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I also plan on upgrading my CPU cooler to a Noctua NH-D15S. Would my top rear 140mm fan be interfering with its cooling performance or do I need it to cool the VRM?

What cooler after you using?

Compare the price for 1080Ti to the price for the RTX 30 series and RX 6000 series + the import tax. If the price for the new cards is too high, get the 1080Ti. But know you'll have no warranty. Also consider how much you can sell your 1070 for. Also unless you only play old games and don't plan to play new games that's a bad investment. Next gen games will be more graphic intensive and you will have gained 17% fps for $434 but will have to upgrade shortly to maintain that 1080p 144fps on new games.

So Techpowerup is just guessing and newegg copied it.

The Newegg blog post is probably a guess based off last gen. The reddit post comes from an official source, though it is subject to change until launch.

238 TDP is just the chip.

Hello, I have 4 140mm and 1 120mm case fans to use in my P350X case. The stock fan is being used as exhaust and I am using the remainder as intake fans, 2 on top and 2 in the front. I have a Ryzen 7 3700x with the Wraith Prism cooler and the MSI X570 A Pro motherboard. I plan on buying the 6800 XT or a MSI 3080 Gaming X Trio, both which have triple fans over a finstack as the GPU cooling solution. Is my fan placement the best setup for airflow? Edit: updated future GPU and fans

AMD announced that the reference card won't be a blower design. https://wccftech.com/amd-next-gen-radeon-rx-navi-2x-gpu-reference-cooler-axial-fans/. Also, the 3070 is $500 MSRP. https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce/graphics-cards/30-series/rtx-3070/. $500 is less than $550. If AMD releases a card with a better price to performance ratio than the 3070 and it priced under $550, I'm talking it. I have a laptop I can use for daily use. Thanks for the welcome.

AMD announced that the reference card won't be a blower design. https://wccftech.com/amd-next-gen-radeon-rx-navi-2x-gpu-reference-cooler-axial-fans/. If AMD can release a card that has a better price to performance ratio than the 3070 and it priced under $550, I'm talking it. I have a laptop I can use for daily use. Thanks for the advice.

Since AMD announced they will release announce their next gen GPUs Oct. 28, I am considering making a gamble. I would sell my 5700 XT before the announcement for about $350 - $400 to avoid any further value loss and buy the best price performance RDNA2 AMD GPU or RTX 30 Series GPU that is priced under $550. Arguments for: The value of the 5700 XT is going to drop after the AMD announcement; if the Radeon cards meet projections they will provide enough value to justify the price difference (price to performance ratio); I can run Breakpoint and Red Dead 2, which I will buy, at max settings; and I currently own a 3700X CPU which I won't be upgrading until Zen 4, which will run on the AM5 socket, and won't be released until in 2021 Q4, 2022 Q1 or later. Counterarguments: I don't have any games that use ray-tracing I don't have a 4k monitor high refresh rate monitor, which is a promised feature of the next gen GPUs (I have a 1440p 120hz monitor); it's $100 - $200 and time that I could better invest elsewhere. If I don't sell the 5700 XT in early October, I would wait until at least early spring next year, after different model releases from both AMD and Nvidia, reviews, and driver kinks are worked out to consider a purchase. Let me know if there are any flaws in my thinking.