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You can also wait a couple of months for a new gpu as new ones will be out towards the end of 2024/beginning of 2025. Worst case it makes 4000/7000 series cheaper new or used.

... if you can wait.

You dont seem to keep rigs forever, so I'd also not worry about vram unless you're playing at 4k. If so, you may want to jump up a class of cards anyway. But for 2560x1440 or less, 12gb is fine for the next couple of years.
I will echo this, were expecting AMD to release their next gen RX 8800 XT's as soon as next month. Nvidia is not expected to release anything but a new 5090 this year but there may be a chance they react to AMD's expected high value card with a solid bottom upper tier or higher midrange card.

And while I normally advocate for more vram better, unless your gaming in 4k and keeping your card for 3+ years you will probably be fine with less, so long as its not 8gb. I do disagree about RT only because its functionally unplayable in most games with mid range cards from either vendor so unless your buying a high end card in my opinion RT does not move the needle.
 
were expecting AMD to release their next gen RX 8800 XT's as soon as next month.
Yeah... MLID bricked on that September prediction. I still stick with 'highly unlikely' for October...and add November to it, now. My money is no earlier than December from both camps.

I do disagree about RT only because its functionally unplayable in most games with mid range cards from either vendor so unless your buying a high end card in my opinion RT does not move the needle.
DLSS/FSR FTW. ;)
 
There was news that Nvidia will present RTX5000 at CES, so around the first or second week of January. Considering there are no leaks and no ES samples in the wild, I wouldn't be so optimistic about seeing anything this year from AMD and Nvidia. Maybe they suddenly keep it a secret, but every previous premiere had a lot of leaks for 3-4 months before we could see any more official results.
 
Thanks guys, i ordered the gigabyte Nvidia. Not waiting impatiently for other parts to arrive. 🫠
 
Damn something that didn't cross my mind was the weight of the card. Read reviews that some people reported broken PCB's with these Gigabyte cards. Would a standard support bracket like this be sufficient? 🤔
 

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do you have a 3d printer, or friend with a 3d printer?

I would just make and print one myself if it was me.
I've always wanted to play around with a 3D printer, maybe that is what I should buy next. Can my video card handle 3D modeling 😁
 
I've always wanted to play around with a 3D printer, maybe that is what I should buy next. Can my video card handle 3D modeling 😁
Yes it can.
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Can you take a picture of the GPU (or a GPU) in the slot on the motherboard, Its also possible that you could make a support arm with something like Plexiglases so it wont disrupt your design.
 
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Damn something that didn't cross my mind was the weight of the card. Read reviews that some people reported broken PCB's with these Gigabyte cards. Would a standard support bracket like this be sufficient?
I mean, don't transport it with the GPU in there and make sure it's secured to the case and that won't happen. ;)

Many large GPUs come with support struts already.
 
It's Alive...

It is slow on startup and restarts 🤔

Update:
Read about memory context restore and Enabled it.
 

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No PBO under-volting yet, but just saw my tenp hit 95° starting up Cinebench 2024. 😬. Went back to idle 45°.

Running Single Core Test at a steady 68°. Final score was 119.

Running Multi Core Test at a steady 92° without thermal throttling. Final score was 1615.
 
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Hmm just tried a negative 25 under-volt and had no effect. Tried ECO mode just to test and wouldn't boot to Windows, just got a black screen after Asus Logo 🤔

Update:
Got it working using the settings in the AI Teaker section instead of what I was used to in my 5900X rig. I have a temp problem on my Core5 ccd1 being 10-15 degrees higher than all other Cores. I wonder if I should remount the heatsink or just got a bad CPU.

Here is ECO Mode at 105 Watts
 

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Now moved to PBO Enhancement Mode Level 2 with a Curve Optimizer of -25. All Cores hitting 5400mhz and CoreTemps 80-81 running OCCT. Wierd thought that now HWiNFO showing random RED temps in CPU (Tct/Tdie), CPU Die (average), and CPU CCD1 & CCD2 (Tdie). No thermal throttling!
 

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Now moved to PBO Enhancement Mode Level 2 with a Curve Optimizer of -25. All Cores hitting 5400mhz and CoreTemps 80-81 running OCCT. Wierd thought that now HWiNFO showing random RED temps in CPU (Tct/Tdie), CPU Die (average), and CPU CCD1 & CCD2 (Tdie). No thermal throttling!

These CPUs are designed to use the whole available temperature range. I assume you used one of the PBO profiles with a lower temperature limit (80°C ?), and that's why it reaches slightly above that and shows red. The standard limit for the 7900X is 95°C. All my Ryzens go up to this temperature without throttling except for the 7800X3D, which has a lower limit. In my meaning, throttling is when the CPU works slower than the default settings. Hwinfo64 won't show the throttling unless the CPU has forced lower than standard frequency or limited power. For the 7900X, the base frequency is 4.7GHz, so if it runs at less than 4.7GHz under load (and it's not manually forced frequency), it has some problems. Your CPU runs at 5.4GHz, so there is no problem. It actually runs higher than most of those CPUs. The average max on all cores is around 5.2-5.3GHz.
 
OK thanks for the info, but what do you think of my results? That's the best I found for temp / frequency.
 
OK thanks for the info, but what do you think of my results? That's the best I found for temp / frequency.

It looks great :thup: I don't think you can make much more out of that, as it's already better than most others can make on these CPUs.
 
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Moved from using AI Tweaker to AMD Overclock ECO Mode with -10 Curve Optimizer and 80°C thermal limit.

Used -10 cause supposedly anything more would crash Adobe apps especially premiere. Will test that further later. Set thermal limit to 80'°C to limit noise from fans.
 

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Moved the GPU cable cause it looked funky.

Final Settings are AMD Overclock ECO Mode with -10 Curve Optimizer and 85°C thermal limit and using Memory EXPO II setting.

Tested witn Cinebench v24, OCCT, Blender, Prime95, and RealBench. I know some are obsolete, but had no problems.
 

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