$170 Aliexpress Graphics Card Is A Sweaty Beast

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**A Surprising Graphics Card: The AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT**

After a quick wipe of the driver, I installed the AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT graphics card off of their website and, surprisingly, it just kind of worked. I mean, no fuss, no muss - it was like magic! So, let's try and do some gaming on this surprising card.

**Gaming Performance**

We've got some high-performance GTA 5 action happening here, running at 1080p with pretty much everything cranked up in terms of settings. This is a really good look for the game - it's looking great! The power draw on this card is impressive, especially considering its frugal nature.

Wait, what? I think there may be some fibbing going on here... I tried to read the fan speed earlier and said there was zero percent fan speed, but actually, the fans were spinning like crazy. We'll drop the reference GPU in here later and see how its power draw and performance compare.

**More Demanding Games**

Let's try a more demanding game - this is running a 1080p High settings for Battlefield 5, with the same settings I used in my previous videos. This may be a relatively bare map in terms of foliage and stuff, but it's still not super easy on the GPU.

I ran the standardized Benchmark for this graphics card, and we were getting very similar results to an RTX 3060 that I bought recently - which cost a whole lot more money than I paid for this 5700 XT. It's awesome to see AMD booty!

However, bouncing off the frame rate limiter is audible... you can definitely hear the graphics card whining! But the temperatures are pretty solid for a 5700 XT, so you should be able to play with low fan speeds.

**Temperatures and Cooling**

The temperatures have kind of topped out at about 72 degrees Celsius - it did occasionally creep up to like 75 degrees Celsius. Yeah, this cooler definitely has a lot more headroom in it!

Let's try Cyberpunk and see what that does... even Cyberpunk at 1080p High settings is running well, sitting in the 70 frames per second range - which I feel like is a good point for Cyberpunk to be responsive.

**Comparison with Reference GPU**

Okay, so let's drop the reference 5700 XT in here and see how they compare. It's pretty clear that other cards are lying about their power draw... we're getting similar boost frequencies and frame rates - although slightly higher temperatures on this card.

However, this AliExpress RTX 5700 XT has some of the worst coil whine I've ever seen on a graphics card... it's real bad! On the other hand, its performance is very similar to the reference GPU.

**Pricing**

When all is said and done, that means including tax and shipping, I paid a total of $240 Canadian dollars for this AliExpress RTX 5700 XT. Considering I got a thyroid disorder included... that's a whole lot of graphics card for the money!

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experience that kind  of feels like unboxing a harvested organ you bought off the internethey getting right to the good stuff back here and it's turning around  whoa um first thing there is a little bit of damage on the rear i o Shield which I don't know  how they manage considering how well protected the graphics card was in shipping although I  think I may have spotted the problem it doesn't actually line up with the screw hole that's used  to secure it above the HDMI slot that's also a real interesting looking HDMI port that's so  janky I love it although putting aside the i o Shield that was clearly found in a bin and the  fact that the graphics card seems to be exuding a film of sticky protective cheese basically  the entire graphics card is made of metal this entire shroud is metal the back plate is metal  and so is the front here and look at that I've not seen that on a graphics card in a while we  have dual 8 pins on the front of the GPU not on the top here and I like that I actually think in  a lot of cases this may be quite a smart place to have your power connectors because you can  more easily cable manage it although that does very much depend on your case that is a solid  heatsink we have under there we have our two fans with the very off-center sticker on themoh oh so the rattle was caused by the end of a screw yeah I'm not really sure where the  rest of the screw is and hopefully it wasn't holding down anything important because well  that thing's not being held down anymore and then as you can tell from the other  sticker this graphics card hewn of Steel is an RX 5700 XT actually it's build quality  kind of reminds me of the reference 5700 XT let's just give me a second let's have a look  this is a reference 5700 XT that I used for a while in my main system and I think even with  its dent it's quite a good looking graphics card it's also all metal the Shroud and on the back  plate although this is clearly higher production value metal than on the AliExpress card you've  got this kind of texture on the back plate and I think even this Radeon logo lights up having  said that I kind of remember this reference cooler howling like a banshee with its tail  caught in the door so the other Express cooler may give us better temperatures and noise but  we'll compare them soon enough first I just want to kind of wipe the cheese off of the  AliExpress card and then do a quick tear down so that we see what's going on under that metal  cooler okay it does smell a bit like a Distillery now but at least it doesn't feel like  it's got a thyroid problem anymore so that's good it is now the future and I've tested this  card which makes me even more excited to have a look at what's going on underneath here I'm  not sure what the HT on the screw sticker means I'm just gonna assume it says hurry tryyeah I really like this all the screws on the back are the same so you don't have to worry  about sticking it in the wrong hole it really wasn't just seven screws okay oh no it's my least  favorite thing in the world fan clip this is one of those that inevitably break every time you undo  them or at least every time I undo them oh again I'm very glad that all these screws are the same  oh that's actually worked this time that's good okay clearly that's the way to do it wow that  is the bottom of a relatively basic heatsink but it looks fine to me although there is some  solder splatter around the heat pipes where they attach them to the finare which I've not really  seen that on a heatsink before moving on to the PCB clearly the thyroid problem extends to the  PCB because there is quite a lot of sweating around the the memory modules with the 5700  XT there are components on this PCB like this one here is definitely one of them I think that one as  well the cooler on the reference PCB actually has pads that make contact with these so I'm not sure  if it's a problem that these are just open air it could be that they're made contact  with because it's a blower style cooler and the this kind of like more open air cooler  design just blows enough air on it for it to be fine and here is our GPU die that clearly  isn't from a GTS 450 so that's very good I love how there are pinots for external power facing  down on the PCB it's good that they didn't put them here as opposed to on top   yeah I don't know it's just the back of a graphics card it seems perfectly reasonable  so now I am going to reassemble this card but we're gonna jump back into the past and have a  look at uh if this graphics card actually fires up and what kind of gaming we can do with itso now we finally get to see if we have to go through the driver install process equivalent  of trying to summon a demon into a new host like we had with our previous AliExpress graphics card  hey it's just output a signal that is a pretty good start and after a quick ddu wipe the  driver install off of amd's website installed without the need of any form of seance it just  kind of worked which is awesome so let's try and do some gaming on this surprising cardwould you look at that we've got some high performance GTA 5 action happening here  this is a 1080p with uh pretty much everything cranked in terms of settings yeah I mean this  is this is looking really good that power draw is impressive that is actually a suspiciously  low power draw I don't think the 50 700 XT is a very frugal graphics card in terms of power  usage so I think this AliExpress card may be fibbing a little bit especially considering  that I tried to read the fan speed earlier and it said there was zero percent fan speed  but the fans were definitely spinning so we'll drop the reference GPU in here later and see  how its power draw and performance Compares but first let's try a more demanding game   this is running a 1080p High settings the same settings for Battlefield 5 that I used  in the last couple of videos and this may be a relatively bare map in terms of foliage and  stuff so it's not super demanding but when I did the standardized Benchmark for this graphics card  we were getting very similar results to the RTX 3060 that I bought the other day which cost a  whole lot more money than I paid for this 5700 XT and yeah Battlefield 5 loving AMD booty and  all that but we're bouncing off the frame rate limiter it's awesome it is very audible you can  definitely hear the graphics card whining but the temperatures are are pretty solid for a 5700 XT  so you should be able to play with the fan speed yeah okay so the temperatures have kind of  topped out at about 72 it did occasionally creep up to like 75 degrees Celsius but yeah that's with  very low fan speeds right and and this the cooler definitely has a lot more Headroom in it let's try  cyberpunk and see what that does before we drop in the reference uh 5700 XT to see how it Compareswow even cyberpunk at 1080p High settings is running well we're sitting in the 70 frames per  second which I feel like is a is a very good point for cyberpunk to be it's where the game feels you  know about as responsive as cyberpunk can feel I'm still convinced the graphics card's lying about  the power drill though so let's drop the reference 5700 XT in here and see how they compare   okay so it's pretty clear that other cards lying because we are getting  about the same boost frequency about the same frame rate oh slightly higher  temperatures I guess the same temperatures although this uh this blower style card is  noisier and it's actually got worse coil wine this this reference 5700  XT has some of the worst coil wine of any graphics card I've tested before it's real badanyway it's got very similar parameters to its running but it draws up to about 187  Watts which I think is a bit more than up to 130 Watts but at least performance wise  they are running very similarly and finally pricing wise when all is said and done that  means including tax and shipping I paid a total of 240 Canadian dollars for this AliExpress RTX 5700  XT which considering that you get a thyroid disorder included that's a whole lot of  graphics card for the money anyway thank you for watching if you enjoyed the video  subscribe to the channel for more videos like this one and maybe consider watching  another video a suggestion will pop up in a second and until the next video bye   thank you