Likely they won't matter anything. AMD is still giving you bug fixes, and your GPU is still gradually becoming too slow to run some of the newest games properly. Those are the important things, and they haven't changed anywhere.
Your GPU is old enough that it's probable you wouldn't ever have noticed the decreased driver support if you hadn't seen the news about it.
Likely they won't matter anything. AMD is still giving you bug fixes, and your GPU is still gradually becoming too slow to run some of the newest games properly. Those are the important things, and they haven't changed anywhere.
Your GPU is old enough that it's probable you wouldn't ever have noticed the decreased driver support if you hadn't seen the news about it.
Now I have to be smart about upgrading(dimensions, power etc). Waiting for the Black Friday is kinda unnerving. Tbh.
Likely they won't matter anything. AMD is still giving you bug fixes, and your GPU is still gradually becoming too slow to run some of the newest games properly. Those are the important things, and they haven't changed anywhere.
Your GPU is old enough that it's probable you wouldn't ever have noticed the decreased driver support if you hadn't seen the news about it.
Will I have to reinstall Windows? If so, in which cases?
Likely they won't matter anything. AMD is still giving you bug fixes, and your GPU is still gradually becoming too slow to run some of the newest games properly. Those are the important things, and they haven't changed anywhere.
Your GPU is old enough that it's probable you wouldn't ever have noticed the decreased driver support if you hadn't seen the news about it.
Another question. 7800x uses PCIe 4.0. My MoBo is, afaik, 3.0(x470). Does that mean anything except a potential slowdown? And if slow, how much?
AsRock Challenger is just what I'm looking for. A cheaper, better Pulse 7800x. It's even smaller than my Vega, imagine that!
Likely they won't matter anything. AMD is still giving you bug fixes, and your GPU is still gradually becoming too slow to run some of the newest games properly. Those are the important things, and they haven't changed anywhere.
Your GPU is old enough that it's probable you wouldn't ever have noticed the decreased driver support if you hadn't seen the news about it.
Another question. 7800x uses PCIe 4.0. My MoBo is, afaik, 3.0(x470). Does that mean anything except a potential slowdown? And if slow, how much?
AsRock Challenger is just what I'm looking for. A cheaper, better Pulse 7800x. It's even smaller than my Vega, imagine that!
Any good Power Calculator?
PCI Express is backward compatible, so it will work, but you'll lose half of the GPU's possible bandwidth. That can occasionally cause a substantial performance hit, but in most games, the difference will be a rounding error.
Both AMD and Nvidia think so little of the value of extra PCI Express bandwidth for graphics that, even though the latest standard is 5.0 (which doubles the bandwidth as compared to 4.0), neither have bothered to offer PCI-E 5.0 support on any consumer GPUs. The extra bandwidth is a huge deal for compute, but not for graphics.
Likely they won't matter anything. AMD is still giving you bug fixes, and your GPU is still gradually becoming too slow to run some of the newest games properly. Those are the important things, and they haven't changed anywhere.
Your GPU is old enough that it's probable you wouldn't ever have noticed the decreased driver support if you hadn't seen the news about it.
Another question. 7800x uses PCIe 4.0. My MoBo is, afaik, 3.0(x470). Does that mean anything except a potential slowdown? And if slow, how much?
AsRock Challenger is just what I'm looking for. A cheaper, better Pulse 7800x. It's even smaller than my Vega, imagine that!
Any good Power Calculator?
PCI Express is backward compatible, so it will work, but you'll lose half of the GPU's possible bandwidth. That can occasionally cause a substantial performance hit, but in most games, the difference will be a rounding error.
Both AMD and Nvidia think so little of the value of extra PCI Express bandwidth for graphics that, even though the latest standard is 5.0 (which doubles the bandwidth as compared to 4.0), neither have bothered to offer PCI-E 5.0 support on any consumer GPUs. The extra bandwidth is a huge deal for compute, but not for graphics.
I am not purchasing a new MoBo for that. Unless the perf gain is large.
Best to purchase 7800 + SSD and then a r7 or r9 5000 later.
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Likely they won't matter anything. AMD is still giving you bug fixes, and your GPU is still gradually becoming too slow to run some of the newest games properly. Those are the important things, and they haven't changed anywhere.
Your GPU is old enough that it's probable you wouldn't ever have noticed the decreased driver support if you hadn't seen the news about it.
AsRock Challenger is just what I'm looking for. A cheaper, better Pulse 7800x. It's even smaller than my Vega, imagine that!
Any good Power Calculator?
Both AMD and Nvidia think so little of the value of extra PCI Express bandwidth for graphics that, even though the latest standard is 5.0 (which doubles the bandwidth as compared to 4.0), neither have bothered to offer PCI-E 5.0 support on any consumer GPUs. The extra bandwidth is a huge deal for compute, but not for graphics.
Best to purchase 7800 + SSD and then a r7 or r9 5000 later.
I am just somewhat worried about PSU.
https://www.newegg.ca/tools/power-supply-calculator/
I also purchased a Corsair 750W PSU, just in case. Better not to play jeopardy with approx valid PSU that already suffered through a Volt Spike.