The SAPPHIRE RADEON RX 6600 PULSE - Teardown
What’s up everyone, Erik here and welcome to Hardware For Gamers. For those who are new to the channel, I review and test PC cases, CPU coolers, PC case fans and Video cards. This video is my teardown of the Sapphire RX 6600 Pulse.
Now, if you missed or want to see my full review of this card
Please check • SAPPHIRE RADEON RX 660... . Now, After the teardown I will redo the temperature testing to see how good the stock thermal paste and pads are. I will also tune the card, to get the best performance possible. Then I’ll test the temperature and some games to see how much it helps.
So, let’s open it up.
Test System
Motherboard - MSI B450 Tomahawk
CPU - Ryzen 5 5600
Cooler- FD Celsius S24
RAM - Gskill FlareX 3200 4-8GB
Case - HAF XB (No Panels)
OS Drive - 120GB SATA3 SSD
Game Drive- 1TB Kingston NV2 M.2 Drive
PSU - SilverStone ST1000-PTS
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Timestamps:
0:00 Intro
0:48 Opening the Card
6:00 The Inside of the Card
14:11 Temperature Testing
15:30 Overclocking
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Thank u so much about thermal pad thickness information
@HardwareForGamers
7 ай бұрын
Happy to help
@daimatouenbu
5 ай бұрын
how about the seemingly thickest rectangular one on the back? (with 1.5 mm vrm pad on it)
thanks for tearing down now i know the pads size
@HardwareForGamers
Жыл бұрын
Glad you found it helpful.
My temps are 20K more than yours for the hotspot and 10K more for the memory/edge temps. Maybe I should repaste it. Diff between hot spot and normal are 14K though, so from that perspective it looks good.
Did he really try to remove the heatsink,without removing the screws??
very detail teardown, thanks
Thanks 👍
Thanks for the teardown. I have one of the exact one - and now I have the card's temp n the build data comparison video. Great info and keep it up 👍
@HardwareForGamers
Жыл бұрын
Glad it helped
This is exactly what I was looking for, nice know stock TIM/Pads are good, didn't know if it was worth opening, and didn't wanna spend too much time tinkering. No desire now, after seeing how many, and of how many different sizes of the pads there are on the card, and cause TG-PP10 Putty is EOL, so the easy way is not there anymore. I just de-shrouded and zip-ties 2x Arctic P8 80x25mm fans with rubber anti-vibration pads and it's working ok, the card's surprisingly advanced for it's size, price. WIll switch to 2x Noctua NF-A9 PWM 92x25mm eventually once summer comes, as these Arctic are a bit whiny >1350 RPM. Ty for the video!
Thank you i wonder how many heat pipe it have since i have 2 of it but lazy to open my case
@Roman9441
Жыл бұрын
So it use 1mm for memory and 1.5 for VRM :/ ok thx i just have time to watch whole video
I found 2 different vbios for this card and i wonder if it's worth flashing the updated one which was released in 2022?
@HardwareForGamers
9 ай бұрын
I wouldn't risk it personally.
I'm here AFTER I ripped my fan connector cables out of the pin sockets... Now the fan connector is stuck on the PCB, with no wires inside it... But at least I got the fans off to clean it? What do I do now?!
@HardwareForGamers
Жыл бұрын
I know this isn't exactly the same kzread.info/dash/bejne/mpiklbyxf7HdntI.html but it's the best I could find.
@turbozak10
Жыл бұрын
Thanks man... I was literally just following that, and snapped one of my pins in half... So have ordered a new fan from AliExpress haha Those stupid little barbs on the connectors... Never seen those on a simple fan connector! Thanks for the tear down video though, well done!
What brands are the VRAM? I hope they are not using Micron.
May I know what’s size for the mounting bracket
I am about to disassemble my sapphire rx 6600 and was worried that how to do it, will I damage it😅🙏🏻 and on the spot I found this video. Thanks. Really helpful
@HardwareForGamers
Жыл бұрын
thanks, glad you found it helpful.
Good evening my friend, would you still have this board? I would like to know if you could tell me the ci number u501 is next to the coil near the pci
@HardwareForGamers
11 ай бұрын
Sorry, no
Can you upload a teardown os the RX 6600 Eagle? Please
@HardwareForGamers
Жыл бұрын
Sorry don't have one.
Hi how's PCB quality of this card ? How's heatsink ?? I've heard for some review this model used only 50w cooling for this card, is it true ? and between this one vs 3060 zotac twin edge for 50$ more which way to go ?
@HardwareForGamers
Жыл бұрын
I went over all that in the review kzread.info/dash/bejne/h4eo2LilhJqpes4.html
@user-kp2hk2lh2x
Жыл бұрын
@@HardwareForGamers what's your opinion about that zotac ?
@hugoalejandro27
Жыл бұрын
@@user-kp2hk2lh2x Zotac is a good brand and they make great cards, but keep in mind they only make nvidia cards, so if you want AMD, it means going for another brand.
id like to upgrade to XFX - SPEEDSTER SWFT210 AMD Radeon RX 6600 Core 8GB GDDR6 PCI Express 4.0 Gaming Graphics Card will it work with my cpu AMD Ryzen 5 1600 Six-Core Processor 3.20 GHz?? thx
@HardwareForGamers
7 ай бұрын
Yes
Hello friend! My RX 6600 Sapphire Pulse, in stock, is reaching 115°C in the Hot Spot and turning off... I already replaced the thermalpads correctly and applied MX-4 thermal paste, but it didn't solve the problem! It heats up IMMEDIATELY when opening any game... All it takes is for its clock to go up and it reaches the temperature limit and turns off! Any tips?
@HardwareForGamers
8 ай бұрын
Are the fans spinning? Have you tried using something like HWinfo to to look at voltage? Is the card new or did it just start happening?
@KatiZ_
24 күн бұрын
Resolved?
@loopBiceps
24 күн бұрын
@@KatiZ_Yes! I managed to solve my problem! Two of the screws that hold the heatsink to the board were not original and that's why the springs weren't tightening properly... I bought washers and put them between the screws and the springs, and it dropped by 20°C...
Hey buddy, i got 6650 xt sapphire pulse, and at stock i get like 70c edge up to 100-103c junction (144w, power limit default) and fans spins like crazy @2300+rpm. I undervolted -100mv and downclocked -100mhz Results are edge 66c junk high 80s low 90s. Fan 1600-1950rpm (my curve) I heard people like sapphire but i am quite dissapointed, way louder than my old 6600 non xt eagle gigabyte.. Fans even make some kind of resonance noise after 1950rpm... Gpu is new, 1 month old, what should i do? If i unscrew i lose warranty, is there a way to remove stickers without damagin them? There is same stickers on ali express as well.
@HardwareForGamers
Жыл бұрын
Where do you live?
@galee4253
Жыл бұрын
@@HardwareForGamers Serbia, why?
@HardwareForGamers
Жыл бұрын
@@galee4253 The sticker thing doesn't matter in a lot of countries. not sure what the laws are in Serbia. A 30C temperature difference between edge and hot spot is a lot... My best guess is something is loss, but it could maybe the paste is shit ... I would open it, but that's me.
@galee4253
Жыл бұрын
@@HardwareForGamers Matters here sadly... Still searching for best way to take those stickers off without damaging, or i might just get same ones from ali express tbh. Would MX-4 be good? Yea screw is loose or paste.. Most pulses i saw 6600/6650 xt have around 90c junction with low rpm like 1200 at STOCK... What is funny is how people hate gigabyte and my eagle 6600 was cold as ice 10-15c delta diff..
Asus dual best cooling for 6600
i wish someone release waterblock for this GPU.