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Keep in mind that Zen 5 is also a few months away. Later this year should be a good time to do a full system upgrade, either to a shiny new 9000 series chip or a cheaper 7000 series part once the new ones arrive and (hopefully) push prices down on those.

Certainly not a 4060 Ti. It's a massively overpriced card and not a worthwhile upgrade from a 1080 Ti in my opinion. If you're now willing to spend a bit more, the 7900 GRE or 4070 Super would be better options and a much bigger upgrade. The former is generally a little cheaper. I'd take a look...

They did release an 8GB 3060 later on, with the memory bus slashed to 128-bit. It performs significantly worse than the 12GB model though thanks to the resulting cut in bandwidth.

I'm honestly shocked that people are expecting Battlemage to be anywhere near a 4080, given we know from the leaked roadmap that Intel are targeting a <225W TDP. Unless they've somehow absolutely annihilated Nvidia on the perf/watt front, 4080 performance is completely off the table based on...

If you click on the monitoring button on the left, it should show you the actual RPM the fans are spinning at. Sounds like they might be stuck full on or something.

TechPowerUp reviewed that model and found it to be relatively quiet, so it certainly sounds like something's up. https://www.techpowerup.com/review/palit-geforce-rtx-4080-super-gamingpro/39.html Have you checked the actual PWM and RPM the fans are running at using something like GPU-Z or MSI...

Why not try it out on your current card? The 6800 XT is perfectly capable of enabling all the RT effects in games. The framerate might not be much to shout about afterwards, but it at least lets you preview the visuals and decide whether you find it particularly life-changing or not.

Depends on whether you feel like the games you play aren't running as well as you'd like or not. Personally, I don't think an ~30% increase is enough to justify the cost. Also, you can use frame generation on your current card, both via FMF and by modding it into DLSS frame generation games for...

Yep. You don't even need to go to the 2080 Ti, which is an outright more appealling card than the 4060 Ti. Something like a 2070 Super still goes for over £200 used due to the utter stagnation in the mid-range. A 4060 Ti is only ~25% faster than one of those and the feature set between them is...

The RX 6800 might also be worth considering, if you don't necessarily want to max out your budget. You can get one brand new for £366 right now, which is a lot of performance for the money.

If you're just gaming then it doesn't really matter which one you pick. The 4080S is the slightly better card on balance for now at least, until AMD deliver on their promise of improving FSR, but then it's also more expensive. I wouldn't consider anything except the Founders Edition at £959 if...

Aside from adding nothing notable to the visuals, the 4080 is barely cracking 40fps with RT enabled at times. I can't imagine anyone in their right mind choosing to play a game like Diablo that way.

The stuff about XeSS really isn't accurate. It looks much better than FSR even running on an AMD/Nvidia card. I'm yet to see any evidence that there are image quality compromises in running it on an AMD/Nvidia card as opposed to Arc. The compromise comes in terms of getting less of a performance...

I'm so bored of these useless DLSS vs FSR comparison videos. The situation hasn't changed in years, and nor will it until AMD fundementally change the way FSR is developed. Which will no doubt be something they announce, so why do we need these constant check-ins other than the purpose of...

It's just another thing competing for system resources. The current control panel has no interaction with games, goes away completely when it's closed and was designed for XP-era machines originally. This new one has an overlay with a bunch of features that directly hook into and run alongside...

Well, just to follow up on this, I'm quite impressed with AMD's RMA service. It was delivered to them on Friday, I received a confirmation it'd been received on Monday, another email to say the replacement had been approved yesterday and about half an hour ago a shiny new 5800X3D was delivered...

EVGA as a company isn't defunct though. They still sell plenty of things besides graphics cards and they still offer warranty service for existing graphics card owners. Their UK RMA base closed in 2019, long before they quit the GPU game.

Some of that info is WAY out of date. EVGA closed down their UK RMA base a long, long time ago and everything goes to Germany now. For funsies I just tried the number listed there and it's been disconnected. Same goes for KFA2/Galax. The company that handled their UK RMAs (Partners IT Limited)...

It was collected by DHL earlier today actually and is on its way to the Netherlands. AMD provided a prepaid label and a link to arrange a collection after a few questions about the troubleshooting I'd performed, so it's been a fairly smooth process so far. Hopefully it'll all work out.

There are games where you'll see a decent improvement even with a relatively slow GPU. I'm still using a 1080 Ti and upgrading to a 5800X3D was a huge boost to lows in World of Warcraft, for example, even coming from a 5800X. There are other graphically lighter games like Factorio which also...