Will Nitro+ 5700XT work in my setup?

[MarleysBeard]

Sapphire's listed requirements:

Recommended 650 Watt Power Supply (Minimum 600 Watt Power Supply).

2 x 8-pin Power Connector.

PCI Express® based PC is required with one X16 lane graphics slot available on the motherboard.

Minimum 8GB of system memory. 16GB recommended. 

 

My current system:

PCPartPicker Part List

Type	Item	Price
CPU	Intel Core i5-4690K 3.5 GHz Quad-Core Processor	Purchased For $0.00
CPU Cooler	Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO 82.9 CFM Sleeve Bearing CPU Cooler	Purchased For $0.00
Motherboard	Asus Z97-A ATX LGA1150 Motherboard	Purchased For $0.00
Memory	Corsair Vengeance 8 GB (2 x 4 GB) DDR3-1600 Memory	Purchased For $0.00
Video Card	Gigabyte GeForce GTX 970 4 GB G1 Gaming Video Card	Purchased For $0.00
Power Supply	EVGA SuperNOVA NEX 650 W 80+ Gold Certified Fully Modular ATX Power Supply	Purchased For $0.00
	Prices include shipping, taxes, rebates, and discounts
	Total	$0.00
	Generated by PCPartPicker 2019-10-22 22:31 EDT-0400

 

Will the card actually work with my current mobo/psu?

[zinton]

Yes

[WWicket]

Will work. Depending on game/resolution, you are probably bottlenecking it though with cpu.

[Streetguru]

7 hours ago, MarleysBeard said:

 

It'll be fine, you should toss in any cheap 8GB stick of DDR3 to get 16Gbs at least, but I would not waste money on upgrading to an i7.

 

The Nitro is nice, but blower cards are sometimes $289 on sale and the blower can be improved.

 

It'll work fine in your system anyways, but is overkill if you only have a 1080p 60hz display, just upgrade to 1080p 144hz or a 1440p ultrawide at some point. CPU is kind of a bottleneck for above 60hz though.

Maybe just go for a cheap used 4k 60hz display

[MarleysBeard]

Nice thanks for the responses. I knew it would be overkill and that I would have a bottleneck but my biggest concern was if it would even work and be an improvement.

 

Alternatively I could go with a B450 gaming pro carbon, r5 3700, 2x8 gb ddr4 teamgroup t force dark pro (B die) and do the GPU in a few months when I have more extra $$$

[Streetguru]

7 hours ago, MarleysBeard said:

Nice thanks for the responses. I knew it would be overkill and that I would have a bottleneck but my biggest concern was if

It would be best to save your money and do it all at once later then

 

because B550 motherboards are coming sometime this year

 

and the RX 5500/5600 are coming soon as well. RX 5700 prices might drop

Could buy a nicer display in the meantime.

[GamerDude]

With that PSU, you're not gonna have any problem. Just be aware that when games requires more cores/threads, that's when you might experience some performance issue as 4C/4T is kinda the under-performing CPU. I had a 4770K + RTX2080Ti and 4770K + Radeon VII for a couple of months each, and while I'd admit there was bottlenecking with both cards, the 4770K at 4.2Ghz acquited itself well enough in games (4C/8T did help)

[MarleysBeard]

Worst case scenario I can upgrade the rest when I get my income tax refund.

 

So I'm tossing around 3 options at this point:

 

1. Buy the GPU and wait on the rest.

2. Buy the MOBO/CPU/RAM and wait on the GPU.

3. Hold on to the money and wait for AMD to release the new MOBOs/GPUs.

[Streetguru]

7 hours ago, MarleysBeard said:

Worst case scenario I can upgrade the rest when I get my income tax refund.

The only real issue, unless you want to get into streaming with a 6 core or 8 core, though you can just use NVENC for a basic stream.

Is that you're only powering a 1080p 75hz display, so any upgrade is kind of "bottlenecked" by that.

I'm kind of in the go big camp for upgrades though, would either get a used 4k display, or a 1080p 240hz display depending on the games you play, either would be $200-250

If you get the 4k display you could just run games at 1080p for now, and your CPU could still drive 60fps whenever you upgrade the 970 for it.

[Streetguru]

7 hours ago, MarleysBeard said:

Worst case scenario I can upgrade the rest when I get my income tax refund.

And if you get a 4k display, and movies are your thing, your legally acquired bluray VPN rips will look nicer.

[MarleysBeard]

6 minutes ago, Streetguru said:

The only real issue, unless you want to get into streaming with a 6 core or 8 core, though you can just use NVENC for a basic stream.

Is that you're only powering a 1080p 75hz display, so any upgrade is kind of "bottlenecked" by that.

I'm kind of in the go big camp for upgrades though, would either get a used 4k display, or a 1080p 240hz display depending on the games you play, either would be $200-250

If you get the 4k display you could just run games at 1080p for now, and your CPU could still drive 60fps whenever you upgrade the 970 for it.

I probably forgot to mention I have a 144hz display. Its the Asus VG248QE. Still old and in need of replacing but does that 144hz make it a little better? I play competitive CSGO fairly frequently so the high refresh rate is important.

[Streetguru]

7 hours ago, MarleysBeard said:

I probably forgot to mention I have a 144hz display. Its the Asus VG248QE. Still old and in need of replacing but does that 144hz make it a little better?

 

For 144hz then I'd replace your CPU first with like an R5 3600 + MSI B450 board and some 3200mhz CL16 or 3600mhz CL16 RAM
 

 

[MarleysBeard]

On that front my plan was B450 gaming pro carbon, R5 3600 and TEAMGROUP T-Force Dark Pro DDR4 16GB KIT (2 x 8GB) 3200MHz (PC4 25600) CL 14 288-Pin

 

Cant find out if that RAM works well with that MOBO though. MSI website doesn't list it I don't think but its a bit confusing.

[Streetguru]

7 hours ago, MarleysBeard said:

On that front my plan was B450 gaming pro carbon, R5 3600 and TEAMGROUP T-Force Dark Pro DDR4 16GB KIT (2 x

You'd either want one of the $100 B450 boards

 

or just get an ASUS Prime X570 board for $160

75hz was a different thread actually.

[MarleysBeard]

Yeah I guess no sense in buying the b450 if I can get an x570 for another $10. I'll have to investigate the features of those $100 options vs the Asus Prime and make a decision. All the advice is much appreciated, thank you

[Streetguru]

7 hours ago, MarleysBeard said:

Yeah I guess no sense in buying the b450 if I can get an x570 for another $10. I'll have to investigate the features of those $100 options vs the Asus Prime and make a decision. All the advice is much appreciated, thank you

Compared to like the MSI B450 Gaming Plus, you get a nicer I/O load out, questionably improved onboard audio, intel gigabit, and PCI-e whenever that matters for GPUs in maybe like 4 years. Matters more for SSDs, but even sata SSDs are plenty fast at 500MB read/writes.

Mostly it's the 1-2 extra USB ports.

[MarleysBeard]

The Asus Prime-P x570 board is only 135 on Amazon, once its back in stock. Seems like an easy choice.

 

Do you think the RAM I picked TEAMGROUP T-Force Dark Pro DDR4 16GB KIT (2 x 8GB) 3200MHz (PC4 25600) CL 14 288-Pin is worth 120? I chose it because of the reviews and the fact that its B Die which seems to be the sought after RAM for Ryzen systems.

[Streetguru]

7 hours ago, MarleysBeard said:

The Asus Prime-P x570 board is only 135 on Amazon, once its back in stock. Seems like an easy choice.

 

Do you think the RAM I picked TEAMGROUP T-Force Dark Pro DDR4 16GB KIT (2 x 8GB) 3200MHz (PC4 25600) CL 14 288-Pin is worth 120? I chose it because of the reviews and the fact that its B Die which seems to be the sought after RAM for Ryzen systems.

Just gotta check out a more overclocking focused forum, but in general Ryzen 3000 doesn't need B-die to clock well, that was only Ryzen 1-2
 

 

 

[MarleysBeard]

I'll check those out, thanks