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Looking to upgrade, compatibility question (anarchist.nexus)

submitted 3 days ago by Wildmimic@anarchist.nexus to c/pcgaming@lemmy.ca

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Hi! As the title says, I am thinking about upgrading my system for the last time to max out the current build.

Mainboard: Asrock AB350 Pro4 with a PCIE4.0 16x slot
CPU: AMD Ryzen 9 5950X
Ram: 64BG DDR4-3200 Current GPU: Nvidia 3070Ti 8GB
PSU: 800W, more than enough.
Storage: 1 TB M.2, 2TB M.2 SSD /w extra controller in a PCIE 4x slot, a fuckton of HDD storage

I am thinking about switching out the 3070TI with it's measly 8GB VRAM that is simply not doing it for 1440p Gaming with a AMD RX 9060XT 16GB, which is pretty cheap and available right now, esp when i take the resale value of my 3070TI into account, which would account for a bit over 100€ for the upgrade, which is quite substantial in performance.

I cannot for my life find any compatibility information between my Mainboard and the AMD Card. I know i lose a little bit of performance because it's a PCIE5 Card in a PCIE4 Slot, which to my knowledge shouldn't be too much of an issue, but i wanted to ask if anyone has knowledge if there are issues with compatibility here.

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[–] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

System-core-wise, my setup is similar to yours. I also recently upgraded (arguably, sidegraded I guess?) from a 3080FE (10gb) to an RX 9070XT (16gb) that I found a deal on last month, with the intent of finally jumping ship on windows and converting to Linux for my gaming box - already got a bunch of Linux machines between a couple spare laptops and my homelab stuff, but gaming was my last major windows use case… and their market capture is frankly crumbling lately, what with how shit W11 is. I’m not planning on upgrading my setup any further in the next couple of years, because it handles whatever I want these days @1440 qhd pretty great.

[–] Wildmimic@anarchist.nexus 1 points 3 days ago

I switched over to Linux a year ago, i chose nobara, which doesn't have any obvious issues with my setup - they even made a small GUI tool for switching between open and closed, stable and beta Nvidia Drivers with a few clicks, which is a lot more comfortable than anything i experienced on windows. So i can attest that if it's done right, Nvidia cards do their job just fine under linux.

The limiting factor is my VRAM, which simply isn't enough for 1440p if i want games to look good too. reducing the Resolution is doesn't look too good :-/