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    The £500 go to card?

    PS5 is a Ryzen 3600 + Radeon 6700, give or take. And it's Ray -Tracing perfomance, for those who care, is about what you'd expect from that setup. Most new AAA titles on console are running 30fps at settings that are a mixture of PC Low & Medium.
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    From 9700K to where?

    Interesting. Maybe it's specific to 60hz monitors. I know that once I set it V-Sync on, I was very happy with how it ran & so I stopped thinking about it & got on with playing the game. I had some colour-blind issues with it, but was all OK once I got past that b****d 3 wands mission
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    From 9700K to where?

    Another nice thing about having lots of system RAM is that, if you're like me & you alt+tab out of games quite often to do other stuff, you'll notice it's a fairly instant process, the PC isn''t troubled by it. System RAM helps there.
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    From 9700K to where?

    I should say I have a 60hz 4k Freesync monitor. Nevertheless... I played it when I had a 4070ti - enabling frame gen turned it into a screen-tearing stutterfest, where turning off frame gen & enabling in-game v-sync gave me totally smooth performance. I didn't see the same in Darktide - in that...
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    From 9700K to where?

    Hogwarts is a funny one (really fun game though, in my opinion & good-looking too). 1) It looks worse with Ray-Tracing on, as well as destroying performance. 2) Depsite what anyone will tell you & how other games operate, it runs smoothest with V-Sync turned ON IN GAME 3) It is fairly CPU...
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    The Radeon RX 7900 XT(X) Owners Thread.

    Prices have sadly regressed. I paid £930 for my XTX Pulse, which I thought was 'Acceptable'. I think they were down to £899 just before that. I'm sure the 7900XT's were as low as £700 for a bit, too. Cards are looking poor value again. If I weren't in a rush, I'd probably hold on in the hope...
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    Forza Motorsport 2023 crushing GPUs

    PC has been a better XBox than XBox for a long time IMO. The hardware costs mean for pure gaming it can be hard to justify, but if you do anything else demanding with your PC, then you get a really good experience in both. I have to say Game Pass for PC is quite OK price-wise for what you get.
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    NVIDIA 4000 Series

    The main factor in pricing of GFX cards is the $ exchange rate. So when the US experiences high inflation, or increases in wages, then the markets anticipate higher interest rates in the US. This makes the $ rise against other currencies making GFX cards more expensive here. The opposite applies...
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    The Radeon RX 7900 XT(X) Owners Thread.

    OK, that made a big difference ! 10 deg cooler main temp & hotspot, much lower fan speed. Put one of these intaking right infront of the GPU (literally 2mm gap) : https://www.overclockers.co.uk/noctua-nf-p12-redux-1300rpm-pwm-fan-120mm-fg-07c-nc.html And one of these as the exhaust...
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    The Radeon RX 7900 XT(X) Owners Thread.

    I've not changed it from the default yet. Good idea I'll give it a whirl.
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    The Radeon RX 7900 XT(X) Owners Thread.

    The worst I've seen on Starfield (Native 4k) is 85 deg temp, 100 hotspot. The Delta remains constant. The reason I think the problem (or 'problem' since it's within specs) is that the back side & the glass of the case saturate with heat pretty rapidly & it did the same with my 4070ti which...
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    The Radeon RX 7900 XT(X) Owners Thread.

    Yeah I've seen so many atempts at using wood, mostly mods & this is the 1st one where they really nailed it. Looks incredibly classy & also not like anything else.
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    The Radeon RX 7900 XT(X) Owners Thread.

    Yes this is what I'm going to 1st. I'm planning to put a more static-pressure oriented Noctua fan directly in front of the GPU (it's like a 2mm gap) and the low impedence one as the exhaust (case only has a single 120mm for exhaust) & run both at full speed, to see if it makes a difference...
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    The Radeon RX 7900 XT(X) Owners Thread.

    Ah my motherboard is ATX, so M-ATX cases won't work for me but I appreciate the suggestion - Looks like a very nice case.
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    The Radeon RX 7900 XT(X) Owners Thread.

    Now that I've been using my Sapphire Pulse for a week, I have to day that so far so good ! I've only played Starfield & Darktide, but it's delivering really nice gameplay. I've realised that my case kind of sucks for airflow - an old Meshify C with glass side, packed to the gunnels with 13700k...
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    What are the worst “console” practices that have crept into PC gaming?

    True, but it only takes 1 or 2 badly deployed checkpoints to create moments of infuriating frustration.
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    The Radeon RX 7900 XT(X) Owners Thread.

    My Inno3D 4070ti has suddenly developed an alarming fan rattle. I'm fairly sure it's a failed bearing on the middle fan. I went for a more basic card to hit the the £799 rrp. Really wanted a 7900xt but AMD's launch pricing was stupid. While I RMA it, I've orderd a Sapphire 7900xtx Pulse - An...
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    The Radeon RX 7900 XT(X) Owners Thread.

    imo the Silverstone FT01 is the most beautiful case ever made. I'm sure it's objectively crap in 2023, but still.
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    Cinebench R24 released

    Forgive me, I'm going to copy pasta this from another place I posted it. But TLDR- 2024 is a complete change in underlying code & might need some patches. It might also be less forgiving of systems that are on the edge of stability. For you, it's prob more likely the former, or a bad download...
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    Cinebench R24 released

    Of course, NVidia is the king in this area. Nevertheless, It's good to see proper AMD support though & they offer a lot of VRam / £. If I had big scenes to render, would I rather a 12GB 4070ti that's a fair bit faster, or a 20GB 7900xt that will keep on trucking when the 4070ti is out of memory...
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