New GPU, who dis?  

"ITA97, now with more Jag @ opposite-lock.com" (ita97) 02/14/2019 at 00:31 • Filed to: None

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I got home from work today and was greeted by Amazon’s erection on a box. Inside revealed my new GPU in the form of a Sapphire Nitro+ RX590. Modern hardware is marvelous thing. Unplugged the old GPU, plugged in the new GPU, booted up and the thing just plain works even on whatever default driver windows 10 used until I installed the correct ones.

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For recap, this was added to my Ryzen 7 prebuilt Dell gaming machine named Gus. A few of you may recall I picked up Gus around a year ago at the height of the mining craze. It pained my to buy a prebuilt machine, but I was coming back into the PC game for scratch after many years of laptop only ownership, and Best Buy had this machine on sale for less than the price of the GPU and CPU alone on the market at the time. They threw in 16GB of ram, the rest of the machine and a fast 27" monitor for free as far as I was concerned. I added a Crucial MX500 500gb SSD as a boot drive, grafted in a second case fan and a matching stick of ram for 32GB in dual channel off the bat. I ended up upgrading the power supply in short order. The original dell 460w power supply was marginal for the machine, lacked an 80+ efficiency rating of any kind and generally did a convincing impression of a space heater whenever the system was under load. With just a small bit of modification to the case, I grafted in a Seasonic Focus gold+ 750w and life has been enjoyable racing sims ever since.

That said, things could be better. Dell’s locked down BIOS is garbage, the VRM solution on the X370 board is molten under load and the RX580 was a reference blower card of which I’ve grown tired of listening to its fan noise.

The upgrade from an RX580 to a RX590 isn’t worth making in many use cases, but I had been thinking lately about where I wanted to take my battle station. Prices on 29"+ monitors with fast refresh rates and high resolutions haven’t yet fallen to a level that I would pay for, so I’m probably sticking to 1080p for the next couple of years. My main goal was to get rid of the damned fan noise from the reference card. This 590 solved that problem, gave me a bit of a boost and should suffice for as long as I’m messing around at 1080.

It was $265 from Amazon for the card, and it also comes with codes for 3 upcoming games. None of those games interest me, and it looks like I can sell the code for $40-$50. I should also be able to sell the old RX580 for around $150 . In the end I can justify around $100 for little to no fan noise,a 300mhz clock boost and 100mhz memory clock increase.

The card will post around a 90fps average in F12018 with settings maxed out. Even manually maxed out, the fan noise is hardly much louder than the CPU and case fans on the machine. I’ll take this result.

Sold to an Oppo!

All this said, I’ve got my old card for sale if any Oppos are in the market for a GPU. RX 580/8GB reference card. Never overclocked, works fine, from a machine used primarily for Oppoing in the evenings and some periodic gaming on weekends. It ought to run pretty much anything at 1080p/ultra settings. It is noisier than I preferred, but that is a function of being a blower card and not anything wrong with this particular one. 3 display port and 1 HDMI output, does freesync. Call it $100 shipped (to an Oppo, in North America).

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farscythe - makin da cawfee! > ITA97, now with more Jag @ opposite-lock.com 02/14/2019 at 00:52

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hmmm... welp.... im on the wrong continent and have a feeling it wouldnt fit in my case (baffling bit of motherboard design and space wastage going on in there... first and last time im buying a fully built pc)

but i do need a new gpu... my poor little 750ti is trying its best but new games will make it burst into flame anyday now

good luck on the getting it sold.. im sure it wont take long

facw > ITA97, now with more Jag @ opposite-lock.com 02/14/2019 at 00:53

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Nice upgrade. I’m a big fan of quiet PCs and would like to pummel anyone who thinks those blowers are a good idea.

Though:

I should also be able to sell the old RX580 for around $150 

That seems... optimistic? You can buy a new 8GB one right now at Newegg for $170 (after rebate, and that does have a crappy cooler, you can get a better one for $10 more ), and that comes with a 2 game bundle. I’ve seen cards with good coolers as low as $160, and I haven’t been looking that closely. I haven’t looked at used prices, but I don’t think I’d forego the games bundle and buy a used card with no warranty just to save $20-30. If you can get $150 that’s great though.

Regardless, sounds like more gaming fun i n order for you.

ITA97, now with more Jag @ opposite-lock.com > facw 02/14/2019 at 01:03

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I think  you’re right.  I hadn’t really looked hard at pricing it, that was just a number off the top of my head.  I’ll adjust downward.  I expect that I’ll throw it up on Ebay, but if an Oppo can use it I’m glad to do that.

facw > farscythe - makin da cawfee! 02/14/2019 at 01:03

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There are some small 580s (and even more small 1060s). I’d expect you could find something that will fit into any full height slot that has a free slot below it . There are half-height 1050s, though they are still dual slot. Going to single slots, you’d have to go down to a 1030, but I’m not sure how much faster than a 750 they are (no one likes benchmarking low end cards for whatever reason).

MrDakka > ITA97, now with more Jag @ opposite-lock.com 02/14/2019 at 01:05

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PC’s, like children, should be seen, but not heard.

Phase change cooling is where it's at

facw > ITA97, now with more Jag @ opposite-lock.com 02/14/2019 at 01:07

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They really plummeted circa early Nov em ber for whatever reason (RTX launch? 590 launch? Nvidia 10xx chip surplus?).

ITA97, now with more Jag @ opposite-lock.com > MrDakka 02/14/2019 at 01:08

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I think I’m going to order a new case and motherboard to make a quiet  PC out of what I’ve got now.

ItalianJobR53 - now with added 'MERICA and unreliability > ITA97, now with more Jag @ opposite-lock.com 02/14/2019 at 01:09

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Aww man that is nice! I should look into building a desktop sometime soon..

My laptop is crying with thermal management. i7-7700HQ and a 1070 make a LOT of heat.

ItalianJobR53 - now with added 'MERICA and unreliability > farscythe - makin da cawfee! 02/14/2019 at 01:10

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Stick a 2080 in there :p

ITA97, now with more Jag @ opposite-lock.com > facw 02/14/2019 at 01:10

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I still see a lot of insanity around pricing on remaining Nvidia 10xx stock, and little compelling reason to go RTX at this time. If monitor prices were more reasonable for things big, fast and high resolution, I probably would’ve picked up a Vega 56 instead of the 590.

PS9 > ITA97, now with more Jag @ opposite-lock.com 02/14/2019 at 01:14

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I’m an oppo who lives in the continental US. I WANT IT. 

farscythe - makin da cawfee! > facw 02/14/2019 at 01:15

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cheers will have to do a little research but yeah i havent quite got space for 2 slots

will see what i can find :)

farscythe - makin da cawfee! > ItalianJobR53 - now with added 'MERICA and unreliability 02/14/2019 at 01:16

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oh man... id love too...

(aside from it not fitting my psu would probably asplode but details)

ITA97, now with more Jag @ opposite-lock.com > PS9 02/14/2019 at 01:17

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Send me an email.  froc0107 at gmail.com

facw > ITA97, now with more Jag @ opposite-lock.com 02/14/2019 at 01:19

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Yeah, the mining boom and subsequent crash have done very weird things to the graphics market, leading pricing that can be all over the place. Last I looked the 1060s were finally starting to come down, though the 580 is still a better deal if performance is your main concern.

It doesn’t seem like either the RTX cards or the Vega VII (Please have s ome consistency in naming AMD!) are much of an upgrade at this point, especially considering the premium.

I’m doing well enough with a 1070 I bought back near launch. I certainly don’t see myself upgrading before until at least the next generation, and probably I can go further (I do have a 2560x1600 display and 2880x1440 VR headset, so I do have a lot of pixels to pump, and I’d love to replace the display, along with my smaller portrait monitor if I could find things that worked size and resolution wise).

ItalianJobR53 - now with added 'MERICA and unreliability > farscythe - makin da cawfee! 02/14/2019 at 01:47

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Minor details man

Just seeend it

facw > ItalianJobR53 - now with added 'MERICA and unreliability 02/14/2019 at 01:50

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Heh, my laptop doesn’t even have a fan. It can play Civ 6 on low settings at low resolution, but that’s about its limit, it is not a powerful machine. Sometimes it has problems just playing video 3200x1800 screen combined with weak-ass Core-m3 is apparently not a great mix.

facw > ITA97, now with more Jag @ opposite-lock.com 02/14/2019 at 02:23

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I can recommend the Fractal Define Mini C as a quiet case. You could even try it with your existing motherboard from the looks of things. The included case fans are a bit loud at default speeds, so if your board has crappy fan controls, you might need to get different fans (or do that board upgrade).

ItalianJobR53 - now with added 'MERICA and unreliability > facw 02/14/2019 at 02:49

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I have 3 fans and a setting to spin em real fast. Alas, I used IC diamond once and thr mating surfaces on the heat sinks are scratched :(

MX4 does shit anymore...

hedbutter > ITA97, now with more Jag @ opposite-lock.com 02/14/2019 at 08:45

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I just built a new PC last month and I’m loving it. This was my last from me to me gift (that I’ve been savin g up for almost two years on) before our wedding in October. 2080ti, i7- 8700k, 32gb 3200hz ddr4 ram and I’m loving it. If you want to vertically mount your cousin, the cooler master mount was awesome in my case

ITA97, now with more Jag @ opposite-lock.com > facw 02/14/2019 at 08:48

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Unfortunately, the fan controls are completely locked down on Dell’s crappy board. I had to add a manual PWN fan controller just to do the second case fan without having to F2 around a boot error message every start up.

I’ve had my eye on the Fractal Define R6. I know I don’t need an optical drive, but something still feels good about the option. I’m also a sucker for tempered glass to see inside my toy.

hedbutter > hedbutter 02/14/2019 at 08:49

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Also, if anyone is looking for a PC, i’m selling my old one, specs below.

https://pittsburgh.craigslist.org/sys/d/pittsburgh-gaming-pc/6801557542.html

If only EssExTee could be so grossly incandescent > ITA97, now with more Jag @ opposite-lock.com 02/14/2019 at 09:06

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Nice. I'm awaiting on my case and CPU to arrive today so I can start building. GPU won't arrive till tomorrow but I can put up with integrated graphics for one night.

Nibby > facw 02/14/2019 at 10:21

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for sure, i bought my RX580 8GB for $120 a month ago