So you just bought your brand new Sapphire Radeon Nitro RX 6650XT video card and you're gaming
you're having fun with it but there's a few things that you might be missing first off that annoying
light you just can't change it, it doesn't match your color scheme or maybe one of your fans isn't
working quite right or maybe you need a little bit more features and functions and performance
out of your card well don't worry my friends in this video I’m going to help you get all that and
maybe a little bit more so let's get started there are two different ways to get all the features
and functions so I’m going to start off with the easiest first we'll open up chrome and then we'll
go to Sapphire.com forward slash en Sapphire's website we'll go to consumer and then we'll click
software we'll click TRIXX and then download the latest TRIXX you'll see here downloading TRIXX
installer 8.7.0 so just open that up and because that's the only file needed for the installer
you can do that from within your zip file so just double click on it and click run then we'll click
ok and then if you want to change the directory you can do that here if not click next, next and
install then we'll click finish to open up TRIXX I’ll close everything out of here so now we're in
TRIXX the dashboard the main page gives us all the information on TRIXX the GPU the shaders die side
raster units and a bunch more this also gives us the ability to save our bios save a report of our
bios or maybe save our primary or secondary bios but I’ll stick with the primary for now that way
if you wanted to you can export it either save it and flash a new bios or save the one that it has
do some work on it and then reflash it of course this potentially will void your warranty just
a warning so let's move on to hardware monitor this will give you all the stats on your hardware
your current GPU clock your memory clock GPU temperature GPU temperature hotspot and so on and
a little bit more if you scroll down definitely good information to have in case you think your
card might be overheating or you're testing your overclocks you'll get all that information here
TRIXX boost it's kind of like overclocking but not really you can get extra performance for free
so what TRIXX boost is it allows you to get in between resolutions so in between 1920 by 1080 and
2560 by 1440 there's a bunch of resolutions you can't see it allows you to set those resolutions
within games mind you there are some games this won't work in let me show you how it works
here's TRIXX boost again so we have 4k 1440p and 1080p full HD these are all off so we're
not using them and right now by default we're on the 88 in the resolution scale so for example
you notice this these weird resolutions here sliding this down those resolutions change
sliding them up the resolutions change as well you want to stay between 80 and maybe
88 to keep the quality of your resolution so what I’m going to do is right now none of these are
applied we're going to go ahead start up shadow of the tomb raider and we'll go under options
and then we'll select 2560 by 1440 and then we'll set 60 hertz then let's go ahead and start up
shadow of the tomb raider in options and display in graphics we can see 2560 by 1440
at 60 hertz with vsync off under graphics were under high but then we're also under ray tray
shadow quality set to high as well 6650 XT at 2k with ray tracing let's see how that performs
all right so we're in the 50s
now we're in the 60s we'll probably get to about 66 maybe let's say we've gotten to 65 and that's
about as high as we're going to go on here so we're going to go ahead and drop out of here
we'll go to 1440p which is 2k and then we'll enable let's do let's do a little bit higher let's
do 2272 by 1278 we'll go to 89 and then we'll apply and the screen flickers a little bit so now
we're at 1440p which is now because we've dropped it 2272 by 1278 so let's go ahead open up shadow
of the tomb raider then we'll go under options and let's just make sure what was that resolution 2272
2272 by 1278 okay that wasn't there before so then we're at 60 hertz
let's go into the game now we'll go into options displaying graphics and we can see 2272 by 1278
60 hertz vsync off and we're still under ray trace shadow quality high so let's give it a try
last we got was 65 let's say 66 frames per second let's see what we can do now
whoa look at that almost immediately we're in the 70s 78 80. so we've
gone up a ton 81 frames per second now mind you we were playable before but now we're just
getting up there into the 70s much more playable 80s and so much more smooth
so for those of you that are a little scared in overclocking you should be there is the
potential you can end up killing your card avoiding your warranty and so many things
but if you're scared of overclocking this allows you to get more performance without overclocking
and you don't need that much experience just play with it if it doesn't work change it there you go
you can enable you can disable and you can go in between any resolution you'd like so TRIXX boost
I’d say is pretty awesome so now that we're done with TRIXX boosts let's try fan health check so
you just popped in your video card and you notice none of the fans are spinning and well that's by
design because the fans won't spin up till they hit around 60 degrees or so maybe 65 then they'll
start spinning up to keep the GPU cool this is part of Sapphire's technology to keep the card
as quiet as possible but still you want to make sure your fans work and you know you could do
that and they don't do anything fan health check allows you to check that so for example click here
now it's checking fan health number one so spinning at 3259
now fan two
all right so fan health is okay your fans all work perfectly fine you're just scared again
that they're going to burn out because they don't work for some reason so now that we're done with
fan health check let's move over to Nitro glow Nitro glow allows us to utilize the RGB
lighting on the video card so if I select runway you can see how that light
kind of just rolls over you can change the brightness you can change the speed
steps before color change
then we can come to single color mode
change the brightness as well change the color change delay
rainbow one of my favorites I just love the way it changes through the colors
you can raise it the max brightness or lower it a bit that's too low and then color change speed
serial the same change the brightness
change the color change delay
auto visualization this one is extremely cool so if I open up Youtube and I go to the audio library
let's go to get through
you see how this one changes with the music
now unfortunately when you have a bunch of music it's just going to
stay lit because it only has a few colors to go through so let's try
okay so that gives you a better representation of what it looks like
so we'll close out of here and then we'll go to custom color you can just go through all the
colors here for some reason yellow isn't working right now there we go any color you'd like you can
change the brightness as well you can go through the color grading scale here so you'll find your
perfect color or you can manually go through RGB and number right over here and change it to
whatever you'd like and then you could turn it off if you're boring no I’m just kidding but you know
if you don't like that you could just turn it off one of the coolest things about it will require me
to turn off the computer so one second for this one we're going to need to utilize RGB cables
so first off we're going to connect right over here on the video card these three little ARGB
pins and then connect the other end of the cable to the motherboard so right over here for one
Unfortunately, there is no good way to bring you in on this and now the other end this end will go
right in there so let's go ahead turn around real quick and after a fresh restart we'll
open up TRIXX just in case to make sure Nitro glow we still are under external source and
then we'll come under armory crate now mind you armory crate for me because I have an ASUS board
depending on whatever motherboard you have is depending of course on the sync software so now
shifting focus to the entire system we can see that all the lights are red
so coming into our effect we can change that color to let's say that color or blue
red you know we can go down whatever color we want or solid color over here or you know we
can go into the breathing my personal favorite then the rainbow so rainbow between rainbow and
breathing those are my two favorites but you can see now the entire system is in sync making
everything that much nicer and then my favorite again coming under music depending on the song
now you can see how the entire system syncs up
that is so calming and soothing just to
not only hear the music but you get to see the music as well I think that's pretty awesome
So a question a lot of people have asked me I don't like to have a lot of software
installed on my machine can I just install TRIXX set the RGB side uninstall TRIXX will
the RGB stick or do I always need to have TRIXX running well let's find out real quick
you can see we have the lighting set to rainbow checks out over here in Nitro glow
so what I’m going to do is come under custom color and I have this green light let's do
kind of a I want to do something that's going to stick out a little bit
on the camera
Okay that's kind of a weird redish kind of purplish color that nothing will settle on
in this machine it's all going through its own RGB lighting through aura so now with that set
we're going to go ahead go to uninstall a program go to Sapphire TRIXX just uninstall it
so now we'll go ahead and shut down real quick we can see it's running
but the best test would be shut down
okay you can still see lighting over here so I’m going to flick the power switch
off tap the power button a few times
and we can see the machine has been totally dis powered there is no power
whatsoever going to the machine so I’m going to go ahead and flick it back on
you see the little RGB turn back on on the motherboard
turn it back on
So, so far we haven't even entered windows yet and we can still see that that weird color that
we set is still set so that tells you that TRIXX only needs to be configured once you configure it
you can uninstall it and everything is going to be saved on a profile on the card itself
so we've been using Sapphire TRIXX on the Sapphire Radeon Nitro RX 6650XT video card it allows us to
use so much more than just the graphics on the card we can change the RGB lighting any which
way we want then we can change resolution get more performance out of the game while using anything
and everything AMD provides then we can check all the stats we can even check the physical fans in
case there's issues sour fire TRIXX allows us to do so much more than just the simple AMD drivers
do and those alone do so much so let me know down below what you think about Sapphire TRIXX and if
you do have any questions about it one question that a lot of you do have about Sapphire TRIXX is
will it work on my other video card non-Sapphire sadly it won't this will only work on Sapphire
video cards but it is what it is they make the card they make the software they want you to
benefit from the software on their cart but anyway this is Iggy with ThisBytesForYou showing
you how to use Sapphire TRIXX on the Sapphire Radeon Nitro RX 6650XT Iggy out see you guys