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Captain_Yuri said:

JEMC said:

It's interesting how the 7900XTX isn't as heavily discontinued as its smaller sibling, either because there's more demand for it or because there are less cards available and that helps it keep its price.

But it's a good sign for all of us, a sign that the market is going back to how it was before the f*cking miners ruined it during the pandemic.

Yea I think it's mainly because XTX matches up against the 4080 quite well while being cheaper where as the 4070 Ti is cheaper than XT. And while XT is a bit faster and has a lot more vram, most people won't pay more for Radeon due to the lack of competing features. So I think that's the main reason why XT is going down so much.

Indeed, the competence between the 4070Ti and the 7900XT is a major factor in the price fall of the later, whereas the XTX doesn't have to worry about the 4080.

Captain_Yuri said:

JEMC said:

Captain_Yuri said:

Colorful’s custom GeForce RTX 4060 Ti to feature 2580 MHz boost clock

https://videocardz.com/newz/colorfuls-custom-geforce-rtx-4060-ti-to-feature-2580-mhz-boost-clock

The x8 pcie slot with 128 bit memory bus gonna really cuck old generation systems.

The x8 PCIe design of this card and others (I'm sure AMD will do the same with either the 7700 or the 7600 ones) is what pushes me towards a X670E motherboard, to have a Gen5 PCIe slot.

Mind you, this is not a problem with the current cards as they are still PCIe 4.0 but, since I plan to keep my 1070 around for a bit more, the next GPUs might jump to Gen5 and use the same o lanes for its midrange cards, and at that point it might cause some bottleneck.

You could also get B650E instead of X670E as well. It comes with 90% of the features of X670E including Gen 5 PCI-E for both GPU and primary Storage for half the price. The only reason I didn't is cause I didn't like the visual looks of those motherboards compared to my Dark Hero. Plus ProArt had some real next gen upgrades like 10G Nic and USB4 40Gbps.

Sadly, the price difference between the 650E and X670E boards isn't that big here. Only the ASRock B650E Steel Legend is far more cheaper than other X670E parts, but it only has two SATA ports. For the rest, there' a 10-20€ difference between both models and, in some cases, some B650E parts are actually more expensive.

So no, for the difference, I may as well go with a X670E motherboard. I'm thinking about going with the Asus TUF Gaming X670E-Plus. After all, it comes with stickers .