GPU Upgrade
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I agree, I'd wait for the 9070/9070 XT and 5070/5070 Ti, unless there's some great clearance deal on something like a 7900 XT or 4070 Ti.
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New GPUs around the corner if you can wait , if not the 7900xt is just a tad over your limit.
Enable FSR for blur-o-vision plus 5 fps, phwoar!Cheers, I'll stick it out for now, 20 fps here i come
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The power requirements for the 7900xt and the 9070xt appear similar, so, the advice would be dependant on what PSU you currently have, regardless of what GPU you decide to get
they recommend min 750w psu..gaming it'll draw 320w, with power spikes 412w..5800x3d 80w to 180w depending what you're doing...so general gaming I'd say 320 plus 80(most games still heavily single thread so will take the 80w side of things), 400...other bits lets say 450w-500w...you should get away with it..as a psu gets older though it does wear a bit, so you might loose a bit of your 650w output too..and of course you may be running psu at 80% of it's max output, which will put a bit more stress on it than running it as 50%...and as @Tetras say..depends on quality too...(not sure I'd be wanting to stick a power hungry £650 gpu on a 8yrs old crappy 650w psu to save £100 for expample if it was a bronze psu with a 3yrs warranty...if it's a fairly new decent psu with 10yrs warranty(an rm650x for example is rated up to 800w so has a bit of headroom), I'd be far happier)
9070xt there's a photo on the thread showing min requirement 900w for the 9070XT red devil i think it was
yeah that's for the red devil though (has 3x 8-pin)
amd did confirm that 750w is the recommended
well the good news is that 3x8 pin connectors use thicker wires than the crappy 2x6 pin proprietry nvidia connection, so wont be any melting cables to worry about ...
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that's a decent psu..toms hardware tested it up to 110% so 710W and worked fine. as the 5800x3d not a power hog think you'll be fine. I'd still wait for the 9070/9070xt though before going for a 7900xt (specifically the xt version if youre 4k gaming). 28th feb for reveal by amd, launch in march