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As soon as you open the package, you’ll find the user’s guide and graphics cards itself. If you’re thinking that the package will include the 8-pin PCIE power cable and HDMI cable … nope, think again! There’s no such cables included.
A Closer Look
For cooling, it comes with ASock Phantom Gaming 3X Cooling System featuring 3 Striped Ring Fans to cool the the large heatsink which comes with 7 heatpipes. You’ll also notice a reinforced metal frame and backplate, which gives it stability and helps with the cooling.
The card is quite large and uses up 2.5 PCIE slot space. So make sure you have plenty of room in your chassis.
On the top the card near you’ll find a unique LED on/off switch, which controls the LED lighting on the card. Interestingly, you’ll also a 3-pin ARGB header near the 8-pin PCIE power connectors. This will allow you to sync RGB lighting of the graphics card to the motherboard, assuming you’re using ASRock’s Polychrome Sync.
To power up this card, you’ll need to plug in 3 x 8-pin PCIE power connectors. It has TBP (or total board power) of around 355W, so we recommend a minimum power supply of 800W or higher. For monitor output, there’s 3 x DisplayPort v2.1 and 1 x HDMI 2.1 ports.
Installation
The card requires 3 x 8-pin PCIE power connectors and a minimum power supply of at least 800W. In our tests we used a MSI MPG A1000G PCIE5 along with an Intel Core i9-13900K sitting on an ASRock Z790 Sonic motherboard with 32GB DDR5-6200 ram.
On the top of the graphics card you’ll find the Phantom Gaming logo, which lights up when the system is powered up. The RGB LEDs can be turned on or off using the switch which is found near the front of the backplate.
For ARGB lightning, you’ll need to connect the 3-pin header located near the 8-pin PCIE power connectors to the motherboard. This will synchronize it with any ASRock motherboard that supports Polychrome Sync.
If you have a monitor what supports 144Hz or higher, make sure you use a high quality DisplayPort 1.4 cable, and enable FreeSync on the Adrenalin Software, otherwise you won’t be getting all the benefits of the graphics card or monitor.
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106º is pretty bad, my MBA model stays at 80º on the hotspot
We tested the card at 100% load … no throttling and no issues, plus it uses an overclocked GPU. It peaked at 106 but averages around 100, which i think is acceptable.
Winston i heard that several users I dont own this have tighten screw on backplate and got better hot spot temps cause the backplate werent properly seated i dont know if its true . I test a XT tuf hotspot is 79c . Thanks for a good reveiw buddy though.
Ok let me check… maybe I should tighten the backplate a little more 😆
How was it, did you manage to get any better temps with tightening the screws/other stuff. That 106 seems high, especially with the difference between GPU edge and junction temps being 46 Celsius. The reference models are considered faulty if the temp difference is over 40C (and junction reaches 110C). As I already had one such card, I am hesitant to be burned twice (pun intended) by a 7900 XTX 😀
Hi there, Winston you wrote that : ” the ASRock Phantom Gaming 3X cooling solution is doing a great job of cooling the graphics card. This is all thanks to the large heatsink with 6 heatpipes and triple ring fans.” And I had the impression that the ASRock Radeon RX 7900 XTX Phantom Gaming 24GB OC Graphics Card comes with 8 Ultra-fit heatpipes, according to the photos displayed on the ASRock website… At least I count 8 pipes on their photo. Can you tell me if I am wrong here…??
Actually I recounted … total is 7 heatpipes. I have amended the review accordingly. Thanks 🙏
Heya, for people with bad temps. It seems boost clock is a bit much for the card. I found this thread on reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/radeon/comments/16g2p5u/asrock_gaming_phantom_7900_xtx_temps/ people suggest to UC (2300-2400 frequency, 1120mv, 2714 ram and +15 pwr), and then FAN speed drop by 500rpm, also power consumption from around 400W to 300W and loose FPS is like 1-3FPS. Can try this settings for you.