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Been looking at 2 slot 9060 XT's and this is just a few dollars cheaper than the last deal of $549 at Centre Com.
Referee: $10 off 1st purchase.
Referrer: $10/$20/$30 off $100/$150/$250 Spend.
meanwhile my 1070 is begging to be retired
Yeah it's time to put ol mate to bed. Can't even play some games due to shader requirements. This would be an amazing upgrade!
1070: kill meee~
hey me tooooo!! my power supply I bought at the time was only slightly larger though (think 550W?) - might have issues with anything larger than this
550w is plenty for most modern cards that are mid-high tier or below. Though this is CPU dependent. You can easily run a 9060 XT, 9070 non XT etc on a 450-550w PSU if it's paired with say a modern am4/am5 chip of the ~8core variant or less (most pull 100w or less, and you can limit this anyway) - and most builds only have SSDs these days, so their power draw is fairly marginal.
I ran a 5600x and a 3060 Ti on a 450W SFX PSU just fine. To be fair I always PBO/undervolt where I can, though.
As long as the PSU is quality, you'd be perfectly fine to drop-in!
@ReaperX22: Anyone concerned can buy a power meter for $10 on Aliex and see that by far not every game is able to load your PSU on 100%. But, keep in mind that things a bit more complicated so to be safe add 20% to that number.
Considering the retirement of a 1070Ti for this, however it's on one of those PCIE 4x4 docks and I know it doesn't like PCIE5.0 cards (the 5070Ti crashed and burned on the dock and would not run).
Hoping to find something high end Pcie 4 (4070 / 6800xt) at a good price soon.
(Laughs in 1060)
Am I dreaming hoping maybe $500 for black friday?
I reckon a couple bundled coupons or ebay codes could definitely see that 500 mark come up.. Or at least close to it.. But depends if the retailers prep for BF properly and invite Jack back first :P
I would pull the trigger at $500
Ignore this specific variant. Not great cooling. Picked up a triple fan XFX for $589. They are close to MSRP, and have been pretty range bound. The triple fans are where you'll score during BF.
BTW it's an exceptional price performance card. Replaced my child's RX6600XT and the uplift is well worth the money. Super value.
Unfortunately, I'm only in the market for a 2 slot card. Other options are the Asrock Challenger, Gigabyte Gaming, Powercolor Hellhound. Of those, I'm hoping that the Hellhound falls below $550.
Yeah the XFX is marginally wider because of the cooling shroud.
2 slot gang! Hodling on the 9070XT Reaper 🙏🏻
The 9070 XT Asus Prime was on a good deal at $909 a couple of days ago. So might be $850 range deals come BF.
Disagree. I actually have this exact card and it's great. Cools well, quiet, no issues. Would recommend. Fits everywhere.
Cooling is a non-issue. I also have this card and with an undervolt it sits comfortably at 55c under load.
What's with the negs? Trolls.
Because you said "Ignore this specific variant. Not great cooling. Picked up a triple fan XFX for $589." - which sounds like you haven't actually owned this card and have no personal experiences. Others who actually own and use it and are familiar with it's cooling design are downvoting you because you are factually incorrect. It's not "trolls", you're just wrong, is all.
Are you kidding me? Have you seen the thermals on it? Come on prove me wrong on the thermal performance. It's the cheapest card consistently for a good reason.
And "factually incorrect"? What stated FACT is wrong. I offered an opinion. Geez.
@OrderedChaos: This exact card is literally sitting in my case on my desk. I use it for gaming. So yes, I have "seen the thermals on it". Have you? Seeing as you don't and haven't actually owned the card, how can you possibly assume that your opinion carries any weight?
@samba: Strange you choose to respond that you own the card, rather than addressing the direct challenge to your misguided assertions. Verifiable data point from TechPowerUp 👇
https://ibb.co/JMCMqfX
Sapphire Pulse?
2.3 slots :(
care to explain what's meant by 2.3 slots? should still be able to fit, it's quite a small card compared to xfx
The width of a graphics card is measured in PCIE slots so a 2.3 slot card blocks the 3rd PCIE slot from being used by another card like a wifi card.
Grabbed the sapphire pulse variant just over two months ago. Amazing value for its price, smashes 90-100+ FPS in High-Ultra settings on a tonne of games and temps are good too.
What CPU did you pair it with and is this at 1080p or 1440p?
Paired it with the OzB favourite AMD 7700, grabbed during sale for around $190ish with cashback
Can agree, the Sapphire Pulse goes hard and yet stays quite cool. Great purchase.
Now I'm on the lookout for a Sapphire Pulse 9070/9070XT for myself.
I bought the Reaper when it first released in June. Picked it over other variants due to its compact size—it's smaller all around than the aging two-fan Gigabyte 1660S it replaced. There's of course a thermal trade off when compared with larger models, but reviewers have noted the cooling solution to be perfectly adequate and it stays pretty quiet. That's been my experience, but YMMV depending on your other components (and expectation/noise tolerance). This model also has ball rather than sleeve bearings—a relatively minor thing, perhaps, but together with the form factor helped me decide.
Someone post cheap ddr5 ram
lol
So is this a good buy for PS5 Pro killer?
Ryzen 7700 from ali express ~200-220, ~sub 200 dollar board, (ram is rough currently, though, so need to watch for deals) and this GPU would pretty much sort you out (exc psu/case storage obviously, most of which people re-use between a lot of builds). But you'd end up roughly PS5 Pro costs.. Again assumes existing monitor/keyboard/mouse/desk. If you're buying fresh everything? You won't see a straight equivalent for PS5 Pro.. Reminder that devs get full hardware access for these consoles so they can pull out extra details/numbers from lower class GPUs compared to more expensive cards in a PC running windows.
(All the above excludes the whole, ps5 games cost vs steam games cost, versatility of a PC etc)
Digital Foundry tested 9060XT and 5060Ti 16GB on PC with console settings and found them to be equivalent to PS5 Pro GPU:
https://youtu.be/acE6VJ0ujA4?si=v_ZOJTwDLrxwXcl4&t=931
For a "PS5 Pro killer" build, if you want more performance (at slightly higher cost) then Ryzen 7500f + RX 9070 + 32GB RAM. If you want similar performance but less cost than PS5 Pro (<$1000), Ryzen 5600 + RX 9060XT 16GB + 16GB RAM.
Can't recommend a 5600 though at this point. AM4 is 'dead' so money saved now really wouldn't be worth it unless you're happy to stick with that platform for 5+ years.
Your 7500F build would be worth it though IMO. (I have a 7800x3d/9070 non xt, def didnt need the x3d, but it was a yolo moment for me lol)
AMD still release AM4 CPUs (5600F) literally a couple of months ago, and with RAM prices now and perhaps continuing into the future (https://au.pcpartpicker.com/trends/price/memory/), DDR4 platforms like AM4 is probably the only choice for <$1000 build in a few years to come. From 5600 there are still 5700x3D/5800x3D for gaming or 5900/5950x for multicore work that still worthy.
@Kevin Bacon: Yeah but value isn't there for those X3D chips.. Everyone knows they've stopped producing them so they're selling used ones for brand new prices unfortunately.. I wouldn't rely on the used market as a future proofing method. I get what you're saying but it's hard to recommend buying new into AM4 - I'd honestly just buy used if you wanted to hit that budget mark for AM4.
@ReaperX22: Of course for DDR4 build buying used is always the best option, my original suggested build didn't specifically say all new parts.
How would this go for a 1440p rig? Trying to part list stuff together for my friends first PC build as there hasn't been anything techfast related for a hot second 🤘😔
It's a great 1440p card (assuming you mean 2560x1440, 3440x1440 is a bit of a different ballpark). Would suit for a long while.
Any good deals on NV RTX?
Surely the 9060 XT is too close to 9070 deals to be worth even considering? 30% more for a 50% faster GPU?
I bought my 9070 for 830.
$546.55 x 1.3 is ~710.5. Where's that deal? Lowest I saw was ~780? So more like 42~% ish - though your logic stands because the disparity is larger, actually.
Per techpowerup; relative performance (1440p) is more like 57% higher for a non XT 9070 vs a 9060 XT 16GB.
However; we're still talking over 200 dollars in price differences here. 200 bucks is a CPU. Or your RAM. It's an entire component. So where budget matters, you may still not fit a 9070 into your budget even if it's better value on paper.
Thought the ATL was closer to $700, but it was indeed $780.
Either way, I don't see how for a gaming PC the extra ~$230 spend isn't justified. For most builds it's usually pretty easy to spend less on other parts to make up the difference.
at this point, anything with a RAM and Processor in it come up with a deal, I would suggest to consider take it now instead of wait.
but I don't know that much about GPU hahahaha (laughs in RTX5090)
Doesn't seem to have affected GPUs (yet). Everything is either stable or trending down. Should still be some decent deals come BF on GPU's.
because highend GPU prices are inflated due to export.
and lowend stock actually over supplying.
right now exporter are shifting focus from GPU towards RAM & SSDs
so the market dynamic will slowly change.
but one thing for sure is the production cost of all GPU is going to rise up a lot after current stock all sold out
Oh for sure, I wouldn't be surprised. There is even rumors now that nvidia has scrapped the super refresh.
Still should be plenty of opportunities to get a good deal on BF sales however.
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