Right now is one of the toughest times to find a GPU and we're all trying to do the best we can
to extend the life of our GPU’s make it perform bigger better faster and more without breaking
the bank and without potentially ruining the card as well so in this video I’m going to show
you how to use sapphire tricks on the sapphire Radeon nitro RX 6600 XT so with TRIXX we have
a whole host of utilities you can find tricks at sapphiretech.com/en/software and I’ll have a link
down in the description below and tricks opening it up first off we have all of the numbers on the
video card we have the GPU clock memory clock GPU temperature GPU load and voltage these are all
live performance meters to tell us what everything is at, at the moment GPU temperature being one of
the most important because you want your card to be cool and quiet so that it works as best
it can so on the dashboard opening up tricks we have all of the specs of our video card GPU
shaders die size raster units and all this information here we can also save our bios if we
want to send it to a friend and then we can also select between the two different v biases coming
over to hardware we have basically the same but a lot more expanded it's not just five different
metrics it's a bunch more and a lot of great information so then coming over to tricks boost
so while the idea behind tricks boost isn't new the fact that sapphire put TRIXX boost together
to make it easy for all of us to get to it without messing up anything is great so what
sapphire tricks boost allows you to do it allows you to get in between the resolution so between
2560 and 1440 and 3840 by 2160 there's a lot of space in between so you may not be able to hit 4k
but you can hit 2k 2k runs great now when you bump it up to 4k you can't hit that magical 60
frames per second you can get so close if only there was something in between there is there's
actually a lot in between and TRIXX lets us do that so with TRIXX as I mentioned before between
4k and 2k we can reach different resolutions like instead of 3840 by 2160 we can hit 3264 by 1836
that's pretty odd and then of course we can slide it up and change the resolutions even more the
lower you go here the better your game is going to perform because it's getting close down to 2k
I find the lowest you should go before you start losing quality is 85 at 85 your quality is still
incredibly sharp now with TRIXX boost it's not just you're stuck with this so you can enable
Radeon image sharpening FSR anything that the Radeon software suite allows you to utilize you
can set it in the software suite and then coming to boost and still use TRIXX boost along with all
that other stuff and provides so definitely you get a huge performance boost the same goes for
1440p and 1080p as well so it's pretty awesome and then once you find your perfect resolution
click apply and the window might move up over a little bit but for example what I’m going
to do now is I’m going to open up far cry 6 and we're going to run a test benchmark all right so
starting off we're going to do a 3840 by 2160 pass so I can show you the performance out of the box
at 4k on the 6600 XT I’m actually surprised we received 49 frames per second at a minimum
of 25 frames per second and at max we almost hit the magical 60 but we just fell
shy since we did set up that magical middle resolution we'll come back here under video
and now 3264 by 1836 comes up like we had before
without tricks boost that resolution would not have existed tricks boost allows you to put that
resolution not only into windows but into games as well it doesn't work with every single games
but it works with a lot more games than it does all right so going to go ahead and apply changes
and let's go ahead and accept that so again we're at 3264 by 1836 so let's give it a test
so the very last one was 74 but it didn't count it here so we reached an average of
66 frames per second and a minimum of almost double what we had before we were in maybe
25 now we're at 41 that's almost double and then again a maximum of 73 so 66 frames per second
we hit it we passed it we're doing great so you can see how valuable tricks boost is so almost
alone on that we can see how valuable tricks boost is or should I say how valuable tricks is
we can overclock the video card without really overclocking it now one thing you may have noticed
is the little sapphire logo on the card the system is blinking a bunch of other colors and the
sapphire logo is doing its own thing it doesn't care what the rest of the system is doing it's
just doing its own thing that's kind of annoying right you want it to match your system it can
we're going to get back to fan health check in a second but let's go over to nitro glow as you've
noticed and as I just mentioned the lights are doing their own thing but this light is doing
its own thing too so first off we can change the color speed so that it changes a lot quicker than
what's there now and you can change the brightness to completely off to you know gradually on runway
steps before color change so that makes it a little bit slower
even though there's speed that does the same thing but then there's brightness as well there's single
color which isn't really a single color it'll change to every single color just you know up
to you how slow or how fast you want it to change over so it'll go through all of the colors there
kind of matches
then there's rainbow what we saw before then there's serial here we can change the color change
delay which is kind of the same as runway then there's audio visualization in my youtube studio
with audio visualization enabled I’ll click on WestBad
now you can see how the logo is moving along with the music
pretty awesome way to kind of liven up the mood of your room
then custom color we can choose any color we'd like hey matches
but that's not what we want then we can turn it off now the cool part external source
that lets go of all of the control and passes it on to the RGB connectors so there are a lot of
RGB connections inside of the system since I did have four lights and then the video
card this is one that I had directly plugged into one of the RGB ports on my motherboard
since I only had one other one maybe another one I had to use this splitter so this would plug in
to the motherboard and then these would plug into other cables and extensions and everything
so again this just went from pin to pin and then this goes from the motherboard to the
fans and everything else here so I’ll have both of these cables linked up below as well so now
i can open up armory crate and from here change it to one static color breathing
let me go ahead to the application site itself breathing our static and like before
I can switch to whatever color I want breathing same thing I’ll do random just so that you can
see all the different colors maybe I should do random in here so going from here to over here
all right then strobing
any color you'd like like before then color cycle just cycling through all of the colors
rainbow but we were at before but now this matches
and you know we can play with all of the colors here and then the speed of that rainbow
starry night which is actually kind of cool music kind of like we did before just come over here
right and actually it seems to work a little bit better with aura sync so that's kind of cool
then we'll come over here we'll go to smart now this goes my CPU temperature green is low
yellow is in the middle and red is danger then we could change it to CPU usage so green
very little usage and then as we go around and maybe start doing different things well
things that might use the GPU more we'd use it more and that'll change colors then there's
adaptive color which I’ve never used this one before so we'll come here do a print screen
load that screenshot and then we can choose I think the way it works is this
then it'll choose notice how the memory is a different color I’ve never used this one it's
a little bit awkward then dark just, just turns everything off kind of boring so it's a great
way to bring in MSI Mystic sync Asus Aura lite and all the other types of software like that as well
now you may have some issues with gigabyte software there seems to be a compatibility
issue between the two one blames the other blames the other so either which way gigabyte
might be the only one that has an issue with that but anyway let's move on to the last one
the one a lot of people get scared on their fans now I had to bump up the iso a lot on here
so that you can actually see the fans obviously right now they are off since the video card's
not doing anything this does have the zero db technology so that when it's not doing anything
it just turns off so come over here into fan health check we can see both fans on the
video card they look healthy but we don't know because they're off so we click smart fan check
now you see they're spinning up at max or going to the very max it's checking the left fan the
left fan past now it's checking this right fan or the second fan making sure it passes
and that's it, it worked perfectly fine now you can see the fans just stopping because
there's nothing to do they're bored so with tricks I’ve shown you the dashboard everything
on there to show you the specs the speed the temperature everything on your card then I
showed you the hardware monitor basically the same thing as what's on the dashboard
just a lot more granular and a lot more information in there as well
tricks boost to me one of the best features out of the TRIXX software suite it allows you to
basically overclock your card safely without actually overclocking your card so you get
that extra level of performance without losing any image quality mind you if you go below 85
you might lose a little bit and it allows you to use all the features AMD has in their software
as well so that's pretty awesome because you not only get the boost from that but you get the boost
from AMD as well so you probably get a lot more than I did in the software and I wasn't using any
of the AMD stuff because I wanted to give all that performance to you when you give it a try
fan health check is also pretty awesome because I’ve seen a lot of you freak out at that zero
db technology thing that my fans aren't spending what's going on well typically they have to reach
about 60 degrees before they kick in my house is always cool right now it's actually 62 degrees so
it's very cool the ambient temperature is 62 then with all the fans going in there it's probably
a little bit cooler and since the video card isn't doing anything it's a lot a bit cooler so
that is another awesome thing because now you know if your fan is dead and you can get it replaced
quickly at sapphire and then nitro glow because a lot of you may not actually have known that
that little light can change a lot of you actually I can't do anything with it I’ll just deal with it
so you can either change it through nitro glow or switch it to external and use your software's RGB
or your motherboard's RGB software to control everything there so sapphire tricks to me is a
great piece of software for so many reasons so let me know if this video has helped you out I
know it's helped out on my other videos a lot of people so I’m hoping I can help you out as
well and especially since the 6600 XT while it is a great card it's not the highest end card
you can get a lot more performance out of it now this is Iggy with ThisBytesForYou,
showing you all of the cool features inside of TRIXX, Iggy with ThisBytesForYou up see you guys