From 480 to 6700 XT: Aorus vs Gaming OC models + PSU advice?

akarypid

akarypid

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Hey all,

Last time I bought a graphics card from OCUK it cost me like £250 (I got an RX480). I wanted to upgrade but the prices meant it's either sell one of my kidneys or wait till I get my bonus. I opted for the latter.

I'm between:

https://www.overclockers.co.uk/giga...ddr6-pci-express-graphics-card-gx-1dg-gi.html

https://www.overclockers.co.uk/giga...ddr6-pci-express-graphics-card-gx-1dj-gi.html

I do like the design of the Gaming OC better, but for £30 (and we're already talking at the £800 range) I might as well go for the Aorus. As far as I can tell the clock speeds are slightly higher (I guess they do a bit of binning?) but more importantly the Aorus has 4-year warranty as opposed to 3. Seems to me I should go for the latter.

What do you all think?

Furthermore I wanted to ask about PSUs. If I keep my RX480 and add the RX6700XT to my machine, what PSU will I need to run things comfortably? I don't want the PSU running at 90% load so... what are we talking about? 800W? More?

P.S. At nights, I open up this email, read it and weep:

Thank you for shopping at Overclockers UK - www.overclockers.co.uk

This e-mail includes full details of your order and other important information.
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Order Number: 4923208 (Internet Reference: OC3120868)
Date ordered: 02/07/2016 15:17:38
Payment Method: Credit Card / Debit Card
Shipping Method: DPD Saturday
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Goods Ordered (prices in GBP)
£208.29 x 1 - Sapphire Radeon RX 480 Nitro OC 8192MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card

Sub-Total: 208.29
Shipping: 14.5
VAT: 44.56
Total: 267.35
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I'm going to say that the RX480 also draws 250W (probably more). So if I have both in then I'm looking at 500W for the two GPUs and then another 100W for the Ryzen chip. That'd be about 650W peak total? I should be fine I guess, though maybe in the future I could upgrade to a 750-800W PSU to give it some headroom. My current one is a Titanium Seasonic so should be able to handle it.

Just thinking that normally I should be able to buy both PSU and GPU at this budget is sad though...
 
Dg834man said:
rx480 was 150w, why you want to leave the rx480 in there?
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So I have a strange requirement. I need both Linux/Windows and use something calle GPU pass-through to run VMs in Proxmox (a KVM hypervisor) and switch between the two. The vendor-reset patch makes it work reliably.

If all this doesn't mean much to you, I get it (it's a bit exotic) but let's just say there's "workflow-reasons".

It's the same reason I'm looking at the 6000 series rather than Nvidia: drivers are much better and AMD finally fixed the PCIe reset bug on them (which means you can do this with unpatched kernels).

Anyway...
 
Joxeon said:
You'd be better off getting a 3080FE or failing that since it goes out of stock quick then a 3080ti FE which is far easier to get and by selling the 480 while prices are high to offset the extra cost as it would be around 50% faster.
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Unfortunately I need AMD cards (Linux OSS drivers) and specifically 6000 series (due to a h/w bug in all previous generations). I work on that stuff and therefore can't use Nvidia...
 
Hewligan said:
I have the 6700 XT Gaming OC card at home and it is great. I paid £750 in May and regretted it instantly (it should be a £500 card), but since I have reconciled the sunk cost and gifted it to my son, I feel better. I also have a 3070 Ti that I got for MRSP in my own rig and that is much MUCH better value, but only at MSRP.

So my advice is about as useless as it could be: the gaming OC is a good card, but over priced. If you can afford it and won’t worry about the cost, then fine. If that sort of money feels painful to you … don’t buy. Be patient.
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I get your advice but due to work reasons I need an AMD card and specifically a 6000 series one.

Other than that, I've been very patient (I'm on RX480!). The reason I didn't go for a 5000 series was it still had the PCIe reset bug and then prices shot to the moon and here we are.

I want to believe that prices will drop in a month but this switch of ETH to proof of state seems to never come. At some point I need to reconcile with the situation and move on. I just hope that prices won't collapse immediately after I buy one!
 
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