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flea.rider

flea.rider

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so i have a vega 64 .. just had a bit of cash come in thats not needed .. so wanting this Powercolor Radeon RX 7900 XTX Liquid Devil 24GB ???
saves me buying and installing a block .. thoughts .. ?? just waiting to see when ocs can get me one :)
system specs r7 5800x mag 570 tomahawk wifi mem gskill @ 3798 16gb .. can't see there being a bottle neck
 
Unless you really want the liquid cooled model, I wouldn't bother, as the difference in performance won't be that much at all.

I agree with the above recommendation of dropping in the 5800X3D, and I would probably add in another 16 GB of memory as well.
 
flea.rider said:
so i have a vega 64 .. just had a bit of cash come in thats not needed .. so wanting this Powercolor Radeon RX 7900 XTX Liquid Devil 24GB ???
saves me buying and installing a block .. thoughts .. ?? just waiting to see when ocs can get me one :)
system specs r7 5800x mag 570 tomahawk wifi mem gskill @ 3798 16gb .. can't see there being a bottle neck
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Yes.

You pay a mad premium for better (and often unnecessary) cooling on certain GPU's to begin with, a 7900XT does not need that level of cooling. It might be a fun bit of kit, but unless you can get it for a song you should buy the cheapest "good" version, something like a Sapphire Pulse as an example.

The 7900XT in of itself is a fantastic upgrade from what you have, however.

Maybe if you were into tweaking to the limit and benchmarking, but even then I'd expect you to want to put it on a custom loop and strip the original HSF anyway.
 
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Whether it's water-cooled or air-cooled, you won't see much of a performance gap these days.
Gone are the days when water cooling a cpu or gpu yielded double digit performance gains when overclocked.

You'll be mostly paying a premium for a quieter* gpu when gaming. It may also save you changing the thermal pads in the long run.

*Depending on the rest of your pc.
 
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flea.rider said:
so i have a vega 64 .. just had a bit of cash come in thats not needed .. so wanting this Powercolor Radeon RX 7900 XTX Liquid Devil 24GB ???
saves me buying and installing a block .. thoughts .. ?? just waiting to see when ocs can get me one :)
system specs r7 5800x mag 570 tomahawk wifi mem gskill @ 3798 16gb .. can't see there being a bottle neck
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Price wise its not too bad at £1199.99, about the same as at Nitro+ or Red Evil and then the cost of the waterblock. Was expecting it to be more if I'm honest. If you already watercool your PC then yeah go for it as you'll already appreciate the gain to be had, even if they are more subtle that what they used to be. If you don't currently watercool then I wouldn't bother as by the time you've bough a pump, res and rad it get costly!
 
I've been down the custom water cooling rabbit hole myself and I'm not a fan of it but provided you prepared to deal with the hassle of setting it up, dealing with leaks and the maintenance I would say go for it as it the best way of taming power hungry hardware and doing it silently. The other plus (at least for me as I worry about these things) if you don't have a triple decker fat chunker card hanging out of your PCI slot bending everything.
 
seems rather expensive, can see the lure if you want to do lots of benchmarking runs and tweaking. going from a vega 64 to any 7900 xtx will be quiet a performance leap, id go with a cheapo air cooled version 7900 xtx and use the rest for a 5800 x3d cpu.
 
After seeing this video (skip to 18:15) doing away with the HSF and replacing it with a waterblock looks like the way to go if you don't fancy getting a new case as well. It's been years since I bought a high end graphics card, I never realised just how ludicrously big these things have gotten.

 
I've considered replacing my 5800x for the 3d version and don't think the cost can be justified for the small increase.

Also factor in there is always a slight risk when replacing CPUs, heat sinks and potential BIOS flashing.
 
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I've considered replacing my 5800x for the 3d version and don't think the cost can be justified for the small increase.

Also factor in there is always a slight risk when replacing CPUs, heat sinks and potential BIOS flashing.
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Depending on your GPU and particular game the increase can be huge. I swapped out my 5600x which is practically the same in game as the 5800x for a 5800x3d. Street Figher 6 in the battlehub went from ~60fps to ~100fps just with the CPU change.
 
the factory overclock on that card is about 8%

the factory overclock on my 6900 XT liquid Devil is 16%

i suspect the 8% is because there is not much room to go any further safely.

not really worth it i feel over the better air cooled cards
 
If you don't plan on on reselling the card when you are done with it then go for it.
It you are, then it's slightly harder to resell watercooled cards than air cooled ones.
 
Yes.

That's 4080 money.

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