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Out-of-touch old gamer looking for 3090-compatible components (lemmy.world)

submitted 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Title pretty much tells you all you need to know about my situation. In a turn of events tonight I've been gifted a used but working EVGA 3090 card to replace my seven year old 1070.

My current system hardware specs are:

CPU: AMD Ryzen 9 5900X 12-Core (upgraded from Ryzen 5 last year)

GPU: MSI 1070

MoBo: MSI MAG B550 TOMAHAWK

PSU - Corsair CX-550 550 Watt

x4 8GB Installed Memory

I also have a 2tb SSD drive with my OS and games installed, and 4 8tb HDD for media.

My main concern is with needing to replace my MoBo with a x3 PCi board and worries about my PSU not being powerful enough. I'm not particularly worried about my tower is a Phanteks Enthoo Pro PH-ES614PC_BK.

Thanks in advance!

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago (2 children)

My 850w seasonic X powersupply tripped on a 3080ti. I got a 1000w Seasonic and that seemed to fix it.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I use a 10 year old 750w Seasonic to run a 3090, kinda crazy an 850w tripped. What CPU?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

5800x OCed

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

yeah the 30 series power management was not great. i doubt that was ever the PSU's fault- if anything seasonic's more sensitive OCP would have exacerbated the problem lol

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, was annoying, but the PSU was already halfway through it's useful life while chips have been ballooning in power requirements. I gave it to a friend and hope to keep this PSU longer. Though I plan on keeping my current hardware for a number of years as improvements have been pretty iterative. :p

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

yeah the PSU market has sure changed. 1000W used to be insane, now it's just normal for high end builds lol.

if you're running a 3080ti you're definitely good on hardware at least for another 3-4 years. I managed to stretch my old 970 almost 6 years, I can't imagine current top-end hardware will age any worse than that.