Slaughtahouse

What's the primary use for your client? Sounds like it's everything under the sun. If it's a living room PC and "maybe" there would be some photo / video editing, you don't need the highest end components. I'd would try to stick with lower power parts for a quieter build. Used Zen 4 on AM5 will be plenty for a long while, especially for gaming at 4K. E.g., 7800X3D or 7950X (non 3D) would both be good options since they're likely to be on the second hand market. Next is simply defining priority. - If media consumption, 7800X3D. - If editing, 7950X. I wouldn't go for 7900/7950 X3D versions since I've heard they're cumbersome for the user to get the most out of the chips for gaming. 7950X on ECO mode and the 7800X3D both sip like 100w under load... Both should be easy to keep quiet, especially when viewing/listening to content in a living room. 9070 / 9070 XT / 7900 XT / 7900 XTX / 4070 Ti / 5070 Ti are all good options IMO for 4K / 60fps+ gaming. All have 16GB or more VRAM. Nvidia should only be favoured IMO if they predominantly play games with RT. Alan Wake, Cyberpunk, Outlaws, Black Myth Wukong etc. Pick your poison factoring size, power consumption etc. Of course you could spend more but if I had to pick today, 9070XT would be my go to. Since its 7900 XT / XTX like performance with better RT and FSR4 support. PCIE4 will be good for a long time, even if PCIE5 quickly replaces it. The rest, really up to you and reviews. If the MSI board is reliable, go for it. Good luck!

Assassin's Creed Shadows 1440p (XeSS Quality) Custom Settings, Max RT

Sans mods. I OC’d and UV’d the heck out of it when I first got it, but once I started to play games, mainly Avatar, it broke all my OCs which I thought were stable. Now it just sits with a custom fan curve on stock settings in my open bench, and I ain’t sweatin’ one bit.

Twizzler Super Nibs and a 6 pack of beer. Simple pleasures in life… and definitely not jealous of the above two purchases. At all.

Tis exactly my thoughts. I was all for championing it, but proof is in the pudding so to speak. It's still a good card and in some respects, will scale better over time than the 7900 XTX (RT based games) but it's disappointing we can't respect MSRPs. It's certainly better than the alternative from Nvidia in terms of $/perf. Good news is that FSR4 will come to RDNA 3 but I am not sure the INT8 performance on RDNA 3 (roughly 1/3) will yield good performance or quality. TBD. Comparison of specs can be quickly found here.https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/gpus/amd-radeon-rx-9070-xt-review Feel free to throw me into the fray. 7900 XTX - MBA. I can provide more info if needed, like ASIC quality. I knew that was thing before to gauge roughly the binning quality of your chip.

Another GPU to consider is a GTX 1660. Its that weird Turing gen that stripped RT features but has tensor cores to support ML features like DLSS. Once you get into RTX class GPUs, it’s kinda a wash for your need. It really depends on what you can find used. At least in this segment you have a ton of options. Unless you can find a RTX 4060 for $200, that would be stellar. I see a lot 3060 in that price range and they’re within 15% of each other. Likely a lot more ampere cards out there because of the mining boom and crash. Heck you can even find 12gb 3060s fairly cheap. Both GPUs are overkill for these games but at least they have some flexibility in the future. CPUs / board / memory you have a bajillion options from so it will simply come down to how modern you want to go if budget isn’t a concern. Another good reference for baseline system costs: Logical Increments WWW.LOGICALINCREMENTS.COM Helping you build a PC, at any budget.

A modern AMD APU would probably trade blows or beat the 1050ti if you have a hard time finding a cheap pascal GPU. I have the 780m iGPU in my laptop and its in between 1050ti to 1060 level performance according to TPU. An 8600g (760m iGPU) would be pretty good long term since its Zen 4 cpu, get access to a modern platform with NVME storage and PCIE 4, and could easily scale in the future if they want to upgrade the GPU in few years. Minecraft / Roblox will also scale a better with a more modern CPU for your kiddo to flex that 100hz https://www.techpowerup.com/gpu-specs/radeon-760m.c4022 https://www.techpowerup.com/gpu-specs/radeon-780m.c4020 https://www.amd.com/en/products/processors/desktops/ryzen/8000-series/amd-ryzen-5-8600g.html AMD Ryzen 5 8600G AM5 4.3GHz 6-Core Boxed Processor - Wraith Stealth Cooler Included - Micro Center WWW.MICROCENTER.COM Get it now! Incredible PC gaming is within your reach. Get your... It may be more expensive than an older Intel / Pascal build but could be an option to explore if you're struggling to find used hardware.

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Good, let those 5070s rot. Nvidia should recall, relabel as 5060 or 5060 Ti and drop the price to $400.

The lesser of two evils I guess?. Curious to see how bad it gets, especially as tariffs go into play.

I think the schedule goes: - 5070 reviews tomorrow (March 4th) - 5070 launch and 9070 / 9070 XT reviews on Wednesday (March 5th) - 9070 / 9070 XT launch on Thursday (March 6th)

Depends if the 9070 XT actually sells at MSRP. If AIBs and demand drive price up, you may see 9070 sit at $550. Keep in mind Nvidia 5070 is at the same price with only 12GB vram. Unless Nvidia responds by lowering prices and demand is satisfied, we may not see AMD react. Time will tell. It’s hard to gauge how much interest there is with all this artificial scarcity from Nvidia. Actual revenue dropping from these companies in gaming segments make me believe there is less demand but who knows if that’s accurate. Could just simply be Nvidia / AMD redirecting inventory and wafers to different markets (data centres).

Thread updated with pricing info. I'll add additional sources and deep dives as they become available Pricing is fairly promising. Not as low as they needed but much better than the -$50 approach.

I would have gone to a 5080 if it had ~4090 level performance, 24Gb of VRAM, better RT, at less than 350W. A side grade with access to latest “software features” just to stay up to date. 90 series is out of my price range. All other Blackwell fell flat. I’ll likely wait until the next gen (UDNA / Rubin) and see where they go with 3nm. Also not much motivating me to upgrade. XTX is worst case only doing 40fps at 4K in the most demanding titles.

I think most kids these days are asking for hardware to play GTA Online, PUBG, Minecraft etc. All of which run fine on the 6600 XTs and 3060s. Maybe Black Myth Wukong is that title since it seriously favours Nvidia and was extremely popular but I get what you’re throwing down. I’d love to say I always favoured the underdog but the truth is I don’t care. I just want hardware with what I deem is good value for my time and money. AMD was that provider when I last upgraded (7900 XTX) but it still wasn’t an ideal purchase. It just had the least amount of caveats I was willing to accept. Expensive, disappointing RT but great performance, healthy VRAM, and a normal form factor. The launch was also an issue, with faulty vapour chambers and poor launch pricing. I’d gladly go back to Nvidia if they competed with Blackwell but instead they chose to stay status quo. Here’s hoping AMD will make the market a bit more competitive but I ain’t holding my breath. I believe they will continue to price fix and only an obtainable $550 or less 9070 XT would really change my mind. My bet is $550 9070 and $650 9070 XT “MSRP” but you’ll have a hard time finding cards at those prices for the first few months.