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GPU Upgrade choice feedback request

TomR19
By TomR19
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Hello everyone

I took some advice on here and disregarded the call for psu upgrade.

Big day came finally. It came down to 2 choices. 

GTX 1660 ti (BANG FOR BUCK OPTION)

GIGABYTE RX 5700 XT (more spent FOR THE POWER) In a Gamers Nexus roundup they praised the shit out of this card.

I went with the latter. 

I am a bit worried about the rumours of bugs and game crashes, but I heard with latest drivers things are getting fixed.

what are your thoughts guys? Did I make the right decision?

 

 

 

PS: In the photos below I just went to the order page on the "1660 TI" to get full price including shipping. But obviously I did not complete order. Spent an extra 115.06

 

 

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CPU: Ryzen 5 3600 | Motherboard: ASUS Prime X570-P | RAM: 2x8GB DDR4 3600MHz Corsair | GPU: Gigabyte RX 5700 XT GAMING OC | PSU: Corsair TX650M 650W | Case: Phanteks Eclipse P400A Digital Black | Cooler: Wraith Prism RGB | SSD: CORSAIR MP510 500GB + CRUCIAL P1 1TB | HDD: Seagate BarraCuda 6TB | Monitor: MSI Optix AG32CQ CURVED 1440P 144HZ

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As far as i know, the 5700xt driver bugs are fixed.

Im with the mentaility of "IF IM NOT SURE IF ITS ENOUGH COOLING, GO OVERKILL"

 

CURRENT PC SPECS    

CPU             : Ryzen 5 3600 (Formerly Ryzen 3 1200)

GPU             : ASUS RX 580 Dual OC (Formerly ASUS GTX 1060 but it got corroded for some odd reasons)

GPU COOOER      : ID Cooling Frostflow 120 VGA (Stock cooler overheats even when undervolted :()

MOBO            : MSI B350m Bazooka

MEMORY          : Team Group Elite TUF DDR4 3600 Mhz CL 16
STORAGE         : Seagate Baracudda 1TB and Kingston SSD
PSU             : Thermaltake Lite power 550W (Gonna change soon as i dont trust this)
CASE            : Rakk Anyag Frost
CPU COOLER      : ID-Cooling SE 207
CASE FANS       : Mix of ID cooling fans, Corsair fans and Rakk Ounos (planned change to ID Cooling)
DISPLAY         : SpectrePro XTNS24 144hz Curved VA panel
MOUSE           : Logitech G603 Lightspeed
KEYBOARD        : Rakk Lam Ang

HEADSET         : Plantronics RIG 500HD

Kingston Hyper X Stinger

 

and a whole lot of LED everywhere(behind the monitor, behind the desk, behind the shelf of the PC mount and inside the case)

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I received it now. I used DDU to delete all drivers as moving over from NVIDIA to AMD and in the process it deleted my sound drivers as well. :D I digress with that fixed now I thought are my eyes deceiving me?

 

Several games seem to look better on the same graphics settings than it did using MSI Armor RTX 2070.

Somehow the AMD card seem to be rendering things better. Weird...  

CPU: Ryzen 5 3600 | Motherboard: ASUS Prime X570-P | RAM: 2x8GB DDR4 3600MHz Corsair | GPU: Gigabyte RX 5700 XT GAMING OC | PSU: Corsair TX650M 650W | Case: Phanteks Eclipse P400A Digital Black | Cooler: Wraith Prism RGB | SSD: CORSAIR MP510 500GB + CRUCIAL P1 1TB | HDD: Seagate BarraCuda 6TB | Monitor: MSI Optix AG32CQ CURVED 1440P 144HZ

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