It's worth the upgrade but it's not like you need to do both at the same time, the Seasonic Focus + should be just fine with the 9070.
Tbh with an undervolt you'd probably get away with the 9070XT but that is a small gamble.
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It's worth the upgrade but it's not like you need to do both at the same time, the Seasonic Focus + should be just fine with the 9070.
Tbh with an undervolt you'd probably get away with the 9070XT but that is a small gamble.
I never thought about undervolting, I can upgrade all at once. Its just that I have been playing same games and currently happy with my setup (apart from stalker 2 showing my GPUs age) so I'm bit hesitant do major upgrade yet.
my system is ryzen 7700 + 9070xt hellhound and runs fine with headroom to spare on my 650w
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similar system 7700 9070xt sapphire pure, 750W works fine
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5900x 9070xt pure several ssds x570 board im running a seasonic focus 750w ive got the 1000w version sat in its box waiting for me to get around to swapping them over but I hav'nt actually found the limit of my psu and caused it to trip up or anything on the 750w ive probably got more headroom than I actually think hence not got around to slamming hte 1kw one in yet so im guessing 9060xt on a 650 should be fine but im not a gambler and I have not actually tried it myself
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Very pleased with the Asus model of this card. I'm glad the heatsink is so long to compensate for my short P...CB.
Not done any tinkering yet but full load seems to be 50c core, 70c hotspot, 80c memory, 1500rpm (50%) fan speed.
It's a decent upgrade from my RX580.
Make sure you have a Gen 5 motherboard if you buy the 8gb 9600xt lol, unless you like playing games with cinematic console 30fps
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Let me save you the cost of upgrading to a Gen 5 motherboard and direct you to the graphics settings of your preferred game.
Reduce the graphics settings so you're working within the vram you have.
Obviously a bait style youtube video will put blinkers on the viewer and only show the worst case scenario but those graphics settings are what you fiddle with when you're in the compromise range of graphics cards!
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Not what I asked
Not enough of a jump (whether 8GB or 16GB) imo:
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PowerColor Radeon RX 9060 XT Reaper 8 GB Review
We're taking a look at the AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT 8 GB, which comes with only half the memory size of the 16 GB models, but is at least $50 cheaper. Data from the review suggests that NVIDIA's memory management is much less efficient than the one used on RDNA 4, giving AMD the upper hand.
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Great cheers, Not enough you're right.Not enough of a jump (whether 8GB or 16GB) imo:
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PowerColor Radeon RX 9060 XT Reaper 8 GB Review
We're taking a look at the AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT 8 GB, which comes with only half the memory size of the 16 GB models, but is at least $50 cheaper. Data from the review suggests that NVIDIA's memory management is much less efficient than the one used on RDNA 4, giving AMD the upper hand.www.techpowerup.com
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That looks like a Corsair 540 AIR case if I'm not mistaken?
Very pleased with the Asus model of this card. I'm glad the heatsink is so long to compensate for my short P...CB.
Not done any tinkering yet but full load seems to be 50c core, 70c hotspot, 80c memory, 1500rpm (50%) fan speed.
It's a decent upgrade from my RX580.
How much gap is there between the GPU and the front fans?
I've got the 540 AIR but I'm thinking I'll probably move my PC out of that case soon. It was a lovely case but it's getting a bit old and rattily.
I do quite like the look of that Asus card, quite a restrained look the PRIME coolers.
Hey @GoogalyMoogaly, yes you are correct it's an old Air540 - they do rattle don't they! Although I've now gone to full solid state drives and it's absolutely quiet now, really it was the hard drive vibration causing all the problems - I found stuffing some rubber pads under the drive sleds helped to no end with that though.
Anyway... to answer your question 24mm would put you tight against the front fans (which are 25mm). I think you can actually put the fans between the outside metal of the case and front shroud but obviously you lose the air filter if you do that.
Hope that helps, feel free to ask anything else.
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I don't imagine I'll get one as things stand as I've currently got a 7900 XT in my 540 AIR but that one probably has half the distance you do between it and the fans. I think some of my rattling was the fans and some is the panels, you know, those removal bit where you access the fans.
Hey @GoogalyMoogaly, yes you are correct it's an old Air540 - they do rattle don't they! Although I've now gone to full solid state drives and it's absolutely quiet now, really it was the hard drive vibration causing all the problems - I found stuffing some rubber pads under the drive sleds helped to no end with that though.
Anyway... to answer your question 24mm would put you tight against the front fans (which are 25mm). I think you can actually put the fans between the outside metal of the case and front shroud but obviously you lose the air filter if you do that.
Hope that helps, feel free to ask anything else.
Your case is also looking really clean, mine seems to be a dust trap. Despite trying to balance the fans sucking air in and the fans blowing out I imagine I actually had negative pressure at some point so it just sucked air in through the gaps (especially the gaps under the HDD bays).
Oh the dust filtration is pretty bad on the case to be honest. The only reason it's relatively clean is because I blasted it out about a month and a half ago. My CPU heatsink was quite stuffed and the back of the case fans were caked with dust. Strangest thing was the RX580's heatsink I had at the time was completely clean though. Even vacuuming the front filter every 2 weeks I still get dust build up inside, and I bought a filter mesh for the top of the case also to try and prevent it building up.
The panels absolutely vibrate because when you put pressure against the case it stops, but as far as I've found it all emanates from the hard drives.
Hopefully I'll pick up a Fractal Torrent Compact at some point to replace it, but it isn't a priority.
Anyway, your 7900XT will be way faster than this 9060XT, I'd stick with what you have.
hey gibbo did this wind up getting delayed
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- Intel Core i5-14400F
- Asus Prime B760M-A WIFI D4
- Corsair Vengeance RGB PRO Black 32GB (2x16GB) 3600MHz
- Palit GeForce RTX 5060 Ti Infinity 3 16GB
3DMark Steel Nomad score 3305
PC 2
- AMD Ryzen 5 8500G
- ASUS PRIME B650M-A WIFI II
- 2X16GB CORS VENG RGB 5600
- Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX 9060 XT Gaming 16GB
3DMark Steel Nomad score 3736
Checking results on 3DMark site considering the Intel/Nvidia machine has no over clocking the score seems about right. Combination of hardware for the AMD machine though only has 1 other score submitted and it beat that so currently its sitting at 1st place for that combination