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Lupus said:
Odd, though 80 isn't an issue anyway. Think my old 2060 super used to hit 85 degrees though.
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No, it's not, Thermal throttle is at 95 anyway - my 4070 super hits those temps as well, but always seeing those temps makes me uneasy, then I start messing with fan curves or just under-volt a little, then all good.

I've been using https://github.com/Rem0o/FanControl.Releases for about a year now, it's better than all these OEM softwares it allows you to do a lot more than OEM bloat
 
If the cheapest 5070 Ti 24GB Supers hit our shores at around the R17 - 18k mark in Q1 of next year, then I suppose it's not going to be a wise purchase to get a 9070 XT 16GB anytime soon at R16k or 5070 Ti 16GB at R17k?

The performance of the cards themselves in the short to medium term is not so much the factor to consider, it's the extra longevity that the 24GB cards will provide?
 
RogueTr00per said:
If the cheapest 5070 Ti 24GB Supers hit our shores at around the R17 - 18k mark in Q1 of next year, then I suppose it's not going to be a wise purchase to get a 9070 XT 16GB anytime soon at R16k or 5070 Ti 16GB at R17k?

The performance of the cards themselves in the short to medium term is not so much the factor to consider, it's the extra longevity that the 24GB cards will provide?
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The Team Red shills still say that there will be 9090 XTX or whatever coming. All that it is, in my opinion, is a rumour. From where I am sitting, it is only "Redstone" that AMD is holding in its deck to retain some mindshare. FSR 4 will also be rolling out to RDNA 3, and now with them having threaded queueing at a driver level, the GPUs might improve a bit. This will mitigate RDNA 3 users upgrading to RTX 50. I am being speculative, but the writing is within their own preview drivers.

All that said. I do expect RDNA 5 (that will not be UDNA per se) to be announced much sooner than anticipated.

The issue Nvidia has, not only with RTX 50, but also with RTX 40, is that its technology stack is being adopted too slowly. Though by and large, this also depends on where DXR 1.2 is... All in all, RDNA 3/4 and RTX 40/50, maybe 30/20, stand to win in 2026. The Vulkan stack is also integrating similar tech stacks to DXR 1.2. This is all good, since we will have very good texture compression, which will be better on newer architectures, better ray tracing/path tracing compute, as well as better shader compute. It is possible that some GPUs could improve by up to 15%. It is important to know that this is dependent on compilers and developers adopting these tech stacks.

Yes, 24GB GPUs are better than 16GB GPUs, but texture compression will help alleviate these pains. For the most part, it is more to sell and utilize localized AI.
 
deesef said:
Why water-cooled on the 5600x? I don't think that mine has ever hit 70 degrees...

PS - I'm running a twin-fan CoolerMaster CPU cooler.
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¯\_(ツ)_/¯​


I bought it like this, but so far I have no complaints. With 4k gaming pushing the GPU to its max and the CPU to 70-80% util I am seeing around 62-65 degrees on both CPU and GPU.
 
deesef said:
Jikes. Mine idles at about 42 degrees in mid-summer in Pretoria, but I don't use the stock. I use a twin-fan CoolerMaster tower
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Idle temps for me on intel is 30 ish and 61 on 100% percent load and that is with a single tower cooler fan I have yet to install the additional fan.

Glad I am on Intel, still no regretting staying with team blue. :) But to be fair I have limited my TDP to 65 watts, can only assume if I allow it to turbo to 4.7 and 140 watts it will be an entirely different picture.

Regardless, this B760 pro motherboard and 14th gen CPU is butter smooth and stable, it is the other reason I went with intel over amd.


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RogueTr00per said:
If the cheapest 5070 Ti 24GB Supers hit our shores at around the R17 - 18k mark in Q1 of next year, then I suppose it's not going to be a wise purchase to get a 9070 XT 16GB anytime soon at R16k or 5070 Ti 16GB at R17k?

The performance of the cards themselves in the short to medium term is not so much the factor to consider, it's the extra longevity that the 24GB cards will provide?
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i bought a 5070 ti now at R15.9k from evetech. My theory/reasoning is that the super cards will get released in Q1 but will take 3-6 months to get supply firstly to SA in a price range that matches it. Did i want to wait nearly a year for the supers and then by that stage you would hear rumours of a 6070 etc. Answer was no so i bought it now.
 
New build finished on the weekend, 9700x cpu, 5070 ti gpu. Only thing i dont like is the cooler. Saved a few bucks and went with a thermalright air cooler and feels like the it is just too big in the box. Also CPU temps on idle sitting at 49-55 idle and 58-68 under load. Would prefer that a bit lower i think.
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AMD and OpenAI Announce Strategic Partnership to Deploy 6 Gigawatts of AMD GPUs

News Highlights OpenAI to deploy 6 gigawatts of AMD GPUs based on a multi-year, multi-generation agreement Initial 1 gigawatt OpenAI deployment of…...
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AMD and OpenAI Announce Strategic Partnership to Deploy 6 Gigawatts of AMD GPUs​

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As part of the agreement, to further align strategic interests, AMD has issued OpenAI a warrant for up to 160 million shares of AMD common stock, structured to vest as specific milestones are achieved. The first tranche vests with the initial 1 gigawatt deployment, with additional tranches vesting as purchases scale up to 6 gigawatts. Vesting is further tied to AMD achieving certain share-price targets and to OpenAI achieving the technical and commercial milestones required to enable AMD deployments at scale.
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For anyone who said that AMD is not an AI company, well, there it is in its own statement. Though this could potentially erode Nvidia's AI dominance, AMD will invest more in AI. For those not knowing, AMD is an AI incubator, kinda. They would give hardware to startups, and where they succeed, they would then be acquired. I don't know how these agreements work.

This is a big announcement between OpenAI and AMD.
 
Thrasil said:
New build finished on the weekend, 9700x cpu, 5070 ti gpu. Only thing i dont like is the cooler. Saved a few bucks and went with a thermalright air cooler and feels like the it is just too big in the box. Also CPU temps on idle sitting at 49-55 idle and 58-68 under load. Would prefer that a bit lower i think.
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The only gripe I have with these Palit cards is their fan noises. But I believe that it is related to the bearings they use in the motors.
 
Thrasil said:
i bought a 5070 ti now at R15.9k from evetech. My theory/reasoning is that the super cards will get released in Q1 but will take 3-6 months to get supply firstly to SA in a price range that matches it. Did i want to wait nearly a year for the supers and then by that stage you would hear rumours of a 6070 etc. Answer was no so i bought it now.
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Sure, that reasoning is fair enough I think.

In my case waiting as long as possible is probably the way to go, I'm running a 3080 with an i5-13600KF and 32GB DDR4 RAM and I suppose as long as I can run Battlefield 6 over 120 FPS then I'll be more than happy. If I can stay above 100 FPS then that will be OK-ish, but then I might get that itch to upgrade.

Edit: I'm on 1440p, 32" LG Ultragear, the pixel density is too low but I'm not too fazed.
 
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RogueTr00per said:
Sure, that reasoning is fair enough I think.

In my case waiting as long as possible is probably the way to go, I'm running a 3080 with an i5-13600KF and 32GB DDR4 RAM and I suppose as long as I can run Battlefield 6 over 120 FPS then I'll be more than happy. If I can stay above 100 FPS then that will be OK-ish, but then I might get that itch to upgrade.
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agree with you, one of the driving reasons that started the new pc for me is looking forward to bf6 and the 2080 and 8th gen i7 i had was struggling to give me good frames unless i tanked the quality on a 1440p screen during the bf6 beta.
 
Thrasil said:
agree with you, one of the driving reasons that started the new pc for me is looking forward to bf6 and the 2080 and 8th gen i7 i had was struggling to give me good frames unless i tanked the quality on a 1440p screen during the bf6 beta.
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Bf6 is pretty heavy in the cpu, that 8th gen was probably crying for help
 
RogueTr00per said:
Would PNY or Zotac be a better choice?
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I think they are all on the same level. I own a Palit RTX 5070ti card also and from what I've search on the internet a lot of them have these "issues" not a issue per say, apparently that is how the fans sound on these Palit cards. But after a while you get used to it :)
 
I also got a Palit card. Couldn't justify paying R3k+ more for essentially the same underlying hardware.

Maybe next time.

People seem happy enough with how cool they run.

Will just have to see how the CPU cooler holds up.

PSU should hopefully be delivered today.
 
Yeah, they all run on Nvidia drivers. Wanted an MSI Inspire myself but got a Zotac instead and saved plenty for essentially the same thing.

Saving paid for a new PSU, cooler, pate, fans, controller and cabling, whole spring-clean, and still had money left over to boot.
 
Gtx Gaming said:

Glad to see wootware going be stocking these soon!
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The HAVN cases would be nice to see too.


Anyway, the cooler holds up in games but is not sufficient for heavy prolongued workloads as suspected by a previous poster.

Also need to double check mount and CPU fans. Think I got it right but I may be wrong.

Over 90 with Cinebench. Did stay stable but did not complete the run as I don't want to stress it unecessarily.

May have a cooler to PIF soon.
 
netstrider said:
The HAVN cases would be nice to see too.


Anyway, the cooler holds up in games but is not sufficient for heavy prolongued workloads as suspected by a previous poster.

Also need to double check mount and CPU fans. Think I got it right but I may be wrong.

Over 90 with Cinebench. Did stay stable but did not complete the run as I don't want to stress it unecessarily.

May have a cooler to PIF soon.
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360mm AIO in your future? 170w TDP chip will need all the cooling it can get for sustained workloads.
 
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