Meet Valkyrie 2022 + Navi 48 upgrade!

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Hey all,

It has been a while since I posted anything decent here,

About 5 days ago I did a nice upgrade to AMD's RDNA 4 GPU the AMD Navi 48 XTX,, the one I went for was the following:
Sapphire Nitro+ AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT PCI-E 16GB 256Bit GDDR6 Rev.C0 2511

That graphics card have is the one I bought at Megekkko, in the Netherlands aout 5 days ago.

As Navi 48 goes, I was always curious on what it would be like to have one, to explore what RDNA 4 all has in stock as well.
As brands go, I always wanted the Sapphire Nitro+ series of graphics card, just great build quality with grand cooler designs as well, great acoustics etc, and nice ARGB support as well, not everyone lieks RGB, but I do so that too matters with my builds.

Sapphire is like the EVGA for Radeon graphics cards, the same that EVGA was the Sapphire for GeForce graphics cards.


Here the box of the Sapphire Nitro+ RX 9070 XT:






Here the inner box, this adds a nice detail of Sapphire's classy way of packing their niche products:






Here the graphics card it's self:

 

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Here the final rear angled shot and the last pic revealing the PCB date of this card being 2511, meaning that this card was made in year 2025 during week 11, , due to this the Navi 48 XTX GPU is exactly 1 week older, it's fabrication date is 2010, meaning it was made in year 2025 during week 10, the GPU and PCB always share 1 week difference between both fabrication dates / PCB dates.


Here how I connected the 12HPWR 16 Pin power connector to the 3x 8 pin dongle and that to the SeaSonic Focus GX 850 Gold PSU:


And here how to neatly cover up the power cables thanks to the added magnetic back plate Sapphire provided with this release:


Here the card in the system, the Lian Li TYR PC-X2000B with Lian Li W-X200B Window kit from 2011 still does justice today!


Also note the HDD/SDD backplane, which can support up to 6x 2TB - 4TB HDD's/SSD's in various RAID arrays


Here the cleaned out PSU; a SeaSonic Focus GX 850 Gold, just make sure you wait like 30 mins before doing this, even I waited 3 hours as I wasn't sure of it either, as cleaning the PSU goes I do this every year, the last thing I'd want is a fire being caused by the over piled layers of dust that collected in the PSU over the years...


This thing was a world of light gray before the cleaning treatment, now it's like new again, despite I had iot for about 3 years now. 2nd pic is the first boot and all is running nicely!

 

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And here the final result, I used my tampered glass Cooler Master graphics card support bracket instead of the default Sapphire "L - Bracket", more RGB this way as well!
My Revoltec Cold Cathode Lamps from 2009 still work nicely, they add the nice soft glow to the build,thereby softening the colored light from the LED"s as well.








Here my previous graphics card compared to the new one:

Sapphire Nitro+ AMD Radeon RX 6800 XT Special Edition PCI-E 16GB 256Bit GDDR6 Rev.C1 2207 (1 of 250pcs)
Sapphire Nitro+ AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT PCI-E 16GB 256Bit GDDR6 Rev.C0 2511




Here all my Sapphire boxes of cards I bought over the years and that I all have mint in box and complete, some of these like the Fury are in one of my systems, the others are in my glass top vitrine coffee table in the living room.


Here the cards in the coffee table:


Here the complete collection of graphics card & Sound card boxes:


And here the final system name & specs to where the Nitro+ RX 9070 XT has been installed in to:

Valkyrie 2022

1x 8 Core AMD Ryzen 7 5800X3D
1x Noctua NH-U12S SE-AM4
Noctua NF-12 PWM , an extra 120mil fan for the CPU cooler
Gigabyte Aorus B550 Elite AX V2 for Socket AM4
4x 8GB Corsair Vengeance RGB RT 32GB PC4-28800 aka DDR4-3600
Sapphire Nitro+ Radeon RX 9070 XT PCI-E 16GB 256Bit GDDR6 Rev. C0 2511
Creative Labs Sound Blaster X AE-5 Plus Dedicated sound card for Music, Films, Series & Games
Realtek ALC-1200 for Sennheiser PC-360 G4ME Headset
Intel Gigabit CT Desktop Adapter
Corsair Force3 240GB SSD as main boot disk
Micron Crucial MX500 2TB SSD as game disk
Plextor PX-950SA BluRay RW Drive for Single & Dual Layer BR disk
Lian Li TYR PC-X2000B + Lian Li W-X2000B Window kit both 1 of 200 made worldwide
SeaSonic Focus GX 850 Gold EPS 12V + 24V PSU
iiyama Red Eagle G-Master GB2770QSU-B1 27" IPS panel with a 16:9 aspect ratio for a max native Reso of 2560x1440x32 @ 165Hz
Pico 4 VR Headset

Win10 Pro x64 UK 22H2
AMD Adrenalin 25.5.1 WHQL