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its more than enough. buying a 4070ti is a waste of money. especially now that afmf is a thing. Just go download the preview driver and voila frame gen in all dx11/dx12 games. also play at 1440p and i personally havent noticed any issue with quality while just normal gaming.

i got the preview driver that allows afmf to work on 6000 series and the only issue i have come across is that i need to disable and re enable sam to make it work whenever i turned off the pc. other than that though? no issues with my 5800x3d and 6950xt built.

pricing looks better in the us than it actually is due to taxes coming onto it and the dollar being less valuable than the pound or euro. here a 6800 can be had for about 460 euros. which is inline with around 390 pounds. the 6800 is definitely worth it. although, you may want to check how 7700xts or 7800xts are priced. if you can find a 7800xt that fits within what you would like get that instead. you can always do an cpu upgrade later on. this also goes for when you would buy a 6800.

it wont and get the 3060 tuf. as long as its the 12gb vram version but it will say it in the name or specs.

no problemo

since your buying a 4080 or 7900xtx it would mean you either play at 1440p or 4k where dlss really doesnt give you much better of a picture over fsr. and thus i wouldnt worry about dlss. so definitely get the 7900xtx. It performs better in most titles. it has more vram. it is cheaper. its a literal waste of your money to spend it on the 4080.

anything thats at least 100% as good. so for you and because you choose this resolution i wouldnt put anything less than a 7900xtx/4080. but if thats too high of a price, you can always get the 6950xt/4070ti but vram and the lack there of makes the 4070ti not worth it for its price in my opinion. so in my opinion 6950xt or 7900xt. or maybe a 3090/3090ti if you can find one second hand thats good

yes it will bottleneck it but amd has better driver overhead than nvidia and thus it wont be thaat bad.

if you can find a 6700xt definitely get that. more vram. more performance. fsr isnt so bad and you will have access to fsr3 in the near future same as antilag+ which is like reflex. and for your current cpu amd just works better with it due to their driver overhead which get better perf out of older cpus compared to nvidia. And then later upgrade your cpu when you can.

yes both use 1 8pin power connector.

first this, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GrXSLaSRkw8&t=184s&pp=ygUOaG93IHRvIHVzZSBkZHU%3D than this,

the same way you installed the 1660

will be no problem

A gpu will always oc. It auto overclocks or "boosts" on its own. Some just boost higher than the other with a higher value set by manufacturers like msi and such

yes unless you destroy it yourself it wont, unless you destroy it yourself leave at stock if you dont want to mess with it. 3 years is nice.

completely fine no need to have worries my 5800x3d reaches 82 degrees under load. but then again, its hot here and my room is a heat trap (carpet and it gets blasted by the sun at the hottest hours) and i only have a 240 aio. also, its top mounted. gpu of mine reaches about 71 temp with 93 hotspot on the cooling profile i set for it. without it on an oc profile about 80-85 ish temp and 102 hotspot in my current room environment. so your temps are perfectly fine in my humble opinion. game on.

oc is just a fancy word after the name for a card that indeed comes a biter higher clocked out of the gate. But its completely safe. no reasons to worry about it. They (every gpu) are after all, ALWAYS higher clocked out the gate. some (oc models) just a bit higher and its still fine no they arent unless you yourself do something terribly wrong to them which i doubt you will do. you only have to oc a card if its not doing the perf you want it to do anymore or if you know what you are doing and have no problems with ocing

idling doesnt matter. only look at what reviewers say on youtube. Not what random people write. you dont know their setup, their countries temps their house conditions etc. doubt it

zotac twin edge model is fine too. wouldnt spend over 50 bucks more on the tuff when its not a difficult card to cool anyway so the extra fan isnt really needed

i would go with asus UNLESS its way more expensive (50+). else zotac.

as far as i know they do alright.

330 on mine vs 300~ on the 3060. and i still have room for maybe an extra 30 ish mm

if i can fit a 6950xt in my case you can fit a 3060 in yours

i personally wouldnt spend 300 bucks on 1080p gaming card only to end up with just above 60 fps performance. But it is better to have at least above 60 yes. Zotac cards are from my knowledge fine. asus is fine just more expensive and gigabyte is oke besides their fan problem. What you should do is look at the model you want to buy then look up if there is a youtube video on the performance of the cooler in cooling as well as how noisy they are.