I got a second-hand RX 580 for a $120 to replace my 970 GTX. The card, according to the owner, was only used for 4 weeks for bit mining. He was selling them with 6 month warranties (this was bought through a second-hand store) I thought I'd be stupid not get it? Since I'd been contemplating getting a new computer all together. Fast-forward 12-hours GPU stress test and we're still here boys! Worst comes to worse I can just buy a Vega or a VII when the prices drop if this dies out in a few months.
I also bought a Cooler Master H410R for $30 because my stock intel cooler started to sound like my PC was in deep pain anytime I opened Chrome, let alone anything intensive. My idle temps are now in the 30's and they go up to 50-60's when the boost kicks in. More importantly its super-quiet at normal use and the fan is hardly noticeable when I am working on something. Power Gadget Screenshot
- Intel® Core™ i7-6700K Processor + Cooler master H410R
- Asus Radeon RX 580 8GB Dual-Fan OC Edition
- Asus z170i Pro Gaming
- Corsair Vengeance LPX 16GB
- Samsung SSD 950 PRO 512GB
Installed Mojave 10.14.3 and was super happy with the results (nvidia was so sluggish on High Sierra for me, opening and closing chrome/safari windows was a pain).
Because I've been using this as my daily driver for 3 years now, everything went through without a single hitch using a few config.plist changes for Mojave and removing the webdriver tag. Please ask away below if you have any questions.
QuickSync works great, and after fiddling around with a few Adobe Premiere projects OpenCL and Metal work great on large projects.
Geekbench gained 660+ points for single-core and 3000+ for multi-core (for some reason) after upgrading to the RX and Mojave Before and After
BruceX now rendered at 14.5 seconds vs 32 seconds on the 970 GTX.
All in all, for 150 dollars I got a really nice upgrade and I am really happy I didn't shell out $2000+ for a completely new PC as my now 3 year old computer does exactly what I need it to and upgrading to the latest GPU and CPU wont net me that much more performance (for my use anyway).
I would highly recommend getting a Hackintosh in the state things are now for video editing and photography work (As long as you get an AMD GPU) its rock solid and works really well.
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