Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “7900 XTX? More like 7970 XTX 3GHz Edition”.
Yeah, you saw the title: ASRock is doing what AMD didn’t have the to do sure it says on the box: 7900 XTX, but really it’s the 7970 XTX three gigahertz Edition missed Opportunity by AMD. I swear. That’S okay, we’ll do it! Okay, I get why it’s it’s going to take 600 watts of power and really the only system I have that is capable of handling such a monster. Machine is probably my threadripper system, so the final destination for the system is going to be my threadripper system and side. Note something that I’ve been working on on the Linux side of things is the GPU reset the 6000 series cars were generally trouble free as far as PCI reset goes when passing through to a virtual machine, I’m sorry to say that the bug or Vega reset conna Sorta has returned, maybe it’s not as severe, because it is possible to reset the card in some scenarios, which is really baffling.
I got a whole like if you know, if you’re an engineer working on this, really want to reach out and say hello. Let me know uh, but I haven’t really dove into it too much yet because 7000 series cards are new and 6 000 series cards are steal and work flawlessly on Linux for pcie pass-through and then work 7000 series cards work flawlessly on Linux, not for pcie passthrough, Which is, you know, a whole other story, but anyway I digress. Let’S unbox this, so the deal with the aqua is that you pay a little bit more, but it comes with a pre-installed block. That’S got good thermal paste and uh.
It’S basically set up and good to go for a custom, Loop, cooling solution, I mean. What’S? Oh sorry, I mean what’s not to love here 24 gigabytes of vram, that a good old, ASRock, aqua, know-how and love. This is not my first experience with an aqua product. Man look at this card, so pretty it’s so heavy.
One thing that might have been nice for Azar to include with a board at this price point is a dual bios, backup, bios kind of a feature, because sometimes you want to flash that power unlocked bios in order to get the three gigahertz very appealing. Although it’s going to be a fingerprint magnet, might I suggest not peeling until the end? Now that was appealing? Oh, you didn’t get to see that I carried it in here. It’S really heavy my wood grain front. Everybody remember my wood grain front. I need some need. Some love and maintenance too, but this this is pretty exciting because on the test bench, I’ve kind of already had a little bit of fun.
With this, it really is going to be the 7970 three gigahertz Edition. There’S only about seven people in the audience that are old enough to get that joke, but let me tell you the eight of us are having a real good time with it now before this beautiful new card is consecrated by the dirty dirty filthy, water. That’S been in my Loop, neglected for the better part of a year. We’Re gon na have to flush it out, and I’ve also got some of the old. You know non-black tubing that I kind of think. Maybe I should go ahead and replace with something a little bit newer and I’ve already sort of pre-drained the loop a little bit wow. We got a lot of work to do.
I do have some new fittings, including, I think this tea piece. This was sent to one by one of our viewers galinda thanks that came from from your stuff, and I also have the the uh the bits power valve, which uh We’ve 3D printed the handle for, because these these break the handle on these breaks kind of a Lot in a certain run nothing wrong with bits power. You know everybody makes mistakes but uh there’s a 3D printable file that Amber did for the handle on that. So that’s nice. I think that’s some right angle. You know thermaltake and then a generic right angle, one so I’m gon na be able to clean this up just a little bit and I’m taking my wheels off so that the case can’t roll off the desk and escape, and I’ve already pulled most of my Ram. Oh yeah, if you’ve never used ek’s quick disconnect stuff, that’s really handy! So it’s like! Oh! I need to pull my GPU and clean it Tada done, and that is what we’re gon na put on this. We’Re gon na. Do a quick disconnect so I’ll, actually unscrew. This and put our quick disconnect connector on the side and that’ll, make adding this GPU and taking out of this system or moving it to another system with a quick disconnect kit a little easier. I really got to hit up EK for another quick disconnect kit, though, because I’ve only got the one old school, pcie storage, their EK, wood block, beautiful, but not as beautiful as that’s looking a little cleaner with everything being completely empty. So I think putting our drain in the lowest level in the corner, there is probably going to be the safest easiest thing for our setup. So now I just have to make that happen. Did did he use a self-tapping sheet metal screw to hold the Block in place? Yes, he did now I’m doing something. A little sacrilegious here, I’m gon na put in the raystorm Neo CPU water block.
They they have an str4 water block. Yeah two reasons: one, the EK Block’s a little clogged up, because it’s been here in here forever and I need to uh clean it up. So that means taking it apart, testing it blah blah blah, I’m in kind of a hurry. The second reason is that Kyle from heart, ocp turned me on to these blocks and it’s just a copper plate with a distribution block and a clear top.
It comes with all the RGB accoutrement and all that. But it’s a lot easier to see when something is going wrong with your Loop or things are getting dirty with this plate, and it also performs slightly better than the str4 block that I had on here previously now. Don’T worry I’ll, be able to reuse that block in another build probably a build with an epic Milan CPU, probably one of the F-series CPUs, but for now this is pretty awesome. I got another one, a brand new one.
Well, I wasn’t sure that it was going to be brand new because it came from eBay for the thermal paste Arctic. Of course, what else would I use other than Arctic? This black tubing is also from Ek, it’s not supposed to leach chemicals or anything like that into your distilled water. This is supposed to be the forever low maintenance, no maintenance tubing, we’ll put it to the test.
I wouldn’t say that this Loop has been zero maintenance, since I originally installed it in this article with some other video. It’S the wood grain panel build basically let’s switch motherboards, but I didn’t really clean the loop or do anything with it when I switched motherboards, because this is an overclockable wrx80, the azerock workstation board been very happy with that. This is the version one that has the Intel mix. It has an Intel shortage turns out, a bunch of people are getting ready to get laid off, but this has. The R2 has uh, not the Intel 10 gig mix, which is also a pretty fine motherboard, as people on our Forum have experienced at least from the threads there. So I’m just going to swap this out for the last bit of uh plasticized tubing in case.
That was part of my problem while we flush this now, even though I’m not using fancy Hardline tubing or anything like that, you can make clever use of 45 and 90 degree fittings in order to get a certain look that you want for this. This kind of tubing and we’re almost ready to install our ASRock Aqua. Not quite, we need to finish flushing the loop here, but this is, as you can see, we’re in a lot better shape than we were now.
I love what I’ve done here with the layout. I mean okay, the vertical GPU is not just to show off the GPU, it’s functional, it frees up all of our other pcie slots, for whatever we want. I’Ve pulled everything out so that I have a more power budget to be able to do what I want, but we’ve got optane mounted in there now I had planned to use the EK quick, disconnect angled connector on the GPU, which would give us a little bit More clearance, I’ve got those those small tubes coming off the back, but the uh the flow through holes on this GPU are larger than the normal size, so the gaskets wouldn’t made up exactly where I expected them to. I wonder if there’s an updated EK block for that or something I didn’t. I didn’t have that handy when I did this, so I just sort of got it put together and our GPU does have reasonably okay flow of water, although I think it might be happier if I used larger fittings and opened it up just a little bit more. But for this little bit of a trick of nostalgia for the 7970 XTX three gigahertz Edition, we were able to get there at least as far as a three gigahertz game clock is concerned.
Yeah we can, we can get close to a 40 90. We can outperform a 40 90 if we really push the wattage, but I get why AMD didn’t release a a true 40 90 competitor at literally any wattage, although somehow Nvidia was able to have their cake and eat it too, with their 4090, because the 4090, with The unlocked thing could go past 600 watts, which is why we had the four connector four power connector thing. In the first place, this one’s only got three, so I mean that already tells you.
This is technically less wattage than the 4090 to achieve 40 90 like performance, but it’s still an absurd amount of wattage. So I get why AMD did this? It really. I mean it makes sense.
I understand they didn’t want to do. The 7973 gigahertz Edition missed opportunity, but I’ll do it and it’s not it’s not a 24 7 thing. Obviously, but hey check out those fire strike numbers check out those 3D Mark numbers check out everybody Benchmark Under the Sun and check out this ridiculous threadripper system. The ASRock WRX 80 motherboard is no slouch here. It’S letting us do all of this. It’S got all the auxiliary power to run a bajillion G for use, which is what I normally do.
I switched out my register air correcting memory for 6 000 Mega transfer, gamer memory just to be able to have a little bit better performance. That’S how crazy I am 7970 XTX, three gigahertz Edition boom in the bag and model. This is level one I’m signing out and you can find me at a level one forums.
My Loop’s got almost no leaks in it. .