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Only if that 30% overclock actually translates to 30% performance increase. Most of time, it doesn't.

I don't have any experience with overclocking the 7900 XTX, but the current widely-accepted overclocking method seems to be a bit more complicated and unorthodox. First, the 7900 XTX already run very hot compared to Nvidia's RTX 40-series GPUs. Second, the AMD reference cards aren't very good for overclocking due to their power limit. Third, there are also MANY reports of defective reference 7900 XTX coolers causing overheating. We are talking about a problem that is way more widespread than Nvidia's melting 12VHPWR connectors and it might require a recall. So you're much better off with a more expensive board partner card with a 3x8-pin custom board design, a beefy custom cooler, and an increased power limit.

Unlike traditional overclocking, you don't touch the clocks at first. Instead, you increase the power limit to maximum and you slowly undervolt the GPU until it is no longer stable. Once you've reached that point, you increase the voltage a bit to keep it 100% stable. Now that you've found the lowest stable voltage, you can begin to increase the maximum GPU frequency. After you've reached a stable GPU overclock, you can then start raising the VRAM frequency. Keep in mind that higher clocks don't necessarily mean better performance. So just keep testing, benchmarking, and adjusting the clocks until you get the best benchmark numbers without crashing.

The thing is if you're spending more money on a board partner 7900 XTX, you might as well spend a bit more on something like an RTX 4080 which offers similar rasterization performance, slightly better power efficiency (10-30 watts lower at the same framerate), much better thermals, significantly better ray-tracing performance, better upscaling with the DLSS, and Tensor cores for your CUDA apps.

Remember that the RTX 4080 is already a terrible value even compared to the RTX 4090. It's mind-blowing that the $1600 4090 actually offers better performance per dollar than the $1200 4080. In conclusion, they are all terrible value for the asking price. Both the 4080 and the 7900 XTX need to be priced at least $300 lower. $900 MSRP for the 4080 and $700 MSRP for the 7900 XTX.

As far as I am concerned if I ever need RT, DLSS or more CUDA I will just set my PC to do the job and go to the go cart track for the day while it does the job needed to be done.

My Seasonic isn't a native PCIe 5.0/ATX 3.0 PSU. So the PSU side of the cable is actually very similar to the 8-pin PCIe connectors. So you can't mistake that for the 12VHPWR connector.

That is native isn't it?

I don't think so.

You don't need to waste money on a CableMod cable if it's the PSU is PCIe 5.0 native. Just use the cable that comes with the PSU.

The only useful thing in that case would be CableMod's 90 or 180-degree 12VHPWR adapter.

True and your right they are the dual adapter connections so and I don't see the 90* or 180* on their website either. 

Yeah its not the Afterburner Program but RTSS that is the issue here.

Exactly, it's because of losing funds and not about licensing.

RTSS is a separate project and it doesn't carry the MSI name. RTSS also doesn't get any funding from MSI to begin with. So it will continue to be supported and will also receive future updates.

Just watch the one of the videos if you need sources.

Yup, he develops Afterburner for MSI and he isn't gonna keep working on it if he isn't getting paid. It's basically a one-man job.

It's that simple. Don't think too hard.

Never take videos as source only