**Rock's Challenger Edition Review**

The Rock's Challenger Edition is a premium graphics card that boasts impressive performance and features. The card has two eight-pin PCIe ends, which provide sufficient power to support the GPU's demands. At the rear of the card, you'll find four display outs as well as two HDMI 2.0 outs, making it an excellent option for those looking to upgrade their gaming setup.

**Feature Set and Performance**

One of the standout features of this card is its performance. With a high clock speed of 1755 MHz, the Rock's Challenger Edition delivers exceptional gaming performance. However, when compared to other high-end graphics cards on the market, it falls short. For example, an RT X 2070 Super would provide better performance and overclocking capabilities, making it a more cost-effective option.

**Premium Look and Build Quality**

Despite its relatively modest performance, the Rock's Challenger Edition makes up for it with its premium look and build quality. The card features a sleek design with Taichi mechanics on the back plate, which is both visually appealing and sturdy. The RGB lighting system adds an extra layer of customization options, making this card a great addition to any gaming setup.

**Acoustics and Cooling**

The cooling system on the Rock's Challenger Edition is also noteworthy. With three fans working in unison, the card maintains exceptional temperatures even under heavy load. This makes it an excellent option for those who prioritize noise reduction and optimal performance.

**Value for Money**

However, with a premium price tag of $480, one can't help but wonder if this card is worth the extra cost. When compared to other high-end graphics cards on the market, such as the XFX or Arctic Exelero, it falls short in terms of raw performance and overclocking capabilities.

**Question of the Day**

Nelly Nelson asked why spend the extra 70 pounds when you can opt for a custom model like the Arctic Exelero. In response, I felt that while the Rock's Challenger Edition is a great card, its dated aesthetic and lack of innovation hold it back from being an excellent option. Additionally, the instruction manual could be improved, and the inclusion of a massive thermal pad would have made the card plug-and-play.

**Conclusion**

In conclusion, the Rock's Challenger Edition is a solid graphics card that offers impressive performance and features at a premium price. While it may not be the best option for those looking to upgrade their gaming setup, its premium look and build quality make it an excellent choice for those who prioritize aesthetics. However, when compared to other high-end graphics cards on the market, its value for money is questionable.

**Recommendation**

If you're looking for a more cost-effective option with similar performance, consider opting for the Taichi 5700 XT at a slightly lower price point of $420. This card offers excellent performance and features without breaking the bank. However, if you're willing to spend the extra $60 and want the premium look and build quality that comes with it, then the Rock's Challenger Edition is an excellent option.

**Final Thoughts**

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"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enyou came here for an intro so we're gonna look at that as rock Tai Chi welcome back to check yes sitting right here on the desk we have as Rock's flagship 5700 XT triple fans the two outers ninety mill and then the middle is 80 mill and this middle fan actually has an RGB ring around it with the steampunk mechanical logo above that which you can control in the software and change it from seven different modes they've also got an RGB LED light which you can quickly switch it off if you need to turn it back on and then to the left of that you've got your OC bar and your silent mode bars which you've tested both here today out of the box it comes defaulted to the OC bios and I will say that this is the most aggressive 5700 XT I have seen yet out of the box so keep in mind it will use a little bit more power but it will give you some impressive numbers straight out of the box though at 480 USD is this card worthy of a purchase let's run through all the bells and whistles here at techie air city and then come back with a verdict so what we can see with those gaming benchmark numbers here is that the silent mode bios is actually coming closer to that of the reference models and it does so with pretty impressive noise numbers I'll put the numbers up here for you guys when we see even in the silent mode the noise was quite well controlled coming in pretty low with 34 decibels but then we stepped it up to even if you put it into the OSI bias mode you're going to be getting 61 fan speeds out of the box and this is right where 60% is in terms of the numbers it is a sweet spot but in this case I do like this silent a BIOS actually better since it does use less power the fan noises are lower and the temperatures are just about the same as they are since we're using less power we then don't have to stress the card as much in terms of the fan speeds going up to 80 and also a hundred percent fan speeds on the default OC bios mode did make sure that we were getting some pretty uncomfortable levels of noise but the thing to look out for here is that the twelve hundred and thirty gram heatsink is doing a really good job of cooling down this graphics card when we look at those Delta adjusted numbers and when we look at the clock speed this is another thing to very aggressive out of the box it's hovering over two gigahertz I was averaging out about two thousand and fifty megahertz and then when I overclocked it it still has that V bios limit in place of to 150 and you do get the option to add 50% on to the power limit which in the software you've also got the OC mode which has a 10% power limit already installed and then you've got default mode which is not able to be selected unless you download the software and then you've got the silent mode which you can pick in the software too and so that actually puts a minus 10% on the power limit similar to under vaulting but as we saw with those gaming benchmarks the silent mode is pretty much the default mode on most other reference xt models even the mac OC which i tested in the past so as Yoda would say aggressively overclocked Taichi is but the memory speeds are still at the default levels when you put it on the OSI mode which does leave a little bit to be desired if you want to get more numbers out of this card but as I've seen here with pretty much the 50 750 700 X T's that come through here the memory speeds are pretty much a lock of the draw thing I found some cards don't even overclock at all even if you try to get like 890 megahertz here this card fortunately went up to around about 938 megahertz on the memory it was quite large of a sizable overclock and this did score some big numbers when I tested it in strange brigade both at 1080p and 1440p so the numbers were impressive for this card it is looking like it's a bin sample but quite an aggressive overclocked card which does a good job of cooling not only the GPU itself but cooling the memory and also the vrm where those temperatures were quite low even with the silent mode and the 60% fan speeds that would be my two sweet spots now going over all the numbers here the Taichi does check out it is a solid card but keep in mind I haven't tested some of the exquisite models out there like the Red Devil for example but speaking of this card in particular as we said before twelve hundred and thirty grams massive heatsink on this thing it spends over 310 mil long by 130 ml wide so it is a custom PCB that they are using and then it does have a depth of 53 mil so you will have to make sure that your case is big enough to support this behemoth graphics card now it does have the requirement of two eight pin PCIe ends and at the rear of the card you get four display outs as well as two HDMI 2.0 outs so in terms of the feature set the overclock the input/output connectivity RGB lighting and the ability to have dual BIOS on board this thing is checking out really well for a premium card though even though all those numbers check out we still have that question that lingers in the air and is this card worth the 480 USD premium and honestly you guys probably know what I'm thinking and that is for $20 more you can get an RT X 2070 super which will perform better it will overclock better and that's where it's sort of like it's $80 above that 400 USD MSRP so it is coming at quite a premium and so the one thing going for this car though is that it does have the premium look it does have the performance does have the acoustics and of course it does have the bling I mean the back plate on this thing with the Taichi mechanics on it is really well polished as well as the RGB and the front of the card looks wicked as well though coming in at $80 over that MSRP it's just hard to say go out and get this if you want the price performance I'd say go out and get the Taichi if you love the look of this card and it's going to match your build but other than that I'm actually very curious to try out as Rock's challenger Edition which does come in at that MSRP and is a custom model of what it's worth a premium card at a premium price everything checked out with this card very smooth experience I do like what as rocks doing with their graphics cards and the fact that they're only relatively new to the scene and they're already pulling off flagships like this I do like that I just like to see the MSRP come down to maybe 450 or 440 and then I could recommend this thing as a nice option even not just with the feature set but also for the price performance and now it's time for today's question of the day and Nelly Nelson asked why when you can go out and spend the extra 70 pounds and go get an XFX or something better in terms of a graphics card itself and he's refering to the Arctic Exelero where we did a recent video on it I'll put the link up here and I was sort of on the fence with the artic seller oh it does work extremely well but I feel like it's a little bit dated and I feel like they need to update the aesthetic I'd like it if they updated the instruction manual and for me personally I had this big back plate that came included with it and I decided not to test it and that was simply because I just felt like I personally would end up probably damaging the card with the precision of cutting out the plastic on the back where I feel is that they could have included a massive thermal pad it would have just made things really easily plug and play but the bottom line is the Artic Exelero is a really good option if you say for instance come into a reference card that you've got secondhand and you don't like the reference noise and the temps that that puts out me personally that was one of the things that I didn't like about the reference cards and it's just an option that's there that if you've got a card for example and you've gone out and bought it and the noise just gets to you in the end you've always got that option to go out and spend 50 bucks and then make your card nice and quiet and I must admit the performance coming out of those three fans in that cooler is very impressive for the GPU temps themselves so hopefully that answers the why but in terms of the why it's more of a niche and I do agree with Nelly's original statement of just if you're gonna spend the extra money just go out and get a custom model and with all that out of the way I hope you enjoyed today's video if you did then be sure to hit that like button for us or of course you could lay the taichi smackdown on that like button and if you have any questions or comments or just let us know in the comments what you think of the Taichi 5700 XT love reading your thoughts and opinions as always and if you're enjoying the content enough there's the merch link in the description below as well as that sub button ring in the Bell which apparently doesn't even work nowadays so you might want to even just go tech your city on YouTube and then bookmark the page and manually check it that might be the best option anyway I'll catch you in another tech video very soon peace out for now bye youyou came here for an intro so we're gonna look at that as rock Tai Chi welcome back to check yes sitting right here on the desk we have as Rock's flagship 5700 XT triple fans the two outers ninety mill and then the middle is 80 mill and this middle fan actually has an RGB ring around it with the steampunk mechanical logo above that which you can control in the software and change it from seven different modes they've also got an RGB LED light which you can quickly switch it off if you need to turn it back on and then to the left of that you've got your OC bar and your silent mode bars which you've tested both here today out of the box it comes defaulted to the OC bios and I will say that this is the most aggressive 5700 XT I have seen yet out of the box so keep in mind it will use a little bit more power but it will give you some impressive numbers straight out of the box though at 480 USD is this card worthy of a purchase let's run through all the bells and whistles here at techie air city and then come back with a verdict so what we can see with those gaming benchmark numbers here is that the silent mode bios is actually coming closer to that of the reference models and it does so with pretty impressive noise numbers I'll put the numbers up here for you guys when we see even in the silent mode the noise was quite well controlled coming in pretty low with 34 decibels but then we stepped it up to even if you put it into the OSI bias mode you're going to be getting 61 fan speeds out of the box and this is right where 60% is in terms of the numbers it is a sweet spot but in this case I do like this silent a BIOS actually better since it does use less power the fan noises are lower and the temperatures are just about the same as they are since we're using less power we then don't have to stress the card as much in terms of the fan speeds going up to 80 and also a hundred percent fan speeds on the default OC bios mode did make sure that we were getting some pretty uncomfortable levels of noise but the thing to look out for here is that the twelve hundred and thirty gram heatsink is doing a really good job of cooling down this graphics card when we look at those Delta adjusted numbers and when we look at the clock speed this is another thing to very aggressive out of the box it's hovering over two gigahertz I was averaging out about two thousand and fifty megahertz and then when I overclocked it it still has that V bios limit in place of to 150 and you do get the option to add 50% on to the power limit which in the software you've also got the OC mode which has a 10% power limit already installed and then you've got default mode which is not able to be selected unless you download the software and then you've got the silent mode which you can pick in the software too and so that actually puts a minus 10% on the power limit similar to under vaulting but as we saw with those gaming benchmarks the silent mode is pretty much the default mode on most other reference xt models even the mac OC which i tested in the past so as Yoda would say aggressively overclocked Taichi is but the memory speeds are still at the default levels when you put it on the OSI mode which does leave a little bit to be desired if you want to get more numbers out of this card but as I've seen here with pretty much the 50 750 700 X T's that come through here the memory speeds are pretty much a lock of the draw thing I found some cards don't even overclock at all even if you try to get like 890 megahertz here this card fortunately went up to around about 938 megahertz on the memory it was quite large of a sizable overclock and this did score some big numbers when I tested it in strange brigade both at 1080p and 1440p so the numbers were impressive for this card it is looking like it's a bin sample but quite an aggressive overclocked card which does a good job of cooling not only the GPU itself but cooling the memory and also the vrm where those temperatures were quite low even with the silent mode and the 60% fan speeds that would be my two sweet spots now going over all the numbers here the Taichi does check out it is a solid card but keep in mind I haven't tested some of the exquisite models out there like the Red Devil for example but speaking of this card in particular as we said before twelve hundred and thirty grams massive heatsink on this thing it spends over 310 mil long by 130 ml wide so it is a custom PCB that they are using and then it does have a depth of 53 mil so you will have to make sure that your case is big enough to support this behemoth graphics card now it does have the requirement of two eight pin PCIe ends and at the rear of the card you get four display outs as well as two HDMI 2.0 outs so in terms of the feature set the overclock the input/output connectivity RGB lighting and the ability to have dual BIOS on board this thing is checking out really well for a premium card though even though all those numbers check out we still have that question that lingers in the air and is this card worth the 480 USD premium and honestly you guys probably know what I'm thinking and that is for $20 more you can get an RT X 2070 super which will perform better it will overclock better and that's where it's sort of like it's $80 above that 400 USD MSRP so it is coming at quite a premium and so the one thing going for this car though is that it does have the premium look it does have the performance does have the acoustics and of course it does have the bling I mean the back plate on this thing with the Taichi mechanics on it is really well polished as well as the RGB and the front of the card looks wicked as well though coming in at $80 over that MSRP it's just hard to say go out and get this if you want the price performance I'd say go out and get the Taichi if you love the look of this card and it's going to match your build but other than that I'm actually very curious to try out as Rock's challenger Edition which does come in at that MSRP and is a custom model of what it's worth a premium card at a premium price everything checked out with this card very smooth experience I do like what as rocks doing with their graphics cards and the fact that they're only relatively new to the scene and they're already pulling off flagships like this I do like that I just like to see the MSRP come down to maybe 450 or 440 and then I could recommend this thing as a nice option even not just with the feature set but also for the price performance and now it's time for today's question of the day and Nelly Nelson asked why when you can go out and spend the extra 70 pounds and go get an XFX or something better in terms of a graphics card itself and he's refering to the Arctic Exelero where we did a recent video on it I'll put the link up here and I was sort of on the fence with the artic seller oh it does work extremely well but I feel like it's a little bit dated and I feel like they need to update the aesthetic I'd like it if they updated the instruction manual and for me personally I had this big back plate that came included with it and I decided not to test it and that was simply because I just felt like I personally would end up probably damaging the card with the precision of cutting out the plastic on the back where I feel is that they could have included a massive thermal pad it would have just made things really easily plug and play but the bottom line is the Artic Exelero is a really good option if you say for instance come into a reference card that you've got secondhand and you don't like the reference noise and the temps that that puts out me personally that was one of the things that I didn't like about the reference cards and it's just an option that's there that if you've got a card for example and you've gone out and bought it and the noise just gets to you in the end you've always got that option to go out and spend 50 bucks and then make your card nice and quiet and I must admit the performance coming out of those three fans in that cooler is very impressive for the GPU temps themselves so hopefully that answers the why but in terms of the why it's more of a niche and I do agree with Nelly's original statement of just if you're gonna spend the extra money just go out and get a custom model and with all that out of the way I hope you enjoyed today's video if you did then be sure to hit that like button for us or of course you could lay the taichi smackdown on that like button and if you have any questions or comments or just let us know in the comments what you think of the Taichi 5700 XT love reading your thoughts and opinions as always and if you're enjoying the content enough there's the merch link in the description below as well as that sub button ring in the Bell which apparently doesn't even work nowadays so you might want to even just go tech your city on YouTube and then bookmark the page and manually check it that might be the best option anyway I'll catch you in another tech video very soon peace out for now bye you\n"