The file name that I have for this document is called the 9070xt Challenge Challenge. The reason why it’s called that is because I ran into an issue when my “C” drive kicked the bucket because I used a cheap no name off brand. So it gave me the excuse to swap out my Asus Strix B650 motherboard with the Asus Strix X870-A that I originally was going to return that I bought to replace a defected board that had the same name. I killed two birds with one stone proving that the original board was defective, because I haven’t run into any of the same problems with this new Strix MB. I did run into a bunch of other issues when it came to power and cable management. Even though both the old 850w and 1300w psu were the same size, I couldn’t get it to fit into the case, then I realized that the connections were in a different arrangement. After changing things around I was able to get it to work.

Then came the challenge of installing Windows 11 onto a new M.2 4tb drive. Luckily I had all of the drivers already downloaded from when I had the defected motherboard in the Buckenstein build. The most time consuming part was re-downloading programs and games to test with the 7090xt. At first I wasn’t all impressed with the new Radeon GPU, but I also didn’t know that the Graphics Drivers didn’t install properly till a few days later when I decided to watch some youtube videos on what I might have been doing wrong. I didn’t know that a Windows update went a little south, but I was able to get everything fixed, and from retesting, I was getting pretty impressive results with some of them that was actually better than even some of my higher end RTX cards. What’s confusing is that even though the games said it was running FSR-4, I noticed it wasn’t one of the choices that I could turn off. I also tested the card with some older titles, and it did a very decent job.

I think that the best graphics I have seen so far with the 9070xt has got to be the new Dying Light The Beast, but that game even looks polished with a 5050. The game that looks like complete crap with it has got to be Oblivion Remaster, but I can’t get that game to look good with really anything, but I haven’t tested it on my intel machine with the 5080.

I know that I’m going back on memory, but when I had a Radeon RT 7900xt, I was getting pretty good results when the card wasn’t causing my system to crash. Then again it was a used card that was a loaner but it might explain why the previous owner switched to something different.

As for Nvidia, I feel that they are way over rated, and the new AMD cards can do some serious stuff compared to their older cards.