edit: If you want to be the 10th person to tell me about static discharge risks, please refrain from doing so. Thread temp removed because it was getting oddly popular for the wrong reasons.
This pain brought to you by wanting to install Bazzite Linux on the HTPC without dealing with spotty feature support. Didn’t really need the performance upgrade, just compatibility.
This looks like it’s going smooth, but I ended up having to also swap Power Supplies… Radeon 9070 XT needed three 8-pin PCI plugs, but only had 2 plus a single 6 pin. Fuck!
For reference the RTX 3090 (bought on launch before prices went covid batshit) now in the black cardboard box getting prepped for crazy people on EBay buying them for 1000+ used (??? VRAM demand and/or green brand good mindset?) only needed two 8 pin. I’ll post EBay listing if people want it, but I’m only selling within Canada. Power hungry SOB. Luckily the bigger old case used to have a rack of hard drives in it (very old reused many times case) so I had a 1500W PSU already and kept all the spare cords thankfully…
Old PC gets the RTX 4070 TI, more appropriate for 1440p anyways vs 2160p living room.
Stanford the Cat supervised.
Even as a big AMD fan, be wary about the confidence in the 9070XT driving 4k gaming especially at higher refresh rates. Older games it should have no issues but is still beaten by the 79000XTX in raster. It does however have better upscaling and RT performance, but it seems those of us on team Penguin will have to wait longer for FSR4 at least both in terms of hardware and game support