Mister Woof

Usually you download it and put it onto a memory stick, insert to back top usb slot reboot, go into BIOS, and inside BIOS usually there's an update tool. Can't speak for ECS since it's been forever since I've seen one, but that's usually how it works.

This, my money is uneven contact pressure on the cooler when you put it back on. Remove the cooler, repaste, tighten cooler down evenly, try again

go here, follow directions https://www.ecs.com.tw/he/Product/Motherboard/H610H7-M2/download

if you've got the extra cash, dropping in a 5800X3D or 5700X3D would be a worthy upgrade and the best gaming chip you can get for your platform. You could even sell the 5600x for a few bucks to make up some of the difference. If it were me I'd get one.

I'd get the air cooler that you think looks the best to you IMO; the cooling requirements of that chip aren't high. Any dual tower is going to be more than enough. And yes, the 7800X3D is going to be "good enough" for any GPU being sold today because as mentioned it's the fastest gaming CPU available.

If it's cheap/free why not? I still use an 8700k on the regular for TV gaming and it's fine for the most part

wouldn't worry about power with these cards and a decent 650w unit how much are AMD cards where you are?

Sucks but it's always the upsale isn't it? I wouldn't get the lower cards if that's the price difference.

yuk, don't buy the super if that's the price spread

Debauer was really impressed with the 4070S FE noise levels.

i've been generally unimpressed with 2 fan AIB cards. I have an ASUS KO 3070 and a friend has a 2 fan 4070 Zotac. Both really hot and loud. Also, ASUS RGB software is terrible. I disconnected the RGB cable. If I was going to get a 2 fan card it would be the FE if I could

Combination of a little dyslexia and a TON of ADD

then another week until it gets to your door!

4070s is 105fps at 1440p 4070 is 88fps at 1440p 105-88 = 17 17/88 = 19.3% 88*1.193 = 105 I rephrased my entire response because I can't read thread titles

Gotta wait a few weeks though

The 4070 Super is a 19% performance uplift for 9% more money vs the normal 4070. The 4070ti is a 7% performance uplift over the 4070 Super, but (at the cheapest of $725) costs 21% more. Er, rather, no it is not worth it. I misread the thread title. The 4070 Super is worth it.

Are you playing on a hard drive or something? Dude in this video has worse hardware than you and has better performance From a couple months ago:

It's most definitely a high-end 1440P card. It seems to average around 105-120fps in aggregated average FPS across multiple titles at 1440p when reviewers used mostly Ultra settings; nobody actually plays on Ultra. Drop to high and you'll be bouncing off the vsync on your typical high refresh 144hz display, barring certain games that have poop FPS for any GPU.

4070S vs 7800XT 4070S Pros: Strong Rasterization Performance, about 5%-10% faster than 7800XT Strong Ray Tracing Performance, more consistently competent than the 7800XT DLSS gives two options for upscaling since all cards can use FSR DLSS3 Frame Gen as another option for smoothing when available Superior Video capture and hardware encoding performance 4070S Cons: Costs about $100 more 12GB VRAM buffer could be a problem later in life; solved by reducing texture quality 7800XT Pros: $100 Cheaper than 4070S Competitive Rasterization, within 90-95% performance of the 4070S 16GB VRAM has more breathing room 7800XT Cons: Inconsistent Ray Tracing, with some outliers being unplayable but others being great; non-issue if you don't care about RT FSR is the only upscaling option Worse video capture and encoding performance; non-issue if you don't do these things I don't think you can really go wrong with either. If I was shopping the $500-700 segment I'd get a 4070S. I'd skip everything else in the middle except for a discounted 7900XT at $700, and then go straight to a 4090 after that. The 4080S might upend this though.

Be that as it may, an A770 won't perform matching a 4070 Super even if the A770 had 48GB. You're preaching to the choir here on what the card should have, should have been, could have been, whatever. The options we have are what we have. Right now the 4070 Super is a good value despite the 12GB VRAM, and although the 7800XT has 33% more VRAM, it lacks other features that you can't simply ignore because you want to laser focus on one single metric. And on that front, the pricing is competitive with featureset and performance favoring the 4070S. Personally, I picked up a 4070S FE from Nvidia for $599 and the price is fine. I'm not over the moon about 12GB, but it's more than the 10GB that my 3080 and also we need another GPU. So here we are. The ability to use DLSS in addition to the option for FSR if/when needed just gives the Nvidia cards more versatility.

Depends on the game, most will still be heavily GPU bound and those that aren't it will still only be at times you'll see improvements, mostly in FPS minimums. And i don't think it's necessary to do a OS reinstall unless you're trading between intel/amd. i've done countless drive swaps between same configuration systems without issue. Last 3 upgrades on my 8700k, 10900k, and 13700k were all the same install, with no perceptible impact on performance.

Ask for help be hostile gl

unless it was free i wouldn't waste the time to switch

You'll have to reactivate windows with a new key if you used an OEM one, even if you registered it to a microsoft account

Then you just need more efficient parts to get the same level of performance for less watts or reduce power usage and accept lower performance.