XFX Radeon RX 9070 XT Mercury OC Magnetic Air Review
Posted by imaginary_num6er@reddit | hardware | View on Reddit | 99 comments
Posted by imaginary_num6er@reddit | hardware | View on Reddit | 99 comments
RespenRun@reddit
Lot of hate here. Just going to say this card wasn't my choice, but it's surprised me. Really quiet, and I can't get it to go above 52 degrees, I'm not going to tinker with overclocking when it runs everything I need fine at stock OC, but it's super stable. Size isn't an issue for me in an ATX-E, so I can see that being an issue, but the card is solid, quiet and cool functionally and as high an OC as you are going to get.
Also, I love that I won't have to be cleaning dust between fan blades, pulling them out is a godsend for this old man... It was literally a hail Mary launch day drop from amazon, and white... which I wasn't originally a fan of either. This may be more about the 9070XT's in general, but I have no complaints, runs solid and more of an upgrade than I expected coming from a 3080 TI.
NoParticular3424@reddit
Is it really quiet? The review i saw showed over 40 db vs. 32 db on other oc cards. I wanted to order the pure but panic buyed the mercury magnet air.
RespenRun@reddit
Its more quiet than my 3080 ti, I really can not tell when its on over my case fans. I dont test for dB, but dont even sweat it, its a great card. You'll enjoy it.
NoParticular3424@reddit
Thanks. The card should arrive tomorrow.
FO533@reddit
congrats. how is this gpu? is it loud or not?
SteamDeckHead@reddit
I have the white version of this card and the PC has been fairly quiet in a silent room. A steady, quiet hum that is easily indiscernible when gaming.
FO533@reddit
thx! didnyou donany fan curves or uv? so youbalsonhave the magnetic air version with swappavle fans ?
SteamDeckHead@reddit
No fan curves yet as I haven't been able to get the card above 55c, but I will tinker soon
And yup, I have the magnetic fans! I'm cleaning up my rig, face is close to the running PC, and it's still pretty damn quiet.
FO533@reddit
thx very much my friend!! may i ask which resolution you play? and yes xfx xatds on the 9070xt as i knownare theese cards with the lowest tenps of all custom modells. they are tuned for low temps.
SteamDeckHead@reddit
Yup, seems like temps are great. Especially coming from my toasty, two-fan 2080ti, haha.
Honestly, I like playing in 1080 even though I play on a 4K OLED. I have played 1080 so long that I still enjoy it, hah.
FO533@reddit
haha nice! yes this will be night and day. and yeah i goet it 1080p is still good because some prefer small monitors like 24 or 25 inch.
SteamDeckHead@reddit
Definitely night and day! I play on an OLED, and the high frames and beautiful graphics have blown me away. No more mid settings for me, haha.
FO533@reddit
sounds great ! have fun my friend
1R3V@reddit
this card would be my pick if I was upgrading but for now I'll keep my 7900XTX
Kusommak@reddit
I bought this exact card and I keep getting a driver timeout with crash to desktop when playing games. It happens about twice an hour.
I regret switching to AMD and I will most likely go back to my 2080 Ti.
Subjugatealllife@reddit
It’s 100% a driver issue.
Kusommak@reddit
Yes, it looks like its boosting up to 3300 MHz when using default settings. The maximum boost clock should be 3100 MHz.
I set a -300 MHz offset now, and it boosts to 3084 MHz. It has been stable so far, but I didn't get to test for more than an hour of gaming.
FO533@reddit
is this card loud?
Kusommak@reddit
It's not loud at all, and it barely reaches 59 C at 100% load.
FO533@reddit
thx!
Leidenfrostfx@reddit
Seeing the same issue with the same card. Mine does also pull 560w power when gaming. Not like a spike, it does this consistent.
Which games were crashing for you?
FO533@reddit
how a out noise is your gpu loud
Kusommak@reddit
I got AMD driver timeouts for basically everything I tried:
Kingdom Come Deliverance 2 Cities Skylines 2 Cyberpunk 2077 New World
I switched back to my 2080 Ti and it has been 100% stable.
Kopseer@reddit
Did you do a proper DDU installation in safe mode to clear out the Nvidia drivers etc?
Kusommak@reddit
Yes, I used DDU in safe mode to clear out all Nvidia drivers. I also made sure to prevent Windows from installing its own AMD drivers, and ran DDU again to clear out AMD drivers just in case.
Muted-Green-2880@reddit
Strange the xfx model costs so much over there, its $150 cheaper than the nitro+ here in Australia. It was actually the same price as a sapphire pulse here lol it was kme or the cheapest non msrp cards. Same as the asrock taichi which i would have expected to cost the same as the nitro. I ordered the mercury, but when I rang up to check up on my order they said they didn't have enough stock to fulfil my order! So now I'm on backorder with no ETA just yet. So I might put in a request for the taichi model if it comes in first, that looks like the best overall card imo
tasknautica@reddit
Update: https://www.reddit.com/r/bapcsalesaustralia/s/SflFdFAaOP I contacted 4 stores about it. Heres their responses.
Muted-Green-2880@reddit
I got the eta 2 days ago from scorptec, they said 14th to me too, its annoying they won't let me swap it to the white version of this card. Apparently it can't be done because I used afterpay lol
tasknautica@reddit
Hey mate,
I'm also trying to get this card but i havent seen a single listing for this card in white - and ive only seen 1 listing for the black one from scorptec. I emailed pccasegear, they say they dont have any and dont have an eta on it - they say it might not even show up at all.
Where'd you get yours from?
Muted-Green-2880@reddit
I got the black model form scorptec ( actually, they didn't have enough stock for my order so now I'm on backorder with no eta yet😡) i didn't see that model anywhere else, not sure why they didn't have any white. They obviously didn't get much stock of the xfx cards lol. Apparently they're going to give me an update tomorrow, I messaged about a white model but no response yet. I'll let you know when if they actually contact me. I wouldn't but from scorptec ever again though, it took hours just to get a hold of them on the phone and they never responded to messages and they still haven't updates my order to reflect that they're waiting for stock. Useless lol
tasknautica@reddit
Thanks for the advice, and for the message, i appreciate it!
Muted-Green-2880@reddit
They didn't get back to me about white models, but they gave me an eta for the xfx mercury 9070xt OC for the first week of April. Not sure if that will include the white version as well but I suppose it could. I asked if I could swap but they said I would have to cancel my order and buy it again and then I'll lose my spot....so there's no point for me doing that. Not sure why they can't just help me out lol. Oh well I'm happy I'm getting one at all 🤣
tasknautica@reddit
Thank you very much for the reply, its helpful! I dont see why theyre being such a massive dick, but oh well...
Muted-Green-2880@reddit
Apparently it's because i used afterpay so they can't change it....sounds like a load of shit. How hard could it be to switch it from black to white 🤣 the guy i spoke too was nice enough at least. Better than the first guy I spoke to a few days ago, im not too fussed honestly. Just odd that they can't even offer me that option lol. I don't mind the wait, im off to the states in two weeks so it will be here when I get back if the ETA is reliable
tasknautica@reddit
If theyre lwaving it on ur doorstep, get a relative to pick it up - you dont wanna risk porch pirates, even though its rarer in australia. Depends on the city ur in, i guess. Also, you could ask them to drop it off at the post office, might be less risky than on the porch
Muted-Green-2880@reddit
All good, someone will be here. It has to be signed for so if someone hasn't it would go to the nearest post office i believe. But someone should be here so I'll be right. Will be awesome going on holiday and then coming back to a nice surprise haha 😄 I do wish I could swap the white model, looking at now on jayz two cents most recent video. Looks so good, black is good too but the white really stands out
tasknautica@reddit
Yeah, maybe, if you care enough, you could sell it on ebay for a normal, rrp price and then buy the white one?
Muted-Green-2880@reddit
That could be a good idea if i find a white version of it. A lot of effort though haha I'll probably just stick with the black. Still looks pretty good
NYB_002@reddit
will this card fit on the jonsbo d31?
imaginary_num6er@reddit (OP)
reddit_equals_censor@reddit
4 slots for a 357 mm2 die is just absurd.
do people not like having pci-e slots available?
i guess the one good thing, that nvidia did this generation was to show off an over 500 watt 2 slot cooler.
it seems just dumb at this point.
with super giant cards not even being a rare example.
the 2.5-2.8 slot size sweetspot to make cheap, but great cooling cards has fewer cards than over 3 slots versions now maybe even with the 9070 xt.
that's crazy.
willyolio@reddit
do people really use PCI slots these days?
I mean, back in the day you might have had to add a sound card, wireless network card, maybe a USB card...? Maybe a RAID card? And all that stuff was for power users back then, too.
Nowadays all that shit is built into the motherboard and GPU is the only thing people slot in.
reddit_equals_censor@reddit
random examples of pci-e slot uses today:
2nd graphics card for rendering, workstation stuff, ai (see use of 2 3090s combined),
an hba for storage. so you'd have a graphics card + an hba. we're assuming, that you always use at least one graphics card btw.
and you want an hba to get enough sata ports, even more so in shity new motherboards with missing sata ports.
ultra fast ssds, that take a full pci-e x8 or x16 slot (so more workstation stuff)
pci-e passthrough for a vm. now you might want 2 extra pci-e slots here actually depending on the motherboard's setup.
one for the 2nd graphics card and another for for a usb controller card, if the motherboard's setup is shit.
why you want pci-e passthrough? to run virtual machines for many reasons at VERY VERY low overhead.
and unless amd or nvidia releases sr-iov to work on consumer level graphics cards, that is required.
sr-iov would allow you to passthrough a single graphics cards to a different vm.
so you passthrough your 9070 xt to a vm, get full performance from it in the vm, or almost full, depending on the use in the host environment, but only use one graphics card.
unless amd or nvidia releases that for consumer cards you'd need 2 graphics cards for pci-e passthrough for that alone.
10 gbit ethernet.
most boards today still don't have it with 2.5 Gb/s being the high standard nowadays.
oh btw:
people don't use raid cards anymore, unless you wanna set your storage on fire.
well they do, but they take the raid cards, set them into hba mode and use them as hbas, so i guess partially they still do :D
classical raid is dead, unless you wanna wave goodbye to your data.
you use zfs with an hba or other file systems. just sth random to know i guess.
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and hey why not mention the ps/2 card. why a ps/2 card? to install usb drivers on a windows 7 installation on a modern system without injected usb drivers into the installer. a very common use case i'm sure :D
but yeah there are a ton of use cases still of course. some a lot more common than others.
there certainly is a massive advantage of having at least a 2nd free x16 slot, that is electrically x8, that goes directly to the cpu and bypasses the limiting chipset.
you never end up in a corner where you straight up can't do sth.
oh you want to upgrade your home systems to 10 Gb/s networking?
well i guess NO, because the 350 euro absurd am5 motherboard doesn't have any open pci-e ports anymore...
that is kind of crazy.
Elvenstar32@reddit
all your examples only apply to professionals and servers and I kinda doubt this XFX card is aiming to market itself to these usages.
reddit_equals_censor@reddit
that's wrong.
some of these already applied to me, or i may NEED to use them in the future.
and i am not a professional and not running a server.
only because these things don't apply to you does not mean, that they don't apply to other people.
galgamoth@reddit
so use a riser cable and mount the card so it doesn't interfere or buy a different card with a smaller cooler
Jeep-Eep@reddit
Mainboard sound still sucks shit too, for a use case more close to home where you find a card like that.
reddit_equals_censor@reddit
absolutely also an example yeah.
and for those people, who will shout: "but people only use usb sound cards these days!".
that is of course wrong. wrong for the reason, that a bunch of pci-e sound cards still exist, but also lots of people use legacy audio hardware, which may include pci-e sound cards, so those people absolutely need pci-e slots for their sound cards and i would guess, that those people for unicorn issues would also want it to go directly to the cpu and not through the chipset for possible random audio bs, so certainly having a 2nd pci-e x16 at x8 electrical, that should work the best makes the most sense.
oh also a great reason to have pci-e slots is when stuff just breaks on your board.
like the audio chip breaks 4 years in, or the nic, or the high speed usb controllers.
and the best way to make up for the broken stuff is pci-e cards of course. highest bandwidth, lowest latency, etc...
Jeep-Eep@reddit
USB being its mare's nest self of a standard.. well, on paper it should be as good as PCIE DACs but never in practice; plainly, PCIE just does it better for now.
Frexxia@reddit
None of this is relevant for the vast vast majority of people
Sticky_Hulks@reddit
My motherboard doesn't come with a 10gbit NIC. This 4 slot card means I can't use it unless I use a riser cable of some sort.
Do I need the NIC? Not really, but why compromise?
reddit_equals_censor@reddit
to add to that terrible meme, there are some new am5 boards, that have the top pci-e x16 slot 2 slots down from the top, instead of 1 slot down from the top.
so 3rd slot from the top, instead of 2nd slot down from top.
the ASRock X670E Taichi is a great nonsense meme to look at.
you see the top slot being the 3rd slot from the top and the 2nd pci-e slot is the 2nd one from the bottom.
or 6th slot from the top. either way that means, that you only got 2 empty slot spaces between the 2 pci-e slots.
or put differently any graphics card bigger than 3 pci-e slots will block the 2nd pci-e slot, because asrock for whatever insane reason moved the top pci-e slot 1 slot down :D
which is LOTS AND LOTS! of cards today :D
so asrock put the 2 pci-e x8 electrical slot on the board, but did their best to make the 2nd slot not accessible in lots of cases for no reason....
btw interesting to also remember, that the default slot for all motherboards today is the 2ND! slot from the top for graphics cards.
so hey with graphics cards getting bigger and bigger (for no reason in lots of cases), we could have motherboards move the pci-e slot back to the highest slot, so the biggest space for a 2nd pci-e device or 2nd graphics cards can be left.
so you could use a 3.8 slot graphics cards and the bottom slot takes on a 3.5 slot graphics card (if the case fits it) then.
but asrock went the other way :D
we also in the past had pci-e x1 or x4 slots in the top slot of motherboards, that was a long time ago.
which then meant, that you could add a card over the graphics card, so you had no issues of choking out the graphics card, or the graphics card blocking that slot.
but yeah instead there is nothing in that top slot nowadays at all ever :D (the m.2 ssd can be moved around, that often is placed there)
Plank_With_A_Nail_In@reddit
Not enough NVME slots on motherboard, boards need at least 4 but seem to come with only a max of 2.
iprefervoattoreddit@reddit
Why do you need so many SSDs? If you need that much storage for files you are probably fine with an HDD or two.
basil_elton@reddit
Buy Arrow Lake. It has two NVMe from the CPU alone. Plus a bunch of them from chipset for motherboard manufacturers to play around with.
Keulapaska@reddit
Need 4? Unless you're hauling some old drives ones, why would you "need" 4, 2 slots is already 3-8TB of storage and it's not like boards with 3, 4 or even 5 slots don't exist.
kuddlesworth9419@reddit
I kind of agree, I have a bunch of slots on my X99 board but I only ever used 2 and now only 1. I think you only really need 3, one for the GPU, the other two for storage expansion or network expansion. I guess these days you could argue you might want a discrete GPU for PhysX 32bit support. We don't have SLI/Crossfire anymore so you don't really need 4 full PCIe slots. Some motherbaords can be tight with USB these days so maybe a USB expansion as well but you can get storage expansion cards with a few extra USB on them.
Jaznavav@reddit
The average user does in fact not care because they don't use expansion cards. They will care if it's not quiet though
Hairy-Dare6686@reddit
The curious thing about the XFX is that it isn't quiet either despite being such a huge brick.
According to the test at equal wattage even the Sapphire Pulse easily beats it in noise/performance despite being both cheaper (if you can actually find one...) and much smaller and lighter.
ArtisticAttempt1074@reddit
It beats all the other cards thermals by quite a big margin.
Overclocks the best also due to that extra headroom. Also has the lowest Hotspot temp of all models tested
Hairy-Dare6686@reddit
Thermals are completely irrelevant in a vacuum.
It doesn't tell you how well a cooler performs or even how much headroom there actually is, it only tells you what the temperatures are with whatever fan curve the manufacturer decided to ship the GPU with.
The reason it "beats" the other models is because it has a much more aggressive fan curve than the other models being much louder at stock setting as a result, in the same you could run any of the models with their maximum fan speed to get excellent thermals but which is completely useless information for the end user as almost noone wants their GPU to sound like a jet engine.
That's why a noise normalized test gives you a much better comparison between models and that's where the xfx fails miserably having the worst cooling of all the tested models by quite a significant margin if run the fans at the same noise level and heat load.
ArtisticAttempt1074@reddit
Although I agree with you that xfx generally doesn't perform the best,
If you read the link this article is based on, you'd know that it has the most headroom becuase it overclocked the best and like you mentioned,
In the noise normalized test, it Also performed the best, once again All in the article the post is about.
Hairy-Dare6686@reddit
Again, you don't know the maximum headroom of any of the cards because the article doesn't tell you that and even if the XFX ends up having the highest theoretical thermal headroom it doesn't matter as noone actually runs their GPUs with 100% fan speed, it is an irrelevant metric.
Memory temps are within margin of error between the bottom 4 cards (including the much cheaper allegedly MSRP Pulse).
ArtisticAttempt1074@reddit
Agreed, it's still the highest overclocker and idrc about the bottom 4, I'm looking at the top 2 mem temps.
FPS MORE = BUYING
Jaznavav@reddit
It is indeed puzzlingly bad for the price and size. Perhaps the tradeoffs for magnetic fan mounts, or just bad heatsink design?
ArtisticAttempt1074@reddit
It beats all the other cards thermals by quite a big margin.
Overclocks the best also due to that extra headroom. Also has the lowest Hotspot temp of all models tested.
Just read the link
Jaznavav@reddit
It beats all other cards by having the most noise and having the worst performance at 35 dba as well.
ArtisticAttempt1074@reddit
Gpu over overclock does almost nothing for performance gain with the 9070xt, however memory temp provides like 95% of what can be gained from overclocking.
In that regard, at 35 dba, the xfx is the 2nd best, the 1st place Winner in a noise normalized test doesn't have fans that can rev up as high, so when both are maxed out overclocked, the xfx takes the lead with 6-9 c cooler memory temps.
Some people may not prefer that, but I prefer maximum performance.
MonoShadow@reddit
It's marketing, bigger - better. A person walks into a store and sees 2 cards, one is huge, the other is small(er). "If paid for the whole card", etc. Huge seems better value, bigger radiator, etc. Trucks vs compacts.
But time and time we see a smaller, better engineered card perform on par or better than a bigger card which is bigger just for the size sake. Some of them don't even use the space efficiently, with cosmetic bits making the card larger than it absolutely needs to be.
Vb_33@reddit
I don't think the average user buys 4 slot cards. In fact the average user buys 4060s not 9070XTs.
reddit_equals_censor@reddit
that indeed might be the case for most and simply think:
bigger = better.
i do however wonder how many people have smaller cases, that may only fit 3 slot graphics cards max.
isn't there the special sff stuff, that nvidia is trying to market for example.
so i guess smaller cases and sff cases, that are very limited may be the best reason to actually create those cards.
and system integraters would probably prefer those too with reduced likelyhood of pci-e slot/graphics card damage in shipping with smaller cards, that still cool extremely well.
but yeah annoying either way.
would be cool if a company like sapphire, instead of putting 12 pin fire hazards on amd cards to get tons of negative pr would try to make the best 2 slot card, or 2.5 slot card and actually market it matching the competition, but being smaller and stuff.
i'd pay a reasonable amount more for a nice 1.5 of the 3 fans being blow through (so like as much as possible without splitting pcbs and having a great and very tight pcb to achieve that and that alone probs would gain a bunch of cooling performance at pcb cost.
i mean hey they are trying to charge 250 euros over msrp, if we take the fake msrp as a real msrp, i think they have the space to make sth interesting at least, instead of 12 pin fire hazard fever dreams :D
Elvenstar32@reddit
What do you even put in PCI-E slots nowadays in a daily drive PC outside of a GPU?
I used to have a separate sound card like 15 years ago but now onboard is either good enough or I've got a dac amp through USB.
I also used to have a wifi card but now I get that integrated through the motherboard as well and many people just use ethernet.
Only thing I can think of to put in it is a SATA expansion card and that's for my homeserver because otherwise it's all M2 drives anyway on my daily drive PC.
reddit_equals_censor@reddit
i made a comment about about examples here:
https://www.reddit.com/r/hardware/comments/1j688z4/comment/mgnr3gy/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button
for me personally what comes up is: ps/2 pci-e card (to install windows 7 for programs, that don't run on windows 7, well mostly games), the 2nd pci-e x8 electrical slot for a 2nd graphics card, that still use driver support on windows 7. again for games, that don't run on linux mint (rare though). my next graphics card upgrade will require this, the current card BARELY still has support.
and an hba if i ever need more storage, which i most certainly will, because 8 sata ports are not that many.
Plank_With_A_Nail_In@reddit
There's more than one card being made, don't like this don't buy it. Crying about it in public when two slot AMD coolers do exist is absurd.
iprefervoattoreddit@reddit
The Powercolor Reaper is 2 slots
Cyndagon@reddit
In the 12 years I've had custom PC's, I've never used any of the other pcie ports.
PoL0@reddit
I have to admit my two latest builds (over 10 years) I haven't used PCIe slots for anything but a single discrete GPU.
Jeep-Eep@reddit
More then a fucking Nitro for bigger and worse.
AfonsoFGarcia@reddit
So the usual with XFX
ArtisticAttempt1074@reddit
It beats all the other cards thermals by quite a big margin.
OC the best also due to that extra headroom. Also has the lowest Hotspot temp of all models tested
CazOnReddit@reddit
They've had some good 6000/7000 series GPUs with fair prices but...yeah this isn't ideal
AfonsoFGarcia@reddit
It’s not that they’re bad, but their models usuals have larger coolers that aren’t as effective as Sapphire ones.
CazOnReddit@reddit
You're not wrong but Sapphire's wizardry when it comes to cooling AMD cards is more or less without an equal, it's them then everyone else
Elketh@reddit
That really hasn't been true for the past couple of generations. Their cards are still very competitive in terms of cooling and build quality, but there have been as good or even better options for most models. Taking the 7900 GRE as an example, the PowerColor Hellhound absolutely crushed the Nitro+ and at a lower price point as well. Even in the 9070 XT review linked in this post, the Nitro+ isn't the top performer in the noise-normalized chart. It's beaten by both the ASRock Taichi and the Asus TUF. Sapphire have been resting on their laurels and reputation somewhat in recent years, seemingly focusing more on fancy RGB lighting than pushing cooling to the limit. It says a lot that even Asus are competitive with them now in terms of cooling performance, given what shitty afterthoughts their AMD cards were as recently as RDNA 1.
Jeep-Eep@reddit
Eh, the performance of ASUS Radeons has always been pretty feast and famine so I'm not making that much of that.
My feel of Sapphires is 'among the top tier of any metric, not always the top dog in any domain but never really deficient in any either.' Reliably good and long lived.
iprefervoattoreddit@reddit
At least it uses 8 pin power
Kopseer@reddit
This was the second cheapest card for me here in RSA, the cheapest being tjhe Gigabyte Eagle. Eagles sold out so ordered this one, cost less than the Eagle 3080 this will be replacing
Hairy-Dare6686@reddit
Looks aside for being an expensive premium OC model their cooling solution isn't any good. Compared to the other XT models it performs the worst in a noise normalized test with even the much cheaper MSRP Sapphire Pulse outperforming it at equal wattage while also being both lighter and smaller.
teutorix_aleria@reddit
This justifies my opinion that the pulse line are the best base model AMD cards time and time again. Consistently very well built for an MSRP model.
WittyBirthday4536@reddit
I got mine 7900GRE for 569euro, however I had 7% discount code, so pretty much bit below MSRP, no way in hell im buying 9070XT for 800+. No tarifs here, just tax (19%) so MSRP here should be around 650, good luck trying to find one at that price. I'll just wait and buy 5070Ti, fuck AMD
Jeep-Eep@reddit
Sapphire is the top dog AMD exclusive OEM, no questions asked.
ivorko@reddit
Look at the hardware unboxed review AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT Review, Have They Finally Done It?. It does seem that mercury has better temps than nitro+ at almost the same rpm
Hairy-Dare6686@reddit
RPM is not a useful indicator for noise levels as different fans have different noise levels at the same RPM and even the same fans can be louder depending on the heatsink.
For comparing different cooling solutions you need to do a noise normalized like in the article, otherwise you are just comparing apples with oranges.
ivorko@reddit
thats true so the heatsink is good but the fans are not. That's only conclusion. I see it peaked about 52 C so the fans can be reduced to lower rpm for sure.
Lordbeny@reddit
Its probably the result of magnetic fans, im curious if Mercury without magnetic fans (there are like 6 options available) will have better results. Its just nos possible for 4 slot cooling to be the loudest there. Would like to see more tests besides techpowerup.
Stennan@reddit
Those fans look like they are prioritising looks vs efficiency. Normally case fan makers are the ones that know the best shape and balance between pressure/airflow.
Swapping fans might be cool, but I'm more concerned about the motor failing if the owner starts fiddling with the fan.
dehydrogen@reddit
what is the purpose of the magnetic fans?
Aggressive_Fee_1233@reddit
I think....
Easier interchangeability (for cleaning) and Better longevity/Durability
Jeep-Eep@reddit
Yeah, but the Sapphire Tech solution is more performant at definitely a lower BOM and probably a lower BOL.