Looking to upgrade

[Oddball_DK]

Hello fellow gamers!

I currently have a 5600x and a RX5700XT with a Be Quiet! Pure Power 11 CM 700w PSU.

I want to upgrade to a XFX 7900 GRE, but I am not sure if my PSU is sufficient - it says everywhere that the minimum psu requirement is 700w, but can I trust it? Will I run into problems if I don't upgrade PSU aswell?

 

I've been trying to read up, but I don't know where to start.

 

[DreamCat04]

1 hour ago, Oddball_DK said:

Hello fellow gamers!

I currently have a 5600x and a RX5700XT with a Be Quiet! Pure Power 11 CM 700w PSU.

I want to upgrade to a XFX 7900 GRE, but I am not sure if my PSU is sufficient - it says everywhere that the minimum psu requirement is 700w, but can I trust it? Will I run into problems if I don't upgrade PSU aswell?

 

I've been trying to read up, but I don't know where to start.

 

You'll be fine with a 700W power supply. The recommendations are already over what your system will draw

[191x7]

1 hour ago, Oddball_DK said:

Hello fellow gamers!

I currently have a 5600x and a RX5700XT with a Be Quiet! Pure Power 11 CM 700w PSU.

I want to upgrade to a XFX 7900 GRE, but I am not sure if my PSU is sufficient - it says everywhere that the minimum psu requirement is 700w, but can I trust it? Will I run into problems if I don't upgrade PSU aswell?

 

I've been trying to read up, but I don't know where to start.

 

You are more than fine. 

 

 

The card itself probably won't draw more than 250-280W under max load.

[Linuswasright]

5 hours ago, Oddball_DK said:

Hello fellow gamers!

I currently have a 5600x and a RX5700XT with a Be Quiet! Pure Power 11 CM 700w PSU.

I want to upgrade to a XFX 7900 GRE, but I am not sure if my PSU is sufficient - it says everywhere that the minimum psu requirement is 700w, but can I trust it? Will I run into problems if I don't upgrade PSU aswell?

 

I've been trying to read up, but I don't know where to start.

 

If you buy used you might be able to find a 7900xt, depending on where you live and your budget

[Oddball_DK]

5 hours ago, DreamCat04 said:

You'll be fine with a 700W power supply. The recommendations are already over what your system will draw

 

5 hours ago, 191x7 said:

You are more than fine. 

 

 

The card itself probably won't draw more than 250-280W under max load.

Thanks to both of you darlings!

[Oddball_DK]

1 hour ago, Linuswasright said:

If you buy used you might be able to find a 7900xt, depending on where you live and your budget

Yeah, not happening. I live in Denmark, we are "anti AMD" so there are none on the used market.

[BahnStormer]

Remember a lot of the power supply recommendations are to cover scenarios with Intel systems where "65W" CPU's only use that on standby and actually draw over 250W when they boost (400W in some cases for the i9's when unlocked)....

 

Stock RX7900GRE is only 260W, so only 35W more than your 5700XT....  and your 5600X is genuinely <100W, so you should be fine.... even an upgrade to a 5800X3D (peaks around 140W) should be okay....

 

One minor, possible concern is that the RX7900GRE normally has very overclockable memory, which negates the narrower memory bandwidth to give you near-RX7900XT performance.... BUT I'm not sure how much that increases the power load. 

[Oddball_DK]

31 minutes ago, BahnStormer said:

Remember a lot of the power supply recommendations are to cover scenarios with Intel systems where "65W" CPU's only use that on standby and actually draw over 250W when they boost (400W in some cases for the i9's when unlocked)....

 

Stock RX7900GRE is only 260W, so only 35W more than your 5700XT....  and your 5600X is genuinely <100W, so you should be fine.... even an upgrade to a 5800X3D (peaks around 140W) should be okay....

 

One minor, possible concern is that the RX7900GRE normally has very overclockable memory, which negates the narrower memory bandwidth to give you near-RX7900XT performance.... BUT I'm not sure how much that increases the power load. 

I've actually been looking into just going with a 7700XT or 7800XT since all I play is League and Path of Exile - I don't need the high end GPU.

On the other hand, my 5700XT is really struggeling with minions builds in Path of Exile...

 

Reason behind going with something smaller being, the price diff in Denmark is insane (also, need new tires)

[Linuswasright]

2 hours ago, Oddball_DK said:

Yeah, not happening. I live in Denmark, we are "anti AMD" so there are none on the used market.

Hej! Nej amd

[BahnStormer]

4 hours ago, Oddball_DK said:

I've actually been looking into just going with a 7700XT or 7800XT since all I play is League and Path of Exile - I don't need the high end GPU.

On the other hand, my 5700XT is really struggeling with minions builds in Path of Exile...

 

Reason behind going with something smaller being, the price diff in Denmark is insane (also, need new tires)

What resolution?

I don't play that game, but a  7800XT should be plenty for most high refresh gaming and it's only 10% behind the RTX3080Ti/RX7900GRE for performance.

 

It does have the same ~260W peak power draw as the RX7900GRE though.... but nowhere near the insane 350W of the RTX3080Ti   

[Oddball_DK]

4 hours ago, BahnStormer said:

What resolution?

I don't play that game, but a  7800XT should be plenty for most high refresh gaming and it's only 10% behind the RTX3080Ti/RX7900GRE for performance.

 

It does have the same ~260W peak power draw as the RX7900GRE though.... but nowhere near the insane 350W of the RTX3080Ti   

I actually just picked up a 1440p display, finally! Right now I run everything on 1080p, new monitor arriving on saturday and I am so sad I probably won't be able to utilize it untill I get the new GPU. 

 

Yeah, I think 7800xt might be the way to go here 

[BahnStormer]

7800XT recommended if you want to push a 1440P gaming monitor past 100fps in most games.... but it will vary a LOT per game.

 

I play at 1440P 170Hz with my 3080Ti.... there are a few really well optimised games that will push consistently around that number and actually need to be capped (Fortnite / CounterStrike 2), but a lot of others dip WELL below it.... but it usually depends on the map / what is happening on screen: Rust will push 140fps ultra details on a low-pop map, but drop to 50fps near some big Zerg farm bases.... DayZ will run a flat 170fps in one game, but <100fps in the next.

[Oddball_DK]

On 3/28/2024 at 3:54 PM, Linuswasright said:

Hej! Nej amd

HEJ

Proshop running a few deals of AMD at the moment, so I guess problem solved?

[Oddball_DK]

On 3/29/2024 at 11:42 AM, BahnStormer said:

7800XT recommended if you want to push a 1440P gaming monitor past 100fps in most games.... but it will vary a LOT per game.

 

I play at 1440P 170Hz with my 3080Ti.... there are a few really well optimised games that will push consistently around that number and actually need to be capped (Fortnite / CounterStrike 2), but a lot of others dip WELL below it.... but it usually depends on the map / what is happening on screen: Rust will push 140fps ultra details on a low-pop map, but drop to 50fps near some big Zerg farm bases.... DayZ will run a flat 170fps in one game, but <100fps in the next.

Thanks for the insight man!

 

I will be going for 7800xt (wifey just approved).

 

Now time to find out, which variant.

 

edit:

Legit bought the same monitor you run, coincidence?

[Linuswasright]

5 hours ago, Oddball_DK said:

Thanks for the insight man!

 

I will be going for 7800xt (wifey just approved).

 

Now time to find out, which variant.

 

edit:

Legit bought the same monitor you run, coincidence?

FYI, most variants will be fine . If you can get a 3x fan for really cheap, then it’s good

[Oddball_DK]

1 hour ago, Linuswasright said:

FYI, most variants will be fine . If you can get a 3x fan for really cheap, then it’s good

XFX Black it is then.
Slowly eliminating RGB feels so good.

[BahnStormer]

6 hours ago, Oddball_DK said:

Legit bought the same monitor you run, coincidence?

Almost the same - I think mine is the v1 as it defaults to 170Hz (the v2 is 165Hx max, with a 170Hz "OC" option... but it has a few v slightly better colour specs and far better text clarity as they changed from BGR to RGB sub-pixels).

 

Either way, both great value gaming options and they were VERY popular at the time (over 4 years ago in my case) as it was far and away the best value 27" 1440P high refresh rate monitor that had FreeSync, G-sync compatibility, VRR and some form of HDR.

 

I'm guessing the reason: a lot of people on LTT forums also use YouTube reviewers, such as Hardware Unboxed for their hardware reviews... and Tim (from Monitors Unboxed) was raving about this at the time.

[BahnStormer]

Just now, Oddball_DK said:

Slowly eliminating RGB feels so good.

Good man!

 

The only RGB in my rig is the RAM... because it was the only CAS14 DDR4 3600 from GSkill that I could find.

[Oddball_DK]

19 hours ago, BahnStormer said:

Almost the same - I think mine is the v1 as it defaults to 170Hz (the v2 is 165Hx max, with a 170Hz "OC" option... but it has a few v slightly better colour specs and far better text clarity as they changed from BGR to RGB sub-pixels).

 

Either way, both great value gaming options and they were VERY popular at the time (over 4 years ago in my case) as it was far and away the best value 27" 1440P high refresh rate monitor that had FreeSync, G-sync compatibility, VRR and some form of HDR.

 

I'm guessing the reason: a lot of people on LTT forums also use YouTube reviewers, such as Hardware Unboxed for their hardware reviews... and Tim (from Monitors Unboxed) was raving about this at the time.

Well this buy was kinda "oh it's on sale, let's get it and return it if it's shit"

 

Only looked it up online after, and then I could tell there was a chance of text clarity being a bit off. I really enjoy it so far though!

[BahnStormer]

ha ha.... I stand corrected

 

14 hours ago, Oddball_DK said:

chance of text clarity being a bit off

 

Well the text clarity issue is on the v1.... the v2 that you have is apparently pretty good....

 

I use mine as my office PC most of the day-to-day and it's very usable on a par with the monitors in the actual office.

 

I found it was the HDR mode that makes it a bit weird.... works a lot better once I set up the monitor drivers and "OSD sidekick", so I can switch modes with a keyboard shortcut.