Worth Buying Atm? Need Help

[WonkyEyezJohnny]

Been waiting so long for a GPU now and come to another brick wall i wanted 3080 but couldnt get one because of cypto mining so though i would wait for 4080 but didnt want to pay £1200 so when then 7900 xtx come along i thought ill go for that one but i have heard a lot of people have heat temp issues so stopped me from buying that but is it only then ref one that have the problem or is it all off them? and also what are your thoughts on 4070ti?

 

[ZXSpekky48k]

Only ref 7900xtx has heating problems - if you can get 4070 at £800 probs go for it (you'll struggle)

 

[Tetras]

but i have heard a lot of people have heat temp issues so stopped me from buying that but is it only then ref one that have the problem or is it all off them?

Only AMD manufactured cards, but you can also get one of these from AIBs (i.e. they just sell you one with their logo on the box), so you need to buy their custom card, like Sapphire Pulse, Asus TUF, PowerColor Hellhound.

and also what are your thoughts on 4070ti?

..when the reviews are published

 

[Haz123]

Been waiting so long for a GPU now and come to another brick wall i wanted 3080 but couldnt get one because of cypto mining so though i would wait for 4080 but didnt want to pay £1200 so when then 7900 xtx come along i thought ill go for that one but i have heard a lot of people have heat temp issues so stopped me from buying that but is it only then ref one that have the problem or is it all off them? and also what are your thoughts on 4070ti?

The 4070ti will not have a Founders Edition card so only AIB partner cards. What this means is ignore the MSRP because it will never be available at that price and will most likely be the worst value card in the stack.

I know you do not want to hear this but wait. You have waited so long and I know it is annoying but I predict there will be signifiicant price reductions. Nv and AMD have ordered a certain amount of wafers from TSMC and they tried to back out of the contract but could not. This means they are locked into buying a certain amount of silicon and they will really struggle to sell it in the current market. There has been surprisingly good supply for all of the current releases so the early adopters have all managed to get cards and only normal customers left and with the current economic situation they are not snapping these cards up. RAM prices are also dropping so the cost to produce these gpus is falling all the time.

Nv have deep pockets and are the dominant player in the market so will want to hold prices high and they have done this with the 3000 series cards. AMD on the other hand have been giving excellent value with the 6000 series cards and have shown they are willing to drop prices to sell off inventory. The 7900xtx has currently increased in price from release day but once all retailers have stock expect that to change and it should return to MSRP and if sales are poor there will likely be price drops from AMD.

 

[WonkyEyezJohnny]

does the xt have problems?

 

[Haz123]

If it is a reference MBA model with a vapour chamber then they most likely do. Look for an AIB card with their own custom designed cooler such as this one.

Sapphire Radeon RX 7900 XT Pulse 20GB GDDR6 PCI-Express Graphics Card

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The XT pricing is laughable. ASrock and ASUS MBA are priced £100 over the price of the Sapphire and Powercolor MBA. All they have done is put the cards they got handed by AMD into their own boxes , they are identical except for packaging.

 

[Woodsta888]

Been waiting so long for a GPU now and come to another brick wall i wanted 3080 but couldnt get one because of cypto mining so though i would wait for 4080 but didnt want to pay £1200 so when then 7900 xtx come along i thought ill go for that one but i have heard a lot of people have heat temp issues so stopped me from buying that but is it only then ref one that have the problem or is it all off them? and also what are your thoughts on 4070ti?

What is your setup? What resolution is your monitor you are trying to run and its refresh rate?

 

[Fluffybob]

does the xt have problems?

Only affecting the XTX models apparently

 

[WonkyEyezJohnny]

What is your setup? What resolution is your monitor you are trying to run and its refresh rate?

PC-
ASUS ROG STRIX B550-E GAMING Motherboard
Ryzen 5 5600x
Corsair iCue H100i Elite Capellix RGB 240mm AIO CPU Liquid Cooler
CORSAIR VENGEANCE RGB PRO 16GB (2x8GB) DDR4 3600
WD Blue SN550 1TB High-Performance M.2 Pcie NVMe SSD
Corsair RMx Series RM750x 750W 80 Plus Gold

Monitor-
LG UltraGear 27GP850 1440p 165hz