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mate is looking at a used 5600 xt for £70
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Yeah 450w will be fine, and it'll be about double the average FPS (with a huge difference to minimums I imagine) according to https://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/gpu-hierarchy,4388-2.html
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Bargain.
Moving from Nvidia make sure he uninstalls all drivers, ddu is a free software to clear old drivers.
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It is similar to a RTX 2060 or RX 6600, so would cost you around £200 to get a new card with performance at that level.
Only negative is that 1st gen RDNA has a reputation for being temperamental.
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absolutely no issue with the 5700XT I had or my current 5600 XT
There were people on here who got shot of them because they could never resolve the black/green screen issues, it was pretty common at the time. If later cards/driver updates solved the issue, I don't know, but I haven't heard much about it since RDNA 2 launched.
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unstable ram overclocks.
There really should be zero need to do this unless you run in to issues, it can actually cause more issues than it solves. I'd recommend to simply install the gpu, then install AMD drivers and done, you can always uninstall the other one later.Bargain.
Moving from Nvidia make sure he uninstalls all drivers, ddu is a free software to clear old drivers.
Display Driver Uninstaller (DDU) download version 18.1.3.2
Download Display Driver Uninstaller (DDU) Official - Remove AMD/NVIDIA/INTEL Graphics Drivers Cleanly - DDU is a driver removal utility that helps you completely uninstall AMD/NVIDIA graphics card drivers and packages from your system, leaving no leftovers behind, including registry keys...
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Only issue I had with my old 5600xt was constant driver timeouts other than that it was ok
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I'd say he would definitely notice the difference in load times
Some games now an SSD is a must
If he hasn't complained yet, no. Don't show him a PC which has one.
I see this get mentioned a lot but its really not necessary. When i ran a system that had both nvidia and amd graphics cards I had to keep both drivers installed otherwise the card which didnt have drivers installed would not work properly.