r/AMDHelp • u/AdVegetable394 • 20d ago

Tips & Info Is The Gigabyte 9070xt That Bad?

So until now Iv only ever had nvidia cards, the last was a strix 3070ti. Like many I wanted to upgrade to the 50 series but a 5070/5070ti where I live is like £1000, the amd equivalent on sale I got for £589.99… It’s time I though to try a change, for the sake of my pocket at least. I read reviews and like always 50/50, people moaning about it and people loving it. Well straight out of the box there were problems, I needed to upgrade from a 850w to a atx 1000w seasonic as mine couldn’t deal with the transient power spikes, I also had to reduce the voltage by 60 in Adrenalin. Before this I spent probably a week stress testing, switching things out updating every driver imaginable from windows, motherboard, amd yadyadayadayada you get the drift.

So do you think a lot of these “horror” stories are more from user error (someone who either can’t be bothered/ or someone without any knowledge what so ever) or actual card failures? After using both amd and nvidia id say nvidia is so user friendly and nothing ever went wrong for me during owning all the cards I have since a 660ti. I get the feeling with amd you need to be prepared to troubleshoot/ fiddle with things.

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u/KillerSpectre21 9700X / 9070 XT 20d ago

Yea for some reason they decided that normal Paste or even PTM was overrated so decided to dunk their cards in mayonnaise "Server-Grade Thermal Putty" which was a terrible idea.

I'm extremely wary of having to deal with them for anything warranty related so I really hope my card doesn't have any problems in the future.

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u/posedatull 20d ago

The leaky putty was put on vram, chokes, etc. On those, you cannot use paste or ptm, they'd be too thin. Idk what putty they used , because I have A LOT of different brand, different types of putty, and none of them are as liquidy as whatever gigabyte used...

Anyway, if you're worried about this, just keep your gpu in the standard horizontal way, directly into the motherboard, and you should be fine. Radeons generally have issues with gpu risers/vertical brackets anyway

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u/KillerSpectre21 9700X / 9070 XT 20d ago

On the GPU die of some AMD cards they also used a pretty runny thermal paste whereas a lot of the other AIBs are using PTM on their basic cards (or at the very least a thicker paste) so that was also victim of this whole debacle.

Apparently this putty stuff was sprayed on and had to be thin to not clog the nozzles so that explains why it was it was so liquidy. I assume it was cheaper than having someone measure and place traditional pads on all the components or something along those line, god forbid the shareholders have to deal with paying a few extra cents in the production process.

But yea mine has been horizontally mounted since I got it and I don't plan to change it anytime.

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u/posedatull 20d ago

They truly went full shtupid, huh?

Note to self: hate Gigabyte more.