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Windows is pretty flexible these days. You don't really need to uninstall anything. Honestly the biggest headache will probably be re-activating Windows 10. I will support the commenter above and say it's usually just a better idea to do a clean install on a new build, especially if you are changing from AMD to Intel or vise-versa. Backup your steam library and important docs and go from there.

biggest thing to wait for is non-rtx performance... until we see that irl, I'd wait.

CPU: AMD 2920X @4.2GHz GPU: MSI 2080Ti Seahawk X, +50 to core /+500 to mem, power and temp limits maxed in Afterburner Average FPS: 132 Score: 5521

Getting back to the actual point of the post, it's best to either save for a 5700/5700 XT, or wait until the end of the year and see what washes out with AMD and Nvidia's new cards. Hopefully you will end up getting more bang for your buck with the fallout.

20 minutes, 4 plastic washers, and screwdriver will fix that "horrific" cooler. You don't even have to remove the cooler fully, just the four screws around the core. Blower style coolers aren't the best, I'll give you that, but they do work. Maybe watch more of GamerNexus' followup videos on the subject.

Show me proof of your 40% failure rate.. TechPowerUp has the utility and bios repository....these days it's never been easier. You are blowing this hugely out of proportion, BUT you are correct there is an inherent risk like there is with any other firmware flash...like say...a motherboard BIOS.

Whats the price difference for a 5700?

true, but the likelihood of it failing is minute.. They are the same card, just the core is cut down. I've been flashing cards for well over a decade and never had one brick.

That seems wayyy too expensive. I'd watch for a cheap reference 5700, do the washer mod and flash it to the 5700XT bios...and enjoy!

MSI 7800GTX (2005) and EVGA 8800GTS 640MB w/ ACS3 cooler (2006)! I keep these around to remind myself how far things have come in such a short time.

the rgb software doesn't control anything to do with the CPU fan except the color. It isn't a data connection like USB, it's an analog connection like a fan header.

Weird, well I'm glad it worked!

The software has no way of knowing what CPU cooler is connected. You have to control it through the motherboard RGB software, so if it's a gigabyte motherboard, RGB fusion should have a section dedicated to the motherboard itself. You will have to play around and see which header is which and you can configure the color there.

I'd thoroughly check the PSU and PSU connections.

check the bios and make sure the sata mode is set to UEFI, if it is and won't boot, try legacy mode.