Question 7900 XTX ?

[ohio_buckeye]

My local Microcenter has a PowerColor Hellhound 7900 XTX for 799.

Current pc

7600x3d
32gb ddr5 Corsair vengeance rgb 6000
Asus tuf gaming b650 plus WiFi
Rx 6800xt
3 ssd drives-500gb boot, 2tb nvme and 2tb sata
Corsair rm850x purchased approximately 2021.

Monitor is 1440p 180hz 27 inch.

I realize a 7900 XTX is overkill for 1440p, but that is a good price and a quick search on eBay says I should get 300-350 for my current card. Seems like a decent deal. 799 is about the best price I’ve seen on that class of card.

Part of me says wait until next generation but again that’s a decent price. They’ve also got the same model in a 7900xt version for 619.99.

 

[Flayed]

Title says it. My local Microcenter has a powercolor hellhound 7900xtx for 799.

Current pc

7600x3d
32gb ddr5 Corsair vengeance rgb 6000
Asus tuf gaming b650 plus WiFi
Rx 6800xt
3 ssd drives-500gb boot, 2tb nvme and 2tb sata
Corsair rm850x purchased approximately 2021.

Monitor is 1440p 180hz 27 inch.

I realize a 7900xtx is overkill for 1440p, but that is a good price and a quick search on eBay says I should get 300-350 for my current card. Seems like a decent deal. 799 is about the best price I’ve seen on that class of card.

Part of me says wait until next generation but again that’s a decent price. They’ve also got the same model in a 7900xt version for 619.99.

It is a good price, I doubt AMDs next generation will be faster in raster only in ray tracing. Nvidia next gen will likely be expensive.

 

[thestryker]

It's a good price, but I think the most important thing would be the combination of why you'd be upgrading and how long you wanted to keep it.

While I doubt the next generation of Radeon will be a lot faster than the 7900 XTX it will have significantly improved RT. There's also no guarantee that the improved AI version of FSR they're working on will be backwards compatible.

Personally speaking I'm running 1440p UW on my system and have zero intention of replacing my card until whatever the next generation is at the earliest (meaning Xe3/RTX 6xxx/RX 9xxx).

 

[ohio_buckeye]

Part of it is I was talking to a friend who has one and he was pointing out that price as being great. Don’t get me wrong it’s not that the 6800xt isn’t doing something I want but at the same time it may not be a bad idea to sell it while it’s got most of it’s value.

I do realize that maybe that card may not support all of the latest upcoming features, but I would imagine that card would have enough brute force for a while. I think the performance is basically what, a 4080.

It appears from a fast search that rtx performance on the 7900xtx is roughly a 3080ti-3090ti level. I would hope the card could last until the rx 9000 series. Part of it is as well you see that price and see the idea of tariffs so not knowing what things will cost, of course e know nvidia will be expensive. But part of it is wondering as will you see newer games such as Indiana Jones requiring RT, and wondering if the 7900xtx will be enough particularly for the games at the end of the nvidia 5000 series generation.

 

[ohio_buckeye]

Let me ask, is the Corsair rm850x sufficient for a 7900xtx? Purchased in about 2021.

Stuff I’ve seen suggests yes. However I’m planning to set up a secondary system for my wife’s home office so I may transfer the Corsair into her pc. Any relatively inexpensive units that would be recommended for the 7900xtx? Inexpensive as in decently priced but reliable. I don’t intend to buy a budget unit or something like some of the of the wall units you see. I was looking at some super flower units but no experience with them.

Never used any bequiet products but this looked decent for the money. Figuring maybe buy up a little to have a bit of headroom then later if I pick up a better CPU etc then I am set.

https://www.newegg.com/be-quiet-pure-power-1000w-1000-w/p/1HU-004H-000S1

Maybe one of these?

https://www.newegg.com/msi-mag-a1000gl-pcie5-1000-w-80-plus-gold-certified/p/N82E16817701026

 

[artk2219]

Let me ask, is the Corsair rm850x sufficient for a 7900xtx? Purchased in about 2021.

Stuff I’ve seen suggests yes. However I’m planning to set up a secondary system for my wife’s home office so I may transfer the Corsair into her pc. Any relatively inexpensive units that would be recommended for the 7900xtx? Inexpensive as in decently priced but reliable. I don’t intend to buy a budget unit or something like some of the of the wall units you see. I was looking at some super flower units but no experience with them.

Never used any bequiet products but this looked decent for the money. Figuring maybe buy up a little to have a bit of headroom then later if I pick up a better CPU etc then I am set.

https://www.newegg.com/be-quiet-pure-power-1000w-1000-w/p/1HU-004H-000S1

Maybe one of these?

https://www.newegg.com/msi-mag-a1000gl-pcie5-1000-w-80-plus-gold-certified/p/N82E16817701026

An 850w psu is enough, I'm running a 7900x3d and RX 7900xtx on my EVGA 850w unit.

 

[ohio_buckeye]

Ok. Maybe I’ll pick up a cheaper 650 watt unit for her pc and pick up another psu when I upgrade the cpu or something just so I’m not running it too close.

 

[Flayed]

I was looking at a NZXT C series PSU as they got a very good review on hwbusters

 

[QyInvoLing]

If you want to buy it then buy it. Relax it, don't be regretful later.

 

[ilukey77]

An 850w psu is enough, I'm running a 7900x3d and RX 7900xtx on my EVGA 850w unit.

depends on the rating power color recommends 800w for the hell hound 7900xtx myself a 1000w wouldnt be a bad idea ( i like to over kill things my red devil 7900xtx le recommends 900w ) but sure a decent rated 850w would be fine !!

 

[ilukey77]

If you want to buy it then buy it. Relax it, don't be regretful later.

Im up to 5 powercolor cards now 5700xt red devil 6900xt red devil 7900xtx red devil 6700xt spectral white hellhound and a 6650xt hellhound sakura and all of them have been great no trouble what so ever!!

The hellhounds are quite cool little beasts over the red devils but then they dont draw as much power has the red devils !!

So 100% a new powercolor card is a decent buy and i doubt there will be any regret

 

[ohio_buckeye]

As far as psu I ended up purchasing this. Showed up on the tier list as A rated and was 145 for a 1200 watt unit, which is overkill but on the other hand when a lot of the other units were 1000 watts for about the same money might as well get the extra power then it’s a bit oversized if I toss in a Ryzen 7 10800 x3d whenever they release that or a similar cpu.

https://www.newegg.com/thermaltake-...00-w-80-plus-gold-certified/p/N82E16817153436

I’m going to attempt to get the hellhound card but I won’t be able to get to Microcenter until Thursday and they are supposed to put it back at the end of the day today. I also saw a refurbished reference model 7900xtx for the same price there so I may try to get that if the hellhound isn’t available. Worst case they had a hellhound 7900xt for $619, so I can always fallback to that.

But at least ordering the psu gets me solid power for whatever card I end up with and lets me shift the 850 to my wife’s future office pc. I’ve got a z690 board leftover with 32gb of ram. Selling the 12600kf I have but likely going to pop an i5 12400 into that board since it is a lower power draw, is cheap and has the igpu. Just need to grab that and a cheap black case which is what she wants.

 

[artk2219]

Im up to 5 powercolor cards now 5700xt red devil 6900xt red devil 7900xtx red devil 6700xt spectral white hellhound and a 6650xt hellhound sakura and all of them have been great no trouble what so ever!!

The hellhounds are quite cool little beasts over the red devils but then they dont draw as much power has the red devils !!

So 100% a new powercolor card is a decent buy and i doubt there will be any regret

You're not kidding about the hellhounds, I've got an Rx 6700 xt hellhound in a build that I'm currently selling that I can't get to go past 52c. That was the temperature after running furnark full tilt for 24 hours. It was the same when I left it running unigine super position for another 24 hours after that. I thought it may not have been fully utilized, but nope, it was hitting 98 - 100% the whole time and giving great performance. That card may have some serious oc potential.

 

[ilukey77]

You're not kidding about the hellhounds, I've got an Rx 6700 xt hellhound in a build that I'm currently selling that I can't get to go past 52c. That was the temperature after running furnark full tilt for 24 hours. It was the same when I left it running unigine super position for another 24 hours after that. I thought it may not have been fully utilized, but nope, it was hitting 98 - 100% the whole time and giving great performance. That card may have some serious oc potential.

Problem with power colour cards ( guess not really power colours fault )
Is they are over engineered for the limits AMD put on them ..

The red Devis are rated much higher wattage than what AMDs Adrenalin software will allow to push through it..

I remember quite a few arguments on the power color forums over the 6900xt claimed wattage to what you could actually push into it..

Unless you wanted to risk warranty and card the only way was to use a custom bios!

 

[LordVile]

Honestly I don’t get the point of high end AMD cards at this point. Lower end cards can run raster well enough to the point where it won’t make a difference and if you want to turn settings up AMD still can’t do RT so you can’t run games maxed out with your expensive card

 

[ilukey77]

Honestly I don’t get the point of high end AMD cards at this point. Lower end cards can run raster well enough to the point where it won’t make a difference and if you want to turn settings up AMD still can’t do RT so you can’t run games maxed out with your expensive card

The problem is that Nvidia are still taking mind share and market share 5080 and 5090 ( not sure about 16gb on the 5080 )
Both are going to keep Nvidia on the top tier list ..

AMD are going to flounder away in the mid to low tier with intel competing for the same market at a lower price….

AMD needs that 5090 beating flagship to say hey Nvidia you are not the best of the best and offering competition because of right now there is none

You want the best Nvidia is it at a premium price and they will continue to charge what ever they like because AMD can’t / don’t want to compete .

Aib 5090s will be around the 2000 to 2100usd price

Then

6090 at 2500usd ?? Why not there is nothing stopping them from charging that!

Unless of course AMD know they can’t win against Nvidia ever so why not completely cook Intel’s CPU’s and GPU’s

which makes more sense they have sent intel into the Stone Age with there CPU’s why not crush there GPU’s too so AMD can occupy the crappy low end market in GPU’s and own the market in CPU’s