MP 7,1 W5700X Upgrade

[yellow_lupine]

Hi,

did anyone involved into music production upgraded to W5700X from 580X?
Did you noticed increasing in temperature, noise or power consumption?

 

[codehead1]

I suppose you could get the fans moving if you did something GPU intensive, but that's not typical of music production. I can't hear my 16-core + W5700X unless I lean down and put my head pretty close to it. TDP is 205 W versus 150 W.

 

[LEOMODE]

I've noticed my fans ramping up when I was playing non-demanding games. My thread here:

W5700X MPX ramping up fans frequently

Not sure if it's a hardware issue or driver issue (hope it's the latter), but whenever I play a less demanding game such as World of Warcraft on either Boot Camp or Mac OS 10.15.6, the GPU usage easily gets up to 90+% and Mac Pro fans ramp up really hard for a quick 10-15 seconds or so). But it...

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