Wrong Thermal Pads: Tear-Down of MSI RX 5700 XT Evoke OC
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- Опубліковано 21 сер 2019
- This MSI's RX 5700 XT Evoke tear-down shows the memory/VRAM cooling problems of the card.
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MSI's RX 5700 XT Evoke OC is insufficiently designed in significant, odd ways, like the 50% contact between the memory modules and the heatsink. We were surprised and disappointed to see a thermal solution like this go to such waste. The thermal pad thickness is also an issue -- everything should be brought closer to the card, ideally, to reduce the thickness of the interface connecting the hotter devices to the heatsink.
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My 2070 MSI Armor can stay cooler than that thing XD
Steve, could you try throwing proper sized thermal pads on the MSI card and test again for memory temps? It looks like a full sized pad on those memory chips might help and there is PLENTY room on the heat-sink...if you look closer, the uncovered portion is inward, towards the center of the HS, NOT extending outward like you are suggesting in the video (12:41). I am VERY interested in this card and would appreciate your help. Thanks for the reviews and tear-down vids. Cheers!
dont they realize the likely hood you will disassemble a gpu you were sent or that you buy jebus lol
@@glutenfreegam3r177 Yeah I am curious what would happen with proper pads and perhaps a higher quality thermal paste on main chip.
This is a common thing with MSI cards. I have a MSI Armor RX 570 8GB OC with the same sized pads.
Wait, the top ram had the thermal pads on the top of the ram, and that metal plate clearly contacted the thermal pads, so they just needed bigger pads that extended down closer to the core. So they really didn't need to make the plate bigger, they just needed to use properly sized thermal pads.
Yeah, got disoriented when flipping it over a bunch of times. That's correct. Bigger thermal pads would do it.
Gamers Nexus Seems like a plain oversight tbh. A very stupid one but I really don't believe the bigger pads would make any significant cost difference even in huge production quantities.
Edit: Okay you even stated that the thermal pad price is negligible so my comment gets kinda irrelevant but hey guess I should watch till the end before commenting...
@@GamersNexus Further raise the question why they used smaller thermal pads on only the top two memory modules. Are those 0.01$ worth of thermal pads really worth saving?
Even rotating the existing pads putting them central should make a huge difference.
I notice this too, MSI just seemed to have used pads too small, even the other 6 Pads aren't as big as the Memory Modules, that's a really lazy thing to do,
I have an MSI B450M Mortar, RX580 Gaming Plus & GTX1080Ti Gaming X & have been really happy with the performance & Quality, but their efforts with the X570 & RX5700/XT seem to be pretty Lazy & Cheap
Conclusion: buy the cheaper but better Sapphire card
Buy* edit it
Red Devil all the way
@@farjanahmed5142 ya typo
it's a major shame, this is the best looking GPU I've ever seen tbh
@@DorianColeman the Red Devil special edition is only £20 more than the Evoke in the UK. No brainer really.
Technically speaking, the "Warranty void if removed" sticker wasn't removed. A Philips driver may have poked through it, but it's still in place. Hasn't been removed ;)
Yep only the screw was removed, not the sticker.
the double sided tape is the warranty
If I remember correctly, in the US at least the "warranty void if removed" sticker is actually bullshit.
@@dabombinablemi6188 Yeah, I don't think they can enforce that in the U.S.
Any country with good consumer protection laws makes that note on the sticker irrelevant if not illegal.
I always love Steve's reaction to warranty stickers. His voice rang from the heavens when I found one on my new Strix.
Retest with proper thermal pads. It looks like the memory will fit on that plate
Why? Who would want to open brand new card? Why not just buy sapphire...
@@megapet777 bro just for science, to see if the cooler's trash or not.
@@megapet777 Garbage thermal paste made from dirt or slave children corpes probably?(Replace) Garbage cooler?(remod noctua with help of scalpel and replace). Installing additional rgb? List go on...
yea, the plate is not too small, they just used way to small thermal pads, which is ridiculous. retest with proper thermal pads please.
@@megapet777 some folks will come here after already buying the card. Those are the folks that will need the info the most.
I haven't been following you all for that long, but you all do some of the most detailed breakdowns and best reviews I've ever seen. This video showing the direct causal link between some inadequate thermal pad coverage and higher memory temps (which most other reviewers didn't even note or call out in their own MSI Evoke OC coverage) is a great example of that. Keep up the great work!
I just got myself a Sapphire Pulse after watching your review. Now this video gave me some comfort that I made the right choice.
The thermal pad situation was just saddening.
A request for future teardowns; you're great at keeping things organized and explaining what you're doing so someone could follow along to replace thermal paste or fans, but would you be able to give some more detail on the hardware you're removing as well? Things like thermal pad thickness and maybe even screw type (thread/length/etc) if you're able to identify them. Info like that isn't too common online (thermal pads maybe, but definitely not screws), and as someone who's lost the mounting hardware for the heatsink of a card, that kind of stuff would be great for trying to find replacements without taking apart another one. Keep up the great reviews and teardowns!
So basically, stick to Powercolor or Sapphire as always if you want good AMD AIB cards.
And avoid Diamond and XFX like the fucking plague
I'm just wondering why Sapphire released the Pulse version first. Isn't the Pulse line supposed to be the more value oriented line, and Nitro+ supposed to be the premium line? If so, shouldn't the Nitro+ cards be released first?
@@outsideredge the Nitro+ is Sapphires top card.. Usually has higher clocks and some series had different or you could say better coolers...
what about the 3-fan Gigabyte rx 5700 ? looks good aswell
@@420BulletSponge What's wrong with XFX?
Loving these deep dive videos, thanks Steve!
I love the reaction shots on these teardowns where we are seeing the good/bad as Steve sees them.
Great stuff!!
Would be nice to see a review and teardown of the newer ASROCK RX5700 xt within these comparisons
Love the tear downs :) Thank you very much.
WTF are you doing, MSI? Between this and the BIOS update issues.. Wow. And you did so well with AMD stuff a year and a half ago..
@@6Twisted man.. I just bought a gaming pro carbon for my 3600. The feature set was just so good. I mean, they have to fix the BIOS right?
@@6Twisted I'm ok with losing support for older CPUs. Though I'll be pissed if they release a MAX version in a few weeks.
@Curtis Riceman it has a bigger BIOS memory chip so you won't lose any features in BIOS updates
@@TheAssassin642 The B450 Tomahawk MAX is already out
@@TheBackyardChemist yeah but I wanted a Carbon MAX
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When we can get a breakdown review for the powercolor red devil? Im excited 😌
Just built my 2nd desktop after 10 years of being out of the biz. Specs - i7 9700k, RTX 2080 Super, 16 gig ddr4 corsair vengeance, 500gig Samsung NVMe M.2, Cooler Master 212 evo, 2tb barracuda, and Cooler Master H500 Mesh. So excited had to tell someone :)
That's all well and good but what colour is your rgb set to is the real question.
@@YungPixel lol tbh I haven't figured out how to control it yet 10 years ago it was cathode tube lighting and would have to change it out completely if you wanted to change colors.... I feel old and I'm only 30.
Nooooice, I just went up to a 2600 and a 5700 budget build about 3 weeks ago. Can you feel the POWA?! You have a nice combo enjoy.
And the Sapphire's card has fuses on the PCB, the MSI's doesn't.
The little detail that could save your card if your AIO will leak or somthing.
Yeah, and the backup bios and bios switch too! The Sapphire card has so many premium features for only $10 over MSRP. They have set the gold standard with card design. Maybe they decided to go all-out this generation because they figured that there'd be a lot of first-time AMD gpu owners because of the general AMD hype train with Zen 2 and Navi? Or, were their cards always this good for this low of a price? I thought they used to be more expensive.
@@syncmonism A backup bios and bios switch are mostly worthless to most users and those that know what they're doing. I've flashed a few Nvidia cards and, unless you're absolutely insane, those extra features are a moot point.
Also, always appreciate your great videos. Thank You.
This dude makes some crazy high quality content like who in the hell else tests power supplies with equipment like this guy does
try to change thermal pads and thermal paste and make thermal review again and see if there's any difference .. i hope
I'd like to see you put proper pads and paste on there (like the thermal grizzly pads and kryonaut or something) and see if it fixes it
Thanks, GN!
Very nice video, well done ! 👍
Shows the value of reviews. I saw multiple very good reviews of the Red Devil and ordered one. No real downsides to them, a bit cheaper would be nice but all GPUs seem expensive atm.
because of the good price, i bought a reference 5700 xt. It boosted itself up to 2000mhz and was running hot (Junction temp 110°C). I limited the frequency to 1800mhz and then my card was not even reaching the 90 degrees anymore. I have a nice airflow with bequiet fans and a additional sidepanel fan which let my card run at 60-78°C with 1800mhz. The amd reference cooler is blowing with 2150 RPM at 80°C and 1650 RPM at 55°C. I wouldnt have bought the card if I had not seen the GamersNexus videos. Thank u steve for helping me to decide.
Now the Card is in good hands and part of the PC Build Family. Sounds a bit crazy, but since im giving to my PC Components Names, i called the 5700XT Steve. Compared to all my favourite PC Builder Channels, you make the best 5700xt Reviews.
Wait, aren't the half thermal pads still on the *outside* edge of the card? So the excuse that only half would be contacting the plate because of the plate size doesn't even work here...
I totally agree
You saw wrong, or perceived what you saw incorrectly, the thermal pads you saw were for the components on ther other side of the GPU.
You are spot on. a larger thermal pad would indeed make complete contact with the plate. There would have to be a hole in the plate for it to NOT make contact. Just pause at 7:32 , it's obvious.
What you MAY be able to go with sapphires solution, is mounting a morpheus 2 to it while properly cooling memory and VRM
Excellent Video.
One engineer at least is going to sleep tonight with satisfied smile on his face.
I really hope the MECH OC doesn't have the same problem but I wouldn't be surprised if it's disappointing.
Thanks for the video, greetings from germany
Gotta save them pennies though.
Quite sad that alot of manuf. do that to keep the cost low,
Sooo having to cut down thermal pad thickness by 1-2mm to squeeze out like a 1~5% saving in price?
@@dra6o0n no man, its a lot less, the diference between those is like 15 to 20 cents, they are cutting cost but even for them is not much. They just painted it like gold ans sold it like it, they are coming back to the pre 2014 era
makes no sense to me. a customer is spending $400 and the bean counters want to place the company branding on the line to save $1 a unit. if they are that desperate to save $1 focus on the packaging!
@@allothernamesbutthis it's happening everywhere, not just computers.
There is only so much wealth in the world before people start fighting over it.
@@allothernamesbutthis it wouldn't be just this video card they they are cutting costs on. MSI make around 1.6 millions mobo's and over 1 million video cards per month from one of their Chinese factories. At a saving of $1.00 per unit we are looking at a saving of over $2.6 million per month or over $31 million per year. They are more than likely saving between $2-$5 dollars per unit at the manufacturing level which means the factories management team look like hero's for their shareholders and board members. Remember its all about making more money with limited resources while spending less on expenses which means a higher profit level for the company and the various stakeholders.
Even with the negative press for the thermal pads from this video card the company is most likely supplying parts for other companies where those companies have customers that "don't care" OR will never be aware of the cost cutting measures as the products they will end up buying will be doing "good enough" so they will get away with it.
I'ts just good business practice tbh and happens everywhere.
I would like to see the judgement of MSI Radeon RX 5700 XT Gaming X (spoil alert : half sized thermal pad, too)
MSi have a history of really dodgy cost-cutting.
@@6Twisted they're not chinese.
@@6Twisted While taiwan is in china, it's light years ahead of mainland china.
@@6Twisted Taiwan and China are not the same nation. The Republic of China and the Peoples Republic of China are different countries. I think it goes back to the civil war China had (Nationalist vs Communists) and if I remember Taiwan is the last "Nationalist" strong hold, China never invaded it.
@@6Twisted I'm Taiwanese and I don't like someone say we are Chinese. More important, I don't like communist.
Xalinsky everthing chinese. Taiwan id chinese. Period. Goodbye
Since you said I should go watch the sapphire tear down...maybe I will go watch it after this
Woohoo! New teardown!
on refference designs the memory cooling is typically separated from the core to stop heat transfer gpu to memory.
I think the solution sapphire solution is not for thermal isolation but rather for easier manufacturer.
They don't have to redesign the main cooler for different cards but only the cooling for the memory / and vrm cooling portion.
As well as not having to make the main cooler more complicated just to cool other parts. The vrm / memory cooling on the sapphire one looks actually pretty cheap to make and it also reinforces the pcb.
*Yes* we want to see the transplant!! ;-)
Do you guys plan on reviewing the Gigabyte card? ASRock? I’m enjoying these disassembled card videos
Since we realized the plate isn't the issue, if possible I would like to see a cooler transplant and/or a thermal pad change, to see if it makes any diference comparing to the Sapphire one.
There would be no need for re tooling. The outer most edge (furthest from the die) of the memory is making the contact, it would of just covered MSI's serial number on the heatsink. Weird reason to only use half a thermal pad
Just like with vega, go with XFX, Sapphire, or Powercolor.
XFX in the same league with MSI. Stick to the last two.
Meh I’ll stick with my water cooled MSI reference card thanks!
@@SDcharge2k12 My condolences!
@@SDcharge2k12 dude..rly..
@Curtis Riceman no
I would like to see that test with the cooling switched between the cards also to see if better pads do make any difference.
"Warranty void if removed" most likely are stickers placed on them when manufactured outside of USA, where it is 'not illegal' to have.
No one bothered to remove them for sale in USA. So to see this changed is to get laws passed in Asia (where mass production happens) regarding 'warranty' but good luck with that.
G'day Steve,
That Memory Thermal Pad issue is just ridiculous, MSI seem to have really have cheapened out on their AM4 X570 & RX5700XT Thermal Solutions,
I would like to see how the MSI performs with full size Thermal Pads as well as the Sapphire cooler on the MSI Thermal pads & the Sapphire ones (I know that is extra work but would give the full range of Thermal comparison,
I agree with you about the Twin Frozer VI as I bought a MSI GTX1080Ti Gaming X after your recommendation when a 3 Fan model wouldn't fit my case, even under extended use doing Cuda acceleration at just shy of 2000MHz it only runs in the low 60c temps, on cool days the fans don't even come on,
I was thinking of upgrading my Gaming PC MSI RX580 Gaming Plus to a RX5700XT (I normally only get to game when I am waiting for videos to render) but at $800AUD for a Sapphire Pulse I can get another GTX1080Ti
12:40 you have that backward. the base plate for the memory is big enough to cover the whole memory chip. if it wasn't, the other half of the memory closer to the gpu would be covered. but you can see the half side that is away from the gpu is covered by thermal pad. so the fault is during assembly.
The dual side tape is prolly for acustic reason(stop rattle) so I would leave it even if it lost the adhesion, it should provide som cushioning.
I'm looking to get a 5700xt and I really love the look of the Evoke and am thinking of getting it. Do you think cooling issues will be a long term issue as I intend to keep the card for many years? If so are there some cheap ways to fix the issues (I'm fine tinkering a lot but I have a limited budget)?
The plate is actually big enough to cover the whole chip, adjust the pad to the middle of the chip might work.
I hope you can tear down the Asrock challenger OC at some point. I didn't even know it was coming out until I saw it on newegg and tried to buy it. Kinda happy my order was canceled the shroud looks kinda flimsy.
Scratch the "aluminum" its probably nickel plated copper. Especially if its soldered to the heat pipes as you said.
Can't believe it's got no copper base or at least heatpipes, I had a 7850 2gb from his but I've had plenty of sapphire cards in the past and I've just cheaply upgraded to a 7950 3gb for like £20 and that is also a sapphire card and it's brilliant
I suspect the reason for the double sided tape might be to eliminate vibration noise. A cantilevered part of sheet metals vibrating with the fans would almost certainly cause rattling in some unfortunate units.
Hey, thanks for the heads up on that MSI video card. That is damm sloppy of them to do this kind of low level cooling and should be watched to see if they can correct this.
Funny that the last MSI video card I had went wacky from bad memory. Hey, you think they are behind that as well?? hahah... No, I doubt it but I have been a long term Sapphire card user and never had any problems with them... I think I'll continue with Sapphire for future cards. Plus I really do not like Power Color prices so they can take a flying leap as well...
Love your vids Keep up the great content..
A client I'm building for picked this card up because it was the cheapest 5700xt on Newegg. It'll be delivered later this month. I hope it's not bad enough that they have to return it and get a different model, or pay more for the sapphire model.
Question, will you be reviewing the XFX THICC2?
Seconded. Also curious about the Xfx RAW 2 and any potential tear down videos?
It's the same dumbass cooler design as the Fatboy. The RX590 Fatboy I own, performs worse than the Sapphire Nitro RX580 I own. It shouldn't. The older chip should perform worse, but it doesn't, because the Nitro has such vastly superior cooling that while the Fatboy throttles down due to temp, the Nitro keeps going at boost clocks.
@@chronicalcultivation but it's thicc..
This!!! Im waiting for a GN review of that bad boy. Errr uhh, girl?
I'm not due for an upgrade but I love watching tech content and a video of this card WILL get my view.
@@chronicalcultivation but the name gives it +6.9 fps
I didn't know that those stickers were illegal... Now I've got some research to do. Video liked just for that.
Steve is usually right but the thermal pads are on the outside so a bigger pad would make full contact with the heat plate. The reason they likely made the thermal pads smaller is because they are directly on the heat pipes so they would have better heat transfer anyways and don't want to steal more heat dissipation from the GPU.
A taped together shroud, half contacting thermal pads, no bios switch... the MSI AMD lineup sucks this year. And they did so well on the RX480 Gaming X a few years ago.
They will probably release many different models of RX 5700 XT and 5700, and hopefully soon they will replace or update this model. They no doubt have a cheaper version on the way, and I wouldn't be completely surprised if one or more of their cheaper versions actually perform better, at least in terms of thermals (they just probably won't look as nice).
@Gamers Nexus , you are mistaken about the half pads, they didnt need to make a bigger plate, the non-covered part of the mem is on the inner side where there is a plate over it, they just needed a bigger pads, but i dont think this is the problem. It could be the closed backplate over the core part, and also could be if MSI is using bigger voltage for the same clock speeds. You can test this.
Could you test the 3 Fan Red Devil from PowerColor?
JESUS, MSI had the same problem i had with Accelero Xtreme 3, only those 2 memory got 50% of thermal contact...
But why MSI u did this faulty cooling design?
Thumbs up to GN for another awesome in-depth teardown. Thumbs down for bad MSI practices. For shame, MSI.
I think it's probably rare that the cooler is interchangabe between two different AIB brands. So you should definitely take that chance to do a 1:1 cooler comparison with the same board running the same bios and all that. It's not really indicative of what the consumer can buy but still interesting.
But if that pad will contact on the outside then a bigger pad should work further in too. As there already cooling the outer part of the ram so wouldn't have to make the base taller. The section that needs cooling it further in
I really want Noctua to make a GPU cooler for reference boards.
Sure, you'll lose the warranty, but I have very litle trust in these board suppliers ability to manufacture a proper cooling solution.
Please swap the coolers and compare! It would also be great to see if bigger thermal pads would fix the problem altogether...
I just got my ASRock Challenger version of the 5700 XT today, and my highs seem to be pushing 94 C so I wouldn't mind an overview/teardown for that model to know whether I bought a lemon like MSI's and/or how easy it would be to make it better.
@Gamers Nexus would it be possible for you or one of the team members to try and put the Saphire heat sinks onto the Evoke? and let us know if it can be done and if any cooling benefit could be gained?
Replace those pads with proper coverage on the modules and do a comparison on temps. Would really wanna see the results. Cheers Steve!
Fun, would be a good experiment to put the proper size thermal pads on and run a few tests to see if thermals get better. Also, is it possible this was just on your model and more an oversite during build or design choice? Maybe some worker didn't want to get more pads, it was the end of the day and he was tired and just used what he had left some odds and ends and thought, "nobody will notice"
Could you replace the pads with propper ones and redo some thermal tests? Would be nice to see the differents. A simple mod for someone who wants the msi card
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I would love to see the transplant comparison
So out of curiosity, if the thermal pads on the MSI card were replaced with ones that actually cover the memory modules, would that potentially bring the thermals in to line with the Sapphire card? It looks like where those two half coverage ones are , they should make full contact with the heatsink if proper pads were put in place.
"Oops." OTOH, I *really* like Sapphire's solution.
is Saphire the one to go with? I was interested in the THICC2 cause it looks decent. Maybe I'll paint the Saphire cause I really just don't want the "Pulse" scheme on the card. The MSI looks ok but I would prefer it not gold but if it doesn't perform as good then it doesn't matter what it looks like.
I wonder if the dbl sided tape was to prevent vibration noise between the two plates - even if that was the case a little piece of foam would have done the trick.
Steve the coldplate is big enough to cool the entire memory module. I'm surprised you didn't catch that, but notice the pad is on the FURTHEST part of the memory from the center, which means the other half is not beyond the plate, but further inward. They literally just put half sized thermal pads on for no reason, the area is there to cool the whole thing. This would be an easy mod. And even if a module did stick past the cold plate, it would still be beneficial to put a pad on the whole thing when only half of the pad touches the cold late. the pad itself will allow for some increased heat transfer horizontally from the module.
I can't understand, why are the fins aligned longitudinally on a non blower style cooler. The transversal alignment has less air resistance with the same density.
i hope you can get your hands on that XFX Thicc card if there’s interest in testing it. despite the silly name the card looks really nice, on the official renders anyway. so i kinda hope it doesn’t perform significantly worse than Sapphire’s Pulse variant. otherwise... holding out for the Sapphire Nitro version
is it worth opening a board partner card and replacing / adding cooling pads if for example there are none between board and backplate or something? (especially if it's still within the warranty period)
Can you teardown the Powercolor Red Devil 5700XT, please GN!
It looks like the area on the coldplate was fine, they just screwed up with the thermal pads. I would like to see how it performs with the proper sized thermal pads. Please do a "fix" video!
You DON'T need to extend the plate!. The area that needs more padding it's inside (closer to the center of the gpu). You can just add a bigger thermopad
Those are some thick thermal pads on the memory, too! I can't imagine that helps with conduction that well.
Maybe theres an issue with mounting pressure if they used thinner therm pads.
Still seems like a hackjob overall though.
@@DeadNoob451 Yeah, that cold plate was clearly not designed for this card layout.... 😐
I have a question about de warranty sticker, is they are illegal in canada too ? (the sticker who say "warranty void if removed"
It also looks like there's nowhere near enough compression on those thermal pads for them to make decent contact and heat transfer anyway - they're barely distorted from their base shape.
i would love for you to test the sapphire cooler on the msi pcb
Me too!
I hope we this, also maybe replace the thermal pads on the MSI cooler to see if that helps with temps.
I hope to see multiple aib 5700xt comparo eventually.
Wait hold up; when did "warranty void if removed" stickers become illegal in the U.S. and where do I find the documents stating that?
Wonder what AIB card they’ll review next. I’m hoping one of the XFX ones, preferably the Raw II rather than the Thicc II, despite the name.
This makes me concerned about the MSI Radeon RX 5700 XT Mech...which I am considering buying, but now I have seen this, I'm not so sure. Will it fall to the same errors ?
To me it looks like there is no excuse for the small thermal pads @Gamers Nexus It looks like the pads could extend toward the GPU with no issue, as they are placed on the far side of the memory modules to begin with, so putting larger pads on would end up creating greater surface area contacting the cold plate....... idk how you didn't notice this in the review. It might be worth replacing those thermal pads and retesting the cards thermals to compare what an actual full coverage thermal pad would do for mem temps. Keep up the good work! Love the content, and I can let an oversight slip every now and then.