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.

  • nimble@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    6·
    21 days ago

    The used graphics prices are because the 5000 series is kind of shit between:

    • overpriced
    • They have made the 5080 a “70” card and 5070 a “60” card and so on. See gamers nexus report/video on this where they dived into the features per card per generation and it has steadily had a gap open between 90 and 80 cards
    • melting cable issues on 5080/5090 (the 5070 i believe doesnt have the power draw to have it happen)
    • lack of availability of 5000 series cards. Inventory has been shit in a lot of places. At least here in the US I’ve been trying to upgrade from a 1070 for past few months (card on last legs) and it’s been next to impossible to get a card for a normal dull person. I hope my card survives until i can get a new one.
    • Ai gen frames

    Combine that all together and i wouldn’t be lying if i said ive given considered buying a used 4080/4090.

    Neat project though. I do the same for my wifes rig. She gets all my old parts which works for her since she really just needs a computer for web browsing and light usage.

    • Sixty@sh.itjust.worksOPEnglish
      2·
      21 days ago

      Wow. 12V 40X0 one of them had melting cables too yeah? Can’t believe they messed it up twice.

      • nimble@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
        2·
        21 days ago

        Exactly. All because they wanted to save a few cents and remove load balancing. Doesn’t take an electrical engineer to know thats a bad idea on something that can draw 600 watts

    • FiveMacs@lemmy.ca
      1·
      21 days ago

      Literally just had my 5070ti arrive in the mail. My vendor has about 60 left in stock after fulfilling about 50 orders.

      Benefits of ordering from the same places your computer stores order from I guess :)