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well your already there lol. if you oced your gpu. if you put the proper settings of your cpu. and if you enabled a-xmp for your ram and put the flck speed at the same speed of your ram (not sure if its possible on a 5800x3d) than you cant do more. gpu should be as close to 100% as possible that means your getting the most out of your current gpu. and im sure the cpu will be fine for the 6950xt since your planning on getting it.

I do want to add an additional thing though. Your ram can influence the performance of that cpu. It benefits from ddr5 a lot more than ddr4. Much like your current one. You could see an additional 10-20 ish fps depending on games. And of course in some cases nothing at all.

Ah excuses. The i5 13500 is not bad cpu no. If heat and power is a concern for you. There shouldn't be too much of an fps difference between it and the 13600k. Maybe 10-20 ish dependent on the game.

The rest of your specs would be nice to know as I'm imagining you use such a cpu on a 1080p display. And if that's the case a 4080 is way to overkill.

1. Whole pc spec? 2. Is your fps uncapped how much are you getting? And what is the gpu usage 3. What is the powerdraw looking like?

I don't understand your issue. Gpu usage should be as close as possible to 100%. 97%-100% is still fine. It shows your cpu is letting your gpu perform as good as it can. I'm also thinking of getting a 5800x3d to pair it with my 6950xt (currently paired with a 3800xt) it will mostly also be fully utilised unless a game is completely broken with using the cpu. What isn't a good % is what I have now in some games with my pairing aka around 80% from time to time. Which indicates a cpu bottleneck. Its not fast enough to provide my gpu with what it needs. 20-40% usage in cpu is fine too. That means that roughly 4 to 6 cores of its physical cores are being utilised properly. That's perfectly fine. Not all games will use 8 cores(50%) and your cpu reaching 77 degrees isn't exactly bad. It can be a hot cpu due to the 3d stack.

yes video card sag can absolutely be an issue. and if its extremely noticeable to the point where you think ah its just cosmetics than that is kinda bad. if it is just slightly then not so much it happens a bit with the heavier gpus these days. so i highly suggest first maybe trying the gpu out on a different system. and try to get the same issues to appear where you know they will appear. if they do then its the gpu. if they dont then it can be your motherboard. cause seeing your error message you posted im pretty sure thats related to your graphics card.

there were gonna be some releases this month maybe a 7600xt/7700xt you could wait for that. but honestly i would just go get a 6750xt new. and be good for a long while thanks to fsr 2 and possibly soon fsr framegen. since you probably play 1080p. as at least here in the netherlands germany belgium they go for roughly 430 new. in euros. i wouldnt exactly by used if new is slightly more expensive. warranty is just better.

Yup changed the cpu (2600x to 3800xt) which required a bios update. I did that. And it got into the bios. And all seemed fine. But when trying to boot into windows it didn't work. So I tried desperately to search for the issue for hours. Until by dumb luck I was just like, fck it ill try to push the USB cable in harder and that was it. The cable just got a bit loose for some reason. So hours wasted trying the most complex crap only for it to be a simple issue. I learned from that to just first try the simple solutions before trying the difficult ones.

No, why would I punish them by unsubscribing when they are the ones who really try to investigate issues. And spend hundreds of dollars in doing so. Just so we can have actual facts. They are very good in telling you in detail what is going on. And what is causing the issues. They honestly should get even more subscribers.

im pretty sure nvidia didnt allow aibs to do so. but a consumer was able to. and after a quick searchup yeah i was correct:

you only have a 3 months warranty? seeing how you live in belgium i find this strange. anyway, i highly suggest using tweakers if you live in belgium or the netherlands and i found this deal on tweakers for a strix 6750xt via megekko (really trustworthy seller) https://tweakers.net/pricewatch/1819210/asus-rog-strix-radeon-rx-6750-xt-oc-edition.html you can get it for 470. but just to get a better cooler compared to indeed just using msi afterburner. and maybe undervolting it. (just got my 6950xt so cant help much with radeon software still getting used to it myself). eh i dont know how much it will be worth it. you have an intergrated gpu in your cpu so you will be able to use that inbetween while waiting. but i dont see the benefit of it unless you really really want a more silent gpu. than yeah get a better overbuild model that will cool it easier. im not saying the strix is just that but i thought to provide you with a link just in case.

i mean i dont see downgrading as a sensible thing to do because this is just about coolers. So dependent on when you bought it and whether its still within warranty you can probably just return it and get one with a better cooler. This is what my advice would be anyway. especially since you have a cpu with intergrated graphics that you can just use in the mean time while you wait.

if you had to choose between these 2 and your on a tight budget get the 1070ti and just oc it. but i would really try to make sure the state of the gpu is good. you never know with a secondhand market

yeah i may be forced to do this as well then if i want the benefits of it. and then i can also get a bigger windows drive as my current one is only 120gb (from when i first bought it to build my original pc). anyhow thanks ill do that at some point then.

i have an ssd as a boot drive but i dont think its uefi compatible unless i completely get rith of the data and change it to be so. and i think you need that for sam so i can enable above 4g memory/cryptocurrency mining but it still wont show in the radeon software that i can enable sam. bit of a shame

so with me its just called differently? cause all i saw was that name under the section its supposed to be at. also, so far the card is running fine and i see a pretty decent perf uplift over my 2070s ofc bit bottlenecked by a 3800xt but not so bad so far. for example, cyberpunk 2077 at 1440p max settings thus ultra etc without raytracing with fsr to quality i get about 40fps from barely 60 with the 2070s to just above 100 with the 6950xt i got. without changing and perf settings orso in the software

about the sam thing, i see in my bios indeed an option for "above 4g memory/cryptocurrency mining" im guessing this is what i have to enable to allow my pc tomorrow to enable sam in the radeon software? should i enable this today already or wait and only after i confirmed that the gpu works as it should when booting up the pc and after having downloaded the necessary radeon drivers? And also thank you for the link @emothxughts

So I ordered a 6950xt and it will be delivered tomorrow. For those who wonder which one it's this one: https://pg.asrock.com/Graphics-Card/AMD/Radeon RX 6950 XT Phantom Gaming 16GB OC/ I'm coming from a 2070s so I'll definitely use ddu before installing the new gpu. I originally was going to get a 4070ti but seeing those prices (900-1000 euros) I thought no. Then the 4070 came and well the price here is still around 680 euros as a starting price. This costed me 670. For more performance I thought that was absolutely better. The additional power doesn't bother me much. (See my sign for my current built) But I have a question. And that is of course which driver I should install. As I've heard here in there that some are more stable than others. So with that knowledge I come here to ask which one I should download. The latest or a specific one? And an additional question too. I own a 3800xt on a b450 mobo. Is this compatible with sam for the gpu? As it then would be a full amd build. I haven't exactly kept up to date with this feature.

alright thank you for both of your answers, so in case i may use a gpu in the future that requires a 12 pin im good to go with mine already.

so im not really well informed when it comes to psu's being able to work with the new nvidia 12pins. Mine of course only has regular 6+2 pins. But i do see those adapters and of course you can put 2 8 pins or 6+2 pins on them but as far as i know that doesnt make your psu automatically compatible right? So my question is.. is my psu compatible with such gpu pins? my psu is a 850fx or Seasonic Focus Plus 850 Gold.

badly i would say. bought a 1070 for 410 ish new when it came out. and was happy to have better or the same perf as last gen top tier. bought a 2070s for 530 ish when that came out because i needed the extra perf and was happy to see again the previous top tier perf and better with also dlss support. raytracing was just an extra. then the 3070 came for 510 euros. didnt need the perf yet at 1440p so didnt buy it and instead went from a 2600x to a 3800xt. but didnt think too much of the pricing it was okay of course i would have prefered the 3070ti to cost such an amount and not 600 euros. (ignoring scalper prices) and now we are at the 4070. for 670 euros. it doesnt perform as well as previous flag ship. so its less performance, and it doesnt even beat the 3080 only a bit. pretty much equal. so the way i see this... cost way more than previous 70 classes. doesnt perform as well as previous classes compared to the gen before them. and for the same amount of money or even less you can get gpus that outperform it. and with amds super resolution still on the horizon its anyones guess how well that gimick will even hold up for the rtx 4000 series. so yeah im probably gonna get a 6950xt instead. sure the powerdraw is more. but honestly that doesnt matter too much when looking on what you may save over the years (maybe around 100 euros over several years all together so not bad) so i really see no reason to go nvidia this time. they are way too greedy (amd too a bit more than i would like but not as bad) and just dont deliver the proper performance they should. as to me the 4070ti should cost between 500-600 euros than it would have been a steal. and you know not 900 euros (as of now for a Inno3D GeForce RTX 4070 Ti X3).

i would wait till prices settle down more. but a 3090/6950xt would be a good upgrade yes. maybe there will be better prices over the upcoming months. But it can also get a lot worse if the world decides it needs more chaos. So there isnt really a certainty for lower prices. a 1080ti can still benefit from fsr. so what i would do is wait and see what performance you will have in hogwarts. as it is only a few more weeks till it comes out. and then decide on whether you can still hang on a bit or need to upgrade in the near future.

my main problem with this is that videos still get demonetized in which the content creators explicitly state that they are not for kids. In my opinion content creators should be able to say the f word. the hell word and other swear words that kids of literally 10+ use anyway and it doesnt hurt them what so ever. But aside from that, those videos were clearly flagged as not for kids. and thus swearing shouldnt be an issue anymore. So this is not on him but on youtube themselves. they should just state very obvious in a text on your screen around the video that this is flagged as not for kids. simple as that. Its just youtube doing stupid youtube things. This especially is very dumb to me as you have people like asmangold who still get ads regardless of the swearing. same with other creators. its so dumb

i would wait. it can probably last you another year if you use the right settings. its just not worth it to get a gpu in these days. as you are always paying more than you should for the perf you get.