7900XT Hellhound

[The Pizza Man]

Hi folks - just looking for a quick yes or no answer to this one, I suppose! There's a Powercolor 7900 XT Hellhound available brand new for £650 (inc VAT). Worth it at that price now? I think the original MSRP was above £800 when it launched, and it's been stuck at £700-750 for ages.

I'd be upgrading from a 2080ti and ray tracing really doesn't interest me very much, but I do have an ASUS 1440p 144Hz G-Sync display that I wouldn't be able to use the variable refresh on anymore.

 

Thoughts?

[TatamiMatt]

7 minutes ago, The Pizza Man said:

Hi folks - just looking for a quick yes or no answer to this one, I suppose! There's a Powercolor 7900 XT Hellhound available brand new for £550. Worth it at that price now? I think the original MSRP was above £800 when it launched, and it's been stuck at £700-750 for ages.

I'd be upgrading from a 2080ti and ray tracing really doesn't interest me very much, but I do have an ASUS 1440p 144Hz G-Sync display that I wouldn't be able to use the variable refresh on anymore.

 

Thoughts?

Thats a pretty decent steal for that card, id go for it, its less than what i bought my 7800xt nitro+ for

[The Pizza Man]

2 minutes ago, TatamiMatt said:

Thats a pretty decent steal for that card, id go for it, its less than what i bought my 7800xt nitro+ for

Thanks man, that's what I thought. Pulling the trigger as I type this now then. Figured it's about time.

For anyone else that wants a butchers and is in the UK/Western Europe region;

Deals (overclockers.co.uk) Discounts etc apply throughout July 2024 I believe.

 

I'll get DDU downloaded I suppose. First time switching GPU brands in quite some time (maybe 20 years?) - so, very excited! DDU will be enough, or is this a fresh install of windows thing these days?

[TatamiMatt]

Just now, The Pizza Man said:

Thanks man, that's what I thought. Pulling the trigger as I type this now then. Figured it's about time.

For anyone else that wants a butchers and is in the UK/Western Europe region;

Deals (overclockers.co.uk) Discounts etc apply throughout July 2024 I believe.

 

I'll get DDU downloaded I suppose. First time switching GPU brands in quite some time (maybe 20 years?) - so, very excited! DDU will be enough, or is this a fresh install of windows thing these days?

DDU should be enough, also remember to download AMD adrenalin with the GPU!

[Blasty Blosty]

This one?

 

Powercolor Radeon RX 7900 XT HellHound 20GB GDDR6 PCI-Express Graphics Card | OcUK (overclockers.co.uk)

[The Pizza Man]

3 minutes ago, Blasty Blosty said:

This one?

 

Powercolor Radeon RX 7900 XT HellHound 20GB GDDR6 PCI-Express Graphics Card | OcUK (overclockers.co.uk)

Yes, that's the one. Because I use PC's for my work regularly, they'll pay for the VAT for me  OK'd an upgrade with them at the start of the year so no worries on that front.

Apologies I should have said that first!

EDIT: Edited original post to reflect this

[Blasty Blosty]

2 minutes ago, The Pizza Man said:

Yes, that's the one. Because I use PC's for my work regularly, they'll pay for the VAT for me  OK'd an upgrade with them at the start of the year so no worries on that front.

Ahh I see, that makes sense

[TatamiMatt]

Ahh i see, not less than my GPU then but cheaper than i can find anywhere else still, £660 in cex and that preowned and they can sometimes have great deals

 

cheapest 7900xt on cex is £610

cheapest 7900xtx on cex is £740

[Blasty Blosty]

6 minutes ago, TatamiMatt said:

cheapest 7900xt on cex is £610

Worth it?

[podkall]

The hound's price dropped pretty recently by about 10 pounds,

 

pcpartpicker still sees it more expensive than you're buying it for:

 

PCPartPicker Part List

Video Card: *PowerColor Hellhound Radeon RX 7900 XT 20 GB Video Card  (£667.98 @ Overclockers.co.uk)
Total: £667.98
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
*Lowest price parts chosen from parametric criteria
Generated by PCPartPicker 2024-07-12 08:07 BST+0100

[TatamiMatt]

2 minutes ago, podkall said:

The hound's price dropped pretty recently by about 10 pounds,

 

pcpartpicker still sees it more expensive than you're buying it for:

 

PCPartPicker Part List

Video Card: *PowerColor Hellhound Radeon RX 7900 XT 20 GB Video Card  (£667.98 @ Overclockers.co.uk)
Total: £667.98
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
*Lowest price parts chosen from parametric criteria
Generated by PCPartPicker 2024-07-12 08:07 BST+0100

Thats the same listing just with +shipping, so tis the best on pcpp too

[TatamiMatt]

11 minutes ago, Blasty Blosty said:

Worth it?

It was out of stock actually, next cheapest is:

 

XFX Speedster Merc 310 RX 7900 XT 20GB GDDR6

£630.00

[The Pizza Man]

Also upgrading the 3900X to a 5800X3D. Cheapest PC Part Picker found was on CCL for £279.99 inc VAT

It's about time my system had a bit of a face lift anyways. 

Have already updated my BIOS to F4 (Gigabyte X570S Gaming X), but might need to download and install Bios version F5 for the optimisations once it's in and I know it works at least.

[TatamiMatt]

1 minute ago, The Pizza Man said:

Also upgrading the 3900X to a 5800X3D. Cheapest PC Part Picker found was on CCL for £279.99 inc VAT

It's about time my system had a bit of a face lift anyways. 

look at the price for a 5700X3D

[The Pizza Man]

1 minute ago, TatamiMatt said:

look at the price for a 5700X3D

Nice, save an extra 50-ish £

Similar performance between them? Looks like it's just a clock speed thing?

[TatamiMatt]

1 minute ago, The Pizza Man said:

Nice, save an extra 50-ish £

Similar performance between them? Looks like it's just a clock speed thing?

i think its like 0.1 or 0.2 GHz of difference, and real world like 1-3% performance difference or look at AM5, but im not trying to coerce you into a full platform upgrade either. 7600 is pretty on par with the 5800X3D

[The Pizza Man]

Just now, TatamiMatt said:

i think its like 0.1 or 0.2 GHz of difference, and real world like 1-3% performance difference

Thanks for the tip there - Haven't kept up with the post 7000 series Ryzen launches, especially so for the retroactive additions to the last of the AM4 lineup.

[TatamiMatt]

3 minutes ago, The Pizza Man said:

Thanks for the tip there - Haven't kept up with the post 7000 series Ryzen launches, especially so for the retroactive additions to the last of the AM4 lineup.

The 7500F/7600 is about on par with a 5700X3D too but a full platform upgrade is quite a jump

[The Pizza Man]

2 minutes ago, TatamiMatt said:

The 7500F/7600 is about on par with a 5700X3D too but a full platform upgrade is quite a jump

Yeah that pushes me a little over budget when there's still a fair bit of performance I can squeak out of the  AM4 platform yet. 

In any case, I appreciate you hearing out my mad ramblings.

In terms of the CPU upgrade, I'm alright to just update the bios and drop it in, right? If I remember rightly it'll want to reconfigure some stuff so may behave abnormally the first time I boot up, yes?

[TatamiMatt]

4 minutes ago, The Pizza Man said:

Yeah that pushes me a little over budget when there's still a fair bit of performance I can squeak out of the  AM4 platform yet. 

In any case, I appreciate you hearing out my mad ramblings.

In terms of the CPU upgrade, I'm alright to just update the bios and drop it in, right? If I remember rightly it'll want to reconfigure some stuff so may behave abnormally the first time I boot up, yes?

Yeah, youve summed it up pretty well there, sounds good!

[Blasty Blosty]

44 minutes ago, The Pizza Man said:

In terms of the CPU upgrade, I'm alright to just update the bios and drop it in, right? If I remember rightly it'll want to reconfigure some stuff so may behave abnormally the first time I boot up, yes?

Exactly

 

If you are ever unsure the forum and countless videos are out here on the interwebs

[thevictor390]

One warning, I have this exact card and the coil whine is something else. You can identify the workload by sound. My PC is under the desk so it's not a big problem.

[Salted Spinach]

As a 5800X3D owner, I recommend the 5700X3D because its only slightly slower but runs way cooler out of the box without the need to fiddle with PBO settings

[Bagzie]

On 7/12/2024 at 7:52 AM, The Pizza Man said:

Yes, that's the one. Because I use PC's for my work regularly, they'll pay for the VAT for me  OK'd an upgrade with them at the start of the year so no worries on that front.

Apologies I should have said that first!

EDIT: Edited original post to reflect this

They'll pay the vat for you? You mean you are putting it through as a business transaction......

[The Pizza Man]

4 hours ago, Bagzie said:

They'll pay the vat for you? You mean you are putting it through as a business transaction......

Sort of, but not quite. One of the (very few) perks to the job. The elongated ellipsis infers some displeasure, or perhaps you think I'm taking part in frowned-upon activities. That would be quite the assumption considering you've no idea what I do. Rest assured though; I'm not. It's all legal, and OK with my gaffer, and with accounting. Vendors still get their cut, AMD still gets theirs, and I get my kit.

 

Anyway, I told them Linus says it's fine. He said they'll just write it off. That's how that works, right?