Those connector on the back of the card are low key genius! Imagine for a second all the connectors for mobo’s and gpu’s on the back of the pcb and you just plugged them in from holes in the back of the case and never saw any wires at all.

i’m actually pretty impressed with this ali express card, connectors on the side are also a nice touch

There was a 5700 batch series that used a 125w TDP during the first months in Asian countries. Due to the cost of mosfets used they were able to significantly lower the cost of the card at a minimal cost to performance ratio.

You should try using a wall socket power meter and run the PC via that to see what the overall consumption is with either card to see if there is a clear difference. Could come in handy for future videos too and they're cheap

It's potentially possible the card isn't lying about the Wattage if it is essentially factory undervolted. I can bring my card's power draw down by 20-35% without losing performance by undervolting. That said I'm guessing it's still off by at least 25% or so. Would love to see you do more overclocking and undervolting when you test cards!

240CAD for a card that rivals a 3060 in performance is a hell of a deal!

6:30 that actually makes sense if they want to do a low profile stealthy variant. The cable goes straight towards the cable management slots.

"I remember this reference cooler howling like a banshee with its tail stuck in the door" Dawid never fails to make me laugh. Keep up the quality content man this was a great video.

You know its a good day when Dawid uploads

I can't tell if the dent in the reference card is supposed to be there or not, which really goes to show what a good-looking card it is

I think a lot of these cards that tend to pop up on Ali Express from little known brands/sellers have possibly been used in mining rigs etc in the past. They then get pimped up a bit with new coolers and backplates and sold on as a new product.. (this explains some of the shoddy workmanship and non retail boxes) - would also explain the under volting that appears to be going on with a lot of these cards as well as miners usually under volt them - can't prove it though - just a theory! :)

I have no idea what this man's upload schedule is but it's always right on time

Hilarious that you reviewed this now - I ordered this exact card a few weeks back on sale for a hair under $200CAD ($150USD) shipped. I looked for reviews, but couldn't find any reputable ones. It arrived a couple of days ago, and I've spent 2-3hrs messing around with it, here's my experience. -They actually upgraded me from the 2 fan to the 3 fan version, since the 2 fan was out of stock. -Build quality and overall impressions were similar to those in the video; fairly chintzy, but totally functional. -Card had a super annoying death rattle when under load initially. Took a closer look, and it seemed the shroud was loose. Tightened all the screws, and it seems to have disappeared. Quality control definitely isn't ideal for a brand new card, but what can you expect at the price? -Stupid loud at stock settings for sure. Ran very cool (approx. 60C,) so definitely needs a custom fan curve/speed set. -Undervolted all the way down from 1.2 to 1V. Only dropped core 50MHz, and raised memory 60MHz. Set a custom fan curve. After all of these changes, the card runs at acceptable volume, while still having similar temps and performance, and much lower power consumption. Overall, I'm stoked for this card! Basically 6600XT performance for 6500XT price. Corners were definitely cut, but nothing that can't be worked around/lived with. We'll see how it holds up long term, though.

Judging from the oil bleed, it is most likely a repurposed ex-mining card with a custom vBIOS. It's probably undervolted for better running cost hence the lower temperature/power usage.

Thank you so much for doing this video!!! I was not sure if I should pull the trigger on this one or not.

Always hanging for another instalment, great content man, keep it up.

I just picked up a 6600 a couple weeks ago for $220, extremely happy with it. The Swft 210 model, my card is also noisy at full tilt but not terribly. The fans don't even run while doing basic tasks like net surfing, email, etc.

You only need to cool the MOSFETs, memory and GPU. The board is designed to take tons of heat as well. So you don't need to worry if some of the ICs don't touch the cooler

I've been waiting for someone to review one of these. Good stuff Dawid

Nice vid. Always enjoy these ones. Carry on breaking the algorithm and good job.

I bought a 5700 a few months ago to upgrade my htpc. Listing was for a 5700 xt and it was not an xt model but the performance was still good enough for the price I paid that I didn't really complain about it too much. Still absolutely a nice gpu and an excellent value buying used these days.

I like this kind of Videos soooo much and generally your Videos are sooo amazing! Keep the good work up! 👍

That unboxing was like a tech version of pass the parcel. If you’ve ever bought a graphics card that slid into the case with no room at the back as it was touching the fan shroud, you’ll be glad that it had the power connectors on the top and not on the back.

Fully agree with the front placement of power delivery, the fact no big brands do it is really disappointing.

Corsair makes good RAM but the size of those heat spreaders could prove problematic with larger CPU air coolers, e.g. be Quiet! Dark Rock Pro 4. I hope they consider a less height-y version soon!

You should measure power draw at the wall, it's possible that this is some kind of mobile variant clamped on standard pcb

As per usual an absolute amazing video from one of the most Blazae youtubers about lol and I mean that in a good way. Love the video style you bring Dawid and you really should have double the amount of viewers ypu actually have.keep them coming my friend

I have a Sapphire Nitro RX480. It has a power connector on that side too. It was very easy for me to hide the ketchup and mustard power cable when I had a cheap power supply and a case with lots of drive bay. Now I'm still using this card, but with a modern case and better power supply. Still looks great tho.

I recognized that packaging immediately! -From AliExpress but also from Gamestop... They packaged their used consoles in them.

I had a 3700X/5700XT combo, I loved it - The integration was wonderful. The only thing that let me down was the Dell computer around those parts. I miss the AMD software, I feel the presentation is better than Nvidia's GeForce experience and it didn't cause as many problems. It wasn't as efficient, NVEC is definitely a more mature technology, but it worked well enough. I'm glad AMD is doing so well, they aren't just competition - they're good competition.

I've been eyeing those AliExpress cards for a while lmao. Glad you make videos about them.

Ahh, my required dosage of Dawid Does Tech Stuff. However, such an anticlimax (not really), I was all set with popcorn and mead to see how they made a GT450 imitate an AMD card - damn :) I suspect the metal cheese is pyrolysis from the sweat shop (or opium den) where the card was birthed. You’ll need a full body suit soon. Another great video - thanks!

I get very strong "repurposed mining card manufacturing" vibes off of this card. Mismatching faceplate because it was never meant to have one, downward facing power connectors because they aren't going to be slotted directly into a board anyway, factory undervolted bios resulting in lower power consumption and slightly lower performance. Makes sense they would be repurposing their stock back into gaming GPUs.

That loose screwhead made me shiver thinking of scenarios where the buyer doesn't check, and it inevitably causes a short after it ends up lodged somewhere it shouldn't.

I have an RX580 from the same brand. Albeit I bought it 2 months used, it still works perfectly and stays below 80c while playing Minecraft on high with complementary shaders at 1080p 60+ fps.

I bought my RX 5700 (Reference) Several Years ago. I bios modded it with the XT bios, and just recently got ahold of a water cooler for it. It runs everything I throw at it amazingly at 1440p 144hz medium to high settings. I only recent thought of upgrading so I can delegate it to Handbrake conversions in my server lmao.

I love the 5700xt its still a beast of a card

You seem to have found a very good deal there! I just had to upgrade to an RX 6700 XT 12GB and am extremely pleased with it, except for the price I had to pay courtesy of a dead RX 580 8GB. It runs Horizon Zero Dawn at 1080p60 on a mix of high and ultra settings without ever dropping below 60fps.

Yaaay, had a sad day, but I saw the upload. Thanks Dawid!

I've received my RX5700 XT yesterday from that exact same seller and packaging. When i saw it on Ali, it cost slightly less than yours and since it was a nobrainer i've pulled the trigger for my second rig. After 2 mins of inspection turns out to be a refurbished XFX 5700 XT THICC II withouth the chromed plastics. Heck there was still the original XfX sticker on the fans under the JieShuo one.... I guess yours might have new cooler and backplate, and the same hard mining past as mine. Still can't complain with the price, turns out to be ok as long as it comes back to what it's supposed to be for, GAMING 🤘Cheers from Italy!!!

I'm not a big tech junkie, but I enjoy the hell out of Dawids videos, maybe a little short, but keep making them and I'll keep watching.

People say GPU prices are dying down but I beg to differ, I couldn't find any AMD cards above the 6800 (non XT) below 800 bucks, same for RTX 3070+. Literally the only hope is to try and get a card off of eBay and hope it isn't a scam.

I bought a RX 5700 (non-XT) with the reference cooler right when the RX 5000-series came out, and while there were some initial driver issues, long-term it feels like I absolutely made the right call. Maybe I got lucky, but can't say I've noticed any coil whine outside of edge cases where the GPU is accidentally allowed to shoot to 600+ FPS in a menu or something, and I can't ever recall the reference cooler going full hair-dryer on me trying to keep cool (maybe due to power draw being backed off a bit relative to the XT?). Cooler is a true two-slot design too, so it doesn't chew up all the expansion slots, and I like the reserved, professional-looking design of the non-XT blower. Three years in and an upgrade to 1440p later it's still going so strong it's really hard to justify an upgrade.

Hi Dawid if you're a fan of coil whine and blower style GPUs with 2 x 8 pin connectors at the front of the card, go find yourself a Gigabyte RTX 3080 turbo 10GB and do a video on that. I just got rid of mine after many years of enduring high temps and screaming noise from the card. The cards ran so hot I ended getting an 80mm Noctua fan and zip tied it to the front intake of the card which dropped temps by about 10 degrees, and fan speed by 30%. Love your videos, your sense of humour is right up my alley.

It still blows me away that the market got so screwed up. I bought a reference rx5700 for £250 three years ago (new) and I could still realistically ask for £180 for it even though it's now 2 generations old. Don't get me wrong, it's a great card and I have no plans to get rid of it but pricing is still over where it should be imo

The 5700 XT is still a solid card. My nephew has a 5500 XT and it still rocks too

Dawid becoming my fav entertaining tech pc channel.

Hey Dawid! Always cool to see your uploads! I love seeing a fellow South African making it successfully in another country! Plus the few SA reverences are always epic. I have been watching your videos for a long time! They are always entertaining. Your sense of humour is always cool. That said - and you can almost hear the cringe moment approaching. There is so much to poke fun at!!! You always seem to find something Jeremy Clarkson-ish and you pull it off. But like I said - here it comes. As a recovered thyroid cancer survivor and someone super selfconscious of my appearance after the thyroidectomy... It seems you can do better than compere a GPU do an person with a thyroid problem. I think you are much better than that - that said thank you for your entertaining content. Keep it lekker. Later bro

That's a pretty great deal honestly. I upgraded my gpu to a 5700 xt I got on sale literally like, a month before the gpupocalypse hit, and it's been fantastic for my 1080p high refresh rate setup.

So it’s an OEM model 5700XT with a nice cooler on top. Honestly not a bad find even after the taxes and shipping applied, it’s still one beast of a card

THe red bubble wrap coming out reminded me of that bit when Ace Ventura comes out of the Rhino....

I bough the regular 5700 not to long after release and still use it to this day, it's still a very capable card

I liked the 5700XT but I sold it at the height of the crypto boom for $900, I recently bought a 5700 on Ebay for $125 that I like .

hello dawid try the mingzhou rx 580 8gb from aliex for 70$ and 18k was sold you need to try it

I love how Dawid always manages to sneak at least one tongue-in-cheek line into his sponsored part, like in this instance the "obvious hello e-peen" and very sarcastically sounding "12 ultra-bright capellix RGB LEDs", lol.

Actually wish with all the giant GPUs these day more of them have the power connector at the front and not middle, makes the cable management so much better looking

Can confirm the 5700xt performs pretty close with an rtx 3060. Have a cyberpower pc with an i5-11600kf with an rtx 3060. And recently I bought one of those miniforum mini pcs (B550 one with external GPU dock), picked up a used sapphire 5700xt for $150, and it actually tests about 1k points higher on 3dmark, go figure (the minipc has a ryzen 5700g so i guess it's no that surprising, but its still kind of funny.

I got a used Asus ROG Strix one for 210 recently. The seller moded the cooling because Asus F'ed up the VRM contacting. Pretty good deal cost to performance wise. Can't even get a 2070 for less than 300 bucks.

My 5700xt is still serving me well, ive almost had it for 3 years at this point. It was originally supposed to be replaced with a 6800xt in late 2020 but that didnt happen for obvious reasons

Your videos put me in a great mood. Very sad that i've watched them all now! Keep it up plz

I would guess that the card is made from low-binned GPU silicon so it's been slightly underclocked to get it running stable, and that's why it's using less power and why it's cheap. Seems like a great deal tbh.

I am actually impressed with this.... You got a bargain there... I was just waiting for it to turn into an RX260x on GPUz etc but it appears it is actually a proper 5700xt.... fair play to the seller, their website looks legit as well...

They are also around 170 on ebay right now. I picked up a msi prestige 170 shipped. It needed thermal pads but other than that it works great

Like the positioning of the power connectors, in some cases there may not be enough room to plug in the power cable with it on the side.

You should try the Rx 6600m dawid, it's literally a laptop gpu that they soldered to a PCB and heatsink, it's a surprising good deal with the performance, I recommend you buying on either 51risc or huananzhi, they are legit brands on AliExpress

That is 100% a "renewed" mining card.

Muy bien video... Es de mis canciones favoritas del Jilguero. Felicidades y espero que puedas hacer más análisis de canciones como estás... En especial las que incluyen versos en quechua.

I got my rx 5700xt from the same seller at aliexpress and it was a used xfx model with jie shuo sticker on the fan. It's running perfectly and I got it at a really good price.

I'd buy that for a dollar! Robocop reference aside, that seems like a good card. I might finally give up my rx 480 8gb for something like it. Great video with great music. Thanks to you sir.

Hey Big D. I wish you would have looked at what the Radeon software reported the metrics to be. The inconsistencies with MSI/RTSS and some AMD cards drove me away. I used it on a 6900 XT and the values would change between runs with the same game one time to the next. In RDR2 using built in benchmark, power use: run 1 58w run 2 181w run 3 138w all from a cold boot of the system. Love the Aliexpress vids, reminds me why I stopped buying from there.

1:43 Ouch!, I think you bent the shield when you pulled it through the packaging tube, ie, the protruding lugs hooked the plastic as it went through the tight packing.

I like the "Shroud" moments ❤️❤️

It looks a lot like an OEM card, maybe they are being rebadged and sold off. Also one thing to watch out for with 5700xt's is that they were the most popular card for mining, there must be a huge supply of ex-mined cards out in the wild now.

The 5700 and 5700xt are such great cards.

I'm wondering if the layer of "sweat" on the cooler was some sort of anti-corrosion coating they put on it for long term storage like you often see with brake rotors. The stuff on the PCB was probably just flux they didn't bother to clean off though.

The reference model 5700XT was $400 US when they hit the market. And I can't argue with how obnoxiously loud that blower style cooler would get. I later got a water block for it, and I don't hear any coil while from mine.

Damn, this seems like a really good price for a brand new 5700xt. However, I got an open-box msi rtx 3060 for only $210 recently and I think that was an even better deal.

1:54 you damaged it

Thanks, Dawid!

I want the noise Dawid makes at 5:13 as a ringtone 😂😂😂

I liked it better when there were GPUs with power on the front of the card. The overall build quality for this card was pretty solid considering where it came from

Who won the pc?

7:16 after looking to the games you're playing, you have my full respect.

So, is it just undervolted like crazy? Great video as always, Dawid!

It's so nice that graphics cards are back into the real of reality! Much to Nvidia's chagrin 😅

I had the worst Coil Whining on my RTX 2080 and using Afterburner to lvl the fan speed and not hearing the whining....and after 1year of using it like that, I ordered thermal pads and paste on Amazon and changed everything inside....now is running sooo quiet like I have a new different VCard...what a difference. Anyway I ordered yesterday an RTX 3090 because there is no stock available on RX 7900 XTX. GREAT UNBOXING !!!

1:45 wow we witnessed the packaged thing give birth to another packaged thing... it´s great to be alive.

Glad you guys remember Hard Corps.

Love Corsair ram.... love your reviews

Based on the connectors on the back, I believe that it may have been from a discarded prototype from Gigabyte Project Stealth.

I am so proud that last week i did a video on my YT channel about the same GPU at the same price..... only i chose the trio version

You should have done a system power draw from the wall test to see if there is a 50 watt difference. just to be sure the discrepancy is accurate.

I bought a 580 8gb for $70 usd of Aliexpress for a friends build, I am excited to get it!

Dawid is the only person I know that cam dent a gpu like that and have it look like a design. Good job I guess.

Finally you made a video about this one

I love your channel brother, i just watched you getting tazed by Anna LMAO. Also, You motivated me to build a PC.

I've been looking for a new GPU and I think the 5700 XT might just be my sweet spot on price v performance. I'm only at 1080p so not bothered about 4k. But more alarmingly, AliExpress has just toasted me about GPU deals but I'm not carrying any levothyroxine so I think I'll bug out. Great video btw. 👍👍😁

I got a sapphire pulse model for $90 from a miner. It was missing the pcie bracket and I ordered a replacement from AliExpress for $10. I’m happy with my $100 purchase.

Good thing I got it before it sold out....hope it ships

The bent 5700 XT reference looks sick in my opinion