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Wait to buy the 7900XTX or buy the 6950XT?

Chuk_Chuk said:
I’m debating if I should treat myself to it. Need to check if my PSU is good enough. I think it is 750w
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In exactly the same boat. I've got a 750w PSU and debating whether I should go for it...

I feel like 750w should be plenty??
 
Interesting thread as I've been looking at 6950XT cards as well as I look to build a cheaper PC, that 6900XT looks cracking for the price though and I currently have little to no intent of playing in 4K
 
chrismscotland said:
Interesting thread as I've been looking at 6950XT cards as well as I look to build a cheaper PC, that 6900XT looks cracking for the price though and I currently have little to no intent of playing in 4K
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I have not seen a 6950XT at anything near what I would consider to be good value. About the cheapest I have seen so far, new, is 900 euro. My friend overseas got one. Which when you consider it all? is a bit pants. It's only about 10% quicker than the 6900XT.
 
t2na said:
In exactly the same boat. I've got a 750w PSU and debating whether I should go for it...

I feel like 750w should be plenty??
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Darujhistan said:
If it's good quality you should be fine.
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In theory for gaming it should be fine. But I will render on this and if I hybrid rendering (assuming it will improve speeds, if it doesn’t I will just stick to the GPU) it will be a 5900x and this card running at full chat with ram getting a good hammering as well.

Edit: I’ve just seen the TBP for the 6900xt is the same as the 6800xt 300w. I should be fine.
 
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Chuk_Chuk said:
I’m debating if I should treat myself to it. Need to check if my PSU is good enough. I think it is 750w
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Have a read through the offer thread as it's all been said dude. But long story short? it's enough if you have a good solid PSU.

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That is the PC I use at home. It has a 12700KF on a EK360 AIO overclocked, 4x8gb 8 pack RAM 4133 and a 6800XT Strix LC. Which I have had to 2800mhz on a 750w PSU. Which at that point it was easily chowing down well over 300w.

Also from the thread. Unless you are playing competitive BR games like PUBG, fartnite and so on? just do this. Its perfect if you want it easy and are lazy like me.

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ALXAndy said:
I have not seen a 6950XT at anything near what I would consider to be good value. About the cheapest I have seen so far, new, is 900 euro. My friend overseas got one. Which when you consider it all? is a bit pants. It's only about 10% quicker than the 6900XT.
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Cheapest in the UK is around £820 ish with some deals
 
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kieran_read said:
Fair enough the new cards are overpriced as hell, i'd be far happier if AMD kept to the 999mrsp but i know realistically that's not going to happen.

I was planning on getting a 7900xtx but now after seeing AMD lower the prices of their 7000 cpus after only a couple of months i may wait it out see what happens.
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Most of these companies are about to get it where the car gets a thermometer, which I will savour as they keep trying to get away with screwing their customers.
 
01001101 said:
I think I might have gone a bit overkill. Oops.

I ordered a 1000w PSU.
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You can never overkill a PSU mate. Unless you had a really awful one you will always benefit from having a good unit.

When I built the PC originally I had a 3950x and 2080ti, which both sip power compared to what I have in there now. I have a Strix unit, and I am more than confident in it tbh.

Chris - yeah that's still too expensive IMO. 10% more than £650 is like £720 or so. Thing is whilst technically the 50 is faster it isn't faster enough to make it any better in gaming or will make it last longer. 10% never saved any one.
 
ALXAndy said:
You can never overkill a PSU mate. Unless you had a really awful one you will always benefit from having a good unit.

When I built the PC originally I had a 3950x and 2080ti, which both sip power compared to what I have in there now. I have a Strix unit, and I am more than confident in it tbh.

Chris - yeah that's still too expensive IMO. 10% more than £650 is like £720 or so. Thing is whilst technically the 50 is faster it isn't faster enough to make it any better in gaming or will make it last longer. 10% never saved any one.
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ordered the 1050w kolink one in the sale today, platinum efficiency as well, thought I'd be putting it all together tomorrow but ordered at quarter past three and with the 4pm DPD cut off I think I just missed it for tomorrow, fingers crossed for Thursday
 
When i built my PC i went for an 850 platinum from Superflower thinking yea that's more than enough. Along come Nvidia and Jensen saying hold my glass watch this. It probably could run the 4090 but on the limit when fully loaded.
 
You can almost regain that 10% extra of the 6950 XT on the ASRock Phantom which is on sale.
My card does 2750mhz core clock stable with 4300mhz memory and I gain around 15 FPS more in most things.
 
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Tired9 said:
You can almost regain that 10% extra of the 6950 XT on the ASRock Phantom which is on sale.
My card does 2750mhz core clock stable with 4300mhz memory and I gain around 15 FPS more in most things.
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The card arrived today.. Jesus! It's massive. It's like the lenght of my forearm.. :cry::cry::cry::D

I can't wait to get the rest of the components and get building. :D
 
MSI Radeon 6950 XT Gaming X trio's now going for £829......what CPU / Mobo / Ram would you pair that with to create a great value build to last a few years.
 
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