White Cases Age Weird - an ASRock 7900 XTX Taichi Build

**Deus Ex: Mankind Divided at 4K with the AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX**

The AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX is a beast of a graphics card, and when it comes to running Deus Ex: Mankind Divided at 4K resolution, it delivers exceptional performance. The game's AI is a major challenge for any graphics card, but the 7900 XTX manages to keep up with ease. When benchmarked against the reference model, the 7900 XTX pulls ahead in every category, including Fire Strike Extreme and Time Spy. This is no surprise, given that the 7900 XTX has a massive three-slot cooler and a power target that allows it to breathe comfortably.

One of the standout features of the 7900 XTX is its ability to overclock. With the Adrenaline software, users can dial up the power target and let the card do its own thing. This results in significant performance gains, particularly in the low-to-mid frame rate ranges where many games struggle to maintain smooth performance. The 7900 XTX's ability to burst into high-performance mode makes it an excellent choice for gamers who want to push their system to its limits.

Another area where the 7900 XTX shines is in noise reduction. The card's massive heat pipe design keeps temperatures under control, resulting in a significant reduction in noise levels compared to AMD's reference solution. In fact, the 7900 XTX produces significantly less noise than its competitor, making it an excellent choice for those who value silence.

**Performance and Power Consumption**

The 7900 XTX is capable of delivering exceptional performance at 4K resolution, with frame rates exceeding 100 FPS in many games. However, it's worth noting that Ray tracing remains a weakness for the card, as it struggles to maintain high frame rates when using this feature. Despite this limitation, the 7900 XTX still performs admirably in other areas, such as Quake II and Shadow of the Tomb Raider.

**Cooling and Acoustic Performance**

One of the key factors that sets the 7900 XTX apart from its competitor is its cooling system. The massive heat pipe design allows for significant temperature reduction, resulting in improved performance and reduced noise levels. In fact, the 7900 XTX produces less noise than AMD's reference solution, making it an excellent choice for those who value quiet operation.

To put this to the test, we set up a microphone 12 inches from the GPU and ran a series of benchmarks with Fire Strike Extreme as the target. The results were impressive, with the 7900 XTX maintaining high frame rates even at the highest performance targets. We also measured the card's hotspot temperatures, which remained under control despite the extreme performance demands.

**Aesthetics and Mounting Options**

Finally, it's worth noting that the 7900 XTX is a visually stunning card, with its sleek design and massive heat pipes making it a great addition to any gaming setup. The card is also highly versatile, as it can be mounted horizontally or vertically with ease. Whether you're using a traditional horizontal GPU mount or something more exotic like a vertical mount, the 7900 XTX will look great and perform admirably.

**Conclusion**

The AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX is an exceptional graphics card that delivers top-notch performance at 4K resolution. With its massive heat pipe design and powerful cooling system, it's capable of delivering exceptional frame rates even in the most demanding games. While Ray tracing remains a weakness, this limitation is more than made up for by the card's ability to maintain high frame rates in other areas. For those who value performance, quiet operation, and aesthetics, the 7900 XTX is an excellent choice.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enall right I'm here to take a look at the RX 7900 XTX Tai Chi White Edition it's a lot of very off-color jokes I could make about that let's not do that this is actually a really nice car this is probably the nicest 7900 XTX that you can get just look at this design this form fit and finish let's get the Tai Chi it's get the gears and all this kind of stuff it's a nice powder coat of a white metal back plate and look at all those heat pipes this thing is built for heat dissipation and as we saw in the other video that I did you can juice these things to 600 watts I get why AMD didn't do that I mean everybody wants to be power efficient this thing is very quiet out of the box but if you ramp the fans change the fan curve you can make it very cool and quiet or you can have it sit at about 80 85 degrees C but basically be inaudible so I thought we should do a build and take a deeper look at the performance and all this other kind of stuff but since this is white we've got an opportunity to talk about white builds because I've been running a long-term experiment here at level one because white cases age weird so let's dive in let's take a look at the performance of this but let's also get started on our build now the GPU part of it that's easy right I mean it's a 7900 XTX there's a lot of people that are building to an aesthetic and this this definitely has that aesthetic I mean it's got RGB but you can configure the RGB to be a nice tasteful white if you want or blue or green or whatever it doesn't matter for the case I've selected the be quiet dark base 802. why well because I already had that one and also because I've had it a while so we can see how white cases age it looks so fancy oh so yeah you know we're going to use the Tai Chi Herrera for this build I would recommend the x670e Tai Chi Herrera which is a nice white marble finish and if you're a modder one important thing to pay attention to is that they they get the marbleized coloring uh it makes a nice surface for putting your own custom vinyl on it so if you wanted to design and print your own custom vinyl and then stick it to your motherboard like decals the Carrera also makes an excellent choice for that even though the heatsinks are still pretty functional now let's have a segue for just a moment to talk about white cases and how they age you see when you have powder coated white metal and white plastic they age differently plastic in general ages differently yeah what what plastic ages differently when it's 20 or 30 years old too and you can you can better believe this is going to look very different in 20 or 30 years as opposed to like three or four or two or whatever you can see that the plastic front here is a little different than the metal on the side panel and that's just a fact of life with how cases age you can even see it just flipping around these metal covers that go in the bottom the thing that I love about this case is that if you want airflow or if you want quietness it comes with the panels for both this is the front but see be quiet knows that the plastic is going to age differently and I try not to make it super obvious so this this could be plastic but they've actually done it as metal I've got the mesh front on and so this is also metal with a little bit of plastic honeycomb behind it but if you opted to go for that front meaning that you don't have air intake in the front or at least not as much because it's going to draw air from smaller vent panels let's say it's less noticeable the contrast between the metal and plastic sides and in fact when you look at it dead on from the front you just have this mesh on the front as opposed to the plastic trim but if you're looking at it from my angle I'm seeing the metal side panel here and the plastic and you can really see the color difference you can also see the color difference between say the top panels of the case which are aging a little differently than the rest of the metal but I like the modularity like I don't think that be quiet should make these things out of metal I I think this is reasonable aging don't want our GPU to heat so I'm just going to go ahead and swap that back out now this cover goes in the bottom under the GPU or you can take it out so the GPU will breathe better and you can draw more air in from the bottom this is something you can decide in your build now be quiet make some other good cooling solutions but I really think that the one-two punch of amazing quiet cooling here is to go with arctic's 420 millimeter cooler this is one of the few cases I mean it's a tower case it's not compact but it is relatively small for as much as you can do with it and it'll fit a 420 millimeter radiator I've got that in here from Arctic and that will cool anything you could you could run a blast furnace in this case and it will be fine of course the 7950x is not a blast furnace but if you want it to run completely quietly silently then yeah you could put your 420 millimeter cooler in here and you're good to go because Arctic that cooler it's incredible and then I've rounded out the rest of the case fans with be quiet cooling fans because be quiet knows how to make a quiet fan they be quiet for the power supply I'm also using the new dark power 13 from be quiet this is because it's got a PCI E5 connector and yeah the GPU doesn't use a PCI E5 connector but given that I'm using this system for testing and other things it's nice to have the convenience the Tai Chi 7900 XTX it only uses three eight pin connectors so this has got plenty of power for that GPU and our 7950x at 850 Watts the dark power 13 also has a three pin connector here it's the the Ock and so you can notify here power supply that you're doing uh overclocking and make it not turn off automatically I don't know Ock is a be quiet feature and I haven't really delved into that much so maybe something to check over current protection but programmable this is an 80 plus titanium rated power supply and it's got an actual be quiet fan on the inside of the power supply in this nice mesh front which lowers air turbulence and noise and whatever or so be quiet says oh and in case you're worried that you're wasting some of your power that's available in the power supply because you know are you using a GPU that doesn't have a 600 watt connector no the labeling on the front of the power supply actually tells you how you know the delivery stages that the thing is actually connected to three different connectors so it's it's shared with the power that like the normal size power connectors over on the other side so it's fine now I'm also putting together quite the collection of white cases to see how they age I've got the new fractal torrent cases and fractal really is planning for this by making as much of the case as possible plastic the front top and side trim they're all plastic really only the back mesh at the back of the case where you can't see it and the one side panel are metal and what I can see these are aging pretty well I've got both the torrent and the torrent compact in test similar with a white meshify too it's more mixed metal and plastic than the torrent but it looks like it's aging well although I don't think I've had the meshify too long enough to really say for sure cooler Masters inexpensive half 500 case is also holding up well it's an all metal design with the white plastic front panel but I can tell the white pigments are aging differently as we saw in our be quiet dark base 802 other companies uh avoid the use of white plastic like Lee and Lee in the 011 Dynamic and NZXT for example they're our little NZXT case here in the front and sides and top those are all metal all the plastic bits are black so they've cleverly used black plastic and white metal to avoid the white aging problem I'm just using all metal components that is a valid strategy for dealing with the how white ages differently depending on if it's metal or plastic I've also got the OG fractal defined white this is the first case where fractal really put a lot of thought and work into trying to make sure that the plastic and the metal will age roughly the same and this is also holding up surprisingly well it's got about as much tint difference as The Cooler Master or our you know silent bass 802 has but it's not bad it's it's it's not as unattractive as the Mac Mini it's also not quite as old as the Mac Mini but you know this is a problem with white builds as they age but let's face it you're gonna have this computer for more than two years anyway right first world problems all right let's get our GPU mounted and then let's do our performance breakdown now for our SSD I'm using a solidon p44 pro p44 pro goes head to head with Samsung for Less cost the two terabyte models the steel really wish they'd come out with a four terabyte model what are they thinking we need it now I mean wildflash is cheap nobody's buying flash memory yeah nobody wants a one or two terabyte flash drive anymore they want four terabytes I know it makes no sense counter-intuitively economically but if you can buy a four terabyte drive for 250 bucks would you rather sell that than two hundred dollar two terabyte drives I mean come on okay the p44 pro is not quite that cheap but the p41 is and with solidarm software it's fast it's almost that cheap it's close it's getting close it's all that I'm surprisingly good for a memory kit I'm using g-skill Trident Z ddr5 6000 is the sweet spot for amd's platform can you believe this machine is on it's Madness it's more quiet than the air conditioning okay so our out of the box performance with the Tai Chi 7900 XTX this is an OC Edition which means it's overclockable but the out of the box defaults are basically the same performance targets as a 7900 XTX and when we start to see that breakdown in the benchmarks um but stay tuned because it gets interesting at Borderlands 3 we can do about 300 FPS with our 7900 XTX at 1080p at 1440p we can manage about 244 FPS and 134 FPS at 4K shadow of the Tomb Raider with 300 FPS at 1080p 264 FPS of 1440p and 161 FPS at 4K at 1080p in the Callisto protocol we can expect 256 FPS 184 fps to 1440p and 114 FPS at 4K Deus Ex mankind divided 206 FPS 205 FPS at 1440p yes there is no performance difference in Deus Ex mind counting divided because there's engine problems when you're going over 200 FPS and 4K you can do 145 FPS so I'd say that there's engine problems even in 1440p you can play Deus Ex mankind if divided at 4K but that's a really old game at this point for artificial benchmarks it looks pretty good fire strike fire strike extreme and time spy all pull well ahead of the reference model and keep in mind that this is the same power targets and same performance and temperature targets as the reference model so just having the giant heat pipe three slot cooler and it is three true slots which means that you could use the fourth slot it's not overhanging the third slot by even a little bit it actually will breathe pretty well and it won't overhang if you're using this in a dual GPU configuration and the rare motherboard that actually has two X8 slots it is breathable just barely now let's talk power targets now my GPU might be more overclockable than your GPU but what you can do is you can basically just open up the adrenaline software and dial up the power Target and then just let the card do its own thing you can go rage mode rage mode is a thing that is supported in the adrenaline software if you do it that way you're not likely to encounter stability issues or you're less likely to encounter stability issues and you can probably expect three to five percent more performance maybe a little bit more the biggest benefit from doing that kind of an overclock and having this giant of a cooler is first and foremost noise and secondarily a distance secondarily performance and it's not the raw number off the line performance meaning your average FPS it's more to do with the one percent lows in the 0.1 percent lows you see this in games like Callisto protocol because it's you know there's a jump scare and then a million monsters come out and all of a sudden there's a whole bunch of stuff going on and if your machine hitches during one of those encounters because suddenly there's a whole bunch of stuff going on on screen it's very jarring and off-putting the fact that this card when you you know Unleash the Power targets can burst to do whatever it wants well yeah it's going to maintain 100 plus FPS at 4K but then when there's a whole bunch of stuff going down on screen for at least a second or two or three or five the card can burst much higher this is also a reason why it's maybe useful to run at the refresh rate of your display so it really does make sense to try to run your GPU at a frame rate that connects with your monitor it can also improve latency and everything else and AMD has a lot of Technologies for that which are awesome so in terms of gameplay with the 7900 XTX it'll basically do whatever you want Ray tracing is really the weakest spot the weakest part of the GPU it really can't do 4K Ray tracing you can do ray tracing at 1080p in most titles some titles like Shadow the Tomb Raider it's not a really fully Ray traced scene it's just using it for some of the lighting effects and so it's easy on the ray tracing engine in games like that it'll perform great older titles that have been remastered like Quake 2. you can do ray tracing and Quake 2 on the 7900 XTX it works well and then I can't believe this ancient the game from a million years ago looks this good that's fun fun bit of nostalgia but this card also isn't two thousand dollars so it's nice that it performs as well as it does for basically everything but Ray tracing it dominates it really does it's incredible and the fact that it's got the heat pipes is what keeps it cool in fact the acoustic performance of this card far outshines amd's own reference solution basically what we did was we set up the microphone about 12 inches from the GPU and then we just ran a whole bunch of benchmarks set a fixed performance Target to try to get as close as we possibly can for fire strike performance let firestrike run over and over and over again for an hour measure the noise coming off of the card you can also check the GPU hotspots I mean amd's reference design didn't really do super bad in terms of hotspot but it is over a 10 degree C difference with Tai Chi having a Max Hot Spot temperature of like 84 which isn't bad it's pretty good but it's also silent and the silence is what you're paying for the fan design the Aesthetics everything else this card would work great horizontally or vertically if you've got a you know a vertical GPU Mount you want to show it off all that's going to work in here great so again 7900 XTX it can game and it doesn't cost two thousand dollars they can run everything at 4K at over 100 FPS what more do you want and what does this level one I'm signing out if I'm in the levelall right I'm here to take a look at the RX 7900 XTX Tai Chi White Edition it's a lot of very off-color jokes I could make about that let's not do that this is actually a really nice car this is probably the nicest 7900 XTX that you can get just look at this design this form fit and finish let's get the Tai Chi it's get the gears and all this kind of stuff it's a nice powder coat of a white metal back plate and look at all those heat pipes this thing is built for heat dissipation and as we saw in the other video that I did you can juice these things to 600 watts I get why AMD didn't do that I mean everybody wants to be power efficient this thing is very quiet out of the box but if you ramp the fans change the fan curve you can make it very cool and quiet or you can have it sit at about 80 85 degrees C but basically be inaudible so I thought we should do a build and take a deeper look at the performance and all this other kind of stuff but since this is white we've got an opportunity to talk about white builds because I've been running a long-term experiment here at level one because white cases age weird so let's dive in let's take a look at the performance of this but let's also get started on our build now the GPU part of it that's easy right I mean it's a 7900 XTX there's a lot of people that are building to an aesthetic and this this definitely has that aesthetic I mean it's got RGB but you can configure the RGB to be a nice tasteful white if you want or blue or green or whatever it doesn't matter for the case I've selected the be quiet dark base 802. why well because I already had that one and also because I've had it a while so we can see how white cases age it looks so fancy oh so yeah you know we're going to use the Tai Chi Herrera for this build I would recommend the x670e Tai Chi Herrera which is a nice white marble finish and if you're a modder one important thing to pay attention to is that they they get the marbleized coloring uh it makes a nice surface for putting your own custom vinyl on it so if you wanted to design and print your own custom vinyl and then stick it to your motherboard like decals the Carrera also makes an excellent choice for that even though the heatsinks are still pretty functional now let's have a segue for just a moment to talk about white cases and how they age you see when you have powder coated white metal and white plastic they age differently plastic in general ages differently yeah what what plastic ages differently when it's 20 or 30 years old too and you can you can better believe this is going to look very different in 20 or 30 years as opposed to like three or four or two or whatever you can see that the plastic front here is a little different than the metal on the side panel and that's just a fact of life with how cases age you can even see it just flipping around these metal covers that go in the bottom the thing that I love about this case is that if you want airflow or if you want quietness it comes with the panels for both this is the front but see be quiet knows that the plastic is going to age differently and I try not to make it super obvious so this this could be plastic but they've actually done it as metal I've got the mesh front on and so this is also metal with a little bit of plastic honeycomb behind it but if you opted to go for that front meaning that you don't have air intake in the front or at least not as much because it's going to draw air from smaller vent panels let's say it's less noticeable the contrast between the metal and plastic sides and in fact when you look at it dead on from the front you just have this mesh on the front as opposed to the plastic trim but if you're looking at it from my angle I'm seeing the metal side panel here and the plastic and you can really see the color difference you can also see the color difference between say the top panels of the case which are aging a little differently than the rest of the metal but I like the modularity like I don't think that be quiet should make these things out of metal I I think this is reasonable aging don't want our GPU to heat so I'm just going to go ahead and swap that back out now this cover goes in the bottom under the GPU or you can take it out so the GPU will breathe better and you can draw more air in from the bottom this is something you can decide in your build now be quiet make some other good cooling solutions but I really think that the one-two punch of amazing quiet cooling here is to go with arctic's 420 millimeter cooler this is one of the few cases I mean it's a tower case it's not compact but it is relatively small for as much as you can do with it and it'll fit a 420 millimeter radiator I've got that in here from Arctic and that will cool anything you could you could run a blast furnace in this case and it will be fine of course the 7950x is not a blast furnace but if you want it to run completely quietly silently then yeah you could put your 420 millimeter cooler in here and you're good to go because Arctic that cooler it's incredible and then I've rounded out the rest of the case fans with be quiet cooling fans because be quiet knows how to make a quiet fan they be quiet for the power supply I'm also using the new dark power 13 from be quiet this is because it's got a PCI E5 connector and yeah the GPU doesn't use a PCI E5 connector but given that I'm using this system for testing and other things it's nice to have the convenience the Tai Chi 7900 XTX it only uses three eight pin connectors so this has got plenty of power for that GPU and our 7950x at 850 Watts the dark power 13 also has a three pin connector here it's the the Ock and so you can notify here power supply that you're doing uh overclocking and make it not turn off automatically I don't know Ock is a be quiet feature and I haven't really delved into that much so maybe something to check over current protection but programmable this is an 80 plus titanium rated power supply and it's got an actual be quiet fan on the inside of the power supply in this nice mesh front which lowers air turbulence and noise and whatever or so be quiet says oh and in case you're worried that you're wasting some of your power that's available in the power supply because you know are you using a GPU that doesn't have a 600 watt connector no the labeling on the front of the power supply actually tells you how you know the delivery stages that the thing is actually connected to three different connectors so it's it's shared with the power that like the normal size power connectors over on the other side so it's fine now I'm also putting together quite the collection of white cases to see how they age I've got the new fractal torrent cases and fractal really is planning for this by making as much of the case as possible plastic the front top and side trim they're all plastic really only the back mesh at the back of the case where you can't see it and the one side panel are metal and what I can see these are aging pretty well I've got both the torrent and the torrent compact in test similar with a white meshify too it's more mixed metal and plastic than the torrent but it looks like it's aging well although I don't think I've had the meshify too long enough to really say for sure cooler Masters inexpensive half 500 case is also holding up well it's an all metal design with the white plastic front panel but I can tell the white pigments are aging differently as we saw in our be quiet dark base 802 other companies uh avoid the use of white plastic like Lee and Lee in the 011 Dynamic and NZXT for example they're our little NZXT case here in the front and sides and top those are all metal all the plastic bits are black so they've cleverly used black plastic and white metal to avoid the white aging problem I'm just using all metal components that is a valid strategy for dealing with the how white ages differently depending on if it's metal or plastic I've also got the OG fractal defined white this is the first case where fractal really put a lot of thought and work into trying to make sure that the plastic and the metal will age roughly the same and this is also holding up surprisingly well it's got about as much tint difference as The Cooler Master or our you know silent bass 802 has but it's not bad it's it's it's not as unattractive as the Mac Mini it's also not quite as old as the Mac Mini but you know this is a problem with white builds as they age but let's face it you're gonna have this computer for more than two years anyway right first world problems all right let's get our GPU mounted and then let's do our performance breakdown now for our SSD I'm using a solidon p44 pro p44 pro goes head to head with Samsung for Less cost the two terabyte models the steel really wish they'd come out with a four terabyte model what are they thinking we need it now I mean wildflash is cheap nobody's buying flash memory yeah nobody wants a one or two terabyte flash drive anymore they want four terabytes I know it makes no sense counter-intuitively economically but if you can buy a four terabyte drive for 250 bucks would you rather sell that than two hundred dollar two terabyte drives I mean come on okay the p44 pro is not quite that cheap but the p41 is and with solidarm software it's fast it's almost that cheap it's close it's getting close it's all that I'm surprisingly good for a memory kit I'm using g-skill Trident Z ddr5 6000 is the sweet spot for amd's platform can you believe this machine is on it's Madness it's more quiet than the air conditioning okay so our out of the box performance with the Tai Chi 7900 XTX this is an OC Edition which means it's overclockable but the out of the box defaults are basically the same performance targets as a 7900 XTX and when we start to see that breakdown in the benchmarks um but stay tuned because it gets interesting at Borderlands 3 we can do about 300 FPS with our 7900 XTX at 1080p at 1440p we can manage about 244 FPS and 134 FPS at 4K shadow of the Tomb Raider with 300 FPS at 1080p 264 FPS of 1440p and 161 FPS at 4K at 1080p in the Callisto protocol we can expect 256 FPS 184 fps to 1440p and 114 FPS at 4K Deus Ex mankind divided 206 FPS 205 FPS at 1440p yes there is no performance difference in Deus Ex mind counting divided because there's engine problems when you're going over 200 FPS and 4K you can do 145 FPS so I'd say that there's engine problems even in 1440p you can play Deus Ex mankind if divided at 4K but that's a really old game at this point for artificial benchmarks it looks pretty good fire strike fire strike extreme and time spy all pull well ahead of the reference model and keep in mind that this is the same power targets and same performance and temperature targets as the reference model so just having the giant heat pipe three slot cooler and it is three true slots which means that you could use the fourth slot it's not overhanging the third slot by even a little bit it actually will breathe pretty well and it won't overhang if you're using this in a dual GPU configuration and the rare motherboard that actually has two X8 slots it is breathable just barely now let's talk power targets now my GPU might be more overclockable than your GPU but what you can do is you can basically just open up the adrenaline software and dial up the power Target and then just let the card do its own thing you can go rage mode rage mode is a thing that is supported in the adrenaline software if you do it that way you're not likely to encounter stability issues or you're less likely to encounter stability issues and you can probably expect three to five percent more performance maybe a little bit more the biggest benefit from doing that kind of an overclock and having this giant of a cooler is first and foremost noise and secondarily a distance secondarily performance and it's not the raw number off the line performance meaning your average FPS it's more to do with the one percent lows in the 0.1 percent lows you see this in games like Callisto protocol because it's you know there's a jump scare and then a million monsters come out and all of a sudden there's a whole bunch of stuff going on and if your machine hitches during one of those encounters because suddenly there's a whole bunch of stuff going on on screen it's very jarring and off-putting the fact that this card when you you know Unleash the Power targets can burst to do whatever it wants well yeah it's going to maintain 100 plus FPS at 4K but then when there's a whole bunch of stuff going down on screen for at least a second or two or three or five the card can burst much higher this is also a reason why it's maybe useful to run at the refresh rate of your display so it really does make sense to try to run your GPU at a frame rate that connects with your monitor it can also improve latency and everything else and AMD has a lot of Technologies for that which are awesome so in terms of gameplay with the 7900 XTX it'll basically do whatever you want Ray tracing is really the weakest spot the weakest part of the GPU it really can't do 4K Ray tracing you can do ray tracing at 1080p in most titles some titles like Shadow the Tomb Raider it's not a really fully Ray traced scene it's just using it for some of the lighting effects and so it's easy on the ray tracing engine in games like that it'll perform great older titles that have been remastered like Quake 2. you can do ray tracing and Quake 2 on the 7900 XTX it works well and then I can't believe this ancient the game from a million years ago looks this good that's fun fun bit of nostalgia but this card also isn't two thousand dollars so it's nice that it performs as well as it does for basically everything but Ray tracing it dominates it really does it's incredible and the fact that it's got the heat pipes is what keeps it cool in fact the acoustic performance of this card far outshines amd's own reference solution basically what we did was we set up the microphone about 12 inches from the GPU and then we just ran a whole bunch of benchmarks set a fixed performance Target to try to get as close as we possibly can for fire strike performance let firestrike run over and over and over again for an hour measure the noise coming off of the card you can also check the GPU hotspots I mean amd's reference design didn't really do super bad in terms of hotspot but it is over a 10 degree C difference with Tai Chi having a Max Hot Spot temperature of like 84 which isn't bad it's pretty good but it's also silent and the silence is what you're paying for the fan design the Aesthetics everything else this card would work great horizontally or vertically if you've got a you know a vertical GPU Mount you want to show it off all that's going to work in here great so again 7900 XTX it can game and it doesn't cost two thousand dollars they can run everything at 4K at over 100 FPS what more do you want and what does this level one I'm signing out if I'm in the level\n"