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Been a minute since i checked in on here, just finished move back to FL. Did anyone get one of the new X3D chips? Im still using the vanilla 7950X and not sure its worth it to change to one or not.
7950X and 4090 Strix - Tempted to drop down to a 4080 or go water cool and do a 7900XTX Liquid Devil
7950X and 4090 Strix - Tempted to drop down to a 4080 or go water cool and do a 7900XTX Liquid Devil
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Dont like any of the water cooling kits for the 4090? Mine never gets above 63C at load.
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Not having any custom loop stuff together still the part I think most about water cooling is definitely my GPU. It's where I noticed the most difference, and had the biggest reduction in noise (GPU's tend to be too fucking loud). Whenever 5 series comes out I'll probably buy something near top end and maybe do a loop just for that. We'll see how spicy I'm feeling.
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Came a long way, sir. I'm proud to see people are now able to use the term future proofing without being dogpiled. How many said future proofing doesn't exist are now unironically using the term in regular conversation.
Indeed that sales rep at Microcenter sort of knew what he was talking about afterall.
I mean 1,300 watts for fucks sake, is still a little eye-watering in 2023-- but that's the shame of being protected from the future. Still surprised that asshole was right when he leered at 850 watts, then to give a meh to 1,000 watts. Refusing to locate a 1,000 watt PSU in the inventory system.
Someone must have future proofed his brain. What a fella!
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Daidraco
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We'll see what the 50x0 series does in ~2025. The size of the chip is getting to be a fat boy. My 4090 takes up the entire bottom part of my mid tower PC.There is no such thing as future proofing. Everything changes and/or breaks down eventually. But if that guy upsold you then he did a good job for microcenter. I thinkXexx might be the only person on this board who even makes computers that would realistically need 1300 watts this decade.
Went with a smaller case for the look and no matter what I do - it just doesnt have the airflow that I would really like because of the size of the 4090. Even though Im dealing with that, a game like CP2077 set at max doesnt get that hot. I think it was New World? That I got that temp from? - which is coded like a hot dumpster fire. I'm going to sell or part out most of this PC when the 4090 ti drops. People are guessing the 4090 Ti will be out in September (which I thought it would have been out, or at least debuted this month) which I cant imagine will affect the resale value of my 4090 all that much.
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Lanx
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did you get a case w/ a triple slot riser card so the card can draw air directly from outside?
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Case appears to be a bit bigger than that, but not by much. I cant do that orientation of the card because the top of the card doesnt have clearance between the water cooling stuff and the design of the chassis. Again, it only ever got that hot while playing New World. Ive had strictly air cooled PC's that have been hotter due to, again, a case issue. But theyve all been fine. Im going to go back to a tower PC this coming generation so Im not at all worried about it.did you get a case w/ a triple slot riser card so the card can draw air directly from outside?
Gotta keep up with the Joneses now that Nvidia is limiting its newest software to its most recent line of cards.
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i just did my yearly case cleaning, tidying up and thermal paste, its such a joy to work out of a huge monster like the darkbase 700 vs a h510, i had to wear a head lamp, lulz
correction it was a h710, even then the darkbase was nicer to work on
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jayrebb
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I went with the 5000D myself and will probably have it for a decade or more. Was worth the price.
Only difference from previous cases in cooling was that fans need to operate a little higher. I run 6 because I went with Corsair control.
The 5000D supports 11 fans and I'd say it needs at least 7 fans if not 8 if you're serious about staying cool. I run hot as a normal state of operation since I'm underfanned by going with the Corsair control.