I'm going to be building my son a PC out of my old parts. The only thing I need to buy is a case so I ordered the LIAN LI LANCOOL 207. It seems like it's the most well regarded and coolest case under $100. The neat thing about it is the intake fans that blow on the GPU. The bad is that those fans are proprietary, and the PSU size is limited to the average 160mm. This is what I have to give him. These parts are all good. Ryzen 5 5600X Artic Cooling Liquid freezer II x360 ASRock B550 Extreme4 CORSAIR Vengeance 16GB (4 x 8GB) DDR4 3200 These are questionable. SeaSonic M12II 620 Bronze 620W EVGA GeForce GTX 1070 FTW Maybe: PowerColor 5700XT Red Devil Samsung EVO SSD 850 500GB The power supply should be fine but it's a little old. It might be 9 years old but only 4 in use. I haven't decided which GPU to give him. I like to keep 5700XT as my backup. That 500GB SSD is a bit on the small side so I might get something bigger.
My son basically just walked off with one my laptops and made it his own. Laptop specs: i7 10700K, 64GB DDR4, GTX 1650 Ti, 2TB 970 Evo It's massive overkill for Roblox. The touchpad no longer works because he spilled milk on it.
Just to update. They approved me for a replacement right away, but it did take them a little bit to send out that replacements. Maybe two weeks I think. The whole process took about a month from the day I shipped it out until I received it. The replacement card may be new or a refurb in really really good condition, but either way it has been running great. Thank goodness I didn't sell off my previous card, otherwise I wouldn't have had a substitute card during that month. I use this PC for work also, so that would have been a bad time.
I've initiated an upgrade/ sidegrade/ downgrade trade-in depending on how you look at it from a Sapphire 7900 XTX Nitro to a Sapphire 9070 XT for the more advanced ML architecture and access to features like FSR4, which I have essentially already experienced with the excellent update to PSSR on the PS5 Pro, which is based on the same algorithm as FSR 4.1 according to Mark Cerny, who probably knows given he is the architect of the PS5 Pro. The 9070 XT is lower in raw raster power than the 7900 XTX, but anything related to ray tracing and ML features will quickly start to favor the newer architecture along with being more power efficient. it ends up being about even in performance and way ahead in ML technologies. I think the TOPS are about 240-something in the 7900 XTX and approaching 1600 in the 9070 XT, not close in terms of AI computational power. It uses the notorious 12v power cable, so if I don't appear here again, the cable spontaneously combusted and got me. All cases of meltdowns with that card that I know of have involved the adapter included with the card (and some substandard PSUs; mine is the HX1000i that is platinum certified and ATX 3.1/ 5.1 PCI-e), which I will definitely not be using.
That was the first thing I thought of when you mentioned the card. My 4070 Ti has it as well. I figured my card didn't use enough power to be concerned, but then I saw images of a 5070 Ti burnt up and now I'm a little worried. It's 285W vs 300W so pretty similar. I think there are some aftermarket inline power regulators now, but I don't know much about them. It seems kind of messed up that consumers have to even worry about it.
Every case of a meltdown with this card I'm aware of has used this adaptor, which is included with the GPU. I ordered Corsair's "Elite Premium" Type 4 cable I'll be plugging directly into the HX1000i PSU instead.