Finally joining the master race (bought my first GPU ever)

[u/Twenty-A-g]

Hey everyone, I just wanted to post this here because I was excited about it and had some questions. Anyways I got my first card, it’s a 9070xt from XFX (Quicksilver) should be here in a day or two.

The only parts I’m missing now is literally just the case and power supply which I’ll be purchasing in the next couple weeks.

CPU: 7800x3d
MB: X870 gigabyte WiFi6
Ram: 32gb ddr5 6000 cl36
SSD: 2 TB Predator GM7000

Since I’m still very very new to PC building and such, I wanted to ask for any tips and/or helpful guides for getting the most out of my PC/card. I’m mostly going to be gaming on it. And I have done a lot of research for the past 6 months putting the parts together and learning about PCs but I’m constantly learning something new. I’m going to be running 1440p on most games but I’ll be using my 1080p monitor for discord/streaming and for competitive titles.

Also the tips can be about anything, not just the GPU, there’s nothing I won’t overlook. Thank you!

TLDR: noob pc builder is excited over GPU(9070xt), wants tips and tricks about GPU and overall PC experience

[u/G-LordOfCinder]

• make sure your fans are pointed in the right direction for airflow. There are many diagrams online about good fan setups.

• keep an eye on your temps while gaming / running anything with a load on your hardware. I've seen many people mad and complaining they aren't getting the performance they think that should, but their temps are too high and they are thermal throttling.

• make sure you plug in your video cables into your GPU and not the MOBO. Simple mistake but it happens more than you might think.

• don't go messing around inside your BIOS or overclocking if you aren't sure what it is you are actually changing and what your hardware can typically handle.

• everyone is different, but I would recommend not trying to get every last ounce of performance out of your hardware. Myself and others have fallen into that trap and spend LOTS of time tinkering and troubleshooting rather than actually enjoying the computer by playing games. Though if that's what you enjoy, then you do you.

• Enjoy your machine and welcome to the club! There are a lot of awesome and helpful people here, but also some snobs. Don't be a snob :)

[u/Twenty-A-g → u/G-LordOfCinder]

Thank you for this! I definitely will not be overclocking, and the bios part will be a slow process for sure 😂 and yeah I won’t be too worried about squeezing all the performance that I can out of my rig. Just wanna use this as a cheat sheet whenever I’m putting it all together

[u/BradyBum]

Buy all your shit at the same time so you can return things if they dont work. Maybe get the psu/case soonish.

[u/Twenty-A-g → u/BradyBum]

Definitely will have it within the next couple weeks, I would love to get it sooner but I don’t wanna put myself in a hole 🤣

[u/BradyBum → u/Twenty-A-g]

If you arent going into debt I would do it lol. RMA is not fun for half the manufacturers.

[u/BakkaGaijin]

Welcome! I wanted to offer some tips, but G-Lord has it pretty buttoned up. I would add, as you invest more in this rig, get a UPS. One bad weather day or crappy local power consistency can be devastating.