I have a RTX 3090 in my main rig, but the secondary rig has a 5700 XT. Current card is fine in there, but I kind of want to max performance in a few games at 1600P (it's an older monitor). I was thinking about grabbing another card as soon as I can get one (either RTX or 6800/6900 series) and reselling the 5700 XT on ebay since they've been going for $700. How's the performance? Any major driver issues? (I had the random black screens on my 5700 XT for the longest time).
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My Ref 6900XT has been perfect. Nitro+ installer perfect today as well and tested fine. 2080s going up for sale very soon.
 
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JMCB said:
How are you guys liking your cards? I have a RTX 3090 in my main rig, but the secondary rig has a 5700 XT. Current card is fine in there, but I kind of want to max performance in a few games at 1600P (it's an older monitor). I was thinking about grabbing another card as soon as I can get one (either RTX or 6800/6900 series) and reselling the 5700 XT on ebay since they've been going for $700. How's the performance? Any major driver issues? (I had the random black screens on my 5700 XT for the longest time).
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I have been loving my 6900XT so far. It has been fun to overclock and has been rock solid as long as my OC was stable. I ended up buying a 3090 FE, but sold it since I have been so happy with the 6900 performance.
 
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JMCB said:
How are you guys liking your cards? I have a RTX 3090 in my main rig, but the secondary rig has a 5700 XT. Current card is fine in there, but I kind of want to max performance in a few games at 1600P (it's an older monitor). I was thinking about grabbing another card as soon as I can get one (either RTX or 6800/6900 series) and reselling the 5700 XT on ebay since they've been going for $700. How's the performance? Any major driver issues? (I had the random black screens on my 5700 XT for the longest time).
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I just upgraded from a 5700xt and I'm pretty happy. I game at 1440p so a 6800xt probably would've been enough for most games, but I don't really regret overbuying due to availability issues and the performance is nice to have for VR games. It's also much faster overall of course than a 5700xt and this has meant that I can finally play Black Desert on ultra mode with frames between 50-70fps and I don't have to really worry about FPS in VR games.

I used DDU to clean everything up before installing but as far as driver issues go only things I've had are:
1.) Sometimes my second monitor flickers black for a second
2.) Sometimes the AMD control center has issues and won't open.

It's been much smoother overall than the 5700xt at launch, which was a disaster. If you can sell your 5700xt for $700 I think it's a no-brainer upgrade if you have the money and can get one.
 
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Control center will open if you click the shortcut again rather than the taskbar icon when minimized. I've run into that one as well. It'll get sorted eventually I think and hopefully not regress endlessly.
 
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Was able to pick up a 6900 XT XFX Speedster Merc319 on NewEgg. A little bit on the pricey side at $1399. Had to order a new case to mate the rather huge and long card with the 3900x system which will replace the HTPC in Rec room. See how this works out.
 
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noko said:
Was able to pick up a 6900 XT XFX Speedster Merc319 on NewEgg. A little bit on the pricey side at $1399. Had to order a new case to mate the rather huge and long card with the 3900x system which will replace the HTPC in Rec room. See how this works out.
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The Merc319 was actually #1 on my want list, but never managed to nab one.
 
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jhatfie said:
The Merc319 was actually #1 on my want list, but never managed to nab one.
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Actually I wanted a reference 6800 XT or 3080 FE, anyways at NewEgg I put all the cards I was interested in on my Wish List. While doing other work I would periodically refresh that wish list and pop, this thing came up. Now I know it was do or die, if I didn't act it would vanish as fast as it appeared, so I acted and it should ship tomorrow. Also NewEgg gave hints on Twitter, like BestBuy does at times before launches which prompted me to open up the extra Window.
 
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Boom shakalaka!

#JoinTheRadeonessy https://twitter.com/KyleBennett/status/1357420796508045313

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MrC4 said:
And the rich get richer..... Can't believe how lucky you have been with the 6900xt loto Kyle. Been looking for months to no avail.

Congrats!
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Newegg has a shuffle program. It's like a lottery system you have a chance to win a spot to buy a product. If you have Twitter follow newegg they announce it well in advance when the program is up.
 
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Got the Nitro+ off shuffle, just got the Red Devil in stock from a link here in HardForum.
 
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wizzi01 said:
Newegg has a shuffle program. It's like a lottery system you have a chance to win a spot to buy a product. If you have Twitter follow newegg they announce it well in advance when the program is up.
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Yeah...screw Twitter and Newegg, right in their Chinese arseholes.

I won't be participating in their version of the Hunger Games.
 
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workshop35 said:
the first one got snagged instantly, I randomly checked like 35 minutes later and got lucky. Should be a good upgrade from the 1080 ti
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Should be a nice upgrade. But it's a lot of money and so far over MSRP it's not even funny. I'm happy to run my 1070 into the ground and just pick up one of these beauties
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Krenum said:
Excellent, now fix that dreadful mess of cabling.
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Once the side panel is on you cant even see it, I have a lot of cabling running behind the other side panel, the cables coming out of the PSU on the bottom, I'm not sure I can do much with those.
 
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sabrewolf732 said:
You can def clean that cabling up, it's pretty bad lol.
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out of sight out of mind. I'm like that as well. as long as it's functional, I don't give two cents how ugly cables look. I always have that OHHHH look when I see these super neat cable runs that looks like something that needs to be displayed like an artist painting on a wall. I ain't got time for all that. Water cooling tubing is the only thing I like looking organized.
 
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You can tell a lot about a person by the cabling they have. When I look for cars & they have an aftermarket stereo in it, I always look behind the dash, if its a rats nest I don't bother. That tells me that the car hasn't been properly maintained. Even if the car looks "Nice".
 
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Krenum said:
You can tell a lot about a person by the cabling they have. When I look for cars & they have an aftermarket stereo in it, I always look behind the dash, if its a rats nest I don't bother. That tells me that the car hasn't been properly maintained. Even if the car looks "Nice".
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Don’t look under the hood of the next airplane you fly on. It’ll meet requirements and be routed properly, but it can certainly resemble a rats nest.
 
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Randall Stephens said:
Don’t look under the hood of the next airplane you fly on. It’ll meet requirements and be routed properly, but it can certainly resemble a rats nest.
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Heck, The last plane I was on, I was looking around at all the missing bolts and thinking to myself "How the is this thing in the air right now".
 
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