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Hi, after some advice please, which I appreciate might be a bit of a stupid request, but the last PC I built was over 20 years ago.
Whilst I’m OK in the Corporate IT space, I’m well out of the mix for home kit.
I’ve built myself a new rig for home with the idea to get into a bit of non-competitive “gaming”: Bit of MS Flight Sim and some sort of racing game, along with Office use for my wife. The only bit missing is a video card.
Currently the system has an i7-13700, Asus Prime Z790-P WIFI, with 32Gb of Kingston HyperX Fury Beast RGB and the screen is a IIYAMA G-MASTER GB3466W (3440 x 1440) all sitting inside a Lian Li O11D Evo
I’d prefer an AMD based card (what can I say, I like my CPU’s from Team Blue and my GPU’s from Team Red (Team Blue would also OK if there is sufficient grunt).
Bearing in mind that absolute FPS performance is not what I’m after - this is just to play a few games after, would an 7900XTX suffice (especially when running at 3440x1440) - It doesn’t even have to run at “Ultra quality” etc etc and I’m not aiming to be a World Champ games player
. I also appreciate that I might have gone OTT with getting an Ultra Wide, but my wife is a heavy user of excel and so the screen was also brought with this in mind.
Is overheating still an issue with certain cards 7900XTX? I remember there were issues with the some of the stock coolers back in December – is this still an issue?
Thanks
Mike
Whilst I’m OK in the Corporate IT space, I’m well out of the mix for home kit.
I’ve built myself a new rig for home with the idea to get into a bit of non-competitive “gaming”: Bit of MS Flight Sim and some sort of racing game, along with Office use for my wife. The only bit missing is a video card.
Currently the system has an i7-13700, Asus Prime Z790-P WIFI, with 32Gb of Kingston HyperX Fury Beast RGB and the screen is a IIYAMA G-MASTER GB3466W (3440 x 1440) all sitting inside a Lian Li O11D Evo
I’d prefer an AMD based card (what can I say, I like my CPU’s from Team Blue and my GPU’s from Team Red (Team Blue would also OK if there is sufficient grunt).
Bearing in mind that absolute FPS performance is not what I’m after - this is just to play a few games after, would an 7900XTX suffice (especially when running at 3440x1440) - It doesn’t even have to run at “Ultra quality” etc etc and I’m not aiming to be a World Champ games player
. I also appreciate that I might have gone OTT with getting an Ultra Wide, but my wife is a heavy user of excel and so the screen was also brought with this in mind.Is overheating still an issue with certain cards 7900XTX? I remember there were issues with the some of the stock coolers back in December – is this still an issue?
Thanks
Mike