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"kamikaasje on most platforms"
 

Picked up my new Rx9070 XT from the postoffice on my way to a friend's house. He is a gaming enthousiast and definetly was not used to the massive size. He uses a modest 2-fan 2070.

Now going to bed have to get up again in 4 and a half hours for work. Tomorrow will do some photo's. Might install it in my white build in the next days because i want to get steamcredit for reviewing haha.
In the end i will move it to a black build. Just have to figure out if I can free up about 1000 euro for a 9800X3D… See More

+ mobo + ram lol

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"Daedalus, ByteMyAscii, ByteBlight, Bugroth." —  

Got a 3 fan 2070 Super myself, and that seems huge compared to my 2 fan 750 Ti.
My case has room for a lot bigger GPU, but my budget does not.
LIkely to be PSU, CPU and storage upgrades first, but only to a 5700X3D.
Be a long while before I have the budget for a platform upgrade, and really having a 2070 Super, it wouldn't be worth it for me until I upgrade past that.
And having atm a 75Hz 1080p display, the GPU would be rather pointless to upgrade in terms of experience it would give me.

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"kamikaasje on most platforms"
 

Oh yea picked up a returndeal also.. 176 euro for a 1000W plat... overkill? Yep.. but needed a black PSU for the (re)build.

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"3quilibrium" —  

I have the 1200W version. The voltage regulators on the GPU power cable are a game changer if you fear things going all melty. lol

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Overkill ? ... or Future-Proof?  
Great price on the PSU!

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"MD Computing" —  

Sweet

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"kamikaasje on most platforms"
 

ordered new GPU just now. It's a huge step towards to a fully overhauled PC.

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"Murasam3, Sgt. Nix" —  

Wonderful! That's a beast of a GPU. But, man... 900€ :S On launch I could've gotte an XT for 759. I let it slip, and literally 30minutes later they were going for 900-1200€ at the same retailer

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"kamikaasje on most platforms"
 

With some unexpected costs last week my new GPU plans are a bit further away.
Still, I think I can still make it work, if my plan works out I can order a new GPU in the last week of this month. Still leaning towards the RX 9070XT but 5070Ti's have gone down significantly in price (there's about a 150 Euro difference which was 400 a few weeks ago).

But the 12 volt BS connector really is holding me back, the 3x8pin connector on the AORUS RX9070XT definetly looks favorable, but if I want to stay with… See More

a white build it probably ends up being the XFX Mercury.
Regardless I want the OC version of the 9070XT @ 3100 instead of the baseline 2970.... but if my budget ends up only allowing the default 2970MHz then that's a choice i might still make.

But this whole plan depends on a single factor, there's no short term workaround so it either works this month or it won't.

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I would recommend not to overspend since with a 5800X on 1440p you won't notice a difference between a 7900XT, 9070XT, 7900XTX and 9070XT, in fact it would be more stuttery on the stronger cards (the clocks would lower to the lower states more often because of the low load due to the bottleneck).
You would have a better experience combining a Ryzen 5700X3D (250€) and a Radeon 7900 GRE (650€) than keeping the 5800X and buying a 9070XT (880€).
If you consider selling the 5800X for 100€, then you can… See More

get a 5700X3D (250) + 9070 (750) for 900€ while a single 9070XT would cost you nearly the same & offering a terrible stuttery experience.

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"Adjo1963 // spinthis // art-et-al" —  

I picked a Asus TUF 9070 XT OC because of the 3x8pins. This 12VHPWR connector is scaring me more than the monsters under my bed.  

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"Leorick, LeorickG" —  

say what they will about that 12V connector. As a veteran PC builder. I am scared of it. Hahaha

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Asus responded...

I'm lazy with 8 hours of sleep in total over the last 3 and a half days... so I used a cheatcode and used Google translate, is some grammar is weird, that's why.

Here is the response.

1.103 / 5.000
Dear Mr. van Os,

Thank you for contacting Asus technical support.
My name is Pierre and I will help you with your question.

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From your email I understand that you are looking for technical documentation of this card.

I understand that you want to renew the cooling paste and such on your card. Unfortunately, Asus does not offer any further support in this. The documentation in question also contains sensitive information that we cannot share.

We can therefore unfortunately not provide you with this requested information and can only request that you seek information from hardware forums and third parties.

The white version of the Strix is ​​the same as the regular version, so I expect that the following website can help you further.

thermalpad.eu/thermal-pad-sizes/asus-rog-strix-nvidia-geforce-rtx-3080-oc/?srsltid=AfmBOoq6IoeoqqoJ_fT8sM102RDl2TGFC2F4wbpQTPJ5PPxHvf0om4SJ

If your question has not been answered to your satisfaction, please respond to this email.
We are always at your disposal. If you have any other questions, please do not hesitate to contact us.

Kind regards,
Pierre

Funny, they won't give the specs because of "sensitive" information, seriously.. it's a GPU based on old architecture which is not anywhere near what the current gen is, whatever "secret"they have it's most likely out there on the world wide web lol.
Also funny they put the link the thermalpad dot EU as reference so I guess that's not a secret haha.

THERMAL PAD SIZES ON ASUS – ROG STRIX NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 OC – THERMALPAD.EU
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"Charli3Dubs" —  

Ha! The exact page I shared   Well good to know the white version has the same pads.

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"Daedalus, ByteMyAscii, ByteBlight, Bugroth." —  

Not the first time I have heard them citing "sensitive information" or similar.
Gamers Nexus I think it was brought up the same in one of their videos.

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